kamesama980
Well-known member
I'm one of those that got to be a ginea pig for Rocksolid Floors. I ended up with tan. At first it looked more like the original pink silly putty but it's definitely tan after curing/drying.
It definitely looks good and brightens up the building. Since I have a 24x40 pole barn, it took four of their kits applied in about 4 sections each. By the end I was an expert but a few of the earlier sections aren't as even to eachother color-wise.
It's paper thin on the concrete, so don't go scraping metal-footed tables across it. Setting up my (also new) max-jax left a few scrapes. Tires, hard-wheeled toolboxes, max-jax wheels, etc don't leave a mark. some hydraulid oil spilled from the max-jax wiped up with a paper towel, no discoloration, no residue I could tell by touch. Concrete dust sweeps right off without leaving any behind. I'll hold off on speaking about squeegeeing, the product goes on so thin and the flakes are spread on top so they sit above the product making the surface appear uneven (see last pic)
FYI: any imperfections in the surface finish of the concrete are gonna show through. A few areas still look bad where either the PO left a leaking container of used oil that ate away at the surface or my muriatic cleaning did so. Cracks and divots: it won't fill even the tiniest of cracks, I found a few new ones after applying the product. Divots where someone took a chunk out by dropping something heavy are the same way: won't get filled unless you deliberately get some in there.
Hardest part was prep. Aside from spending most of a weekend just moving things onto shelves or to the shed, my floor was DIRTY. the PO of the property parked diesel implements in the garage and they dripped...a lot. power wash, degrease, power wash, better degreaser, hands-and-knees to scrape up tar-like residue, wash the whole floor with diluted muriatic acid, then FINALLY (after 3 days) water doesn't bead on half the surface and we can move on to rocksolids products.
their etching product works FAST. First section I did, I tried to pour it, then go back and brush it around...waaaay too late. What we ended up doing was my wife would brush it around AS I was pouring. that worked great. Maybe this is because the concrete was already scoured pretty hard before starting exposing more reaction area, speeding it up?
The actual product wasn't terribly hard to apply, I think it took 4 hours from when I went out to the garage to when I came back inside the house (including breaks between batches, time to mix each batch, and 20 minutes for a snack). I would suggest wisking it out of the bucket rather than pouring a single line of the product. the larger number of thinner beads made spreading it MUCH easier as well as better consistency section to section (controlling the pour rate is hard with so thick a liquid)
Here's the survey they sent:
Pictures:
Before:
After:
Close-up:
The whole album's here: http://s29.photobucket.com/user/kam...3&page=0&_suid=138236506596206693053619088385
It definitely looks good and brightens up the building. Since I have a 24x40 pole barn, it took four of their kits applied in about 4 sections each. By the end I was an expert but a few of the earlier sections aren't as even to eachother color-wise.
It's paper thin on the concrete, so don't go scraping metal-footed tables across it. Setting up my (also new) max-jax left a few scrapes. Tires, hard-wheeled toolboxes, max-jax wheels, etc don't leave a mark. some hydraulid oil spilled from the max-jax wiped up with a paper towel, no discoloration, no residue I could tell by touch. Concrete dust sweeps right off without leaving any behind. I'll hold off on speaking about squeegeeing, the product goes on so thin and the flakes are spread on top so they sit above the product making the surface appear uneven (see last pic)
FYI: any imperfections in the surface finish of the concrete are gonna show through. A few areas still look bad where either the PO left a leaking container of used oil that ate away at the surface or my muriatic cleaning did so. Cracks and divots: it won't fill even the tiniest of cracks, I found a few new ones after applying the product. Divots where someone took a chunk out by dropping something heavy are the same way: won't get filled unless you deliberately get some in there.
Hardest part was prep. Aside from spending most of a weekend just moving things onto shelves or to the shed, my floor was DIRTY. the PO of the property parked diesel implements in the garage and they dripped...a lot. power wash, degrease, power wash, better degreaser, hands-and-knees to scrape up tar-like residue, wash the whole floor with diluted muriatic acid, then FINALLY (after 3 days) water doesn't bead on half the surface and we can move on to rocksolids products.
their etching product works FAST. First section I did, I tried to pour it, then go back and brush it around...waaaay too late. What we ended up doing was my wife would brush it around AS I was pouring. that worked great. Maybe this is because the concrete was already scoured pretty hard before starting exposing more reaction area, speeding it up?
The actual product wasn't terribly hard to apply, I think it took 4 hours from when I went out to the garage to when I came back inside the house (including breaks between batches, time to mix each batch, and 20 minutes for a snack). I would suggest wisking it out of the bucket rather than pouring a single line of the product. the larger number of thinner beads made spreading it MUCH easier as well as better consistency section to section (controlling the pour rate is hard with so thick a liquid)
Here's the survey they sent:
Pictures:
Before:
After:
Close-up:
The whole album's here: http://s29.photobucket.com/user/kam...3&page=0&_suid=138236506596206693053619088385