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In a pinch, I've used excel for that sort of thing. I make the cells square (adjust row and column height to be the same), and then color in the cells. It's hardly an elegant solution but it's helped me out more than I care to admit. Also you can use box outlines around the cells to make your...

The HD came in a kit form, which appealed to me, and there have been many success stories here about it. I don't really have a solid reason.

Looks like Banjo-guy got them. Unless he backs out, consider them gone. Sheldon

Finally some thoughts on the Legacy kits: The kits come very well packed in several double wall cardboard boxes with custom can holding cardboard inserts. The base-coat kits themselves are packed in a cardboard box which houses the bucket, which they also lidded. All the tools for the kit are...

The base-coat dried nicely and was looking good! It was time for the last coat. I got up this morning and after a dog walk, got to work. I had read the contents of the urethane coating and also had scoured this forum. So I knew a respiration was needed for the top coat. I got out my...

As I said in the last post, I was a bit nervous about the base coat. The primer coat seemed like barely enough for my garage area, and I had never done the flake addition before. I started early Friday morning after a dog walk, and got to work. Each day starts with re-taping the coating...

I prepped the walls using 1.5" wide blue painters tape, and the door thresholds using frog tape. (When I was done with the primer, I pulled the frog tape up while the primer was still wet.) So now the floor is prepped and ready to go. It's time to apply the primer. I mixed each primer in a...

The first step I did was to grind the floor. I live in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire and while Dartmouth College provides reasonable culture and environment, there aren't a lot of choices in rental places. I checked Home Depot for the grinder and was shocked to find that they don't take...

Shown in the pictures below is the state of the current garage floor. It's a two car garage with about 510 ft^2 of space. There is a centrally located floor drain that works, and I'm guessing just drains into gravel under the slab. The concrete is in reasonable shape, but won't win any...

I just finished the final urethane coat on my 510 ft^2 two care garage in New Hampshire. This is my fourth epoxy floor I've done, and I thought I'd share my thoughts on the Legacy kits and the process for others. My first epoxy floor was in Albuquerque in 2000 and I used a big box store...

Man, the word has gotten soft these days. A light?! How about some heat and an espresso maker too?. Maybe that three feet of clearance in front of the panel is for a lazy boy... Back in my day, you stumbled down a half rotten set of basement stairs in the dark to the dampest recess of the...

I just finished the Urethane coating on my floor and it looks spectacular. This is my fourth epoxy floor I've done in my last four homes, and it's by far the best. I have a bunch of leftovers that may help the next guy, this stuff is free, but if you picked up the postage charge I'd...

After applying the anti-skid to the Urethane, I'd have to say that my 66% choice seems pretty good. The "Fine" HDGrip has a peak that is almost the same height as the flakes that I put down into the epoxy coat. So it appears that the anti-skid is no worse for sweeping and squeegeeing than the...

The reason I'm asking is the instructions say "up to 4oz" and then it says in all caps: "IT IS UP TO THE USER TO DETERMINE THE PROPER AMOUNT AND LEVEL OF ANTI-SKID REQUIRED" This implies that there is a choice not only in size of anti-skid (i have fine), but also of quantity used per gallon...

Thanks for the info, I rented the grinder yesterday afternoon and ground last night for four hours. It turned out really nicely (lots of paint spray on the floor from the dreaded previous owner). Wrangling that polisher for four hours really showed me how much of a desk jockey I've become...