Just bought my first home, this is gonna be my first project. Appreciate your videos

Spot on. Seems easy but like most things - it’s not if you want to do it right.

My wife and I did my brand new 22X40 shop. Looks great. We went with Exterior Coatings. As a home owner and DIY person we figured out how to do it correctly. There is a ton of info out there. You make it sound like all home owners are POS’s. There is a reason that I do all my own projects. Contractors are to expensive and you never know what you will get. I was a millwright for 12 years. I am a journeyman machinist. I have worked in maintenance and fabrication all my working life. I consider my work better than most contractors. Don’t get me wrong your works is top notch. It’s just that I have had two shitty contractors do some work and I regret it.

@joeallen2286

2 ай бұрын

Brother, coming from local 102, we aren’t a normal home owners. I rent but, the owner usually asks me if I’d like to tackle the project on my own because he knows I’ll give maximum shits and enjoy doing the work.

@aaronmcleland4772

2 ай бұрын

I also found this video very condescending to homeowners. It's not necessarily the homeowners' faults that the information they get is almost all marketing. Why would an average person have any idea what 50% solids or 90% solids even means? For those who don't know better, the stuff at Home Depot or Lowe's is just what you buy. Then the instructions and data sheets intentionally oversell the product and make it seems like a piece of cake. What reason would an average homeowner have to NOT trust the instructions on a "trusted," well-known brand like Rustoleum? In the end I think all of it comes down to greed. The big box store versions like Rustoleum intentionally market these things as easy just to get people to buy it, knowing that if it fails, or comes out too thin, they'll just buy more and do it again. Why else would they say that a kit of less than 2 gallons could do 450-500 square feet? It's dishonest and they know it. Then the reason people turn to them in the first place is it seems that every contractor out there is trying to get rich now. Very very few contractors are doing quality, honest work at an honest price anymore. It's all about extracting maximum profit from every interaction. The result is guys with a huge boat house spending $10k on an epoxy floor while the "DIY class" is talked down to in videos like this and left to do things on their own with sub-par products. Heck I'd be willing to bet that most folks who can afford to pay contractors to do it have NO IDEA the contractors use a better product until the contractor tells them it's better in their OWN marketing pitch.

@deewilliams6129

Ай бұрын

You’re right. What arrogance! Do you think maybe he has an agenda and a bias? He’s saying, “Don’t do it yourself… since you can’t do it right. You have to hire a professional (like me).” For many of us, we can’t afford to hire pros and use top quality artisans. It’s a choice between doing it ourselves with economical products, or not doing it at all!!!

@ToxicKush333

18 күн бұрын

100% agree I like my work better then all the “contractors” I’ve hired. My grandpa and other old timers are really great at what they do but most people now days are just punch out crews tryna get in and out for a check. The shower we just had replaced bc of a leak was leaking again after replacing 😂😂😂 I was pissed I had to tell them how to lay tile how to hang doors and come back for the leaking shower. NEVER AGAIN! All bc my wife wanted to go with the “professionals” so it got done faster and I said fine but I’ll be here not wanting to say I told you so but still having to say it. 🤦‍♂️

Great video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Mike.

Thanks for your help!

Great video, Mike you are a great teacher. Love your enthusiasm. Nothing is easy! Have a great week!

@MikeDayConcrete

5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!

Well Done Mike and team .LOOkS fantastic

GRACIAS BRO and God bless you and YOUR family and HARD WORKIG CREW . i personal apreciate this detail information i kinda already new the whole process to do this but thank to you and comfirm i was right on the stemps to do the job right GRACIAS brother

Great job,I used to do alot of epoxy floors in the central coast i like the way you do the stem wall before hand ,thanks for the videos ,I'm thinking about getting back into it again.

@MikeDayConcrete

5 ай бұрын

Cool, thanks!

@Dubyea

5 ай бұрын

What is the stem wall? Is that the trim you run or the epoxy coat you run up almost as a Basebord?

Thanks for a great video and educational advice. What is a rough estimate per foot for jobs similar to this? To have professionally installed.

