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Dilute and Flush Acid with Water

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Epoxy Floor Acid Etching. Step 1 To Epoxy A Garage Floor. Epoxy hacks & Epoxy instructions.

What happens here

After applying acid to the entire floor, the presenter begins flushing the acid with a garden hose. He starts from the front of the garage and works his way backward, pushing the diluted acid out. The goal is to flush until there's no more yellow color or bubbling, indicating the acid is no longer active. He also thoroughly rinses the empty pump sprayer and acid containers.

Goal: Neutralize and remove all active acid from the floor

Tools and materials

  • Garden HoseDiluting and flushing acid
  • Muriatic AcidRinsing
  • Pump Sprayer Black + DeckerRinsing
  • RespiratorRespiratory protection
  • Rubber BootsFoot protection
  • Safety GlassesEye protection
  • Solvent-Resistant Rubber GlovesHand protection
  • WaterDiluting and flushing acid

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Now, I'm done spraying the acid with my weed sprayer, and now I'm going to begin diluting this acid with my hose that I got set here right at my disposal right up front here. So now I'm going to actually start working and diluting this acid. I'm going to start at the very front of the garage. I'm going to work my way back and get a lot of water in here to dilute that acid. Then I'm going to turn around and start flushing it out. Now I've rinsed it enough start flushing it up. And you want to rinse it to the point you don't see any of that yellow color anymore and that bubbling. That means the acid is still active and it's etching the floor. You want to get it flushed up. You don't see any yellow anymore. Then start flushing it back out. You want to make sure you clean all of your equipment really well. Now, rinse just all your boots off, your gloves off. Rinse your sprayer off, your empty buckets of ratic acid. Just clean those things out so there's no more acid in them. This sprayer has a little pressure relief valve. You can lift that up so I can open the the sprayer up so it won't splatter acid up in my face. Now I got my acid tools all tool cleaned up. Now I'm going to begin the power washing process using a turbo nozzle. Cleaning this thing out really good. And that's also going to help the etching process. So I'm done. Now I'm done with

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