We have to throw the chip immediately as we basecoat so it sticks. I assume the person/person’s throwing the 1/8” will have to wear the spiked shoes.
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Sadly, no. Just a lot of sweat.
Spiked shoes would dent worse. A piece of plywood or styrofoam bigger than the persons foot would be better, like a snow shoe.
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The spike shoes work for the topcoat as the holes it does leave behind are small enough they immediately get filled. When we use epoxy we have to have a guy rolling while wearing spikes to stand on it and chip it and we never had problems. We assume it’s because the white chip which is also finer showed the imperfections more.
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I laid floors from 1994 to 2009 and epoxy is an easier than most flooring job. Coving and hot seaming Corlon in hospitals sucks balls. We would pattern out the rooms and then cut them in the shop or outside. This material is so hard to cut unless you use a heat gun as you cut.
I miss huge vct jobs where we would use a standing trowel or back pack sprayer to apply the glue then get high as fuck until the glue tacked then we’d lay 50,000 sq ft a day 4 man crew.
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We use polyurea mostly unless a floor is extremely wet then we use epoxy. Both are extremely easy to work with. Especially if you cut the epoxy or poly with acetone.
We’ve never done VCT before. Maybe my boss has in the past, I will ask him next time I see him.
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I just saw this. Personally haven’t worked with metallics. And for grit topcoat it depends as for the grit we throw alum oxide on the topcoat right after we coat and not a whole not. It doesn’t make too much of a difference as the 1/4” chip provides the grip along with the 1/8” topcoat layer we put on.
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Our coves are flaking and peeling in our lab. Ive got to fix them before our next cGMP audit. I suppose ill get on those here soon. Ughh
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Hey all! If anyone is in the SWFL region shoot me a DM for an estimate, I have rental equipment for next weekend and a few jobs lined up so if you’re interested now is the time while I have the equipment on hand.
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Killing it. 
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Trying my best. Appreciate it brother.
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You figured out before a lot of people that the money in cannabis was dwindling. Learned a new trade and now hustling weekends to earn some extra bread. Soon enough if you keep grinding on the weekends possibly with other peoples equipment… you can save enough for your own equipment and start your own business.
Nothing wrong with learning a new useful trade! good luck. I like seeing shit like this!
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First floor down. Thanks to the help of my buddies its done. Even with my broken arm we got it done.
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Looks awesome 
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Thanks Killa. Means a lot.
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I like seeing a comeback story. Especially in another industry trying something new.
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Would you think that making epoxy flooring on treated wood boards and install them like click in vynyl tiles would be smart?
Do you think the flooring underneath if prepped properly and with some clever underlay that could potentially provide some chemical resistance and maybe even a chemical resistant clear top coat would be smart?
Like let’s say you’re renting and you want to do epoxy but your landlords want vinyl but you love the feeling of epoxy and want to do another round of it… Would making “floating epoxy panels,” be smart?
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I can try this with leftover vinyl flooring my mother has. I’ll attempt it when my arm heals and text you how it goes.
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Oh for real!!! 
Thank you man
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