Repairing a Bad Epoxy Pour

i'm gonna be a bubble bubble bubble popping baby and it looks like a giant egg barfed all over my countertops squeegee off and fill in these two holes she's about as flat as you can get okay okay guys we're gonna be tackling two projects today one is fixing a countertop that we poured previously and if you just can get right down on it maybe you can see just a little bit of unevenness and what happened was we were doing a really thick pour right through here and it leaked and so we got a little bit of a divot and i got overconfident in my ability to work with this product and i thought i could squeegee it off but that's not the way it works so we are going to be correcting a mistake i'm gonna put a live edge like this so basically we're gonna walk you through what i do there and then we're gonna be going over here and pour in this mantel that frankie is working on mounting right now so we're gonna finish this one off and do a new pour on that so you guys can watch both processes and we're going to be using the exact same products exact same techniques because it's really forgiving we've done a few different epoxy projects in the past and i've never worked with a product that was quite as user-friendly as this one so we'll show you what we're going to be doing maybe you can see it from here you can kind of see see that that's not okay bad bad bad yeah it's gonna make it look pretty ugly at first and it's gonna be a little bit scary the grit of sandpaper i'm using is actually 240. they recommend using 220 and these little bit of scuffs that you feel you you're making right now don't freak out about it because when you go to report the material will actually fill all these in and you actually need these microscopes to get one layer to adhere properly to the next layer below it so you got to break an egg to make an omelette meaning it's going to get a lot uglier before it starts getting a lot better [Music] much [Music] okay so now that we've got it started to get scuffed now here's the deal we gotta we've gotta scuff the entire thing but the rest of it only needs to be scuffed this you can see all the imperfections where the differences in the pour came in this is what i did this is what i did by trying to squeegee off and fill in these two holes so this all has to come i want this all out before i do the next core that's what i'm going to work on and then once i get that down so it's all one level then i'm just going to just scuff just enough to get the epoxy to connect [Music] so [Music] this is a pretty straight forward mixture it's equal parts of a and b and then stir for four minutes [Music] you want to make sure i even set a timer that was the timer going off you want to make sure you hit that four minute mark and if you can do it with a drill that's probably even better important thing is to get these two these parts one is thick one is loose and to mix equally because once you pour it out of the bucket it's not gonna have the opportunity to mix together all right she's mixed she's ready to go i'm going to use a brush i'm going to chop it in and brush it in could use a trowel but the brush is going to help me to just make sure that i get it in all the different cracks and crevices what that will do by chopping it in one final mix right on the work surface this is all we got for trowels oh that's okay i was hoping to get an eighth inch trowel i just did it with the brush thank you thank you thank you so zach brought up some trowels i needed an eighth inch throttle so i could do a better job of spreading this i would have just traveled this out if i had had a trowel and then i would have brushed it in this step mixes it woody [Music] so immediately after the pour we went right into the torching part process and what i'm doing is just touching up if i got any if i noticed anything so getting down here and eyeballing it to get right at the same level as any bubbles and uh kind of catching any imperfections and if i'm noticing any dirt or dots i'll dot them out because i can still fix them at this point [Applause] this will be the thumbnail dan give me that thumbnail right there the ending just thumbnail [Music] [Applause] so i went to 240 frankie i did not go to 400 grit you didn't do the 400 though nope nope they say 220 so i figure if i went 240 yeah i went i went x3 as it is [Applause] so now basically it's a matter of just babysitting this slab to make sure no bubbles come up and if they do then just touch them with a torch before they become permanent it's a matter of catching it at this time [Applause] but now a report like this actually adds depth to the um [Applause] because the thicker you go the better the results come out look at that frankie i don't know if there's anything to touch up dude [Applause] she's about as we do have to torch the sides as we do this just because bubbles will form on the sides it will run a little bit more when you get light up the torch because you're warming up the material this is where you gotta get down let's check for bubbles all right two more to go [Applause] now these are virgin coats so i'm gonna use a lot more material this is gonna be the first coat for these two all right it's time to pour the mantle this is where we get it over all the ends we brush on the ends whiskeys [Music] all right you guys let's take a close look at what we're trying to find before it becomes problems that see this little row of bubbles there those those all got to be eliminated a little bit right there so instead of using a torch with a lighter i don't like heat guns i like torches better because the heat gun moves the material around more it's got more air pressure on it for some reason i don't know why this just concentrates on popping bubbles one of the things guys don't leave the torch in one spot very long at all it doesn't take bubbles that's it so what i'm going to end up doing is spending the next few hours babysitting these two slabs and that's gonna call it for this video i'm just going to spend the rest of the evening babysitting these two slabs i turn the air up to 65 the temperature's got to be between 65 and 80 degrees so i set it right where i've got to be at i'm gonna be a bubble popping baby did you get that one zach in the ship sometimes when you got four kids and three grandkids you learned a lot of spongebob and that's all we got for you on today's video hope you enjoyed the way we fixed this slab up and then the top coat the first coat of these it won't need a second coat and that's the process really super simple the product i'm using is from stone coat countertops there's a guy named mike he's got a channel called stone coat countertops and i will tell you right now of all the products i've ever used for refinishing and i've done a few of them this is by far above and beyond anything else that's out there that i personally used so here it is stone coat countertops gotta check him out he's got complete tutorials on his youtube channel all i did was watch what he did and did it that's it it's as simple as that the directions are right on the sides of the can we mix this countertop over here if you take a look you can see we actually poured this countertop and created custom colors with it so if you haven't seen that video that's out there this is called a dirty pour this was where all the colors were mixed together and we poured this out and then we did custom where i just started to do inlays over here and it looks like a giant egg it barfed all over my countertop so i actually kind of like it it's not for everybody but that's what the beauty part if i don't like this in two weeks i can do another pour over the top of this countertop and just be perfectly done i mean once you learn how to do it this was 200 some bucks took to do all these countertops and these are made out of plywood it's a beautiful process and i hope whatever you're working on turns out amazing and much simpler and easier and faster and better and just everything possibly good that could possibly happen for you guys that's it for today god bless you guys go get them and we'll catch you on another one you guys have a good one [Applause] this will be the thumbnail dan give me that thumbnail right there