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Considerations and Necessity of Mechanical Abrasion

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

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breathable as well. >> Right. So, you know, you're um you know, a Rustoleum rep. You've worked with Rustoleum, you know, for a long time. So, you know, um to the audience out here that might be watching this, you know, if we don't acid etch this floor, if we don't grind this floor, uh but we clean this floor with um the proper cleaner and then we appro apply the EPL55. Did I say that right? >> The EP55. EP55 and or epoxy shell 550. You're pretty confident that that is going to hold up and not fail in this uh residential setting. Very very confident in it. Uh we have a proven track record of performance. We sell a lot of products that do require grinding, but there are situations where grinding isn't necessary. This is one of those situations, especially considering if we're painting the inside of this house as a uh interior house painter. we can add this to our portfolio without the investment in equipment. >> So, what would you say maybe like a basement would that be another, you know, scenario where um priming because you can't grind or maybe you can't, you know, uh use an acid and be shop vacuum wet stuff down in the basement. Is that another place where you could actually use it? A basement is really a perfect situation. I know we all want to be He-Man and carry that grinding machine down the stairs, but there's a lot of liability with that. uh not only for the homeowner but also for the applicator. And so situations where it's not easy to get that prep equipment absolutely makes sense and no odor as well. So we don't have those harmful chemicals and we're not kicking uh silica dust into the air if that extraction equipment isn't functioning 100%. So the last floor I did, you know, EP55 and epoxy shell 550, you know, the primer that you can use in this residential setting. This is a brand new new construction house. But you know what about you know a floor? We're actually working on another job right now where the house is quite a few years old. Uh vehicles have been coming in out of the garage for a long period of time and um say it's dripped um automotive oil or say transmission fluid. Can you just clean that and can you prime that and are you going to have success with this system that we're actually doing? Great question again and in most settings absolutely. Uh utilizing the Rustoleum industrial cleaners, the foaming aerosol, the concentrated mixes will take most of those household type staining out of the concrete uh and then…

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