Consider getting a pop up tent for the work area if you know you’re going to work in the sun like that. Easy up, a couple of stakes in the ground. After that its portable shade.
For the sand, talk to the guys at Stone Hard floors. They have a machine that spreads the grit and also use some spikes that’s go over your shoes so you can walk on it as you spread and sand it.
You guys pay attention to all the details. That's some of the stuff other contractors won't do. I would love for you guys to build my house. Great job thanks for sharing
Actually they aren't. Should be using 18" rollers and wearing spiked shoes. Never showed if he sealed it or not. If its not then guaranteed to yellow in the sun being exposed to UV rays.
Haha, you took Matt's "whaa-psh!" sign-off, love it. As others suggested, a seed spreader/broadcaster is a great idea for spreading sand; it's basically a little roundabout wheel that propels the material loaded (can be fertilizer, seeds, seed gravel, and so on) a fair distance, and rather evenly, too. I'd also suggest bringing a basic tent, or even just a tarp with some stakes and some posts, to cover the mix station with shade and prevent it from heating up unduly.
I drilled a hole in the outlet of my backpack blower, epoxy a barbed fitting in the hole with 5/16 clear hose in the bucket of sand and it is a sand blower,sucks the sand at consistant rate. worked great and super glued a rubber plug in the hole when done. try it, it works.
This is exactly what I was thinking. A venturi fed system with the leaf blower would work consistent. You could get a valve of some sort to adjust the flow rate on the go. Same concept of an air brush, but with a lot more flow. You could also use an air hose with a big nozzle and the same venturi sand fed system.
I had the same idea. Although if you are going to put the Barb in your blower, you could probably put a ball valve on it so you can close the thing when you don't need to blow sand. That might also allow you to meter exactly how much sand you want to pull.
@Texas Barndominiums I work for a commercial coatings manufacturer and our installers use modified leaf blowers to apply the texture and anti slip aggregate. A funnel is attached to the top of the blower output tube, more or less a gravity fed hopper.
Actually Erik you should apply your sealer in the evening time. You see concrete breathes with temperature change. Morning time to the height of the day temperature, the concrete is exhaling, pushing air out of itself. Applying primer or sealer during this time, can cause bubbles to form of small pinholes in your primer/sealer coat. During the evening time, after the high temperature of the day and when the temperatures began to fall, the concrete now begins to Inhale, bringing air back into itself, thus bringing your primer/sealer deeper into the concrete, making for a tighter bond and better seal to the concrete surface. Prep should also be followed by either SSPC SP13 or ICRI 310.2R and use the CSP Comparator blocks to ensure that your prep is where it should be at fir the coating system being used. Glad to see that you are using grinding as your method of surface preparation. That is your foundation of your coating system.
I know I'm three years late but this is my first time viewing this video however I just wanted to add to the comments in the event you guys happen to be without a blower on a job another option for spreading sand maybe that squeegee you guys use the foam one... Apply a generous amount of the sand on one end and pull it over the floor kinda like the way the Japanese do in their gardens. Thanks for the content.
When you're mixing the epoxy add the sand to the mix that way you can always use the same amount on every batch. I've done this to paint before I'm wooden decks they had steep ramps in order to keep them from being slippery and work great
You guys do a good job. I work in a slaughter plant, flooring contractors come in on the weekend, put down the epoxy and then lots of sand, way too much usually, not enough sometimes, then the sanitation guys wash it down before they should. Chaos at it's best. Seen some nice coatings and I have seen some bad. If too slick production calls maintenance and we have to grind some crosshatching into slick portions to keep people from falling. Leaf blower great, but it would blow grit everywhere in plant, quality assurance in plant wouldn't like that, nor usda. Like I have said our biggest problem is sanitation wanting to wash floors which are not ready. Old boss called them weapons of mass destruction. Ha
I have used some guys in the past and they use one of those battery operated fertilizer/seed spreader, and shoes with spikes and it has been consistent.
The blower was a good idea. With some practice on broadcasting by had it becomes more consistent. Placing in a bucket and don’t drop it on the surface, broadcast by getting a handful and toss it up and away and underhand and let it release out of your hand palm facing up. Broadcast as you go. For larger areas, stop broadcasting before you get to the guys who are rolling or you will have roller marks if you continue to broadcast up to where they are rolling. The difference in color is due to the pigment settling down to the bottom of the bucket so premix the part A before breaking it down or one batch may have more pigment(color) than the other if you are splitting the kits for each application. Also when rolling, they can roll in both directions, cross roll... after rolling a section vertically, go over it horizontally... and get some cleats so that they can step in the material and roll their way out. Great videos I love watching and learning.
