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Epoxy flooring: How precise (floor stripes) can it be?

tradog

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I am looking to do an epoxy on my new garage floor in a couple months and would like to do a white floor with a 20" wide orange racing strip down the center with a 1/2 black border around that. Also want to add a 25" diameter circle right in the center of the stripe with the number "7" in it. Hard to explain but it would resemble the racing stripe and number that you would find on a Heritage Ford GT. Look at pic below...

Anyway, is it possible to get that precise with the lines that I am thinking of with epoxy?

Thanks,

Brian
 

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Edger

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I could never master it. Epoxy wants to run under tape and when it flows over the tape it can pull off with the tape. I hope there are better tapes and methods these days.
 

54FordPanel

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It does bleed under the tape, but I think you would have good luck if you use this painters trick:

-Layed down your base coat/color.

-Put down your tape line.

-Put down a narrow coat OF YOUR BASE COLOR right on top of the tape line, that overlaps where your accent color will be and the tape itself. This coat 'seals' the tape line, and any epoxy that runs under your tape line will be the color of the base coat, so it isn't noticed.

-Put down your accent color, then pull up the tape.
 
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