How to do OUTDOOR epoxy floors
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Epoxy floors are very popular for a few different reasons. One is appeal, they look much better than bare concrete. Number two, they protect the concrete. Everyone hates oil stains on their concrete, and floor coatings prevent oil from impregnating into the concrete and creating an oil stain that will last a lifetime. Number three, floor coatings are relatively easy for the DIY person to do. They are a lot of work, but if you decide to take it on, it can be very rewarding. We hope this video helps you understand what it takes to do concrete coatings on outdoor patios or outdoor concrete areas.
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Handheld seed spreader. I use it for rock salt on the winter here also. Just need to dial in the size to really small.
I was thinking the same thing. Handheld seed broadcaster.
Yes. Same thought @6:15 into viewing.
Yea I was thinking a fertilizer spreader with the flow set very low
Yes I use a hand held spreader with a rotary crank and it really spins the blades and puts out an even spread
Yup, same thought
Actually Erik you should apply your sealer in the evening time. You see concrete breathes with temperature change. Morning time to the height of the day temperature, the concrete is exhaling, pushing air out of itself. Applying primer or sealer during this time, can cause bubbles to form of small pinholes in your primer/sealer coat. During the evening time, after the high temperature of the day and when the temperatures began to fall, the concrete now begins to Inhale, bringing air back into itself, thus bringing your primer/sealer deeper into the concrete, making for a tighter bond and better seal to the concrete surface. Prep should also be followed by either SSPC SP13 or ICRI 310.2R and use the CSP Comparator blocks to ensure that your prep is where it should be at fir the coating system being used. Glad to see that you are using grinding as your method of surface preparation. That is your foundation of your coating system.
We used a hopper in the past with good results....smallest orifice and consistent air pressure.
@Texas Barndominiums I work for a commercial coatings manufacturer and our installers use modified leaf blowers to apply the texture and anti slip aggregate. A funnel is attached to the top of the blower output tube, more or less a gravity fed hopper.
You should use Shark-Grit it’s a polymer grit that you mix into your floor coating. It stays suspended in the product and doesn’t sink.
When you're mixing the epoxy add the sand to the mix that way you can always use the same amount on every batch. I've done this to paint before I'm wooden decks they had steep ramps in order to keep them from being slippery and work great
that is such a clever idea with the leaf blower to apply the sand, it looks super consistent and even...really clever
I have been painting floors for 8 years and if you want to talk ideas I’m game. Your doing a great job.
Hello Sir if possible I would like to ask a few ideas/pointers on a upcoming job I have if your available
I take my hat off to you Erik!!! Very creative solution on the sand distribution!!!!
Thank you
I have used some guys in the past and they use one of those battery operated fertilizer/seed spreader, and shoes with spikes and it has been consistent.
Eric, the leaf blower was brilliant. It will probably shorten the life of the motor but hey...getting consistent sand coverage on large areas is worth a leaf blower or two. I have to eventually replace a small shed in our back yard and all your videos are inspiring me. As I watch your vids, my girlfriend is getting a little worried about my plans as they evolve... :)
You guys do a good job. I work in a slaughter plant, flooring contractors come in on the weekend, put down the epoxy and then lots of sand, way too much usually, not enough sometimes, then the sanitation guys wash it down before they should. Chaos at it's best. Seen some nice coatings and I have seen some bad. If too slick production calls maintenance and we have to grind some crosshatching into slick portions to keep people from falling.
Leaf blower great, but it would blow grit everywhere in plant, quality assurance in plant wouldn't like that, nor usda. Like I have said our biggest problem is sanitation wanting to wash floors which are not ready. Old boss called them weapons of mass destruction. Ha
I know I'm three years late but this is my first time viewing this video however I just wanted to add to the comments in the event you guys happen to be without a blower on a job another option for spreading sand maybe that squeegee you guys use the foam one... Apply a generous amount of the sand on one end and pull it over the floor kinda like the way the Japanese do in their gardens. Thanks for the content.
Use a hand held spreader typically use for feeding lawns. Scotts makes a good one.