Saw something the other day on a job where they were coloring and stamping. Guy put the color in a mesh beach bag and shook it out like a flour sieve. It came out smooth like powered sugar
Eric, the leaf blower was brilliant. It will probably shorten the life of the motor but hey...getting consistent sand coverage on large areas is worth a leaf blower or two. I have to eventually replace a small shed in our back yard and all your videos are inspiring me. As I watch your vids, my girlfriend is getting a little worried about my plans as they evolve... :)
You're good in front of the camera. Great delivery. Good video and job results. That must be some house. I thought it was a industrial type building at first.
This is freaking amazing work! I can't believe I didn't subscribe sooner (or rather, keep on being subscribed - I cleared most of my subscriptions a couple weeks ago). This is the kind of thing an INFJ like me loves to watch! Thank you for putting out this content!
Always use the spike shoes, and always grind. At least that’s what we do. We always grind our concrete first and if we are coating with epoxy we use 16 grit and depending on the hardness of the concrete will determine exactly which diamonds I use. You can also use a polymer that you mix with the A and just apply. It doesn’t take away the shine and it’s clear. Stay safe.
I really like this. I would like to get my patio done like this but with a mixture of earth tone colors instead of one. Brown, green, gold, red, black etc.
I have a bag seeder I use for my lawn, I also have one I use for winter spreading salt and sand. I say bag but it is actually a large plastic tank instead of bag. You can not fill it to the top but it just may be the easiest way for you or your guys to spread sand for these floors, if you have one give it a try and see if it will work.
Was thinking a sandblaster or a leaf blower/bagger with a pickup for bagging leaves. Use the leaf pickup to feed the sand. Used to do asphalt seal coating and used to have to sand traffic lanes before stop signs. We even mixed it with the product and sprayed the sealcoat. Never really found a great way.
I predicted you might use a leaf blower I thought there might be some funnel or Hopper involved also interesting to see how outdoor epoxy is done, I was wondering about the UV resistance nice to know about the Polly BTW I did my 600 square foot garage epoxy job a while back I guarantee you it took me a whole lot longer then one day and that was one huge job you guys did there if you don't know already, Rust-Oleum makes a two-part epoxy in gray color and roughly a pint-sized batches very thick works good to fill cracks on concrete surfaces Sands up real well too stay cool :-)
You did kinda what I was thinking. I would add a modified broadcast seeders at the air intake of the leaf blower. This would help with a more consistent sand feed.
to spread the grit /sand material more evenly try using a handheld fertilizer distributor usually found in gardening. it may work! Like Scotts handheld spreader.
Have you tried a sandblaster? Someone may have already suggested it, sorry if I'm a repeat. After I posted this, that is when you told us about using the blower. But I still think a sand blaster may offer more control, but that would also mean another set of tools. So, the blower is already on hand, may as well use that.
I glued a seed spreding hopper to a leaf blower. Would be a good investment for you to buy a replacement tube for your leaf blower just to make something like that considering the amount of floors you do. Also works awesome for spreading poison on the garden.
Small cordless blower, put a bit of PVC pipe on the end get a ball valve and attach a funnel onto it like a hopper , then you can load up the funnel with the grit and adjust how much material comes out.
To blow out the sand, use a sprinkler system like what farmers use and greenhouses use. The beauty of such a system is that you can have as many sprinkler heads on a pole as you like and the pole can be the width of the area your working on. If the area is small enough, the pole with sprinkler heads should be light enough to be held by hand but when the area gets bigger, all you need to do is attach rope from ceiling beams to support the sprinkler pole and use it like a pully system where the pole is mounted on rollers, someone pulls on a rope attached to the sprinkler pole to move it across the surface. The whole system is attached to an air compressor that pushes out the sand from the sprinkler pole. Think of the principle of fire sprinkler systems in buildings, they are evenly spaced to they cover the whole area of a room. You just do the same thing but with sand and an air compressor.
Why not use a pressure washer for the cleanup, with a rotary nozzle. Probably one of my favorite tools to prep floors for epoxy provided it isn't too green of concrete. As for texturing, I run a sand blaster to just cast it lightly in the air and have it land. You can vary the pressure and the media flow to suit your needs. Lower pressure with a higher media rate can get a lot covered very quickly. Another option if you do not have on site power is a mulching blower like what Stihl makes, you just draw from a bucket and slowly addv in the media
If you used Apoxsee squeegees, and 24 inch rollers. You could probably do it in one coat. You also need shoe spikes. To be able to walk on top of the wet Apoxsee. And you can be more consistent by doing it with your hand.when you use shoe spikes you can walk on the wet Apoxsee.The Apoxsee squeegees, Is what gives you a more even coat.And the 24 inch rollers come give you a better finish look.Plus it’s quicker!
