Hello there,
I have spent a good amount of time on this blog reading other people stories. Here is mine.
I paid some one 9k to grind and polish my basement floor. It looked like **** and was still porous. Next day I got a Husqvarna diamond grinder and spent about 20 hours grinding the 9 grand I just spent down. Once the floor was ready I got some 100 solids epoxy and thinned it 10% with xylene. After that I did a black dye coat of 100 solids. After that came the metalics coat. After that is where the problems start. I really didn't want to but the supply house suggested polyaspartic. So begrudgingly I coated it all with that. It was much harder to work with and very strong smelling. I wanna say it was 80 solids from westcoat. It ended up a bit rough and not as glassy as the metalics. So I sanded it a bunch and put down another coat of some 85-90 solids. (Can't remember exactly.) That was on August 22,2022. Them smell has gone down drastically but it still fills most of my basement almost at random on days. I have had fans on down there. I have a charcoal filter down there as well. Trying to decide if my 20k floor is going to need to be ground down and replaced or if it will continue to dissipate? The first time I laid down the polyaspartic I didn't have any fans just open windows and forced air fan on. Second coat was all fans. Floor seems to be rock hard..
I have spent a good amount of time on this blog reading other people stories. Here is mine.
I paid some one 9k to grind and polish my basement floor. It looked like **** and was still porous. Next day I got a Husqvarna diamond grinder and spent about 20 hours grinding the 9 grand I just spent down. Once the floor was ready I got some 100 solids epoxy and thinned it 10% with xylene. After that I did a black dye coat of 100 solids. After that came the metalics coat. After that is where the problems start. I really didn't want to but the supply house suggested polyaspartic. So begrudgingly I coated it all with that. It was much harder to work with and very strong smelling. I wanna say it was 80 solids from westcoat. It ended up a bit rough and not as glassy as the metalics. So I sanded it a bunch and put down another coat of some 85-90 solids. (Can't remember exactly.) That was on August 22,2022. Them smell has gone down drastically but it still fills most of my basement almost at random on days. I have had fans on down there. I have a charcoal filter down there as well. Trying to decide if my 20k floor is going to need to be ground down and replaced or if it will continue to dissipate? The first time I laid down the polyaspartic I didn't have any fans just open windows and forced air fan on. Second coat was all fans. Floor seems to be rock hard..