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How to Create an AMAZING Epoxy Garage Floor ✨ | Tidepool Flakes + Gunmetal Glitter (Pro Tips!)

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This project demonstrates how to enhance an existing flake flooring system by applying a polyaspartic top coat infused with gunmetal glitter, along with the preparation of a final protective polyurea top coat. The process includes precise measurement and mixing of glitter, detailed application techniques for the glitter-infused coat (brushing edges and squeegeeing/back-rolling the main area), and discusses the subsequent crucial steps of sanding and applying a final durable top coat.

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really cool things we're going to be doing today with our top coat. We're going to be using our UL80 polypartic top coat. We're going to be doing two top coats today and we're going to be adding uh glitter to our top coat. This is going to enhance the top coat. It's going to look absolutely amazing. So, here's the glitter right here. We've got our top coat ready to begin mixing it. We are using a gunmetal glitter color today and I'm going to be measuring this out. And I'm going to be measuring out 120 grams per gallon. So, we'll be adding that to our top coat. And we're going to show you, you know, this process is kind of just something to make your top coat look uh pretty dang cool. So, if you want to enhance it, make it look cool. Here it is. This is the gunmetal. There are multiple options and glitter colors you can choose from, but this is what our gunmetal color looks like. So, I just have a scale. We bring out a scale. Uh, turn it on and I'm gonna measure out 120 grams. Tony's going to be mixing up the um UL80 here with our gunmetal in it. 120 g. There's what 120 g of glitter looks like. We did our tool uh tide poolool flakes on this on this floor. And they it has micica in it. So, one of the things we're going to be doing after this first top coat is sanding the top coat before we add our final top coat on top of that. What's our final top coat going to be uh today, Tony? >> Yeah, our final top coat's going to be the Poly 1HD, which is a polyurea moisture cured technology. And so, what that's going to provide on this floor is a more abrasion resistant floor for the multi-use of it. um as well as it's going to um help a little bit with the dust hot tire pickup from some of those recreational vehicles that'll park in there uh for an extended period of time. So, we're going to put down this UL80. Uh we're going to, you know, wait 3 hours. We're going to come back and sand and apply our final top coat. We'll mix it before we pour it because this isn't activated. Um, >> now if we leave this on the ground too long, it's going to want to stay in one spot. So, we don't want to dump out more than we can handle. We're doing our footing. So, I'm just cutting in the footings and stem walls, you know, right now. And all you're doing [snorts] is just taking a chip brush and just brushing it on. I'm brushing on our coat, you know, prior to um squeegeeing out and doing our floor. So, just using once again just a throwaway chip brush and you're just brushing on a thin thin coat. Chris is doing a good job. >> Hey, thanks. >> It's about time somebody gives me some praise.

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