thanks for the video. I did mine today and it was pretty easy. Rarely does a product work exactly as stated in the directions, but this thing went super smooth and easy. I highly recommend this product
If you do two coats, apply a thin first coat without anti-slip additive. Add the anti-slip additive to the second coat and make a thicker coat. It gives a more uniform and compact finish if you roll the epoxy a second time after about three minutes. I've been doing these epoxy works for almost 10 years being the building maintenance guy of Mercedes Benz of Honolulu.
hey man looks good. im wanting to do this in my three car garage. so when you say 2 coats. do you add the anti slip to both coats or only to your second coat? also do you have to scuff up first coat before putting down second coat?
David Dyer I thought of that also. But most of the walls are covered with shelves as of right now. The bare wall I do have will be covered with pallet wood.
Apply the anti skid to the last coat you are going to apply. Mix it in to the epoxy after you mixed the two parts together. It gives the floor a light sand feel to it. Not so much you will get cut up if you fall on it but enough to allow some friction when walking on. If you don’t apply this then when the floor get wet, loot out someone will have an accident.
+dnewman83815 it has help up better then I thought. Now granted I only have one car in the garage because my truck does not fit and only store the vehicle in the winter. I do know it won't last after talking to others. On avg it may start to chip after five years so another coat will fix that. Have to say for what I paid it was worth it. At my fire station we got the professional epoxy floor and if you look at the two they look the same.
How many gallons of Muriatic acid did you need for 2.5 garage ? What brand you used ? Also my garage is almost 540 sq ft. Is the kit enough to cover for the size ? Thanks for the good detailed video
Arun Dhavani-Mallan I got two gallons, that were diluted with water and had a little left over if I remember correctly. As to what brand it was, I can not remember but I picked it up at Home Depot. So you have a two car garage, the two car garage kit will cover that but I would recommend you get enough to put two coats on. What I used covered, but I can see in spots where one of our cars sits is showing some wear.
You didnt mention anything about the the middle mark seam in the center of your garage floor. You can definitely see a difference in color where you overlapped the left side onto the right correct? Its darker?
Bass Slayer must be the camera and what you see on the screen. It is darker when it is wet, but I can tell you the color is the same on both sides. When you look at the floor right now you can not tell I did it in stages.
if you rub your hand on the floor can feel them, but keep in mind I also added the anti slip additive to the mix. If you don't add that to it once wet it is like ice to walk on, totally unsafe.
Not sure what to think. The instructions for this product state specifically not to use muriatic acid. In addition, you used a latex based product to fill in your concrete transitions. Latex shrinks over time and has flex even when new. You don't want either of those characteristics under your epoxy coat. A 2-part epoxy crack filler would have been the proper choice.
kamesenLBC now I wish I remembered the brand of calk I used. It was recommended by several professionals to use before applying the epoxy. As of today have had no shrinkage or pull away from my calked lines. The epoxy has held up great after a couple of cold and hot seasons. Only have one small mistake. Spilled some gas (about six months after applying) and it did eat a little bit of this epoxy.
kamesenLBC I don’t know if you can see it, but I used a pencil to mark where the door rested on the concrete. I taped off the line after I flushed, dried, and cleaned off the floor. Also this was a new concrete slab, that was another reason it was suggested to me by a professional to use the acid to ruff up the floor a little so the epoxy would better adhere to the concrete.
The current Epoxy shield kits come with an etching powder to etch/clean the floor; make sure you rinse the floor well (I normally do three times of rinsing).
Code 3 Imagination - my garage has 4 year old concrete seal paint that is peeling. Will the acid wash you did be enough to prep the floor or do I need to do a paint strip then acid wash? Thanks
Kmwu608 that I don’t know. I did not have a sealer on my floor. That you might have to do some research into. Sorry that I don’t have an answer for that.
Thanks for posting this video. You made it super easy to understand. With regard to your recommendation about doing a 2nd coat, would you recommend just buying a 2nd kit? Or is there enough in one kit to do a 2nd coat for a normal 2-car garage in your opinion? Thanks for the additional info.
Carlos Pelay they are easily cleaned up. I have had a few spills. Got to them right away. Not sure if they sit for a while. I do know this type of floor does not like gasoline. I spilled some and it ate the epoxy, not sure why it did that.
branden agbunag it’s an epoxy. Not like an epoxy you would use to fix a broken coffee mug. But if compared to standard latex paint it is much thinner. I know the product says you only need one coat, but I would recommend applying two coats.
ultralvarez I used one 2.5 car kit and a single car kit. It covered my 2.5 car garage but if I were to do it again I would have gotten 2 - 2.5 car kits and put in two coats.
@@code3imagination441 thanks for responding. Because on one of the,walls in my garage the drywall touches the floor. Maybe I should cover the edge in plastic I'm thinking to prevent it from getting wet.
Son of man! It should. Hopefully this summer I will finally get a chance to put down a second coat in my garage. That is if the “honey do” list is not to long.
jeremy not bad at all. But I don’t keep my vehicles inside all year long. We keep my wife’s van in there through the winter, the other half has turned into my workshop. It is holding up good so far. I did spill gasoline and it did eat the epoxy where it spilled, not sure if that was supposed to happen but it did.