For the sand, talk to the guys at Stone Hard floors. They have a machine that spreads the grit and also use some spikes that’s go over your shoes so you can walk on it as you spread and sand it.
Paul why sand ?
Eric, looks nice. Maybe get Leroy a canopy for shade...
handheld fertilizer spreader work great for casing sand evenly !
The blower is a smart idea, what also works is a wide fertilizer spreader walk behind.
I really like this. I would like to get my patio done like this but with a mixture of earth tone colors instead of one. Brown, green, gold, red, black etc.
You did kinda what I was thinking. I would add a modified broadcast seeders at the air intake of the leaf blower. This would help with a more consistent sand feed.
Thank you for posting.
It looks awesome. Very nice.
You should get a tent for your mixing station. Cheap and easy to set up
the floor looks great
Was thinking a sandblaster or a leaf blower/bagger with a pickup for bagging leaves. Use the leaf pickup to feed the sand. Used to do asphalt seal coating and used to have to sand traffic lanes before stop signs. We even mixed it with the product and sprayed the sealcoat. Never really found a great way.
to spread the grit /sand material more evenly try using a handheld fertilizer distributor usually found in gardening. it may work! Like Scotts handheld spreader.
You can also use a hopper like the one you use for texture👍🏽
Great job Erik and for the information keep up the great work.Tony from Las Cruces NM
Like the shirts...👍 and yes that floor looks 👌
awesome job
was thinking maybe a shop vac on reverse but unless its a heavy duty model with metal blades, sand will probably eat the plastic. If you keep using the leaf blower would make sure to keep the sand away from the in take. it will screw the plastic fan up and the bearings if it even has any. Was also thinking about the seed throwers but then you kind of end up with crescent patterns in the sand. Maybe install some kind of trickle feed into the leaf blower. Only good example i can think of is if you cut a hour glass in half and stick the small end of the hour glass into the neck of the blower. and you will have to stick the glass in at a angle facing out of the blower because you will get back pressure and no sand will come out because the wind will just keep pushing the sand into the small tube/pipe
Also i highly recommend you epoxy Matt's Demo HQ. i have a feeling he will be the stain master
What if you used a seed spreader like spreading grass seed. The type you hold up and spin it and it spreads the seed out a ways.
To blow out the sand, use a sprinkler system like what farmers use and greenhouses use. The beauty of such a system is that you can have as many sprinkler heads on a pole as you like and the pole can be the width of the area your working on. If the area is small enough, the pole with sprinkler heads should be light enough to be held by hand but when the area gets bigger, all you need to do is attach rope from ceiling beams to support the sprinkler pole and use it like a pully system where the pole is mounted on rollers, someone pulls on a rope attached to the sprinkler pole to move it across the surface. The whole system is attached to an air compressor that pushes out the sand from the sprinkler pole.
Think of the principle of fire sprinkler systems in buildings, they are evenly spaced to they cover the whole area of a room. You just do the same thing but with sand and an air compressor.
Try a textured ceiling hopper sprayer. You'd need to reduce the orifice size, though. The small hand-held kind that plug into a compressed air line.
One guy used a big bottle where he cut holes in the bottom. Sorta like a salt shaker, but with bigger holes.
Why do you keep switching back and forth between saying polyurethane and epoxy . Which one is it?
You should try a hand held fertilizer sprayer for the sand application
Great video! I would like to do this for my home. Would you kindly recommend the products\material
that you used here?
I heard you say you used 70 grit. Did oyou change it out up to the 200 or were you just saying it felt like a 200 grit?
Hey Eric they sell little pop up tents so you can work out of the sun ... add sides to keep dust and wind down. And living in Texas / working in Texas ... you would think not to wear black ... think about it.
Could I do this when it’s cooler outside say 50-70 outside during daytime and 40s at night?
Great work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I know all about wrong coating on outside concrete, where I worked painted some stairs with normal paint, no grit or anti-slip in it, was at the top of the stairs one minute at the bottom the next. Off work for months no fun at all.
Wow those are really nice just wondering if the get wet are they slippery?
can you mix it into each batch? use a handheld grass seed spreader and figure out the proper spreader setting for the desired consistency.
