Recent content by jeff68bird

i have amarr on my 2 bay attached to the house. nice quality. about 12 years old holding up great. torsion spring. went with chi on the new 3 bay. i built both garages myself but hired out the doors on both. could not have bought them for the price the door companys sold them installed. 8 ft...

i was told the same thing today. my local store (south jersey) is sold out of the bottom but still had a top and side. manager told me they where told to sell all the old finish before dispalying the new ones. he said they should be getting the new ones later in the week. sale flyer for jan...

thanks scotty

just got done color coat and flakes. waiting now the 18 hrs to able the clear.i will post pictures and write up on the other tread i started tommorow.this may be a dumb question but can you use the spike shoes to but down the clear or will it make marks and cuts in the fresh epoxy. i found...

applied the hd821 filler today. taped both sides of the joint and did my best to force as much material in the joint as i could. then wiped it clean against the tape.ended up a little lower than the surface so tommorow i will wipe a second coat since i have enough left . ordered a 1 gallon kit...

ok epoxy coat came yesterday. opening everthing to check to be sure it was all there .i filled in one of the saw cuts with chaulk to even level. when it dried it shrunk up alot and the joint would have definately be visable when coated didnt like the looks of it so i dug it back out.i decided to...

thanks for the tips.the concrete chaulk does say paintable so i would like to use it if no one thinks it will be a problem. interested trick on the tape line might try that. as far as the gloss later on as long as it all still looks uniform it wont both me at all if it dulls down a little. i...

Thanks good luck on Monday hope it goes ok.

this is the chalk i was going to use. doesnt say acrylic but it does say latex and paintable. anyone use it.

ok epoxy coat on its ways. 1200 sq ft. ordered 2 1/2 premium kits of grey with clear + 1/2 kit extra of base just to be sure. going with light to medium flakes (black/white/and graphite) floor is correctly prepped thanks to advise on a previous thread. i have read lots of threads on mixing dos...

thanks for the pic.the density is just what i was looking at. did you order extra chips or was this just what was supplied in the kits,

thanks for info. keeping track of all these tips. might help me to avoid problems.

floor looks great. lots of good tips in this thread.had a couple questions.was it hard to blend each 10x10 section and can you tell where any of the sections stopped and started. did you use flakes?hard to tell from the picture. if so where they hard to get on even. also did you fill the saw...

thanks this is why it takes me forever to get anything done. letting it dry!! edger and christine . dont see to much new fiber i will probably use the torch to help dry it so that will take care of any strays.

looks real good . i will definately get the spiked shoes for flaking as you suggested but in the picture yours looks pretty even and consistant to me. doing my floor soon can i ask why you wished you had gone with the clearcoat iam on the fence about flakes and clear coat.