TheGator
Active member
Finally got around to treating the floor in my new 40x60. After a boat load of reading and debating I decided on Legacy HD40 and wanted to give my thoughts on the product, install and results. I did this all myself with exception to my brother in law running the pump up sprayer, and this is my first time doing this type of work.
So here's how it went...
Received product, hogs hair burnishing pads and microfiber applicator from Legacy in a timely, well packaged manner. In under 5 days from Florida to ohio ordered on Sunday so no complaints there.
I watched numerous videos and read over the application instructions dozens of times, it's pretty basic, but wanted to do it right. So after thoroughly sweeping and mopping the already clean floor friday and picking up the burnisher, I was ready to go yesterday. So we waited till air temps came up in early afternoon. Slab temp was 57F...air temp 62. Product temp was 68F. So a couple degrees less that recommended, but this is last chance I had to do this this year so I wasn't real worried about slab being 3F lower than recommended install temp...it didn't seem to effect anything.
So I open the 5 gal bucket to mix the HD 40. I was a little concerned about how much dried product was in there. I pulled out a few good globs/ribbons of it while stiring. Thought that was it but i was wrong which i found out when we got to spraying and spreading/working in the HD40. I had read nothing about straining the product and didn't see any big chunks when pouring into sprayer...but there was alot of small dried pieces in there that kept clogging sprayer...we after numerous cloggs we cleaned out sprayer and ran the HD40 through cheese cloth and that cured the clogging issue. I would recommend anyone else to do the same. Cheap insurance from an hours worth of headaches.
Anyways, after we got sprayer issues worked out the next issue was spreading the stuff around. I bought the microfiber pads and applicator from Legacy...I'm not trying to be an *** here, as I'm happy with the HD40, but DONT BUY THEM! Unless your floor is already smooth as glass...that's the only way I see them working. My power troweled floor is pretty darn smooth but I could not get the pad to stay planted any way I tried, kept grabbing and flipping over and piss in me off and making a mess of things...I went and grabbed my wife's cheap sponge mop and it worked like a charm. A little bigger one would have been nice, but it work great. Sorry Legacy, great product..poor applicator.
Once we got sprayer and spreader going we knocked out 3 coats and let it do it's thing for awhile and watched my kids play in a mud puddle and had a few well earned beers.
One other note application. Keeping a wet edge is important and required a somewhat quick hand and synchronized sprayer/spreader pace on the first coat. Also, work backwards and go over your foot prints quickly if you get any on wet product...if they dry there, you will see them in the right light.
So onto Burnishing...this takes awhile but is mind numbingly simple after you get used to the machine. But here is one of my concerns...I tried working the burnisher hard into the floor, going very slow, going faster, going every direction...For the life if me I could not see any difference in the floor no matter how I burnished it...I could however 'feel' a difference when walking on it. The burnished area was not as slick. I could feel my boots didon't twist or slide across the surface as easily once burnished. But no visible difference...which made it hard to stand there burnishing for hours, but that was the recommended process so burnish I did. And here are the results below. Feel free to ask questions and if anyone from Legacy has any input on my install, the floaters in the product or the applicator issues I'm all ears. Very happy overall, it looks and feels like it will last forever.
So here's how it went...
Received product, hogs hair burnishing pads and microfiber applicator from Legacy in a timely, well packaged manner. In under 5 days from Florida to ohio ordered on Sunday so no complaints there.
I watched numerous videos and read over the application instructions dozens of times, it's pretty basic, but wanted to do it right. So after thoroughly sweeping and mopping the already clean floor friday and picking up the burnisher, I was ready to go yesterday. So we waited till air temps came up in early afternoon. Slab temp was 57F...air temp 62. Product temp was 68F. So a couple degrees less that recommended, but this is last chance I had to do this this year so I wasn't real worried about slab being 3F lower than recommended install temp...it didn't seem to effect anything.
So I open the 5 gal bucket to mix the HD 40. I was a little concerned about how much dried product was in there. I pulled out a few good globs/ribbons of it while stiring. Thought that was it but i was wrong which i found out when we got to spraying and spreading/working in the HD40. I had read nothing about straining the product and didn't see any big chunks when pouring into sprayer...but there was alot of small dried pieces in there that kept clogging sprayer...we after numerous cloggs we cleaned out sprayer and ran the HD40 through cheese cloth and that cured the clogging issue. I would recommend anyone else to do the same. Cheap insurance from an hours worth of headaches.
Anyways, after we got sprayer issues worked out the next issue was spreading the stuff around. I bought the microfiber pads and applicator from Legacy...I'm not trying to be an *** here, as I'm happy with the HD40, but DONT BUY THEM! Unless your floor is already smooth as glass...that's the only way I see them working. My power troweled floor is pretty darn smooth but I could not get the pad to stay planted any way I tried, kept grabbing and flipping over and piss in me off and making a mess of things...I went and grabbed my wife's cheap sponge mop and it worked like a charm. A little bigger one would have been nice, but it work great. Sorry Legacy, great product..poor applicator.
Once we got sprayer and spreader going we knocked out 3 coats and let it do it's thing for awhile and watched my kids play in a mud puddle and had a few well earned beers.
One other note application. Keeping a wet edge is important and required a somewhat quick hand and synchronized sprayer/spreader pace on the first coat. Also, work backwards and go over your foot prints quickly if you get any on wet product...if they dry there, you will see them in the right light.
So onto Burnishing...this takes awhile but is mind numbingly simple after you get used to the machine. But here is one of my concerns...I tried working the burnisher hard into the floor, going very slow, going faster, going every direction...For the life if me I could not see any difference in the floor no matter how I burnished it...I could however 'feel' a difference when walking on it. The burnished area was not as slick. I could feel my boots didon't twist or slide across the surface as easily once burnished. But no visible difference...which made it hard to stand there burnishing for hours, but that was the recommended process so burnish I did. And here are the results below. Feel free to ask questions and if anyone from Legacy has any input on my install, the floaters in the product or the applicator issues I'm all ears. Very happy overall, it looks and feels like it will last forever.
