Rust Bullet, good enough for me

[Vagabondking]

Floor 6 months old

 

[barnjunkie]

You haven't put anything in your garage in 6 months?

 

[CombatNinja]

Yeah, kind of a weird first post. Claims the floor has been down six months but pictures show nothing in the garage. If you indeed have not put anything except a couple of cars in there--no benches, no toolboxes, no tools, no jacks--just about any floor would still look good. Please clarify as to what we are looking at here.

On second thought, maybe the OP means that he just treated this 6 month-old slab to Rust Bullet?

 

[Jinks]

Yeah, kind of a weird first post. Claims the floor has been down six months but pictures show nothing in the garage. If you indeed have not put anything except a couple of cars in there--no benches, no toolboxes, no tools, no jacks--just about any floor would still look good. Please clarify as to what we are looking at here.

On second thought, maybe the OP means that he just treated this 6 month-old slab to Rust Bullet?

I hope you're right. If not it means the OP hasn't removed the painters tape in 6 months.......

 

[Vagabondking]

The floor is six months old, it's empty because I just painted it

 

[Shea]

Ahh.... OK. The floor is 6 months old but the coating is new. Great job!

 

[Nermal43]

Looks great.

 

[CombatNinja]

Vagabond, what am I looking at about 2/3 of the way into the garage. It shows up in pic 2 and 3 that you posted. Control joint? Crack?

 

[ihscomputers]

Floor looks great!

 

[Garage Flooring]

Floor 6 months old

Well done sir and thanks for the clarification. I was a little confused myself

 

[Flivver250]

Looks good

 

[Vagabondking]

Yeah, Rust bullet might fill 1/16" cracks, no bigger

 

[Garage Flooring]

Yeah, Rust bullet might fill 1/16" cracks, no bigger

They say 1/8" i lean towards this rule... If the crack is big enough to fill, fill it. If its not, coat it. Sounds simple, but if I can get my putty knife in there I am going to fill it

 

[Dick in Wisconsin]

They say 1/8" i lean towards this rule... If the crack is big enough to fill, fill it. If its not, coat it. Sounds simple, but if I can get my putty knife in there I am going to fill it

I agree with Justin's recommendation. I thought that RB will fill the saw cuts, but it didn't. I'm going to try to fill them now. The putty knife test is probably a good one.

The thinner version of RB for concrete that Justin and RB might start to ship from the factory might flow into the saw cuts better, but I wouldn't count on it.

It just didn't seem to flow into the cracks. I suppose if I would have take a quart of RB, thinned it, and then sat on the floor with a bush or 3" roller or some kind of thing to work the RB into the saw cracks it might have worked. I had worked really hard to clean the cracks out before applying the RB, I should have spent that time filling them.

I just got done putting RB on the wood floor of my new enclosed race trailer. The surface of the wood floor had some imperfections that I thought the RB would readily "flow" into, but it didn't there were a number of spots that I really had to work the RB into.

 

[Garage Flooring]

I agree with Justin's recommendation. I thought that RB will fill the saw cuts, but it didn't. I'm going to try to fill them now. The putty knife test is probably a good one.

The thinner version of RB for concrete that Justin and RB might start to ship from the factory might flow into the saw cuts better, but I wouldn't count on it.

It just didn't seem to flow into the cracks. I suppose if I would have take a quart of RB, thinned it, and then sat on the floor with a bush or 3" roller or some kind of thing to work the RB into the saw cracks it might have worked. I had worked really hard to clean the cracks out before applying the RB, I should have spent that time filling them.

I just got done putting RB on the wood floor of my new enclosed race trailer. The surface of the wood floor had some imperfections that I thought the RB would readily "flow" into, but it didn't there were a number of spots that I really had to work the RB into.

The slightly thinned version is not going to fill any better or any worse. With coatings products, especially thin build coatings products, my suggestion is to fill what can be filled and cover any hairline with the product itself.

If you were using 100% solids epoxy you have a little more flexibility, but in most cases IMHO it is best practice to fill properly as opposed to trying to fill with a coating.