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

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The video begins with an introduction to the process of epoxying a garage floor. The creator, Chris Idaho Painter, outlines the various stages involved, such as cleaning, acid etching, caulking, applying epoxy, adding color flakes, and clear coating. He then discusses how he prepares estimates for epoxy floor jobs. He calculates the square footage of the main garage area by measuring its length (21 feet) and width (20 feet), multiplying them to get 420 square feet. He then measures a smaller section (3.5 feet by 5 feet) for 17.5 square feet. These are added for a total of 437.5 square feet. This base square footage is then multiplied by a base rate of $4.25 per square foot to arrive at an initial price of $1,864.00. Additional charges are applied for steps ($175), excessive prep work ($200) if the concrete is heavily contaminated with oil or other substances requiring extensive cleaning beyond normal acid etching, and for applying color flakes and a clear coat ($1.75 per square foot). He clarifies that only low-raised footings incur an additional $50 charge, whereas tall footings are $175. Also, he charges $75 for excessive caulking of cracks. He emphasizes that proper estimation is crucial for securing jobs.

Goal: Understand the full scope of the epoxy flooring project and how to calculate a bid

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Tape Measure — Measuring the dimensions of the garage floor to calculate square footage

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this paint life tv i'm chris idaho painter in this video i'm going to give you a whole long video on how to epoxy a garage floor so if you want to know all the steps the tips and tricks to epoxy in your garage floor from the cleaning process the acid etching process the caulking of the cracks process the applying the epoxy throwing some flex down clear coating it i've got it all right here for you in this video so sit back relax grab yourself a soda a bag of popcorn or a beer and let's epoxy your floor here we are inside of a garage right here this is a previous epoxy floor that he did about 12 years ago i'm going to talk to you talk to you about how i write uh wrote this estimate how i write to estimates now if you don't have a great estimate package it doesn't matter what number you're going to give pretty much you're probably not going to win the bid when you give an estimate to a client they're going to set it down after you leave have your estimate on the table and they're going to probably have three or four other estimates on the table and if you don't have a professional looking bid packet that's going to convince them to choose you you're probably not going to win that job whether you're high or low you can be the highest bid on the table and if you have an amazing looking bid packet they might choose you because that bid packet is a representation of the work you're going to do i do make my bid packets available on paintlifesupply.com they're editable and not edible if you want to check them out i have interior estimate packages extra estimate packages decks fences epoxy floors go check them out at paint life supply co after you watch this video but now i'm gonna get on to this estimate how i wrote this estimate and how i write estimates you know uh now and in the future so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna walk into this uh this garage right here and i'm just gonna measure this thing out because i just have a very simple basic way that i write uh estimates for epoxy floors and it's just a square foot price but i do have additional charges that go on my base square foot price my basic square foot price is dollars and 25 cents a square foot now i have a garage and i've got multiple squares in here i'm going to measure this large square out this square comes out to 20 by 21 i'm going to multiply those two numbers together and that's going to give me the square footage of this section of the garage i have another section of the garage back here and…

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