They have special boots with nailpoints on the bottom so you can walk around on top of wet epoxy. Nailpoints fill in by themselves if the epoxy is wet.
@@charlesgraham843 but they could easily apply grit any way they wanted, even in adverse wind conditions. Also, let's be honest, if you're doing epoxy and don't have those boots, what do you do it something goes wrong, or if you're doing interior? Color blends also make those boots necessary as well. Not every person wants a solid color floor.
was thinking maybe a shop vac on reverse but unless its a heavy duty model with metal blades, sand will probably eat the plastic. If you keep using the leaf blower would make sure to keep the sand away from the in take. it will screw the plastic fan up and the bearings if it even has any. Was also thinking about the seed throwers but then you kind of end up with crescent patterns in the sand. Maybe install some kind of trickle feed into the leaf blower. Only good example i can think of is if you cut a hour glass in half and stick the small end of the hour glass into the neck of the blower. and you will have to stick the glass in at a angle facing out of the blower because you will get back pressure and no sand will come out because the wind will just keep pushing the sand into the small tube/pipe
The last few coatings I saw done around here (Bowie County Texas) were covered completely with sand, swept, then the next coat. I like the blower idea! But jeez, use a cheap Harbor Freight blower instead of ruining that Milwaukee throwing sand through it!🥺
Its no fun slip-falling on painted concrete. Next door neighbor had painted carport floor, took me down twice. Lightning fast boom body slams & instant tunnel vision concussions. One of her friends fell there and became a guest for a month or so from her injuries. I'm paranoid now when its raining and I see painted concrete & haven't bought shoes without making sure they have some kind of grippy bottoms since.
Handheld seed spreader. I use it for rock salt on the winter here also. Just need to dial in the size to really small.
I was thinking the same thing. Handheld seed broadcaster.
Yes. Same thought @6:15 into viewing.
Yea I was thinking a fertilizer spreader with the flow set very low
Yes I use a hand held spreader with a rotary crank and it really spins the blades and puts out an even spread
Yup, same thought
Consider getting a pop up tent for the work area if you know you’re going to work in the sun like that. Easy up, a couple of stakes in the ground. After that its portable shade.
Yes, poor Leroy did not sound happy, being the only person working and all. A wee bit of shade might have cheered him up... Well maybe not.
For the sand, talk to the guys at Stone Hard floors. They have a machine that spreads the grit and also use some spikes that’s go over your shoes so you can walk on it as you spread and sand it.
Paul why sand ?
You guys pay attention to all the details. That's some of the stuff other contractors won't do. I would love for you guys to build my house. Great job thanks for sharing
Actually they aren't. Should be using 18" rollers and wearing spiked shoes. Never showed if he sealed it or not. If its not then guaranteed to yellow in the sun being exposed to UV rays.
Thank you. You just convinced me to hire out my porches...
Haha, you took Matt's "whaa-psh!" sign-off, love it. As others suggested, a seed spreader/broadcaster is a great idea for spreading sand; it's basically a little roundabout wheel that propels the material loaded (can be fertilizer, seeds, seed gravel, and so on) a fair distance, and rather evenly, too. I'd also suggest bringing a basic tent, or even just a tarp with some stakes and some posts, to cover the mix station with shade and prevent it from heating up unduly.
Matt who?
@@cbalano Demolition Ranch/VetRanch/OffTheRanch UA-camr, aka Demolition Matt aka Matt Carriker.
Leaf blower....improvise...adapt..overcome! Gunny Highway style, thanks for making these videos.
I drilled a hole in the outlet of my backpack blower, epoxy a barbed fitting in the hole with 5/16 clear hose in the bucket of sand and it is a sand blower,sucks the sand at consistant rate. worked great and super glued a rubber plug in the hole when done. try it, it works.
This is exactly what I was thinking. A venturi fed system with the leaf blower would work consistent. You could get a valve of some sort to adjust the flow rate on the go. Same concept of an air brush, but with a lot more flow. You could also use an air hose with a big nozzle and the same venturi sand fed system.
Ditto
I had the same idea.
Although if you are going to put the Barb in your blower, you could probably put a ball valve on it so you can close the thing when you don't need to blow sand. That might also allow you to meter exactly how much sand you want to pull.
