Bsheffer
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I did overhaul on my entire garage and posted a more comprehensive thread about the house/garage in the garage gallery. This is dealing with only the floor component. My house is very prominent in the neighborhood and I frequently have social gatherings in the garage so I designed it more for that than mechanical work. I have a separate workshop where I make furniture and other do general maintenance.
Hd Epoxy application
-one coat of primer
-one coat of epoxy/partial flake
-1+ coat of urethane
Lessons learned
1) I ended up renting the edco grinding piece and it worked out well. The guys at the shop convinced me to rent the concrete grinder and that was a life saver. Even with that, grinding is messy. I ended up getting about a third of a 33 gallon trash can full of concrete dust.
2) I say 1+ coats of urethane but that was a mistake. I had about a quart of urethane left over after the first coat with an understanding that I would re-coat the high traffic areas. I did this and you can see where the second coat was applied. Probably not obvious to anyone but me but I can see where it was applied, I assume after it get scuffed up a bit, nobody will ever know.
3) someone on the forum suggest taking a piece of plastic and putting it in the back yard and practicing flake "throwing". I thought that was silly but I wish I had done that. What I found was that if you reached in a tray for a "partial handful" of flakes, and squeezed that handful at all, the flakes would stick together when thrown. There are a few places on my floor where those compressed flakes stuck together and you can see a few places where the flakes are concentrated. Again, once I get cars and junk in the garage, probably nobody will ever notice.
4) the primer and epoxy had almost no odor at all but the urethane made up for it. Fortunately, I picked up a few odor masks and problem solved.
5) given the pot life of this stuff, I am not sure how I would have done this by myself. I had a neighbor and his son and we were focused. I had a kitchen timer and we had time left over but not much. No way would I want to try to attempt this on my own.
Special thanks to Scotty at Legacy Industrial for answering what now seems to be an endless bunch of questions from me. Also thanks to everyone on the forum as I learned a ton...
Hd Epoxy application
-one coat of primer
-one coat of epoxy/partial flake
-1+ coat of urethane
Lessons learned
1) I ended up renting the edco grinding piece and it worked out well. The guys at the shop convinced me to rent the concrete grinder and that was a life saver. Even with that, grinding is messy. I ended up getting about a third of a 33 gallon trash can full of concrete dust.
2) I say 1+ coats of urethane but that was a mistake. I had about a quart of urethane left over after the first coat with an understanding that I would re-coat the high traffic areas. I did this and you can see where the second coat was applied. Probably not obvious to anyone but me but I can see where it was applied, I assume after it get scuffed up a bit, nobody will ever know.
3) someone on the forum suggest taking a piece of plastic and putting it in the back yard and practicing flake "throwing". I thought that was silly but I wish I had done that. What I found was that if you reached in a tray for a "partial handful" of flakes, and squeezed that handful at all, the flakes would stick together when thrown. There are a few places on my floor where those compressed flakes stuck together and you can see a few places where the flakes are concentrated. Again, once I get cars and junk in the garage, probably nobody will ever notice.
4) the primer and epoxy had almost no odor at all but the urethane made up for it. Fortunately, I picked up a few odor masks and problem solved.
5) given the pot life of this stuff, I am not sure how I would have done this by myself. I had a neighbor and his son and we were focused. I had a kitchen timer and we had time left over but not much. No way would I want to try to attempt this on my own.
Special thanks to Scotty at Legacy Industrial for answering what now seems to be an endless bunch of questions from me. Also thanks to everyone on the forum as I learned a ton...
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