LMAOjustkidding
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Hi gang, looking to get some guidance. Be forewarned, I'm a new DIYer and I know I made a lot of... interesting decisions. I'm now just looking at correcting them in the least intensive way possible.
So I bought a house and decided that I would like to dye my concrete instead of working with carpet or tile. I went with Behr Concrete Dye and followed up with Behr Wet-Look Sealer. In most of the rooms I was really pleased with the outcome with the exception of my living room. The sealer absorbed into the concrete and didn't have much of a glossy shine to it. (I prepped the floor using a concrete grinder and muriatic acid.) At this point, the only issue is aesthetics. It all went fine.
So I went to Home Depot looking for something to add a real shine to the floor and I had considered epoxy flooring before but the options at Home Depot were rather limited.
I decided to give Rustoleam Rock Solid Polycuramine clear coat a shot. On the box it says it covers 200-250 sq ft of bare concrete floor but up to 400-450 sq ft of sealed floor. I'm working with about 900 sq ft of my house interior so I figured at worst 3-4 boxes (at $150 each) would be enough.
This was not true. It took 3 boxes for the living room alone, 2 boxes for one bedroom, and one box each for the hallway and another bedroom. I used 2 MORE boxes to go over the whole thing because trying to do it in sections was leaving me with bumps and lines from where wet epoxy dries on top of dry epoxy that doesn't level out on its own.
At the end of the day I used 9 boxes of this stuff and because of a cheap roller (lint) there is at least one room and a section of my hallway I'd like to redo. Also in my living room I have a few bubbles caused by big pores in the concrete that I didn't fill correctly but it's fine.
What I want to know is, are all epoxy's created equal? Is there another product that I can get a really good shine with that I can put a layer over the top of my existing product to patch the bubbles and bumps that I now need to smooth? I've been looking for a way to spot-shine but the only thing I read time and time again is "fix the bumps and do another layer of epoxy" and at $150 per 90oz I don't want to buy another 4 boxes of this particular product if I don't have to.
Let me know what you guys think or if you have any other questions.
So I bought a house and decided that I would like to dye my concrete instead of working with carpet or tile. I went with Behr Concrete Dye and followed up with Behr Wet-Look Sealer. In most of the rooms I was really pleased with the outcome with the exception of my living room. The sealer absorbed into the concrete and didn't have much of a glossy shine to it. (I prepped the floor using a concrete grinder and muriatic acid.) At this point, the only issue is aesthetics. It all went fine.
So I went to Home Depot looking for something to add a real shine to the floor and I had considered epoxy flooring before but the options at Home Depot were rather limited.
I decided to give Rustoleam Rock Solid Polycuramine clear coat a shot. On the box it says it covers 200-250 sq ft of bare concrete floor but up to 400-450 sq ft of sealed floor. I'm working with about 900 sq ft of my house interior so I figured at worst 3-4 boxes (at $150 each) would be enough.
This was not true. It took 3 boxes for the living room alone, 2 boxes for one bedroom, and one box each for the hallway and another bedroom. I used 2 MORE boxes to go over the whole thing because trying to do it in sections was leaving me with bumps and lines from where wet epoxy dries on top of dry epoxy that doesn't level out on its own.
At the end of the day I used 9 boxes of this stuff and because of a cheap roller (lint) there is at least one room and a section of my hallway I'd like to redo. Also in my living room I have a few bubbles caused by big pores in the concrete that I didn't fill correctly but it's fine.
What I want to know is, are all epoxy's created equal? Is there another product that I can get a really good shine with that I can put a layer over the top of my existing product to patch the bubbles and bumps that I now need to smooth? I've been looking for a way to spot-shine but the only thing I read time and time again is "fix the bumps and do another layer of epoxy" and at $150 per 90oz I don't want to buy another 4 boxes of this particular product if I don't have to.
Let me know what you guys think or if you have any other questions.