@Texas Barndominiums I work for a commercial coatings manufacturer and our installers use modified leaf blowers to apply the texture and anti slip aggregate. A funnel is attached to the top of the blower output tube, more or less a gravity fed hopper.
Actually Erik you should apply your sealer in the evening time. You see concrete breathes with temperature change. Morning time to the height of the day temperature, the concrete is exhaling, pushing air out of itself. Applying primer or sealer during this time, can cause bubbles to form of small pinholes in your primer/sealer coat. During the evening time, after the high temperature of the day and when the temperatures began to fall, the concrete now begins to Inhale, bringing air back into itself, thus bringing your primer/sealer deeper into the concrete, making for a tighter bond and better seal to the concrete surface. Prep should also be followed by either SSPC SP13 or ICRI 310.2R and use the CSP Comparator blocks to ensure that your prep is where it should be at fir the coating system being used. Glad to see that you are using grinding as your method of surface preparation. That is your foundation of your coating system.
I take my hat off to you Erik!!! Very creative solution on the sand distribution!!!!
Thank you
that is such a clever idea with the leaf blower to apply the sand, it looks super consistent and even...really clever
You should use Shark-Grit it’s a polymer grit that you mix into your floor coating. It stays suspended in the product and doesn’t sink.
Great presentation! This whole demo was done perfectly! Thank u! You guys did a beautiful job!
I have been painting floors for 8 years and if you want to talk ideas I’m game. Your doing a great job.
Hello Sir if possible I would like to ask a few ideas/pointers on a upcoming job I have if your available
We used a hopper in the past with good results....smallest orifice and consistent air pressure.
I know I'm three years late but this is my first time viewing this video however I just wanted to add to the comments in the event you guys happen to be without a blower on a job another option for spreading sand maybe that squeegee you guys use the foam one... Apply a generous amount of the sand on one end and pull it over the floor kinda like the way the Japanese do in their gardens. Thanks for the content.
When you're mixing the epoxy add the sand to the mix that way you can always use the same amount on every batch. I've done this to paint before I'm wooden decks they had steep ramps in order to keep them from being slippery and work great
You guys do a good job. I work in a slaughter plant, flooring contractors come in on the weekend, put down the epoxy and then lots of sand, way too much usually, not enough sometimes, then the sanitation guys wash it down before they should. Chaos at it's best. Seen some nice coatings and I have seen some bad. If too slick production calls maintenance and we have to grind some crosshatching into slick portions to keep people from falling.
Leaf blower great, but it would blow grit everywhere in plant, quality assurance in plant wouldn't like that, nor usda. Like I have said our biggest problem is sanitation wanting to wash floors which are not ready. Old boss called them weapons of mass destruction. Ha
I have used some guys in the past and they use one of those battery operated fertilizer/seed spreader, and shoes with spikes and it has been consistent.
Custom Portable Shade can be had with a 10'x10' folding Gazebo. Bo.
The blower was a good idea. With some practice on broadcasting by had it becomes more consistent. Placing in a bucket and don’t drop it on the surface, broadcast by getting a handful and toss it up and away and underhand and let it release out of your hand palm facing up. Broadcast as you go. For larger areas, stop broadcasting before you get to the guys who are rolling or you will have roller marks if you continue to broadcast up to where they are rolling. The difference in color is due to the pigment settling down to the bottom of the bucket so premix the part A before breaking it down or one batch may have more pigment(color) than the other if you are splitting the kits for each application. Also when rolling, they can roll in both directions, cross roll... after rolling a section vertically, go over it horizontally... and get some cleats so that they can step in the material and roll their way out. Great videos I love watching and learning.
Always an education. Thanks Brando! Great Crew.
Use a hand held spreader typically use for feeding lawns. Scotts makes a good one.
Saw something the other day on a job where they were coloring and stamping. Guy put the color in a mesh beach bag and shook it out like a flour sieve. It came out smooth like powered sugar
Eric, the leaf blower was brilliant. It will probably shorten the life of the motor but hey...getting consistent sand coverage on large areas is worth a leaf blower or two. I have to eventually replace a small shed in our back yard and all your videos are inspiring me. As I watch your vids, my girlfriend is getting a little worried about my plans as they evolve... :)
I really dont know much about the stuff you do but i really be learning
You're good in front of the camera. Great delivery. Good video and job results. That must be some house. I thought it was a industrial type building at first.
You make me want to move to texes to work with you .then build one for myself .great work
This is freaking amazing work! I can't believe I didn't subscribe sooner (or rather, keep on being subscribed - I cleared most of my subscriptions a couple weeks ago). This is the kind of thing an INFJ like me loves to watch! Thank you for putting out this content!
