I asked this question on the end of another poster's thread so it's not getting any traffic. Need an answer by tomorrow because I have to recoat in the window.
There was a little slip up during my first coat of epoxy application today. I was low on epoxy toward the end so I went back to the previous mix bucket to get more and I grabbed the wrong bucket. I grabbed the bucket I had combined the Part B bases in for even color. I was on the second kit, and I thought I was grabbing the remains of the first kit's bucket. This stuff has like a 3 hour pot life, so I figured it would be fine.
Anyway, I did about a 6" swipe of cutting in with literally just straight part B with no activator in it before I realized this was non-activated epoxy. I immediately scraped it off with a paint scraper and wiped it off the best I could with some zylene on a towel. Then I rolled the **** out of that area with mixed epoxy hoping to push past the part B residue that was still there. I'm just afraid I'm going to have a weak spot and I'm considering grinding that off tomorrow before I apply my second coat.
Does anyone think that's necessary or should it be fine?
This was basically my "same product primer coat", and since Rustoleum Pro is a solvent based epoxy it went really well. I applied it very thin and I'm not seeing any bubbles, even though it was applied at nearly 90 degrees and getting hotter fast. I live in the desert, which is part of the reason I steered clear of the 100% solid products. Too hard to avoid bubbles and too hard to work with a super short pot life as a DIY guy. I'm doing a 650 sq/ft slab by myself.
There was a little slip up during my first coat of epoxy application today. I was low on epoxy toward the end so I went back to the previous mix bucket to get more and I grabbed the wrong bucket. I grabbed the bucket I had combined the Part B bases in for even color. I was on the second kit, and I thought I was grabbing the remains of the first kit's bucket. This stuff has like a 3 hour pot life, so I figured it would be fine.
Anyway, I did about a 6" swipe of cutting in with literally just straight part B with no activator in it before I realized this was non-activated epoxy. I immediately scraped it off with a paint scraper and wiped it off the best I could with some zylene on a towel. Then I rolled the **** out of that area with mixed epoxy hoping to push past the part B residue that was still there. I'm just afraid I'm going to have a weak spot and I'm considering grinding that off tomorrow before I apply my second coat.
Does anyone think that's necessary or should it be fine?
This was basically my "same product primer coat", and since Rustoleum Pro is a solvent based epoxy it went really well. I applied it very thin and I'm not seeing any bubbles, even though it was applied at nearly 90 degrees and getting hotter fast. I live in the desert, which is part of the reason I steered clear of the 100% solid products. Too hard to avoid bubbles and too hard to work with a super short pot life as a DIY guy. I'm doing a 650 sq/ft slab by myself.
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