Thread: Drylok question

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Who here uses Drylok? What is the best applications for it and why would you recomend it? I am in the process of making my cemetery columns and wonder if this would be a good first coat, what do you think?

Oh, I love Drylok. I use it on all my tombstones. I use the gray Drylok you can get a Lowe's (my Home Depot only carries the white one). It does several things. The gray color is the perfect gray base color for tombstones (no need to repaint a base coat). It is water-proof and weather proof (I had outdoors in Kansas weather for 32 days with no damage) Finally, it has sand in it which gives it a great stone look. When you dry-brush a lighter gray, it takes on the perfect stone look.

I LOVE THIS STUFF!

I do two coats unless it is going over a monster-mudded project. In that case, I do three coats. Wear a mask when you paint this stuff. It has a very stong smell and I got a bit high painting without one. Wheeee...


Here's the last tombstone I did using Drylok:

Definite love Drylok and now they have an odorless version although we have more fun when we use the odorful version. ads texture and protection. And yes its worth the extra cost if you store your stones carefully

If you paint on top of the drylok, say to age it. Do you have to seal these coats of paint with something else. Or should I only use outdoor paints?

I just realized I'm one post away from 500. Whooohooo. So in my 500th post I'd love to say Terra I love your work, you are a great insperation and you make me want to remake all my tombstones. I also used your tutorial on the flicker candles, that I'll be placing on my cemetery columns. =)

I hope one of my stores here in Canada have the grey tinted drylok. We don't have a Lowes here.

Terra, can you drop a little more info on how you use Drylok for your tombstones? the one up above looks great!

Terra turned me on to Drylok last year and I was really happy with the results. Here is a grave monument I built. The first pic shows it with the base coat of drylok. I actually gave it two coats.


These show it finished. I dry brushed a darker gray latex on it and then hit a few spots with a spray bottle. The water made the paint run a bit and gave it a nice old look. I'm looking forward to making a few more this year.

Nice work, Terra and jdubbya. Makes my boxy tombstones look pitiful. Never heard of Drylok. I may try it. Thanks.

Thanks Here's some more pointer's about Drylock.....

After I paint the Drylok coats, I use exterior latex paints for the detail work so that way I don't have to seal it. It held up great. I got a gallon each of dark gray and white and I mix them together to get the varying shades of gray. Also, to get that orangy look, I used artist acylic paint (raw sienna) and mixed that with the white and gray exterior latex paints. If you want more detail on the painting techniques I use, please look at my tutorial for Beloved: Halloween Forum - Terra's Album: Tutorial: Beloved Tombstone

I use the latex version of Drylok. Nice and easy water-clean-up Another note about Drylok, it is very thick so I've needed to 'scoop' out some of the wet paint out of the epitaph crevices. It tends to fill in spots so I do that to maintain the detail. But, on the monster-mudded items (like the angel in my tombstone) I love that it fills in crevices. That's what helps the monster-mudded projects take on the look of stone and helps blend it into the tombstone itself.

Drylok is great! I used it on my fake rock and on my Spooky Town landscape.
Terra, that tombstone is just awesome! Your attention to detail is fantastic.