planecrazy
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I'm on the home stretch of finishing the installation of a Legacy Industrial floor in my 1100 square foot garage. It is V2.0 as I put a Legacy floor in my 400 square foot garage in Florida about three years ago. We've since moved to the ATL area and built a new home. The time has come to finish the floor. Based on my experience with Legacy three years ago, choosing a company to go with was easy.
My previous floor was a standard Primer/HD epoxy with light flakes/urethane clearecoat. I loved it but I wanted to try something different.
This floor is a SD epoxy with flakes to rejection followed by 2 coats of Nohr-S clear coat. I saw a picture on the Legacy website of what I wanted so I called Scotty and he told me what they used and prepared a quote for me. Based on that quote, I placed my order.
Let me say right up front that Scotty is available for his customers. I have called and emailed and always gotten a prompt response, no matter the day of the week. That is one of the main reasons I chose Legacy.
The product arrived a few weeks ago and I thought I was going to get it done then but UPS seemed to lose the two gallons of gel crack filler. A call to Scotty and they sent me two mode gallons, no questions, no hassle. Yes I had to wait a while longer but things happen and the service I received was top notch. As it turns out, it is a good thing I didn't start when I planned as I wouldn't have gotten done.
Filling the relief cuts was the first order of business. I used a 3/8" foam backer rod and the gel crack filler. Additionally, the garage walls don't sit square on the foundation so I used a diamond blade in my 4" angle grinder to clean out the joint between the floor and the foundation. I filled that with the gel as well.
Then it was time to grind. I went to Home Depot and rented a floor machine and a Diamabrush. I spent about 2 hours grinding and it wasn't doing anything. I had used a Diamabrush on my floor in Florida and the results were nowhere near what I experienced previously. An email to Scotty and he recommended an EDCO grinder. I took the Dimabrush back to Home Depot and without my asking, they refunded all my money. Can't complain about that!
The next day, different rental place, I picked up an EDCO machine. That is supposed to do 4 to 500 square feet per hour. No so much. I spent 12 hours grinding my floor. It was painfully slow. It seems as though my floor was topped in diamonds. It was hard. I have a very good friend in NY who is in the rental business. I asked him about the EDCO diamond inserts. He said that they are supposed to be rotated end for end once a day. I did that and it made a huge difference but it still took forever. At the end of the day, I was only 50% satisfied with the floor grind.
Right or wrong, I decided to do an acid wash.
Day three of floor prep, I gave the floor an treatment of Muratic acid. That did the trick for me. After hosing it out, I squeegeed the floor and blew it dry with my leaf blower. The next day, I swept it and blew the dust out. I've lost track of how many days I've got into the floor at this point. Keep in mind that I'm not putting full days in. I'm mostly getting a few hours in between work.
This is the surface of the floor after the acid wash.
Two days ago, I wet mopped the floor to get any residual dust off the floor. In the process, I found some leaves that were just beneath the surface the the lazy concrete finisher power troweled into the floor. Not happy. I dug them out and mixed up a bit of gel crack filler. The leaf prints got filled.
Finally, yesterday was the big day. With the help of my neighbor and my wife, we rolled out a Fazor Tan SD epoxy and I covered it in Saddle Tan flake. The entire process took about two and a half hours. My wife and I were on spiked shoes and I can't imagine doing this job without them. Besides the garage, we had a small area (40 square feet) in the basement that we coated as well.
The floor right after it was done.
A close up.
My plan was to wake up this morning and start getting ready to clear but while laying down the epoxy yesterday, work called and I got to go into work at 3:30am this morning. I was home by noon and got right to work.
I fashioned a scraper out of a 14" drywall knife that I taped to a broom handle. With that, I scraped the entire floor. Then I swept it with a stiff bristle brush. There was still a fair bit of loose flake on the floor so I set up my vacuum to pick up the rest.
Speaking of vacuum, I picked up a Dustless technologies vacuum and a Dust Deputy. I highly recommend them both. I used them extensively cleaning up dust and then today, I vacuumed up 50 lbs of flakes. They are boxed up and reusable.
Around 2:30, my wife and I started rolling down the Nohr-S clear coat. That job went well and I type this between coats. We've been done for about 2 hours now and in just a few minutes, I'm going to start rolling out the second coat of clear with some soft grit mixed in. The first thing I noticed with the Nohr-S vs the Urethane was the smell was not at all objectionable. When we put down the Urethane previously, we almost got a hotel room that night. I've got my garage man door to the house and the attic access sealed with plastic but I did not need to do that.
