Floor

It is almost summer 2019, which means we are going to redo our floor!

How? We don't know yet!

Options

Sudoroom is ~1500sqft. The entire bocce ball court is ~2800sqft.

• epoxy
• tile
• laminate
• linoleum

Epoxy

things to buy

• more nail shoes
• really nice squeegees

prep

• clear area
• vacuum
• scrape gum & shit off
• pressure wash or mop?
• let it dry
• grind/mill concrete down to the clean stuff
  • acid etching w/ clean-n-etch stuff?
  • rinsing?
• fill deep gashes w/cement or plaster or epoxy
• box in area with wood
• primer - soaks down, bonds with concrete (usually water based)
  • do we need the oil-stop kind? is there oil in our concrete?
• sand broadcast to prep for self-levelling stuff?

final

Types:

• solvent-based: doesn't like humidity, high VOC, unsafe indoors
• water-based: much lower VOC
• solids-based: no VOC, best but more expensive
• are they all 2-part? A+B (resin + hardener)?

Brands:

• Rust-O-Leum EpoxyShield (cheap at home depot, only 2 colors)
• Muscle Gloss (very expensive)

Methods:

• 1 base coat w/black paint, 1 top coat w/glitter? I love this video - they are using one of these products but method is probably similar for other brands
  • "normally 4.5 gallons would cover 700sqft of concrete, but sand absorbs it, you'll need 2-3x as much" (so ~9 gallons for sudo)
  • 1lb glitter per gallon of epoxy