Recent content by robb1887

This past weekend had one very specific goal. Get the daily's into the attached garage. Here in VA the summers can get pretty brutal 100+ heat index days, crazy amounts of sun with high humidity and with loading and unloading two small kids regularly, I was over driveway parking. Long story...

Thanks. It's getting there. I'm definitely ready to stop working on the shop and working IN the shop, specificially on it and the Roady I have as a Coupe test mule. Almost there. The Coupe has been around for 13ish years, its about to get a 6 speed swap and a new rear end ratio and extra...

Well the "soft open" went well, here's how it looked the night before hand I ended up getting the Sikaflex 1C SL down the days to follow The false sense of security one of the 29oz tubes would be sufficient was just by the sheer size of the thing and ended up scraping the first of two...

Door trim and south wall trim (sans above big bay doors) done. I advise against being lazy and not going to my bench sander in the attached garage to take a smidge of the left side of it for the clearance of the door trim and attempting to do it on your table saw in the space. The west...

The 25th is my "soft open" when I'm having a bunch of co-workers over for a cookout which is QUICKYLY approaching. The last 1/3rd of floor was prepped and 4500 primed over the weekend after moving everything out of the way. All clean: 4500 down, I know it looks crazy different. I...

I missed responding here, but thanks! It's definitely gotten to the point I am tired of working ON the shop and not just working IN the shop. I'm getting really close. Small update was I finally pulled the trigger on the first of two Chamberlain RJO101 jackshaft openers. I wanted to ensure I...

The photo with the floor and bucket is still with it wet. It dulled a good bit but the hard trowel spots do have some sheen left now 24+ hours later. I am using significantly less product as suggested with the power trowel finish by the label coverage as these two bays at ~ 746sqft used ~1.5...

Doing a little more google research I made a personal determination that my floor was power troweled. I applied the 4500 (single coat) just before our week vacation which was perfect for a cure time. The 8510 (wet on wet, 2 coats) was applied as soon as we got back to allow it to cure over the...

Doing a little more google research I made a personal determination that it was power troweled. I applied the 4500 (single coat) just before our week vacation which was perfect for a cure time. The 8510 (wet on wet, 2 coats) was applied as soon as we got back to allow it to cure over the week...

Yea, I believe mine was manually finished but don't know for sure. I didn't catch them doing the finish work on the slab 2 years ago and it wasn't that detailed in the contract info. I do know a neighbor that had the same crew build recently. I will see if he caught what they used to finish...

You mentioned in your build thread only using 4.5 gallons in your 32x32 space? Based on a 300sqft application coverage reccomended and then "less needed" for the wet coat should be somehwere in the 5-6 range no?

Supposed to have negilgable change to surface appearance. I'll let you know is 2.5 weeks. You can keep an eye on my build thread

I really wish I would have done it way earlier in my shop build to prevent as much prep requirements. I'm using a saw cut in my floor I will mask off to separate a 2/3 & 1/3 application with stacking all my stuff up in that 1/3 area for the majority application, then moving it back over to get...

This is directly from the website, but I'll double check the labeling when it arrives as well. I only have the 4500 in hand currently. "Apply with a solvent-resistant roller, brush or low-pressure, non- atomizing sprayer. Apply to saturation letting the first coat penetrate for 5-10 minutes...

I've done some car/mower maintenance and feel like I should degrease to be safe, I only get one shot. Dusting is a huge concern currently still so I'm glad to hear that helped. I will be doing a lot of mecahnical car work and fabrication so I figure the sealer is the best application for me...