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RE: Painting basement/workshop floors

To: "'Gil Fuqua'" <gfuqua@corpcomminc.com>, Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: RE: Painting basement/workshop floors
From: Ken Landaiche <ken_landaiche@dlcc.com>
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 16:46:03 -0700
I second Gil's comment about the sand. One great benefit of painting the
concrete floor is that cleanup is much easier. Adding sand makes
cleaning harder and unless one really needs the slip resistance doesn't
add to the finished product. I walked on my epoxied floor with some
pretty wet shoes during the winter rains and did not slip at all. 

Ken Landaiche
Sebastopol, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gil Fuqua [SMTP:gfuqua@corpcomminc.com]
> 
> 
> The only thing I would change in the process. I dusted the second coat
> of
> the wet epoxy with a very small amount of sand so that the floor would
> not
> be too slick.  I then painted over the sand with the top coat to seal
> it
> in.  This worked fine and the floor has a texture of light sandpaper
> and is
> not slippery.  However, the grit grabs everything, including dirt, the
> mop
> and paper or towel used to wipe up with.  It's like cleaning
> sandpaper.  In
> hindsight, I would leave off the sand treatment.
> 
> Gil Fuqua
> Nashville, TN
> 

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