Prepare and Interblend Epoxy Flakes

so whenever we're doing a flake floor we want to make sure we have the same batch code and so here you can see we have our mushroom and then we have our Lot number and that's going to be our batch code and we want to make sure that all matches another tip is to also open up the boxes you're going to use on this project make sure they're the flakes that you wanted it has happened periodically where it's not the right blend Inside the Box there's a Mis labeling um very infrequent though um another thing we do when we open up these boxes is we're actually going to blend the Flakes with our hands a little bit cuz they get clumped and compressed down here and what you'll find when we pour this bag out is the very end is going to have a lot of fine particles they're going to go in the bucket we're going to do our best not to get those all over the floor we want to make sure we're throwing the big flake uh not the crushed ones as you can see I'm even going to inter blend the flakes out of the box by not um by not filling one one bucket with with one box make sure to keep your box in your bag because there's a good chance you're going to reclaim a lot of this tomorrow and that way you can store it for the next job where you're going to make money uh on the flake is utilizing similar Blends frequently because anything that we don't scrape we're going to be able to reclaim uh and then utilize on the next job which is just money in your pocket the flakes are purchased by the Box uh 40 lb uh being the most common the coverage rate we're going for today is between 5 to 8 square fet per pound so there's you know different