How do I ANTIQUE a concrete path.

[tim]

It was the only option but it looks ghastly.

Can't afford the yoghurt treatment.

Please - before I'm sent packing!!

[tim]

[isbister]

You can stain it a rather fetching brown with sulphate of iron. I discvered this when using said substance as a moss killer (1 heaped dessertspoon per gallon water) and accidentally splashing a patio.

[kt.]

You can get a type of varnish particulry for patio & paving. It costs £100 per tin but you will only need one. Not sure if it is just a varnish though or if there is any slight coloured ones available. It looks brilliant when on block-paving, considering some myself this summer to do ours.

[Grandma]

You could get an awful lot of yoghurt for £100  ;)

[froglets]

Sand some green oak over it - did wonders ( not ) for my yard paving!

[Barnowl]

What effect are you trying to achieve Tim? Perhaps thinned green cuprinol would work?

[cambourne7]

give it time  ;D

[bennettsleg]

yoghurt with a little water added and a light hand on the paint brush when you apply it to make it go further.

Cover the path with pots/earth etc and yoghurt the bits that show, moving the pots around as the yoghurt budget allows.

[bunjies]

milk would work too, even if it is watered down. cost much less than yoghurt ;)

[Heldi]

horse poo mixed with water, soot. milk. ....I asked someone who used to work at concrete manufacturer.

[shirlton]

I was gonna say the same as Heidi.We did it with cow manure spose any muck will do though Tim

[Doris_Pinks]

I was going say manure too! Not that I have tried it, just one of those things I read somewhere!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Milk and horse or cow poo.

[tim]

Some nice ones there - thanks for the thoughts! Whole milk & Organic??

PS Effect? As near Cotswold stone as possible.

[ACE]

If you tell everyone to keep off it with their muddy boots on it will be filthy in no time. Then on a wet day brush all the soil about and it should age nicely.

[tim]

A parent speaks??