Victorville Garage Epoxy Flooring

Step 1

Before applying the epoxy on your home floor in Victorville, make sure that the epoxy adheres to the substrate. Preparation is very important to make sure that the epoxy product and your Victorville home floor create a strong mechanical and chemical bond. In Victorville, we use shot-blasting to clean, polish and strengthen our floors and to create a rough and porous surface that will allow the less viscous epoxy primer to deeply penetrate the concrete. Priming gives the new Victorville home epoxy floors better life and reduces the risk of bubbles and gasses by sealing the substrate.

Grinding

Sweep and clean the surface of your Victorville home floor of any oil or grease before starting the project. Grinding can perform a multitude of tasks including light texturing and opening the pores of the floors, as well as removing paints and thin coatings. Hard to reach areas are diamond-grounded to restore smoothness. Grinding also corrects imperfections and irregularities in the surface of your floors in your Victorville home before the application of the epoxy coating.

Patching

Mechanical impact, exposure to unusual conditions and unsuitable materials can cause damage to your Victorville home floor which results to holes and cracks. Before applying the epoxy on your floors, be sure to patch the surface using the highest quality polymer-modified patching compound and ground-smooth to create a smooth surface on your Victorville home floors that the epoxy product can strongly bond with.

Epoxy Primer

Many Victorville homeowners often think that an epoxy primer is only an added cost and an extra day of work when coating the surface. But priming, though often overlooked, provides an abundance of benefits such as allowing the best possible adhesion by penetrating into the concrete surface to create a better mechanical bond for a longer lasting and more durable new Victorville home epoxy floor. By penetrating deeper into the pores of your floors, primers ensure a better mechanical bond between the epoxy and the floors of your home in Victorville.

Step 2

Sweeping and cleaning of the floor

A successful bond between the epoxy and the floors of your Victorville home also depends in the correct preparation and cleaning of the surface. To remove all blast, sanding and grinding residues, blow off the surface thoroughly with dry compressed air or vacuum. Or if necessary, you can use a brush or broom. Greasy residues from your Victorville home floor must also be removed because these will not allow to the epoxy product and substrate to bond properly.

Epoxy Floor Priming & Filling

Step 3

Prime the floor with a suitable epoxy primer

Although many contractors and flooring professionals avoid priming floors because of the additional cost and extra day of work involved, in Victorville, we recommend the use of primer to be able to achieve better adhesion of the epoxy on the floors of your Victorville home, as well as reducing the risk of chipping and breaking of the coat. Priming also reduces the risk of bubbles and gasses from forming on your new epoxy floor. Priming can also help you save on your use of the epoxy product because it seals off the substrate thus reducing the chance that the coat be absorbed by your Victorville home floors.

Step 4

Fill all cracks, holes etc with epoxy grout

Cracks, small holes and minor damages on your Victorville home floors should be filled with epoxy grout and sand-flat when dry; or scrape the surface level and smooth with a plastic knife. Slice small cracks with a diamond cutter to achieve a strong bond between surface and grout. Let dry for about four hours before applying the first coat of epoxy on the floors of your home in Victorville.

Applying The Epoxy Floor Coating

Step 5

Application of the first coat of epoxy paint

Mix the two components of epoxy using an electric mixer, continuously stirring for at least two minutes to ensure thorough blending of the entire mixture. Also make sure that air is not introduced into the mixture to prevent air bubbles from forming on your new Victorville home epoxy floors. Complete mixing of the two epoxy components results to a nice consistency and a new epoxy floor that properly hardens.

Step 6

Apply the product with a roller

When applying the epoxy on the floor of your home in Victorville, always make sure not to use cheap rollers as these will only shed. When applying additional coating on your new epoxy floor, do not try to re-use rollers. Let the first epoxy floor coating dry for about 24 hours or follow label directions. Make sure to level and smoothen uneven surfaces on your home floor that may appear after the first coating. Also check for holes and cracks, as well as dust, bugs and other debris that get into the coating and have these sealed-filled before you apply the next coat of epoxy on your Victorville home floor.

Last Epoxy Flooring Procedure

Step 7

Apply the final coat

Because most epoxy products have a pot life of just about 40 minutes, mix only one bucket at a time and be sure to immediately use the mixture on your Victorville home floor. Before you apply the final coat of the epoxy, fill all cracks, holes and damaged areas and be sure to remove dust from the floors of your home in Victorville. Dust and other debris collected on the surface of your new Victorville home epoxy floor will result in an ugly final texture.

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