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Prepare and Assess Floor Joints

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Professional Epoxy Guys Use THIS Trick for Saw Cuts!

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What happens here

After applying the Rust-Oleum EP-55 water-based epoxy primer and allowing it to dry for approximately 5 hours, inspect the floor for visible saw cuts or control joints. These joints, previously filled, may become visible due to the original filler shrinking. The objective is to make these joints disappear completely before applying the main base coat of the metallic epoxy floor. Prepare multiple trowels or putty knives of varying sizes to find the most suitable tool for achieving a super tight skim coat, as sanding will not be performed after this step.

Goal: Identify and prepare visible saw cuts on the primed epoxy floor for filling.

Tools and materials

  • Putty Knife — Applying and skimming the epoxy Cab-O-Sil, especially for tighter applications
  • Trowels — Applying and skimming the epoxy Cab-O-Sil. Having multiple sizes helps determine the best fit for precise work

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All right. So, our um EP55 primer is now all dry. We waited you about 5 hours. Now, we're going to um be doing, you know, our base coat that's going to be um trled over the top of that. But, we are going to go and work on our saw cuts that were originally filled from the first epoxy job. and the whatever they they were filled with it shrank enough so you can actually see those joints. So we don't want to see those joints. So we're going to actually you know skim those over with epoxy cavil right now. So we're going to show you that process and that's we're going to skim that over the joint. We're going to skim it super tight. Um I've got a couple TRS on me right here that I'll be working you know with on um skimming that. And we're, you know, hopefully going to hide those a lot better than what they would be hidden with right now. So, you know, what was originally, you know, filled in these joints is a a rigid filler. So, it's not a flexible filler. So, we're going over the top of that with epoxy cavile, which is another rigid filler, you know, on top of a rigid filler. So, um, it's going to work out, you know, pretty good. So, uh, watch as we, you know, work on these joints and making the, um, saw cuts disappear.

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