I put Euco Diamond hard densifier on my new garage floor yesterday. Awesome. i researched densifiers and epoxy a little and read here and got som local advice too. I wanted the concrete look and feel and not the toxic application of epoxy. Locals all tell me a different thing and prices vary for their preferred densifier products. One local manufacturer of densifier said i didn't need it on a hard troweled floor. Another veteran recommended Lapidolith and a lot of scrubbing and would sell it for 10.00 a gallon. Also Seal Hard . Another sold some "Pro ??? " stuff, can't remember name at 45.00 a gallon and i needed to etch the floor first and needed 5 gallons of it. Finally i settled on Euco diamond hard, the best selling , "lapidolith replacement" at a large company here in Nashville . " Costs 85.00 after tax for a 5 gallon bucket. Perfect for a 1000 sq ft floor.
Let me tell you i couldn't be happierd.
, easy to put on , no etching at a big company here in Nashville. It is a concrete densifier, lithium based. Couldn't have been easier to put on. Just pour it on or spray it. I didn't have a sprayer. I poured and broomed it around. It is water based and you just spread it around and keep it wet and let it sit for 30 minutes. Then spray the floor with water and sweep it away. Before i put it on, concrete sucked up water like a sponge. After, water beads off of it . Pretty cool stuff. Non toxic, water based. I applied wearing crocs without any gloves. o
What i learned is this is very subtle reacting stuff. You wont get a big sign that it is doing much of anything. :
The instructios say in a nutshell
"Apply it , scrub it in with broom or brush, let it sit for 30 minutes, keeping it wet all the time with diamond hard and then spray it lightly with water and sweep it to next untreated area. Dont step on dry floor with wet sticky feet or you leave permanent foot prints that have to be grinded out."
First, you can do a whole 1000 sq ft in 30 minutes. So you won't have a dry part to sweep the wash to.
Second, walk on the wet part only. Once you step in it, stay on the wet part.
As long as it is wet first before you step on it or set the bucket on it, its fine. That initial step with a tiny bit on your feet will react to untreated concreta and you will leave white foot print. I have a few.
Third, you can spray it with water a little to keep it wet.
Fourth, when you spray it with water after 30 minutes , just lightly spray teh whole floor with hose and sweep the water out on the apron. the proof of reaction on the hard troweld floor will be just a little white sudsy water, It doesn't look like much happened. Little specs will appear in places where it dries a little too much, like where the trowel wasn't quite as hard. You can check for that after coating the whole floor and whet those parts more.
It says "wash all excess diamond hard away and don't let it dry on floor or it will leave a milky white coloring you can't get out.". Well its impossible to tell diamond hard from water so its a bit vague. I washed my floor twice and swept it out the doors on apron. . I could see the second wash that it wasn't as sudsy . So i'm guessing that's what they are talking about.
Fifth, when you sweep the wash out on your apron, spread it around and it will seal your apron. Without adding any diamond hard directly to the apron, just spreading around the water wash, today when it rained my apron was beading water. This stuff is cool. Does'nt take much to work.
Its amazing how easy this stuff is to apply now that i've done it once,. Just pour it on. keep it wet , scrub it in with brush, walk on the wet part only, check it after 15 minutes and look for drying , hose that down scub it some more, after 30 min , hose whole floor down and sweep it out the door.
Let me tell you i couldn't be happierd.
, easy to put on , no etching at a big company here in Nashville. It is a concrete densifier, lithium based. Couldn't have been easier to put on. Just pour it on or spray it. I didn't have a sprayer. I poured and broomed it around. It is water based and you just spread it around and keep it wet and let it sit for 30 minutes. Then spray the floor with water and sweep it away. Before i put it on, concrete sucked up water like a sponge. After, water beads off of it . Pretty cool stuff. Non toxic, water based. I applied wearing crocs without any gloves. o
What i learned is this is very subtle reacting stuff. You wont get a big sign that it is doing much of anything. :
The instructios say in a nutshell
"Apply it , scrub it in with broom or brush, let it sit for 30 minutes, keeping it wet all the time with diamond hard and then spray it lightly with water and sweep it to next untreated area. Dont step on dry floor with wet sticky feet or you leave permanent foot prints that have to be grinded out."
First, you can do a whole 1000 sq ft in 30 minutes. So you won't have a dry part to sweep the wash to.
Second, walk on the wet part only. Once you step in it, stay on the wet part.
As long as it is wet first before you step on it or set the bucket on it, its fine. That initial step with a tiny bit on your feet will react to untreated concreta and you will leave white foot print. I have a few.
Third, you can spray it with water a little to keep it wet.
Fourth, when you spray it with water after 30 minutes , just lightly spray teh whole floor with hose and sweep the water out on the apron. the proof of reaction on the hard troweld floor will be just a little white sudsy water, It doesn't look like much happened. Little specs will appear in places where it dries a little too much, like where the trowel wasn't quite as hard. You can check for that after coating the whole floor and whet those parts more.
It says "wash all excess diamond hard away and don't let it dry on floor or it will leave a milky white coloring you can't get out.". Well its impossible to tell diamond hard from water so its a bit vague. I washed my floor twice and swept it out the doors on apron. . I could see the second wash that it wasn't as sudsy . So i'm guessing that's what they are talking about.
Fifth, when you sweep the wash out on your apron, spread it around and it will seal your apron. Without adding any diamond hard directly to the apron, just spreading around the water wash, today when it rained my apron was beading water. This stuff is cool. Does'nt take much to work.
Its amazing how easy this stuff is to apply now that i've done it once,. Just pour it on. keep it wet , scrub it in with brush, walk on the wet part only, check it after 15 minutes and look for drying , hose that down scub it some more, after 30 min , hose whole floor down and sweep it out the door.