@@code3imagination441 Hmmm. Good to know about the gas on the floor. I have been tempted to gas up my lawn mower and snow blower inside the garage. I will definately do that outside knowing of your experience.
HagerVIDZ I controlled where the water went. I avoided getting the drywall wet so I had no problems. Water and unpainted drywall do not mix. Same goes for the acid wash.
Code 3 Imagination ok ty. look like it did get wet. i atempted to clean garage floor but didnt get the sides so well. attempt #2. thanks for vid. epoxy tomorrow
Tom West I have been told this before. But I ended up putting shelf’s on the entire right side and currently putting up pallet wood in the far back wall.
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thanks for the video. I did mine today and it was pretty easy. Rarely does a product work exactly as stated in the directions, but this thing went super smooth and easy. I highly recommend this product
I did this about ten years ago to my garage. It’s time to do it again. I will definitely give it a second coat this time around. You did a good job.
If you do two coats, apply a thin first coat without anti-slip additive. Add the anti-slip additive to the second coat and make a thicker coat. It gives a more uniform and compact finish if you roll the epoxy a second time after about three minutes. I've been doing these epoxy works for almost 10 years being the building maintenance guy of Mercedes Benz of Honolulu.
Jona Than do you apply the chips on the second coat as well?
Best video so far on this
I like the name of your channel and good job on the floor.
Nicely done 👍🏽. What type of caulk did you use for filling in the contraction joints? Have you notice any cracks in those joints?
I used flexible paintable caulk. There are two cracks in the caulk that I can see today. They are at the closets point to the garage door. (6/19/21)
So your recommendation is to put one coat down, let it dry, then do the second coat? So the flakes should be applied liberally on the second coat?
Chacko Thomas That is correct. Make sure to add the non slip additive to the second coat also or will be slippery when wet.
Great video I’ll be watching it again when I do this for my father in-laws garage. What department do you work for?
THE REEFIN RICAN I work in Michigan, in the Detroit area.
Code 3 Imagination
Cool I work in Florida
hey man looks good. im wanting to do this in my three car garage. so when you say 2 coats. do you add the anti slip to both coats or only to your second coat? also do you have to scuff up first coat before putting down second coat?
From what I have read you only need to add the anti slip to your top coat, and you can apply the second coat after your first.
David Dyer I thought of that also. But most of the walls are covered with shelves as of right now. The bare wall I do have will be covered with pallet wood.
Nice work. Just have a question about the anti-skid additive kits. In which step that you add this into the epoxy? How was it?
Apply the anti skid to the last coat you are going to apply. Mix it in to the epoxy after you mixed the two parts together. It gives the floor a light sand feel to it. Not so much you will get cut up if you fall on it but enough to allow some friction when walking on. If you don’t apply this then when the floor get wet, loot out someone will have an accident.
How is the floor holding up this far? I'm curious to see how it will hold up through a winter with the ice melt getting tracked in
+dnewman83815 it has help up better then I thought. Now granted I only have one car in the garage because my truck does not fit and only store the vehicle in the winter.
I do know it won't last after talking to others. On avg it may start to chip after five years so another coat will fix that. Have to say for what I paid it was worth it. At my fire station we got the professional epoxy floor and if you look at the two they look the same.
How many gallons of Muriatic acid did you need for 2.5 garage ? What brand you used ?
Also my garage is almost 540 sq ft. Is the kit enough to cover for the size ?
Thanks for the good detailed video
Arun Dhavani-Mallan I got two gallons, that were diluted with water and had a little left over if I remember correctly. As to what brand it was, I can not remember but I picked it up at Home Depot.
So you have a two car garage, the two car garage kit will cover that but I would recommend you get enough to put two coats on. What I used covered, but I can see in spots where one of our cars sits is showing some wear.
Code 3 Imagination thanks a lot ! I may comeback with question but your video is very detailed and helped me
Arun Dhavani-Mallan you welcome. Ask away and I will answer what I can.
You didnt mention anything about the the middle mark seam in the center of your garage floor. You can definitely see a difference in color where you overlapped the left side onto the right correct? Its darker?
Bass Slayer must be the camera and what you see on the screen. It is darker when it is wet, but I can tell you the color is the same on both sides. When you look at the floor right now you can not tell I did it in stages.
Good job Thank you Amen
Does using the chips give a smooth finish or do they stick out?
if you rub your hand on the floor can feel them, but keep in mind I also added the anti slip additive to the mix. If you don't add that to it once wet it is like ice to walk on, totally unsafe.
Not sure what to think. The instructions for this product state specifically not to use muriatic acid. In addition, you used a latex based product to fill in your concrete transitions. Latex shrinks over time and has flex even when new. You don't want either of those characteristics under your epoxy coat. A 2-part epoxy crack filler would have been the proper choice.
kamesenLBC now I wish I remembered the brand of calk I used. It was recommended by several professionals to use before applying the epoxy. As of today have had no shrinkage or pull away from my calked lines. The epoxy has held up great after a couple of cold and hot seasons. Only have one small mistake. Spilled some gas (about six months after applying) and it did eat a little bit of this epoxy.
