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What happens here

Once the floor has dried for a day after acid etching, the next step is to caulk all saw cuts and any minor cracks present in the concrete. The presenter explains that caulking these areas is crucial in regions like Idaho, where snow and road debris can introduce water and grime into cracks, making the floor dirty and harder to clean. Additionally, filled cracks prevent insects and bugs from harboring in them. He specifically mentions caulking the edges where the concrete meets the stem wall or raised footings, with no additional charge for this specific caulking. He uses 'Tower Urethane Caulk' for this task.

Goal: After the floor is dry from acid etching, all saw cuts and minor cracks are caulked to prevent moisture and debris from collecting, improving aesthetics and cleanliness.

Tools and materials

  • Caulk Gun
  • Cloth/Wipe
  • Tower Urethane Caulk Tower

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or your raised footings, I caulk that too, it are also at no additional charge. Some of you may ask, what caulking do I use? I use a product from tower and it's a your thing caulking. That's what I do all the caulking with and the epoxy that I use to epoxy my floors is a product it's called Tauclad 2 High Solids and it's an industrial two-part epoxy and it's a great product. I've been doing the method of acid etching using Tauclad for 22 years, never had one caul back in 22 years doing the process of the I do and I know to some it takes a little bit longer, there's a lot of products out there, there's water-based coatings, you could do multiple coatings in one day. I just been doing this process that works for me and I haven't got a caul back on it and it's just been, you know, a great system that I developed. So the epoxy itself, the coating

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