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Applying Color Flakes and Clear Coat

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What happens here

After the first coat of epoxy has dried, it's time to apply the second coat. This is where color flakes are often introduced for a decorative effect. The creator uses a broadcast spreader (a small fertilizer spreader) to evenly distribute the color flakes over the wet second coat of epoxy. After the flakes are applied, a clear coat is rolled over the entire surface. The clear coat serves two main purposes: to seal the color flakes and to provide a smooth, durable finish that is easy to clean. He also mentions using epoxy 'spike shoes' which allow you to walk on the wet epoxy without leaving footprints or disturbing the finish, although he prefers to work in socks for this process.

Goal: Add decorative color flakes and a protective clear coat to the epoxy floor

Tools and materials

  • 9-inch Roller with 1/4-inch Mohair Nap — Applying the second epoxy coat and the clear coat
  • Broadcast Spreader Scotts — Evenly distributing color flakes over the wet epoxy
  • Epoxy Spike Shoes — Allowing movement over wet epoxy without disturbing the finish
  • Extension Pole — Extending the reach of the roller for floor application
  • Leaf Blower Ryobi — Blowing off excess flakes from the floor
  • Clear Coat Epoxy — Sealing color flakes and providing a smooth, durable finish
  • Color Flakes — Adding decorative elements to the epoxy floor

What they say

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on your first coat on your second coat i don't add any thinner or reduce my epoxy at all i'm gonna begin mixing it up with my drill got a drill with a mixer right here and then once i got it all mixed i'm going to check the time and then per my instructions i want to make sure it sweats for at least that amount of time right now it's two o'clock so i'm gonna wait until it's time before i start applying my epoxy okay now here we are i got a garage floor we got our product all sweating and which is the actual process of mixing up the a and b of our two-part epoxy and the sweating is the activating of those two parts and our epoxy that we're actually using it takes a half hour sweat time so it's been that half hour now we're gonna begin on our floor begin rolling it on our floor but prior to that we want to blow out any dust or debris that's on our floor scrape off anything walk around the floor really and look really closely at the floor make sure there's no glue or anything on the floor there's a lot of times on your garage floors there's carpet glue and new construction when they're doing the carpet so check for any glue any caulking or anything on the floor that you don't want to epoxy over and scrape it off and then blow this thing out really good and then we've got to actually chalk a line where our garage doors go down because we don't want the garage doors to set on top of the epoxy so you want to determine where your garage doors are chalk a line run some tape inch and a half tape and that will make a nice line where your epoxy will be and we're going to begin that process right now [Music] so now we got our line chalked we got it masked off to make a nice crisp line where the garage doors go down we're going to begin rolling the epoxy and i like to have two people i like to have one person doing all the cut ends and footings around the edges and then another person rolling and i'll be rolling and i like using just a nine inch roller with a mohair nap and it's just a little thin nap and that's what i like to use when i'm applying my epoxy the person doing the cut ends is just using a four inch nap with a brush just throw away tools that way when we're done with the epoxy we just throw away all the tools even your nine-inch roller it's gonna get epoxy all over it and it's pretty much gonna ruin the rollers so don't use anything expensive because we just throw it all away so here we go so we're going to be starting in this far corner we've got johnny's…

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