Matt,
Just for grins, there is a solution to finishing your brushed floor or
any irregular floor with epoxy. One of the best sellng points of the
epoxy flooring, I was in sales, hide your wallets, was that we could
cover up virtually any worn or irregular concrete areas. You can mix an
epoxy sand mixture to the consistance of wet sand, like at the beach, and
trowel it on as a skim coat, then finish coat over that after it cures.
Just like concrete you want to roughen up the surface prior to recoating
but it works great.
I sold many jobs by providing a free sample, 25 square feet, at the
junction of two major aisles in manufacturing plants where the fork
trucks ran all day and the concrete was trashed down to the coarse stone
below. It was killing their fork trucks, no suspension.
Anything can be done with epoxy, it is great stuff. It is mostly time
and money. There a a lot of tricks, like how to deal with cracks,
expansion joints and drains. I anyone wants to really get into the
details let me know.
BTW, I think the shop-talk list is great. I barely have enought time
for the Triumphs list so I don't subscribe to Shop-Talk but I pick up
your archives on a regular basis. Keep the good work up.
Jack Brooks
Hillsdale, New Jersey
1960 TR3-A TS69032L
1974 Norton Commando Roadster
JIBrooks@Juno.com
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996 10:39:47 PST mbarre@JUNO.COM (Matt Barre) writes:
>It never fails. The minute I throw something out that I have been
>keeping for years, I find a need for it. I must have tossed the info
>from the performance flooring company I mentioned. Definitely sounds
>like what Jack described though but it may have had an extra step or
>two, possibly what they termed as a primer, sand, main coat, and final
>topcoat with additional sand courses optional for more build. ISTR
>the company was in GA. I saw their ad in Hemmings or some other
>automotive mag.
>
>Our hangar decks are epoxy coated and it makes it very nice as oil and
>hydraulic fluid just wipe up. It can be very slippery when wet
>though. I guess that is part of the reason for the sand course. I
>backed off from epoxy as my current garage has a brushed floor. My
>next one will be power troweled like glass and I will then use the
>multi part system. I will just have to keep the floor clean or plan
>on busting my but often!
>
>Sounds like the water issue has been covered. The epoxy is
>impermeable but the force exerted by water can be impressive and will
>exploit and areas of poor adhesion. mrb
>
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