Upland Residential Epoxy Floor Coating

Step 1

When preparing the floor of your home in Upland before applying the epoxy, be sure to create a strong chemical and mechanical bond between the product and the flooring. Clean the surface of your Upland home floor, with no dust, debris and other particles present that can prevent the less viscous epoxy primer to penetrate the surface. Clean greasy spots and areas contaminated with oils with chemicals. In Upland, shot-blasting is used to clean, polish and strengthen the surface, and to create a rough and porous surface on the home floor where the epoxy product can strongly bond with.

Grinding

Upland home owners also make sure that the surface of the floor is clean and free of grease spots before grinding. Grinding lightly textures, opens the pores and removes paints and thin coatings on the floor of your Upland home, as well as corrects irregularities and imperfections, creating a strong bond between the epoxy and the substrate. Hard to reach areas are diamond grounded to restore smoothness in the surface of your Upland home floor.

Patching

Upland home floors can be damaged by mechanical impact or abrasion, as well as unsuitable materials and conditions. Before repairing a damaged home floor, make sure that these areas are patched using the highest quality polymer-modified patching compound available to epoxy floors and grounded smooth. Patching irregularities on the floors of your Upland home results to a smooth surface of your new epoxy floor.

Epoxy Primer

Priming offers Upland homeowners an abundance of benefits when applied before the epoxy product. Although often overlooked by most homeowners and contractors, thinking that it is only an extra day of work and added cost, priming creates the best possible adhesion between the epoxy and flooring by penetrating into the concrete surface for a longer lasting and more durable new Upland epoxy floor.

Step 2

Sweeping and cleaning of the floor

Thoroughly clean blast, sanding and grinding residues on the surface of your home floor in Upland by using clean, dry and compressed air vacuum. Or you can use a brush or broom if necessary. Proper cleaning and preparation of the surface is the key to a successful bonding of the epoxy and the Upland home floor. Floor surfaces contaminated with oils can use chemical cleaning.

Epoxy Floor Priming & Filling

Step 3

Prime the floor with a suitable epoxy primer

The epoxy product adheres best to a primed surface. In Upland, we prime floors using a suitable epoxy primer. Priming also reduces the risk of bubbles and gasses from forming on the surface of your new epoxy floor. By sealing off the substrate, priming also reduces chances of the epoxy being absorbed by the surface, thus helping you save on your use of the epoxy on the floor of your Upland home.

Step 4

Fill all cracks, holes etc with epoxy grout

To ensure a smooth surface of your Upland home floor before priming, small cracks and holes, as well as minor damages must be filled with epoxy grout. Thin cracks sliced with a cutter improve anchoring of the grout and ensure a strong bond between the epoxy and the concrete surface of the floor of your Upland home.

Applying The Epoxy Floor Coating

Step 5

Application of the first coat of epoxy paint

Mix the two components of the epoxy using an electric mixer. Continuously stir for at least two minutes to ensure thorough blending. No air should be introduced into the mixture as this will cause bubbles to form on your new Upland epoxy floor. Complete blending of the epoxy results to a nice consistency and an Upland home epoxy floor that properly hardens with no gooey, tacky feel.

Step 6

Apply the product with a roller

When applying the epoxy on your Upland home floor, never go cheap with rollers. Make sure to use high quality durable rollers when applying the epoxy product. Cheap rollers shed and leave shreds of the material on the new epoxy floor. When applying additional coats, do not try to re-use rollers. The first coating should be allowed to dry for about 24 hours or as per label directions. Seal-fill holes and cracks on the home floor before applying the next coat and check for dust, debris, or bugs that may have gotten into your new Upland home epoxy flooring.

Last Epoxy Flooring Procedure

Step 7

Apply the final coat

After mixing the epoxy product, immediately apply the mixture on the floor of your Upland home because most epoxy products have a pot life of just about 40 minutes. Also make sure to mix just one bucket at a time. Before the application of the final coating of the epoxy on the Upland home floor, make sure that all dust and debris have been collected to avoid imperfections on the surface of your new epoxy floor.

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