Seeing everyones' incredible creations and reading the tips and techniques here we thought we'd create a seating bench around our teensy, tiny waterfall using Tufa-made stones.

Hubby being the very impatient sort, would unmold the tufa long before it was done cooking. Needless to say we have lots and lots of stone bits and pieces which I'm sure I'll find use for.

I went on to Plan B which was using pre-blended dry mortar mix, the thickness of cake batter. Used generic 'Pam' as a release and created some wonderful stones from molds to put around the base and backing of our waterfall bench.

I thought I could do the same thing with a really thin slurry to create the 'grout' between the stones but the next morning I found shards, bit and chunks of cement on the bench part, where the cement dried too fast (I think?) and just fell away from the primed plywood.

Would I be able to use the Tufa as 'grout' in this situation?

If so, what/how/were? I mean, what type of mixture as this 'grout' will be very thin and applied between the faux stones on primed plywood.

Do I apply the tufa all at once or in layers?

Could I apply the tufa just as it was real grout, covering everything and then wiping off the excess from the front of the faux stones?

This was a total DIY, use what we already had type of project (as most of our projects are do to lack of funds) and I want to do it right, not have to re-do it again in a couple months because I didn't prep correctly, etc.

Can Anyone help me with this?

If anyone has any other ideas for our little "Unwinding area" (as my husband calls it) project, please share!

Thanks so much,

Amity

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