Off to roll some clear. Final results pictures at 11...
My previous floor was a standard Primer/HD epoxy with light flakes/urethane clearecoat. I loved it but I wanted to try something different.
This floor is a SD epoxy with flakes to rejection followed by 2 coats of Nohr-S clear coat. I saw a picture on the Legacy website of what I wanted so I called Scotty and he told me what they used and prepared a quote for me. Based on that quote, I placed my order.
Let me say right up front that Scotty is available for his customers. I have called and emailed and always gotten a prompt response, no matter the day of the week. That is one of the main reasons I chose Legacy.
The product arrived a few weeks ago and I thought I was going to get it done then but UPS seemed to lose the two gallons of gel crack filler. A call to Scotty and they sent me two mode gallons, no questions, no hassle. Yes I had to wait a while longer but things happen and the service I received was top notch. As it turns out, it is a good thing I didn't start when I planned as I wouldn't have gotten done.
Filling the relief cuts was the first order of business. I used a 3/8" foam backer rod and the gel crack filler. Additionally, the garage walls don't sit square on the foundation so I used a diamond blade in my 4" angle grinder to clean out the joint between the floor and the foundation. I filled that with the gel as well.
Then it was time to grind. I went to Home Depot and rented a floor machine and a Diamabrush. I spent about 2 hours grinding and it wasn't doing anything. I had used a Diamabrush on my floor in Florida and the results were nowhere near what I experienced previously. An email to Scotty and he recommended an EDCO grinder. I took the Dimabrush back to Home Depot and without my asking, they refunded all my money. Can't complain about that!
The next day, different rental place, I picked up an EDCO machine. That is supposed to do 4 to 500 square feet per hour. No so much. I spent 12 hours grinding my floor. It was painfully slow. It seems as though my floor was topped in diamonds. It was hard. I have a very good friend in NY who is in the rental business. I asked him about the EDCO diamond inserts. He said that they are supposed to be rotated end for end once a day. I did that and it made a huge difference but it still took forever. At the end of the day, I was only 50% satisfied with the floor grind.
Right or wrong, I decided to do an acid wash.
Day three of floor prep, I gave the floor an treatment of Muratic acid. That did the trick for me. After hosing it out, I squeegeed the floor and blew it dry with my leaf blower. The next day, I swept it and blew the dust out. I've lost track of how many days I've got into the floor at this point. Keep in mind that I'm not putting full days in. I'm mostly getting a few hours in between work.
This is the surface of the floor after the acid wash.
Two days ago, I wet mopped the floor to get any residual dust off the floor. In the process, I found some leaves that were just beneath the surface the the lazy concrete finisher power troweled into the floor. Not happy. I dug them out and mixed up a bit of gel crack filler. The leaf prints got filled.
Finally, yesterday was the big day. With the help of my neighbor and my wife, we rolled out a Fazor Tan SD epoxy and I covered it in Saddle Tan flake. The entire process took about two and a half hours. My wife and I were on spiked shoes and I can't imagine doing this job without them. Besides the garage, we had a small area (40 square feet) in the basement that we coated as well.
The floor right after it was done.
A close up.
My plan was to wake up this morning and start getting ready to clear but while laying down the epoxy yesterday, work called and I got to go into work at 3:30am this morning. I was home by noon and got right to work.
I fashioned a scraper out of a 14" drywall knife that I taped to a broom handle. With that, I scraped the entire floor. Then I swept it with a stiff bristle brush. There was still a fair bit of loose flake on the floor so I set up my vacuum to pick up the rest.
Speaking of vacuum, I picked up a Dustless technologies vacuum and a Dust Deputy. I highly recommend them both. I used them extensively cleaning up dust and then today, I vacuumed up 50 lbs of flakes. They are boxed up and reusable.
Around 2:30, my wife and I started rolling down the Nohr-S clear coat. That job went well and I type this between coats. We've been done for about 2 hours now and in just a few minutes, I'm going to start rolling out the second coat of clear with some soft grit mixed in. The first thing I noticed with the Nohr-S vs the Urethane was the smell was not at all objectionable. When we put down the Urethane previously, we almost got a hotel room that night. I've got my garage man door to the house and the attic access sealed with plastic but I did not need to do that.
Off to roll some clear. Final results pictures at 11...
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