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Making a few trips between lowes and home depot to see about what things will be costing me? Still need to get the exact paint color picked out and purchased but I think it will go pretty fast.....Did i just jinx myself?

Thanks the glue was a beat but with the right tools it came up like nothing Any one that has a carpeted floor PLEASE PLEASE dont bother with anything else if you want it removed!

Jaguar Fan> Thanks man! yea I am lovin it already! as for hand grinding well thats really the only way top get it done and trust me it was so much easier with the right grinder than with all the other **** I tried Tone> its a company in a town near sacramento called Roseville here is their web...

mine isn't done yet but here is the thread I am continuing my build on ! http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51104

Thank you guys so much for the suggestions and we did end up doing the diamond grinder its the only freakin way to do it! but please check my other thread and see what I ended up with! So cool !! http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51104

The last picture in the previouse post you can see the stripe of the darker brown mixed with acetone and more flake to darken the edges around the perimeter! Man suce a differance at this point it looked so cool we were all worried about doing to much more and totally dicking it up! but that was...

The more time goes on and the more the material was worked wither with the squeegee or with the big roller the more the look seemed to change its really subjective we counted out all the same mix of pearly copper color and metal flake and made sure the second batch matched the first. We were all...

still going

You can already see how crazy and translucent it is the flaws in the garage floor make different designs and really give it character I am glad that we didn't fill in the seams because the patch would have been very visible or well you know that might have even looked cool to! I wish you guys...

spreading it on with a trowel then with a huge roller

more mixing

I AM SO HAPPY! I haven't seen anything like this on the Garage journal and it looks so incredible! its almost like a translucent candy copper with metal flake mixed in! its just looks incredible I cant get any pictures of it with the sun on it yet cause well there isn't any sun but when there is...

hmm the most important pic didnt load here is the copper before going in the epoxy

So josh showed up and started heating the garage with the kerosene jet heater and we did a final pick of the colors. cross your fingers! I guess they normally dont do garages mostly commercial staining and coatings, but doing stuff like mine gives em a chance to try out new and different stuff...

Look how clean this is getting!

Here is some close up of what tools they used! Man they worked so well for getting this glue out they are grinders with diamonds cast in the metal didnt gum up at all! he used the big one attached to a shop vac and really not much dust escaped at all the little one to grind all the glue and ****...

They are getting started! ground out all the glue yesterday what a difference having the right tool makes ! No that isnt me after three weeks of trial and error mostly error I broke down and called in a pro! He started at 9 and was done by 3!

DUDE!! This garage is incredible can you post more pics of the over head cabinets? were they there already or did you add them completely? how much room is up there ? How did you get the shelves up there and how hard was it to get them up? oh and concider this thread subscribed!

Capper150 > what do you wanna know sorry I missed you earlier!

Mada> hells yea I want to see some pics of your garage!! Cobra4b > no have you seen those football commercials called fat heads? they are like peel and stick removable life size foot ball players that look super real ( supposedly) and i would only do it of the Bear looked real except *********...