Wife and I moved to a new (to us) home a couple of years ago. The house is about 10 years old and in generally good shape. One issue we found fairly soon after moving in is that the garage floor (it's cement) creates a TON of white dust. All the time. If we sweep the floor, clouds of dust rise and cover anything and everything in the garage. It's impossible to keep anything kept in the garage dust-free - cars, tools, air compressor, beer fridge, etc. are all covered in a fine white dust.
There seems to be a thin layer of some type of cement coating that was troweled onto the floor, and this is what is wearing off when we walk/sweep/roll things on the floor. I've noticed that where the car tires have rolled, the coating has worn down over time. Still, the underlying cement seems to be softer than most I've seen.
Here's an image that shows where I've ground away the top coating (original coating is on the left, ground area is on the right) Edit/note: the pic is a bit odd...the right side looks raised, but in fact is not, this is the ground side.
This seems to be an opportunity tailor-made for a good application of epoxy. Scotty from Legacy Industrial has been giving me some advice as to the products to use for the job. Thanks Scotty!
Knowing that proper prep work is critical to most jobs, I rented a large grinder from the local rental place and spent several hours grinding the floor. The results look good (to me at least) with plenty of "tooth" to which the epoxy will be able to adhere:
Does this grind look good to those of you who have applied epoxy?
Along the perimeter of the garage I used a hand-held grinder which allowed me to get within roughly 3/4" of the walls. I am thinking that, since there is little/no traffic against the walls, this should not need grinding (the wall is the white surface at the top of the pic below, the ground area is at the bottom of the image and the part I could not grind is between the two):
Any thoughts on all this from those of you who have done this before?
Thanks in advance!
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There seems to be a thin layer of some type of cement coating that was troweled onto the floor, and this is what is wearing off when we walk/sweep/roll things on the floor. I've noticed that where the car tires have rolled, the coating has worn down over time. Still, the underlying cement seems to be softer than most I've seen.
Here's an image that shows where I've ground away the top coating (original coating is on the left, ground area is on the right) Edit/note: the pic is a bit odd...the right side looks raised, but in fact is not, this is the ground side.
This seems to be an opportunity tailor-made for a good application of epoxy. Scotty from Legacy Industrial has been giving me some advice as to the products to use for the job. Thanks Scotty!
Knowing that proper prep work is critical to most jobs, I rented a large grinder from the local rental place and spent several hours grinding the floor. The results look good (to me at least) with plenty of "tooth" to which the epoxy will be able to adhere:
Does this grind look good to those of you who have applied epoxy?
Along the perimeter of the garage I used a hand-held grinder which allowed me to get within roughly 3/4" of the walls. I am thinking that, since there is little/no traffic against the walls, this should not need grinding (the wall is the white surface at the top of the pic below, the ground area is at the bottom of the image and the part I could not grind is between the two):
Any thoughts on all this from those of you who have done this before?
Thanks in advance!
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