Have you tried adding nonslick in to you mix.
Yes, hard to get it consistent because it loads up more at beginning than at the end. Can see roller marks.
Try a spot sand blaster they have different orifice sizes and nozzle tips
Maybe try a texture hopper to shoot your sand. I am really wanting a Barndo in a bad way!!
Thank you for doing this right. Most videos online show how NOT to do it!!! But please get some 18'' rollers and spike shoes LOL
Make a homemade send blower with a Leaf blower and a few houses and a bucket
Do you all offer training I would love to get some hands on training even if it cost…
Please advise
Popup tent for safe, Texas 101 there. Cool idea to epoxy pourch
Is this the same type of epoxy / process that you could put in a garage?
Have you used the stuff sold by u-coat it? See there advertising and I'm up in the air on it
I have Never used it.
What about an adjustable seed thrower for the sand? A hand crank thrower...
hand grass seed spreader for even coat
through a airless paint sprayer, put a brick n a 5 gallon bucket then the shaft of the airless spray rig add Ur material but don't prime the rig yet don't turn on yet Ur going to use a 5 gallon whip to mix the material & add ur #5 grain sand or sharks skin to Ur desired like n ness keep mixing the whole time while pumping/ spraying use a big spray tip.
What I mean by a big spray tip is their r 3 digits on a tip first the x 2 is Ur fan n inches the next two digits is the size of the orifice smaller the number smaller the hole, like wise larger the number larger the hole.
this is probably something Ur going need to order at Ur local paint store...
Home depot or Lowe's Home improvements aren't going to have or be able order the proper tip, or any store like them.
Good tip size too start with would 521 or 621 or greater than 21 the size of the orifice.
And reminder the brick is too prevent any clumping so it doesn't get sucked n the spray rig & have the material mixed continuously don't stop until Ur done spraying.
& clean out the rig with a couple too a few gallons of paint thinner "mineral Spirits" if right on cash use diesel fuel it's all most the same.
& GOD bLeSS
Did u add the sand on the second coat also??
Grass spreader for sand .
Lovin the vids
Try a sand blaster without the cabinet
And for nonskid I used my hand or seeder
How come the Sand Cannot be added to the mix so everything is rolled on at once ?? Makes sense to me ;-)
IF the Sand is too Fine use a Much more Course Sand 0_o
Someone already posted but yeah a handheld seeder or fertilizer spreader set on lowest level... i bet ya get a great even spread....
For spreading sand why not use a lawn grass seed spreader that you can just run across the top
You guys didn't pour the buckets onto the concrete to apply the epoxy? Look like they dipped the rollers in the bucket and just rolled the epoxy onto the concrete. I was taught differently to use a squeegee then roll the product. Do y'all do that?
I have a legit question. Square foot vs. Square foot. Is a Barndo more expensive or equal to traditional construction home?
Try Harbor freight's gravity feed compressed air paint sprayer. They will cost less then a blower.
dust coating with a sand blaster
Measure by weight using your max weight for a combination of all 3. Add your sand directly to the mixture. This also means you can scale up your production to the limits of the sealant and your scale.
Total weight/ ratiosA+B+C * A...
Example: 450 grams / (100+50+10)= 2.8125
A: 2.8125*100= 281.25
B: 2.8125*50= 140.625
C: 2.8125*10= 28.125
I have done tuffco floors on floors at work the sand is mixed in the epoxy why can't you mix sand in the epoxy
What country are you from?
Try a fertilizer spreader
EVER use a seed spreader
Why not just grind, vacuum and the auto scrub the floor? Also you should get your guys 1.5 kits broken down even for your big projects I hate to have my mixer having to break down every 5 gallon kit
You would have a far better finish if, you had used a primer first...!
you could also consider mixing the sand with the epoxy...
Fertilizer spreader maybe
I need to fix my garage floor. It might be a lot of work. I can paint instead.
Love you Eirk but too many ads on your videos. Keep up the good work.
Sorry. RUclips puts them in.
Maybe using a gravity feed sandblaster and some practice might yield a natural yet uniformal means of applying of the sand. This is just a wag not a tested method.
