Epoxy

[Willy Victor]

Just a thought but have any of you guys ever used a Scotts hand held fertilizer spreader to put down the chips on an Epoxy paint job. It seems to me it might work better than throwing handfuls. You can dial them down pretty far.

Willy

 

[Tyson]

Just a thought but have any of you guys ever used a Scotts hand held fertilizer spreader to put down the chips on an Epoxy paint job. It seems to me it might work better than throwing handfuls. You can dial them down pretty far.

Willy

Not worth it. You only paint like a 3' x 6' section at a time, reach into a bowl, pull out some flakes and lightly scatter them.

I'd be worried about the spreader not putting down a uniform ammount where you want it....Nothing looks worse than an epoxy floor with a handfull of chips here, a few chips there, a few chips here...another handfull there.

 

[Willy Victor]

Tyson this is a hand held rotary spreader that seems to spread grass seed fairly evenly. I think it would work on a larger area but 3x5 seems a little small. I need to do something with my floor, full of oil stains. It's about five years old. I did not seal it when it was new. Don't know if that's good or bad. It's a 30x36 pole building. Has an office/shop in the back that is tiled. I have some pics of the outside but I need some of the inside. Next trip to Mi. I'll take some.

 

[Tyson]

The way you paint the epoxy is to do a small section, (I did 3' x 6' strips) and then sprinkle on the chips and move on to the next section.

It takes 2 seconds to stop rolling, throw some chips in the air and start rolling again....Trust me, it's not worth it.

Plus your spreader will be taking the material from the bottom of the hopper, which means it will be spreading out a lot of the finer flakes (more like dust) and leaving the large ones (which you want) on the top of the hopper.

 

[bmwpower]

I think the promotional material from Rustoleum shows a guy spreading it with the spreader in question. So it would appear that Rustoleum is recommending this method.

 

[snorvet]

I tried the spreader, but it didnt work as well as throwing them. probably because I'd epoxy a 6'x'6 area and throw the chips over the part i just epoxied while standing in a non-epoxied area. I couldnt control the spreader to keep all the chips landing where I just epoxied.

Now if a guy was going to epoxy the whole floor and walk over over fresh epoxy with golf shoes or whatever, the spreader would probably work

 

[volvo]

On a recent "This Old House" the home owner had the Home Depot pros??? come out to epoxy his garage floor.They did the usual light grey epoxy over the whole two car garage wearing nail point shoes, then he went over the floor with hand broadcasting out the multi colored chips covering up the floor up to what looked like 1/4 inch deep. The coment was made that he would return the next day to scrape off the excess and then clear coat the floor. It turned out nice , but may have had too many chips in it for most of us. Just one so called pro way of doing it. Of coruse they could reuse all the leftovers on another job making it cost effective for them....H