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Applying the Clear Coat to the Garage Floor

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Epoxy Floor Clear Coat Application. Garage Floor Epoxy Instructions. DIY Concrete coatings.

What happens here

Begin by wearing rubber gloves to protect your hands from the clear coat. Set up a drop cloth just outside the garage entrance as a designated "clean zone" to step on when moving in and out of the garage. Start applying the clear coat from the back of the garage and work your way towards the chosen exit door. One person should handle the "cut-ins" around the edges of the garage and footings using a brush or a small roller, while another person rolls the main floor with the larger roller and extension pole. As the clear coat is transparent, it can be hard to see where it has been applied. Maintain proper lighting and angles to observe the reflection, ensuring a thin, even coat covers the entire surface without missing spots. Do not slide the buckets on the floor to avoid scratching the already applied color chips or finish; instead, pick them up and move them.

Goal: Apply a thin, even layer of clear coat to the entire garage floor, protecting the previously applied epoxy.

Tools and materials

  • Brush

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[Music] Okay, here we go. We're getting ready to apply our clear coat. Once again, you want to have some rubber gloves. Don't want to get this stuff on my hands and cuz this stuff's pretty messy, hard to get off. We got ourselves a drop cloth setup right outside our garage that we're setting everything on. And that way you don't get any on your concrete when you're working your way out. You have something to step on outside there. And you want to just take and we're going to work from the back of the garage and work our way out to one of the doors. So you just choose a door. You're just going to work your way out of the answer. So, just a few tips when you're applying this clear coat is since it is clear, it's really hard to tell where you've gone, but you want to make sure that you get a good nice uh thin coat over the entire floor. So, you got to get like in the proper lighting and make sure you can look and see. You'll see where you go if you look close enough and get a nice reflection off the floor by looking at certain angles. But just make sure you get that clear coat over the whole floor and get a good layout. Another good simple tip is uh cuz we have have applied color flex down on this floor. Uh the previous coach, we actually decided to slide my 5gallon bucket and it weighs quite a bit cuz it has all the product in it. Now you don't want to slide that bucket on the floor cuz you could end up messing up your color chips. You could um scrape them off or something cuz they're they still got edges on them that are up in the air and could catch on the bucket. So make sure you just pick up your bucket and move it instead of sliding it. Okay, I'm done working on my last square. Just working out of the garage. Got our drop cloth here. just took my shoes off to make sure if I have any clear coat on the bottom of my shoes, I don't want to get it on the floor or I don't want to actually get it on my concrete outside the floor.

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