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Do You Really Need to Grind Concrete Before Epoxy? | Garage Floor Prep Explained

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The Idaho Painter explains his personal adoption of the Rust-Oleum system due to its suitability for residential projects and the practical challenges of using heavy grinding equipment. He notes that grinding equipment is expensive to buy and rent, and difficult for smaller paint crews to manage. He shares a personal anecdote about a hazardous incident with muriatic acid, highlighting the safety benefits of moving to less harsh chemicals. He emphasizes that the Rust-Oleum system allows individuals or small companies to offer epoxy flooring services without a significant upfront investment in specialized grinding equipment, thus lowering the barrier to entry and increasing profitability, especially when combined with a durable Polyurea-1HD top coat for hot tire pickup resistance.

Goal: Understand the economic and operational benefits of using the primer-based epoxy system.

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don't I've never epoxied, you know, a floor where forklifts are driving around and stuff like that. It's always just light automotive traffic. And so I'm confident with the system that we've created. I used to use moratic acid. I did muratic acid for years and years. And now I've gone away from moratic acid to these primers from Rustoleum. Absolutely love them. It makes my process a little bit easier. I don't have to work with harsh chemicals and um so I think it's it's really you have to you know decide what you're doing. Now, if you are doing industrial, you know, floors and stuff like that, you might want to look at a different system. >> Yeah, it's really going to depend. Industrial floor that is going to get heavy forklift turning all the time, maybe drums of chemicals or or supplies will probably need to be uh prepped with surface preparation equipment. Uh but there's probably break rooms, hallways, offices, projects like that that might not necessarily need that because it is all foot traffic. And and really one of the things about EP-55's technology is it it's formulated for one thing to stick where a lot of other products we utilize, a lot of products you previously utilized are designed for a lot of different platforms, not necessarily primary goal adhesion. >> Right. So the EP 155, we're going to be applying that now here pretty soon. You're going to get to see that process, how simple and easy it is. Then we're going to begin, you know, after that doing an epoxy coating, throwing some flakes down. We're going to be doing two clear coats on top of that. Uh, one of them is going to be the top coats that wear coat. Once automotive, uh, traffic starts driving in here. It does get pretty hot in the summertime up here sometimes. I mean, we're starting to touch 110° up here. 109°. Uh, somebody driving their automobile around town. They're going to roll in here. It's going to be super dang hot. It's going to set in here for a day. They're going to back out. Uh, is Rustoleum. I'm pretty confident it's not going to pull up the coating. Very confident of that. To aid in that protection with this particular system, we are utilizing that highware urethane top coat of the Poly 1HD specifically designed to combat hot tire pickup. >> Awesome. So Tony, one of the reasons why, you know, I've adopted this system, I think, you know, early on in my career, you I started doing epoxy floors and once again, I've been doing them for over 25 years.…

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