Bought some lovely big slate tiles for a new patio and husband spent ages laying hardcore and leveling, and laying them. The disaster is the mortar. He bought brick mortar and now we have beautiful blue/black slate tiles and brown mortar. He's done such a brilliant job I could never say we need to pull the mortar out - first patio he's ever laid and it looks amazing. Is there anyway to paint it grey?????? Brown is truly horrible.
Slate patio mortar
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Whoops, whatever you paint it with will peel off, you need to dig it out before it cures too much, go B@Q or wherever and buy some bags of rendering sand, 4 to 1 mix with cement and it will cure to a grey consistency, if you have a cement mixer buy some black Cementone mortar additive and follow mixing instructions for a darker finish.Hope this helps and good luck.
dont touch the ****e from b and q. you will need to point it up with a 3:1 mix of sand and cement. it needs to be a slightly damp mix with a cement dye in it. Be warned it will stain the paving if you are not careful. it is a bugger to do on slate or khota black paving.
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Is it not worth just leaving it - it'll soon discolour with weathering anyway.
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