Coating A MASSIVE Floor With Concrete Overlay..

0:01 All right, guys. So, we've already got a lot of done on this project, but I'm just going to go through a recap. We filmed all of it. This is a commercial project. It's 12,000 sq ft and we're doing our concrete overlay smooth finish floor and we're going to be staying in that. We've done videos like that. You guys have seen it, but this is a great system to do for projects like this. It creates the look of like a stained concrete floor. It's a really high-end look. We have a lot of different color options that you can do as well and it's and it's an extremely durable floor because even though it looks smooth, still has some texture to it and anything with a little bit of texture is going to give you a lot of durability and scratch resistance. We're going to be mixing out here, so we kind of have our mixing stuff set up. This is all the This is just for the first coat, all this product. So, all this product's going to be for the first coat. We're going to be doing two coats of our

0:47 texture coat. We're going to sand after the second coat. We're going to do one coat of our scratch coat. That's going to create the smooth floor and then we're going to come back. We're going to do a light stain on it and then we're going to do our water-based sealer on this three to four thin coats and then we're going to be doing a floor finish on it and that's how they'll maintain the floor. So, it's a really great process, really great system to do. And then obviously overlays when you're doing overlays exterior, you don't have to grind if it's broom concrete. Most exterior concrete is broom concrete. Reason we're grinding this is because it's hard trowel concrete. So, if this was a broom slab, we wouldn't have to grind it, but typically you're not going to find a broom slab interior. Almost all interior, all garages are going to be hard trowel, so you have to remove that cream layer to get down to the porous part of the concrete. >> Hey.

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6:16 [music] >> We're getting ready to stain. Um just recap on the stain. When you order a 5-gallon bucket of stain, you're going to have 3 gallons of stain base in there. You need to add 2 gallons of isopropyl alcohol. Make sure it's a 99% or higher. Uline sells it. Uh Ace sells them. So, you're going to add 2 gallons of that and then one of the stain pigments. That's basically going to make your stain color. We're doing dark gray, so we already made it. And then what we like to do after we mix the pigment in and get the isopropyl in, we pour into a new bucket and we strain that. That's going to get any any contaminants, any debris that's in there that's going to clog your sprayer. Always strain stain before you go to go to spray because if you're constantly having to stop and clean your tip out, it's going to be a pain in the butt. We're using an acetone sprayer. It's a Chapin. Best sprayers for doing really fine mists.

7:02 This is what this will do. It'll create a really fine mist on the floor versus a garden sprayer that's going to spray a lot more stain. So, it really depends on what look you're going for. If you want more of that antique look, not a lot of stain on the floor, a lot more modeling, you're going to want to use acetone sprayer. If you want a heavier stain, a darker floor, you can typically use just a garden pump-up sprayer. So again, we're using the acetone sprayers. Biggest thing is we don't want to spray a bunch on the plastic because it'll run down the wall and drip on the floor. If you get drips on the floor, it's almost impossible to get those drip marks out because it's a lot of stain that just sits there and soaks in. We'll probably do two coats. So, you'll see we'll lightly hit the floor, come back, and we'll probably spot hit the lighter spots, and then we'll call it good.

8:21 >> Hi guys, check it out. We got the stain down. We did two coats. First coat hit the floor. Second coat we just did a lighter hit on everything. Looks really even. Some spots um as you're going you can tell you maybe need to hit a little more. But you want to try to be even on that stain. Don't just like stay in one spot until you see it darker cuz it's going to be too dark. So sealer, simple. We're just using garden pump up sprayers. These bad boys right here. These are what we're using today. We like the Ace ones. These are similar to the Ace ones. Anything that's going to spray a nice fine mist um and you can get like two and a half, three, three and a half gallons. Um especially on something like this, get a couple of those going. So the the typically again on a on a this system we would do our urethane. We would do two coats of urethane because the overlay's porous, it's going to soak up the first coat, second coat, that's

9:07 going to give you your strength and durability. Time crunch on this project so we're not able to do two days extra and so we're using our water-based sealer. So we're going to do three to four thin coats depending on how it soaks in and then we're going to be doing a an acrylic floor finish over that. That's going to be the sacrificial coat. So that's the process.