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How To: Shotblast Line Stripe Preparation for Epoxy Safety Lines

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How To: Concrete Grinding Dust Removal by Shotblaster De-dusting

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How To: Polyaspartic Flake Concrete Stem Wall Treatment

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How To: Marble Tile Removal and Polished Concrete

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How To: De-gloss Polyaspartic or Epoxy Flake Garage Floors

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How To: Garage Epoxy Polyaspartic Flake Floor

Good surface preparation helps to ensure a thin-mil coating installation goes as planned. Certainly there are the long term benefits of maximum adhesion to the concrete’s surface, but predictable material consumption and surface uniformity are important too. While thicker floors may provide the benefit of fully burying surface inequalities, the thin ones look better when the concrete is prepped correctly.
The video documents the prep and coating of a 750SF three car garage. The concrete was first diamond ground and shotblasted. There was also mechanical transition space made at the door entries. The rest of the process included a water based epoxy primer, 100% solids epoxy adhesive/flake layer and polyaspartic top coat.
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How To: Solid Color Water Based Epoxy

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Solid color epoxy floors require greater attention to detail than conventional flake floors. Surface preparation for either is just as critical to coating performance. When it comes to the uniformity in appearance, though, a solid color needs extra “help” to hide concrete defects. The video documents the prep and treatment necessary to ensure maximum coating adhesion. It also captures what’s ne...

How To: Shotblast Line Stripe Preparation for Epoxy Safety Lines

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How To: Shotblast Line Stripe Preparation for Epoxy Safety Lines

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High performance coatings require maximum adhesion to perform. Paint and acrylic based products are of a nature that can stick to less porous surfaces. Aliphatic urethane or epoxy based products, both of which can be applied at a greater thickness than decorative sealers, needs a fully absorbent substrate. Shotblasting is a convenient way to make sealed concrete absorbent. The video gives a gli...

How To: Concrete Grinding Dust Removal by Shotblaster De-dusting

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How To: Concrete Grinding Dust Removal by Shotblaster De-dusting

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High performance coating adhesion is directly related to a slab’s surface absorbency. Old sealers or contaminants can block a slab’s natural pores. Diamond grinding does well to remove these old sealers and contaminants. Left behind, though, is the dust that’s been packed into the same pores a new coating requires. The video documents the process of extracting fine grinding dust from a slab’s s...

How To: Polyaspartic Flake Concrete Stem Wall Treatment

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How To: Polyaspartic Flake Concrete Stem Wall Treatment

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Sometimes treated the same as the floor, garage stem walls offer another surface that can be coated. As long as the extra time to treat them is taken into account, it’s a convenient way to coordinate the otherwise dull masonry surface. The video documents a Polyaspartic flake treatment of a textured stem wall. Due to the irregular surface (and a small repair), 80 linear feet took six hours of l...

How To: Marble Tile Removal and Polished Concrete

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How To: Marble Tile Removal and Polished Concrete

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Bare concrete, new or old, doesn’t require as much work to polish as one that’s been coated or covered by flooring. Either surface can be polished to the same level of refinement but it takes more time and work to polish one that’s been coarsely ground. The video documents the removal of a marble tile and subsequent concrete polishing. The tile is removed, the thinset is ground, the concrete is...

How To: De-gloss Polyaspartic or Epoxy Flake Garage Floors

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How To: De-gloss Polyaspartic or Epoxy Flake Garage Floors

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Recoating an existing flake floor should include surface prep. Assuming the new topcoat will be a high performance product, a minimum surface texture will be required. The floor should be clean too. For the process of creating texture, the aim is to scratch the surface enough to remove all or most the gloss. Once vacuumed and solvent wiped, the new texture is expected to anchor the new topcoat....

Water Based Urethane and Polyaspartic Comparison

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Water Based Urethane and Polyaspartic Comparison

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Protecting a resin floor with an abrasion resistant and chemically resilient coating provides finish options. Despite being clear, the final layer can still affect the floor’s color and reflectivity. Some resins are naturally a high gloss finish by their chemistry. Others are formulated specifically to be satin or even matte. As long as the protection level needed for the underlying coating is ...

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Concrete Pool Bottom Smoothing

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Smoothing concrete using a diamond grinder shouldn’t be confused with proper profile creation for a coating. Sometimes the rough spots (trowel marks) just need to be knocked flush to accommodate the next treatment. The benefit for the one doing the work is how quick and easy a walk-behind grinder gets the surface smooth. The video documents a pool’s concrete bottom being ground to accept a new ...

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How To: Industrial Floor Thruway Repair

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Old floors that take a beating from necessary use only get worse. Elevation inequalities damage equipment and often the inventory they carry. Committing to upkeep and repair of these old floors might mean a happier warehouse: “It’s so much nicer now than having stuff fall off the skid from banging across the entry. It also isn’t any longer slippery trying to clear the top edge with a full skid ...

How To: Polished Concrete Detail Polishing

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How To: Polished Concrete Detail Polishing

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Unlike a coated slab, polished concrete’s appearance relies mostly upon surface refinement through mechanical processing. A coating provides an opaque or clear finish that fills in any voids or inequalities. With polished concrete every imperfection, not processed out, will be visible. Detail polish work doesn’t come cheap because it relies upon hand-held equipment. The additional labor carries...

How to: Industrial Concrete Joint Repair

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How to: Industrial Concrete Joint Repair

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Industrial floor applications expect traffic from pallet jacks and fork trucks. These two types of equipment represent a dynamic and repetitive load put upon coated concrete floors. While there are floor systems that can withstand traffic such as this, there’s no defense against surface inequality erosion. Whether it be pits or joints, a small area of broken surface will only get worse. This su...

How To: Polished Concrete Flattening and Patching

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How To: Polished Concrete Flattening and Patching

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Polished concrete works great where a low maintenance and abrasion resistant finish is needed. Foot and wheeled traffic do little to degrade the durable surface. One of its few performance limitations, though, is its inability to mask color variation or areas that have been patched. The choice, therefore, to do a polish may require some flexibility for preexisting conditions. The video document...

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How To: Water Based Epoxy Flake Floor

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Decorative coatings provide a resilient veneer. In addition, the color choices available allow for a subdued or more bold look depending upon the needs of the space where it’s placed. While the traffic coat is the most visible for a coating’s gloss, the decorative body coat usually provides the color. The video documents an under racking storage area that’s in need of a cleaner and brighter loo...

How To: Exterior Concrete Epoxy and Polyaspartic Coating

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How To: Exterior Concrete Epoxy and Polyaspartic Coating

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Exterior concrete can be coated to match other architectural elements or for the practical purpose to minimize maintenance. The color palette of these coatings is virtually limitless and their chemical formulation is ready to withstand weather and traffic effects. The video documents an exterior patio being prepared by grinding and shotblasting. Following the preparation work, a water based epo...