Floor Prep

[beck3906]

I am completing a 32x40 shop over the next couple of weeks and wondered about floor covering. We just pired the slab 10 days ago so I know I need tolet it cure longer. With the weather being 100+ pretty regular in our part of Texas, it shouldn't take long.

I have the shop divided out with a main room of 28x32 and 3 rooms of about 10x14. The rooms will have an exterior door with a transom from the main room into each smaller room so I can control dust. (This will be a woodworking shop...sorry.)

I'm reading the posts about floor prep and I read of acid washes and lots of rinsing.

How do you get the water up if you have it contained in a space?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Rick Beckham
Temple, TX

 

[Edger]

Hi Rick,

If you cannot squeegee water out the doors you need to have a good wet vac. Most coating companies say you should wait 28 days before coating and apparently the temperature has little to do with the slab curing time.

Sometimes dust can be more slippery than water so maybe you should consider the flake finish epoxy.

 

[beck3906]

Thanks for the info.

Where can I find the flake coating type of epoxy?

 

[Falcon67]

Any of the epoxy floor suppliers have the flake and/or material to introduce surface roughness. X2 - sawdust on a smooth epoxy floor is very slick. I didn't mind it in my last shop, but you might. I did acid etch followed with backing soda rinse about 40 days after pour. Vac the floor good and let it dry 2-3 days. It takes 28~30 days for full cure even at 105F in the shade.