We left the countertops alone until the next day where we stripped the mold away and did some small touchups which are almost always necessary. They were now ready to be turned into stained concrete countertops.
First we diluted the acid stain with water and then used a manual “ragging” technique instead of spraying it like we normally do for floors. By “ragging” we mean taking a sea sponge, soaking it with a little acid stain, then lightly blotting the concrete countertops to create an overlapping pattern. The “ragging” process creates much more color variation on the concrete’s surface than spraying but it’s such a labor intensive process that we normally only do it for countertops, a floor would take us forever to do.