That's one helluva garage. Nice work 👏🏾

@MikeDayConcrete

5 ай бұрын

Appreciate it

I feel like floor will fail when professionals install it. Very hard to find someone who takes pride in what they do. All those reasons are basics. I installed 2 and now working on 3rd 100% solids with excellent results. Yes need helper, but I feel like I am getting better quality

Thank you

Great video. Thanks. I have a brand new 1400 square foot garage that I want to epoxy with chips. It's a smooth trowel finish. Do I need to etch it? It's 4 weeks since the pour. Thanks.

I have a moisture meter i use on surfaces like concrete or wood when I paint those surfaces. My brother in law had a contractor coat his garage floor down south (no snow or salt) and it failed twice already because they used the HD stuff. I told him I would come down and do it like you taught us on your videos but he's not interested.

Can you resolve the moister issue you talked about?

Profile the concrete by grinding or a light etching solution, power wash it real good, let it dry . roll out two-part solvent-based epoxy moisture barrier, let dry , roll out colored 2 part water based epoxy broadcast the flakes (there’s an art to this ) knock down the excess after it dries with a good floor scraper . Come back the next day & roll out a 2 part polyaspartic or polyurethane clear topcoat & done ✅ Pro tip : don’t waste your 2 part polyurethane sealer on the sidewalls ,you can use a single component acrylic wetlook on these . Only use the Poly on the part that is driven on.

It would’ve been great to give a brand name of the good stuff u use

If you shot blast and use a vb epoxy and build from there you'll be fine!

So honest question, why do folk usually grind the floor rather than shotblast it? Thanks great video

@brandocommando4459

Ай бұрын

Depending on the situation, it's just quicker (also depends on the size of blaster and grinder), grinders are easier to transport, and you don't need to pick up tiny beads everywhere. Also grinding will flatten out concrete crowns/imperfections, and can remove painted surfaces (which blasting will not). A pro to blasting is it's a slightly better prep, but damn you can leave some big wholes in the concrete if you're not experienced

Hey Mike, as far as metallic floors go, instead of using a vapor barrier primer and then a base coat of epoxy, could you use a single layer of polyaspartic to act as both the vapor barrier primer and base layer then lay down the metallic layer followed with the same polyapsartic for the top coat? Or would you recommend a primer, epoxy base layer, metallics layer, and top coat?

@bradleyhewitt9999

3 ай бұрын

You can get a tinted moisture vapor barrier epoxy primer that will work as the primer and base coat, then metallic, then polyaspartic. I've done it several times. People love to skip the barriers around here!!

do you run into off gasing often, and how do you deal with it?

@brandocommando4459

Ай бұрын

Typically only happens on the first coat to raw concrete. The next day you'll need to sand the hell out of it, and patch the wholes in. A way to get around it, is throw sand or flakes into the material and it will pop those bubbles.

That garage is twice the size of my house 😳

Great video! I'm in Florida and just started a concrete coatings company and would like to know if Deco Crete is good to use for a Vapor barrier base?. After watching most of your recent videos, you flake into an epoxy or poly base with poly topcoat. We are looking to do these in 1 day being able to flake right into the base coat but having some Vapor Barrier built in it, which seems like epoxy is the way to go? Any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks : )

@MikeDayConcrete

5 ай бұрын

E2U epoxy has vapor barrier in their epoxy base coat.

if you dont want to see me fail then dont let me do it

Why not just do an exposed aggregate garage floor instead of epoxy?

@jim5k

5 ай бұрын

Why would you want that

@DiscoFang

5 ай бұрын

Exposed aggregate is not a smooth finish, it's very rough - terrible for a garage. Are you meaning a polished concrete finish? (grinding off the surface to expose the aggregate stones but dead-smooth). That'd be an option but you'd still need to coat it. Epoxy is the coating not the flake finish - it seals and makes the floor durable and impervious to oils and staining. Clear epoxy over polished concrete is beautiful but you wouldn't get the raised baseboard edge look and protection of this floor.

@shanew7361

5 ай бұрын

@DiscoFang Yes and makes sense!

@VenturingSoul

3 ай бұрын

think about what your saying before you speak

Cuz they don’t *Grind*…

Those DIY kits are junk. People soak the heck out of everything with acid then water. No grinding at all. The first hot day and the paint transfers to their tires. Should be lawsuits about that stuff.

Debbie downer!

This chanel is all about advertisement, nothing more. Sory mate.

@MikeDayConcrete

5 ай бұрын

BS