Recent content by Honolulu

The "Goof Off Rust Aid" MSDS says <10% oxalic acid and <1% hydrofluoric acid. Don't get it on you. Come to think of it, sounds like nasty stuff to be washing off into your yard, too.

You need to test various paints for durability and whether they will stick at all. It would seem the urethane has sufficiently cured by this time. HOWEVER, if you ever will have to re-coat, realize that urethane products may dissolve whatever paint you use causing all manner of peeling...

Depends on whether the deck receives rain, which can cause rot, particularly in end grain wood planks. 3/8 ply sounds pretty thin, but it will depend on how closely spaced the planks below are, which info you didn't provide. Vinyl planks "or something" will presumably bridge the gaps and...

OP, looks great. Can you detail your process a bit more? Looks like the floor had a pretty flat (not broom) finish to begin with, confirm? What grit on the Home Despot diamabrush? You say the product was delivered in three cans, but you double coated the primer? Any grinding arcs still...

grind it off. PVC primer may not have penetrated that deeply (you'll find out). Maybe start with a stiff wire wheel or cup brush on your grinder, if you have one. Else hang it on the plumber, it's certainly his stuff, and just ask him to use a cup brush or something more aggressive if he...

I'm considering a better finish on a decades-old two-car (about 18'x18') concrete floor whose texture varies from near-smooth to rough broom surface. My wife's diesel had a tendency to mark it's territory... diesel lube gets really black. At best the product would bring up oil soaked into the...

Based on the "well" picture let me advise... Don't EVER let the rebars fall to the bottom of the slab, they are nearly worthless in that position. Use "chairs" (broken hollow tile or other) to keep the rebar at mid-depth of the slab.

CF_AV8or DON'T apologize for a long posting - all the "little details" and those added by others show the way for the next guy.

Here's a tip for painting a clean line using tape - I used it to pinline surfboards, back in the day. Lay the tape on a smooth surface if possible. Burnish it down (rub with thumb) so it sticks as well as possible. Smear a bit of some clear stuff over the edge to be painted to. In my day we...

Cracks in concrete are "normal" but failure to provide control joints is not. If your contractor knew you were going to coat the floor, I'd hold his feet to the fire and let HIM do the crack repair. Nine months post-pour, your slab has stopped shrinking/moving unless part of it is exposed to...

The OP asks for leveling advice, here's mine, having just seen a one-car sized shed at a friend's house leveled in preparation for laying 4" ceramic tile. Custom Building Products (and others I'm sure) have a cementitious product that you mix in a plastic rubbish can with drill-powered mixing...

Jes_si, correct on an indoor slab you probably won't have expansion joints, I picked that up from another post. The cracks would come from base course settlement, overloading the surface, too thin concrete, or shrinkage; most likely the last one. We see commentary from the pros that improperly...

Here in humid Hawaii (how's that for alliteration) we see curing started when you open and then reseal a can of POR15, another moisture cured urethane product. Similarly hard to remove from skin, that one! Other manufacturers also supply coatings with this base chemistry although I suspect...

mmmm you want to fill the expansion joints and other cracks... mmmm ... you do know why expansion joints are placed, don't you? and you do know why cracks for in concrete? I think the post above about cracks printing through the surfacing product used are spot on, unless the product has...

OP, might be a LOT simpler to mix and spread some self-leveling compound which might build less than 1/2 inch, than try grind off that much. A friend just had an 10x15 concrete floored shed leveled. The stuff used appeared to spread evenly but the videos I've seen online show a viscous product...