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Epoxy Application Techniques and Finishing Touches

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How To Do an Epoxy Floor! Everything You Need to Know to Be a Pro!

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To achieve a smooth, professional epoxy finish, proper application technique is crucial. Work in small sections, typically defined by saw cuts or expansion joints, to ensure even coverage. For the best finish, you'll apply the epoxy by first rolling it onto the surface and then 'laying it out'. Laying out involves going back over the freshly rolled epoxy with light, even strokes to eliminate roller marks and create a consistent appearance. It's recommended to work your way out of the garage, section by section, starting from the back. To avoid leaving footprints or disturbing the wet epoxy, you can either wear specialized spike shoes or, as the creator prefers, work in socks. This allows you to walk on the wet surface without leaving marks. Additionally, it's essential to check the floor for any bubbles, debris, or imperfections after application. These can be carefully scraped off or corrected while the epoxy is still wet.

Goal: Ensure a smooth, even, and durable epoxy finish with proper techniques

Tools and materials

  • 1-Gallon Bucket — To set the garage door on to avoid touching wet epoxy
  • 9-inch Roller with 1/4-inch Mohair Nap — Applying and laying out epoxy
  • Epoxy Spike Shoes — Walking on wet epoxy without leaving marks
  • Extension Pole — Extending the reach of the roller

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need to [Music] [Applause] another good tip is if you're actually doing this epoxy floor for a customer you need to close the garage doors not all the way but down a certain amount so you want to make sure that garage door if you don't have access to the house that you can actually close the garage door so you either have the code but it's better to have it not where it goes down with the code but just pull the little release leverage so you can just slide the garage door let it get down and set on top of a one gallon bucket or so so make sure that you have access to get out we just work our way out and then grab the garage door and just lower it lightly and set it on a one gallon bucket so cruising right along here we've got just this back end now we're working our way out the garage one thing is it's a good idea i've got an actual gallon of reducer 54 just sitting right out here in case something goes wrong you need to clean the epoxy make sure you don't have any on your shoes as we work our way out we're going to take our shoes off in case we have any epoxy on our shoes and then we'll be just working in our socks as we work our way out the garage because what you don't want to do is track any epoxy on the driveway out there because it's a absolute nightmare to try to get it off and if you do you want to make sure you have the proper thinning product and the product that we use towel fat high solids it's reduced with reducer 54. so i got my last square here i'm rolling gonna be working my way right off the garage with our last square here just make sure that you don't have any epoxy on your shoes as you work your way out the garage now i'm working my way out here i got to set my bucket we're just going to set a drop cloth right here on the concrete to set the bucket on because the bucket could have epoxy on it that you don't want to get on the concrete either we're done scraping this epoxy floor now all the little specks and debris that may have blown in with the wind or or just were picked up with our roller and now we're going to blow it out with a blower and we're going to begin applying our epoxy also today we're going to be applying color flex so we'll show you that a plot process of applying color flex and we'll be rolling some of the epoxy and get some of it done then we'll be throwing our flecks out and then rolling some more and adding more color flex and we're adding a pewter gray color flap to this epoxy to give it some really cool depth and…

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