nkurz
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Howdy!
I'm a new member who's jumping in with both feet. I've got a 3000 sq ft warehouse space with concrete floors that need to be refinished. I'd like to do it right, but inexpensively. I think this means doing much of it myself, along with help from eager but equally inexperienced employees. On the bright side, it doesn't have to come out perfect, and I'm pretty sure any thing we do will be much better than it is now.
The current floor is about 1/3 sealed concrete, 1/3 flaking epoxy paint, and 1/3 unfinished concrete. All is in decent structural condition, but with some small cracks. I talked to an experienced local Blastrac operator who quoted me $2000 to shot blast it and do the edge work. That sounded reasonable, so he's planning to come back in two weeks to do it. That means I've only got two weeks to figure out what I'm going to do next!
I'd like to have a fairly quick return-to-use. It doesn't need to be one day, but one weekend would be nice. The shot blasting will happen on Friday, and I'd like to be back up and running the following Monday. Fortunately, I don't need the whole place finished by then: it's really just a 1000 sq ft portion that needs to be coated for heavy foot traffic. I think we can keep the rest relatively clean and try to coat it over the next week.
Given the timing, here's what I'm envisioning if all goes well:
Friday 9-5: The pro blasts and preps all 3000 sq ft
Fri 5-8: I clean and patch the 1000 sq ft we'll work on first
Sat 12-4: We put down a single coat of epoxy on that section
Sun 9-12: We topcoat that section with a polyurea or polyaspartic
Mon 9 am: That section is ready for moisture, tables, chairs, and walking
Sometime when we recover: we repeat for the other 2000 sq ft
Ignoring the obvious "hire a professional" solution which I've eliminated due to budget, and recognizing that it doesn't need to come out perfect but just durable, does this seem feasible?
Alternative approaches welcome, but I need to commit to something soon. I've got lots of followup questions about specific products, layer thicknesses, flakes, and nonslip, but figured I should ask about the basic plan first.
Thanks!
--nate
I'm a new member who's jumping in with both feet. I've got a 3000 sq ft warehouse space with concrete floors that need to be refinished. I'd like to do it right, but inexpensively. I think this means doing much of it myself, along with help from eager but equally inexperienced employees. On the bright side, it doesn't have to come out perfect, and I'm pretty sure any thing we do will be much better than it is now.
The current floor is about 1/3 sealed concrete, 1/3 flaking epoxy paint, and 1/3 unfinished concrete. All is in decent structural condition, but with some small cracks. I talked to an experienced local Blastrac operator who quoted me $2000 to shot blast it and do the edge work. That sounded reasonable, so he's planning to come back in two weeks to do it. That means I've only got two weeks to figure out what I'm going to do next!
I'd like to have a fairly quick return-to-use. It doesn't need to be one day, but one weekend would be nice. The shot blasting will happen on Friday, and I'd like to be back up and running the following Monday. Fortunately, I don't need the whole place finished by then: it's really just a 1000 sq ft portion that needs to be coated for heavy foot traffic. I think we can keep the rest relatively clean and try to coat it over the next week.
Given the timing, here's what I'm envisioning if all goes well:
Friday 9-5: The pro blasts and preps all 3000 sq ft
Fri 5-8: I clean and patch the 1000 sq ft we'll work on first
Sat 12-4: We put down a single coat of epoxy on that section
Sun 9-12: We topcoat that section with a polyurea or polyaspartic
Mon 9 am: That section is ready for moisture, tables, chairs, and walking
Sometime when we recover: we repeat for the other 2000 sq ft
Ignoring the obvious "hire a professional" solution which I've eliminated due to budget, and recognizing that it doesn't need to come out perfect but just durable, does this seem feasible?
Alternative approaches welcome, but I need to commit to something soon. I've got lots of followup questions about specific products, layer thicknesses, flakes, and nonslip, but figured I should ask about the basic plan first.
Thanks!
--nate