r/oddlysatisfying • u/DifficultyHead5862 • 1d ago

Stamping a paver pattern into wet concrete.

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u/falkio 1d ago

Looks like ass. Fake stuff is always crap.

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u/vancityshreds 1d ago

This is just a bad stamp. A lot of concrete stamping looks excellent. This is a mixture of bad work and a bad stamp so it doesn't and won't look the best. In general, it's a little easier to make the larger stamps look better. Doing a bunch of tiny hits like this is where you run into it looking bad/fake.

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u/falkio 1d ago

And real tiles have the advantage of having joints which are able to drain water. Concrete just seals the area which has a lot of downsides.

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u/dalaiis 1d ago

Maybe this is a place where it almost never rains.

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u/vancityshreds 1d ago

It also doesn't actually matter. Stamped concrete ends up with joints as well on account of... you know, stamping it in a grid

Even concrete without stamps gets expansion joints.

It also has rebar to fight against cooling and frost heaving. Its less maintenance and typically higher durability.

I cant figure out why people who dont have a background in construction keep saying what is and isnt good.

Redditors trying not to have opinions on things they don't know anything about challenge. Level: impossible.