maximus01can
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Howdy,
Well we finished the floor and managed to stay married
It turned out well and even after a winters worth of wear/tear with the small rocks grinding into the floor etc. it seems to be holding up just fine. Any of the dirt just sweeps nicely away as you can see in the pics. Brought out the pressure washer and it cleaned up just like after it was first completed. The biggest problem and what took the longest being a newbie at this was deciding on what to use and how to go about doing it. After that it was quick and relatively easy.
Our process was:
Purchased:
- 2 kits of epoxymaster from Costco ($780)
- 4 bags Metallic Cobalt Blue and 2 bags Metallic Silver fleck from Epoxymaster ($232 USD)
- 2 kits ($189) of 2 part epoxy clear coat from Ron at Elite Coatings here in calgary.
- 18" rollers, trays and handles (Approx. $100)
- Large jug of miratic acid (What came with costco package was not enough)
- Spiked shoes for myself and made a pair for the wife out of her flip's. I jigsawed out template of her flips from 3/4" plywood and then drywall screws through the flip and plywood sole. Worked awesome and much nicer for her to work from than those hard plastic units I bought.
-Swept and cleaned the floor even thought it was brand new concrete and never driven on.
- Mixed and applied the Muriatic acid with weed sprayer. This worked really well, much better than pouring out and sweeping around
- Let dry until the next day.
- Mixed up the 2 part apoxy on batch at a time and poured out over the 1st half of the garage. I didn't bother cutting anything in, just moved it to the edge with the squeegee and then back away.
-Started at the one side and started squeeging the epoxy across the floor. It was much thicker than I expected so I had to push down pretty on the squeegee as I was grading it across the floor at an angle to get the proper coverage.
- Mixed up the second batch and repeated the process above across the second portion.
- Started at one end and rolled the entire area and then cross rolled it.
We both rolled as it's quite a bit of arm work for one person. I left the section outside the garage door as it was cold out and it wouldn't have set up. I may do the rest at a later date or just leave it as is....don't know yet.
Waited around 24 hrs with the heat set to 20C until the surface was not tacky anywhere. It was a super high gloss finish and we were very happy with it. Without any grit it would have been a skating rink I suppose in the winter though....
-Mixed the 2 part epoxy clear coat and mixed in about 2/3 bag of the aluminum oxide for traction and spread it out with the 18" rollers and throw away roller containers. Every once in a while we'd stir up the grit. In the end there was quite a bit of grit left with the remaining epoxy clear coat in the bottom of the roller troughs so I just used that where I wanted the most grit, in front of the access door and the main walking area in front of the bench area. This added plenty of traction, but you don't want too much or it would get a little hard to sweep over etc.
All in all it turned out great and after a month of searching for what the hell to exactly do, the job itself took only a weekend but we didn't have to do much with the floor other than the acid etching and I did that the weekend before so it had lots of time to dry. The next part was installing the cabinets, big screen and messing around with populating all the drawers. Deciding on what to do for cabinets and bench was another painful process as there's just too many choices. In the end I went with Ikea cabinets as it allowed me all kinds of options drawers etc. and the 24" depth of the drawers kicks most of the competition's A**es from a pricing perspective and with the heavy duty handles looks pretty good. The soft close drawers are also really nice and you can get lot's of different colors but I chose white just because of the cost. Cabinets worked out to around $1800 and I built the work bench myself out of Melamine and 3/4" plywood which ended up being plenty sturdy and cleans up nice. Now we just have to get on with the garage warming party
...oh wait, I've got an attic access ladder to install....**** something else to investigate...lol.
Cheers,
Max
Well we finished the floor and managed to stay married
It turned out well and even after a winters worth of wear/tear with the small rocks grinding into the floor etc. it seems to be holding up just fine. Any of the dirt just sweeps nicely away as you can see in the pics. Brought out the pressure washer and it cleaned up just like after it was first completed. The biggest problem and what took the longest being a newbie at this was deciding on what to use and how to go about doing it. After that it was quick and relatively easy.Our process was:
Purchased:
- 2 kits of epoxymaster from Costco ($780)
- 4 bags Metallic Cobalt Blue and 2 bags Metallic Silver fleck from Epoxymaster ($232 USD)
- 2 kits ($189) of 2 part epoxy clear coat from Ron at Elite Coatings here in calgary.
- 18" rollers, trays and handles (Approx. $100)
- Large jug of miratic acid (What came with costco package was not enough)
- Spiked shoes for myself and made a pair for the wife out of her flip's. I jigsawed out template of her flips from 3/4" plywood and then drywall screws through the flip and plywood sole. Worked awesome and much nicer for her to work from than those hard plastic units I bought.
-Swept and cleaned the floor even thought it was brand new concrete and never driven on.
- Mixed and applied the Muriatic acid with weed sprayer. This worked really well, much better than pouring out and sweeping around
- Let dry until the next day.
- Mixed up the 2 part apoxy on batch at a time and poured out over the 1st half of the garage. I didn't bother cutting anything in, just moved it to the edge with the squeegee and then back away.
-Started at the one side and started squeeging the epoxy across the floor. It was much thicker than I expected so I had to push down pretty on the squeegee as I was grading it across the floor at an angle to get the proper coverage.
- Mixed up the second batch and repeated the process above across the second portion.
- Started at one end and rolled the entire area and then cross rolled it.
We both rolled as it's quite a bit of arm work for one person. I left the section outside the garage door as it was cold out and it wouldn't have set up. I may do the rest at a later date or just leave it as is....don't know yet.
Waited around 24 hrs with the heat set to 20C until the surface was not tacky anywhere. It was a super high gloss finish and we were very happy with it. Without any grit it would have been a skating rink I suppose in the winter though....
-Mixed the 2 part epoxy clear coat and mixed in about 2/3 bag of the aluminum oxide for traction and spread it out with the 18" rollers and throw away roller containers. Every once in a while we'd stir up the grit. In the end there was quite a bit of grit left with the remaining epoxy clear coat in the bottom of the roller troughs so I just used that where I wanted the most grit, in front of the access door and the main walking area in front of the bench area. This added plenty of traction, but you don't want too much or it would get a little hard to sweep over etc.
All in all it turned out great and after a month of searching for what the hell to exactly do, the job itself took only a weekend but we didn't have to do much with the floor other than the acid etching and I did that the weekend before so it had lots of time to dry. The next part was installing the cabinets, big screen and messing around with populating all the drawers. Deciding on what to do for cabinets and bench was another painful process as there's just too many choices. In the end I went with Ikea cabinets as it allowed me all kinds of options drawers etc. and the 24" depth of the drawers kicks most of the competition's A**es from a pricing perspective and with the heavy duty handles looks pretty good. The soft close drawers are also really nice and you can get lot's of different colors but I chose white just because of the cost. Cabinets worked out to around $1800 and I built the work bench myself out of Melamine and 3/4" plywood which ended up being plenty sturdy and cleans up nice. Now we just have to get on with the garage warming party
...oh wait, I've got an attic access ladder to install....**** something else to investigate...lol.Cheers,
Max