Small sandblasting gun. Sprays like paint.
Something weird going on with the video. It looks like it was exported at a different framerate than it was shot/edited in. It's skipping every 5 frames or so
For the algorithm
Throw to rejection
I would guess that the reason you don’t mix the sand in the epoxy is because you want it at the surface. Right?
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You guys pay attention to all the details. That's some of the stuff other contractors won't do. I would love for you guys to build my house. Great job thanks for sharing
Actually they aren't. Should be using 18" rollers and wearing spiked shoes. Never showed if he sealed it or not. If its not then guaranteed to yellow in the sun being exposed to UV rays.
Consider getting a pop up tent for the work area if you know you’re going to work in the sun like that. Easy up, a couple of stakes in the ground. After that its portable shade.
Yes, poor Leroy did not sound happy, being the only person working and all. A wee bit of shade might have cheered him up... Well maybe not.
Haha, you took Matt's "whaa-psh!" sign-off, love it. As others suggested, a seed spreader/broadcaster is a great idea for spreading sand; it's basically a little roundabout wheel that propels the material loaded (can be fertilizer, seeds, seed gravel, and so on) a fair distance, and rather evenly, too. I'd also suggest bringing a basic tent, or even just a tarp with some stakes and some posts, to cover the mix station with shade and prevent it from heating up unduly.
Matt who?
@@cbalano Demolition Ranch/VetRanch/OffTheRanch RUclipsr, aka Demolition Matt aka Matt Carriker.
Custom Portable Shade can be had with a 10'x10' folding Gazebo. Bo.
Thank you. You just convinced me to hire out my porches...
Hmm, what's wrong with pre-mixing the sand into the epoxy?
Will this process work on concrete that had color added to the concrete. Having a Difficult time covering the Tera Cota color. Thanks
this is how we do it, we cover the floor 100% about 1/4 '' when epoxy dries sweep up sand , then finish coat(2nd)coat
I drilled a hole in the outlet of my backpack blower, epoxy a barbed fitting in the hole with 5/16 clear hose in the bucket of sand and it is a sand blower,sucks the sand at consistant rate. worked great and super glued a rubber plug in the hole when done. try it, it works.
This is exactly what I was thinking. A venturi fed system with the leaf blower would work consistent. You could get a valve of some sort to adjust the flow rate on the go. Same concept of an air brush, but with a lot more flow. You could also use an air hose with a big nozzle and the same venturi sand fed system.
Ditto
I had the same idea.
Although if you are going to put the Barb in your blower, you could probably put a ball valve on it so you can close the thing when you don't need to blow sand. That might also allow you to meter exactly how much sand you want to pull.
Maybe a seed broadcaster could spread out the sand. Unless it's too fine, I don't know.
I had the same idea. I've seen a hand broadcaster used for glass bead grit in the past, but with #5 sand it may be too hard to control.
It is slippery when it rains Thank,
This is freaking amazing work! I can't believe I didn't subscribe sooner (or rather, keep on being subscribed - I cleared most of my subscriptions a couple weeks ago). This is the kind of thing an INFJ like me loves to watch! Thank you for putting out this content!
I am also an INFJ and I agree with you 100%.
The last few coatings I saw done around here (Bowie County Texas) were covered completely with sand, swept, then the next coat.
I like the blower idea! But jeez, use a cheap Harbor Freight blower instead of ruining that Milwaukee throwing sand through it!🥺
I feel bad for the impeller blades. Lost some cfms for sure.
Grass seed spreader. Damn never thought about a leaf blower.
Always use the spike shoes, and always grind. At least that’s what we do. We always grind our concrete first and if we are coating with epoxy we use 16 grit and depending on the hardness of the concrete will determine exactly which diamonds I use. You can also use a polymer that you mix with the A and just apply. It doesn’t take away the shine and it’s clear. Stay safe.
Leaf blower....improvise...adapt..overcome! Gunny Highway style, thanks for making these videos.
Saw something the other day on a job where they were coloring and stamping. Guy put the color in a mesh beach bag and shook it out like a flour sieve. It came out smooth like powered sugar