@@code3imagination441 Nice. When do you recommend the masking for the end of garage transition is taken off? Would appreciate your experience on that
kamesenLBC I don’t know if you can see it, but I used a pencil to mark where the door rested on the concrete. I taped off the line after I flushed, dried, and cleaned off the floor.
Also this was a new concrete slab, that was another reason it was suggested to me by a professional to use the acid to ruff up the floor a little so the epoxy would better adhere to the concrete.
The current Epoxy shield kits come with an etching powder to etch/clean the floor; make sure you rinse the floor well (I normally do three times of rinsing).
Code 3 Imagination - my garage has 4 year old concrete seal paint that is peeling. Will the acid wash you did be enough to prep the floor or do I need to do a paint strip then acid wash? Thanks
Kmwu608 that I don’t know. I did not have a sealer on my floor. That you might have to do some research into. Sorry that I don’t have an answer for that.
Code 3 Imagination - will do. Thanks. PS - great video
Thanks for posting this video. You made it super easy to understand. With regard to your recommendation about doing a 2nd coat, would you recommend just buying a 2nd kit? Or is there enough in one kit to do a 2nd coat for a normal 2-car garage in your opinion? Thanks for the additional info.
Tim Paunovich you would have to get a second kit.
Code 3 Imagination and you would lay a coat down , let it dry and put another down with the chips?
Are oil or other auto fluid leaks easy to clean up even with the chips and anti slip coating?
Carlos Pelay they are easily cleaned up. I have had a few spills. Got to them right away. Not sure if they sit for a while. I do know this type of floor does not like gasoline. I spilled some and it ate the epoxy, not sure why it did that.
@@code3imagination441 thank you!
@@code3imagination441 u did the whole area with one kit?
Tteot Yep I used the 2.5 car kit. One can for one side and the other can for the other side. If I were to do this again I would put down two coats.
@@code3imagination441 can u tell that two coats needed?
Was there any sort of gloss that you applied afterwards? It says the package comes with a semi-gloss...
Grey Room I know they make a clear coat you can apply.
@@code3imagination441 okay cool...is it from the same company?
Grey Room I think so. I know other brands of epoxy floor paint make a clear coat
Was the paint watery?
branden agbunag it’s an epoxy. Not like an epoxy you would use to fix a broken coffee mug. But if compared to standard latex paint it is much thinner.
I know the product says you only need one coat, but I would recommend applying two coats.
Did you use two 2.5 car garage packs?
ultralvarez I used one 2.5 car kit and a single car kit. It covered my 2.5 car garage but if I were to do it again I would have gotten 2 - 2.5 car kits and put in two coats.
Code 3 Imagination thanks!
ultralvarez going to put one down without flakes and then another with flakes and clear coat much better result
Why did you not do a top clear coat?
Because I did not have it on hand at the time I was doing this job. I did how ever applied it later.
How did you clean before your etched it?
Scott Hall my garage was new construction so there was no need to clean anything. Just had to etch the smooth surface.
Does water hitting that drywall okay to do?
I did not hit the drywall with the water. The dry wall does not touch the floor.
@@code3imagination441 thanks for responding. Because on one of the,walls in my garage the drywall touches the floor. Maybe I should cover the edge in plastic I'm thinking to prevent it from getting wet.
Another question. I have a 1 car garage and to take your advice, I bought a 2 car garage kit to put two coats. That oughta work right?
Son of man! It should. Hopefully this summer I will finally get a chance to put down a second coat in my garage. That is if the “honey do” list is not to long.
How’s it looking still 2 years later
jeremy not bad at all. But I don’t keep my vehicles inside all year long. We keep my wife’s van in there through the winter, the other half has turned into my workshop. It is holding up good so far. I did spill gasoline and it did eat the epoxy where it spilled, not sure if that was supposed to happen but it did.
@@code3imagination441 Hmmm. Good to know about the gas on the floor. I have been tempted to gas up my lawn mower and snow blower inside the garage. I will definately do that outside knowing of your experience.
What type of calk did you use?
Adam Pinto can not remember the brand but I used paintable caulk
should have painted the walls
walls were ok after getting wet?
HagerVIDZ I controlled where the water went. I avoided getting the drywall wet so I had no problems.
Water and unpainted drywall do not mix. Same goes for the acid wash.
Code 3 Imagination ok ty. look like it did get wet. i atempted to clean garage floor but didnt get the sides so well. attempt #2.
thanks for vid. epoxy tomorrow
HagerVIDZ I didn’t get the sides all to well. If I were to do it again I would do the sides first by hand.
Code 3 Imagination I have cardboard 3ft up my walls
Would have painted the walls first.
Tom West I have been told this before. But I ended up putting shelf’s on the entire right side and currently putting up pallet wood in the far back wall.
Looks like you rinsed the Sheetrock
Ramapo River did not spray the sheet rock directly. It did get misted, yes, but no lasting damage.
2:03 you spelled parts (patrs) wrong. 2:19 you spelled labels (lables) wrong. Thanks for the video. Great job.
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Your garage floor was nice before you put the epoxy.