2nd half of floor epoxy question

[Northeast Rod Run]

I did half of my floor last week (old slab) and now I want to coat the new side next week, but I have a couple of questions.

1) for those of you that did your floors in two halves, did the etch affect the epoxy on the finished side?

2) how did you keep the finished side from getting to wet with the etch and water when you were hosing down the second side for preparation?

I finished painting the first side last Saturday and I'm hoping to start prep on the second side this Saturday. Anyone have any thoughts about any of this? Good or bad?

 

[Northeast Rod Run]

It seems that on one had any answer for this, so I decided to give it a shot anyway.

What I decided to do, was that I laid a few 2"x3" studs end to end and then back taped them to the floor, with 3" wide painters tape, so it would hopefully work kind of like a dam/berm for the water to roll off of. I left about 3 or 4 inches of the already epoxied floor showing, because I didn't know if that needed to be etched (or if it would get totally ruined) and also didn't know if I needed to overlap the new with the old.

Anyway..... It worked out pretty well, except for a couple of spots allowing the etch to seep through and is seems like it might have ruined some of the gloss on the already finished side (which I'm not happy about).

Hopefully the floor will be dry enough to coat tomorrow

I guess sometimes you have to learn from your own mistakes.

 

[rsanter]

I pressure washed, etched and washed the whole floor. The painted half at a time

Bob

 

[Northeast Rod Run]

I would have loved to do that, but I had to move stuff one side to the other, so I had room to work.... and it was a LOT of stuff. LOL

 

[shaun oriold1]

What product did you use for a top coat?

 

[Northeast Rod Run]

I used Rustoleum's product.

One side of my garage is pretty much just used for my one of my toys to sit there and look pretty in.

The other side is where I do all the work and I'm heading out there right now to start mixing the epoxy for that side. I want to get it spread before the heat of the days gets in there