I am also an INFJ and I agree with you 100%.
Good job Erik! Epoxy coatings are a lot of work to do them right. Yours came out looking awesome 👌
Thank you for posting.
It looks awesome. Very nice.
Always use the spike shoes, and always grind. At least that’s what we do. We always grind our concrete first and if we are coating with epoxy we use 16 grit and depending on the hardness of the concrete will determine exactly which diamonds I use. You can also use a polymer that you mix with the A and just apply. It doesn’t take away the shine and it’s clear. Stay safe.
I really like this. I would like to get my patio done like this but with a mixture of earth tone colors instead of one. Brown, green, gold, red, black etc.
handheld fertilizer spreader work great for casing sand evenly !
The blower is a smart idea, what also works is a wide fertilizer spreader walk behind.
this is how we do it, we cover the floor 100% about 1/4 '' when epoxy dries sweep up sand , then finish coat(2nd)coat
Eric, looks nice. Maybe get Leroy a canopy for shade...
Great job Erik and for the information keep up the great work.Tony from Las Cruces NM
Hand held sand blaster. Small air compressor. Boom baby!
I have a bag seeder I use for my lawn, I also have one I use for winter spreading salt and sand. I say bag but it is actually a large plastic tank instead of bag. You can not fill it to the top but it just may be the easiest way for you or your guys to spread sand for these floors, if you have one give it a try and see if it will work.
Was thinking a sandblaster or a leaf blower/bagger with a pickup for bagging leaves. Use the leaf pickup to feed the sand. Used to do asphalt seal coating and used to have to sand traffic lanes before stop signs. We even mixed it with the product and sprayed the sealcoat. Never really found a great way.
Excellent teamwork.......Tejano. Style..........👍
I predicted you might use a leaf blower I thought there might be some funnel or Hopper involved also interesting to see how outdoor epoxy is done, I was wondering about the UV resistance nice to know about the Polly BTW I did my 600 square foot garage epoxy job a while back I guarantee you it took me a whole lot longer then one day and that was one huge job you guys did there if you don't know already, Rust-Oleum makes a two-part epoxy in gray color and roughly a pint-sized batches very thick works good to fill cracks on concrete surfaces Sands up real well too stay cool :-)
As for sand, a venturi action sandblast kit from harbor freight. Low psi on the compressor regulator.
You did kinda what I was thinking. I would add a modified broadcast seeders at the air intake of the leaf blower. This would help with a more consistent sand feed.
the floor looks great
Great job! Thanks
to spread the grit /sand material more evenly try using a handheld fertilizer distributor usually found in gardening. it may work! Like Scotts handheld spreader.
On the broadcast of aggregate, use a hopper gun for textured ceilings. Works great and it’s cheap. Just need air.
Have you tried a sandblaster? Someone may have already suggested it, sorry if I'm a repeat. After I posted this, that is when you told us about using the blower. But I still think a sand blaster may offer more control, but that would also mean another set of tools. So, the blower is already on hand, may as well use that.
Will this process work on concrete that had color added to the concrete. Having a Difficult time covering the Tera Cota color. Thanks
awesome job
I glued a seed spreding hopper to a leaf blower. Would be a good investment for you to buy a replacement tube for your leaf blower just to make something like that considering the amount of floors you do.
Also works awesome for spreading poison on the garden.
Like the shirts...👍 and yes that floor looks 👌
Grass seed spreader. Damn never thought about a leaf blower.
@7:40, he put the sand in the blower. Give him a Guinness. Genius!
😂
You can also use a hopper like the one you use for texture👍🏽
You should get a tent for your mixing station. Cheap and easy to set up
Agree that I would try a hand held grass seeder.
Awesome job, I need to price the grinder here in Cali. Looks awesome, great finishing touch.
Great work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Small cordless blower, put a bit of PVC pipe on the end get a ball valve and attach a funnel onto it like a hopper , then you can load up the funnel with the grit and adjust how much material comes out.
To blow out the sand, use a sprinkler system like what farmers use and greenhouses use. The beauty of such a system is that you can have as many sprinkler heads on a pole as you like and the pole can be the width of the area your working on. If the area is small enough, the pole with sprinkler heads should be light enough to be held by hand but when the area gets bigger, all you need to do is attach rope from ceiling beams to support the sprinkler pole and use it like a pully system where the pole is mounted on rollers, someone pulls on a rope attached to the sprinkler pole to move it across the surface. The whole system is attached to an air compressor that pushes out the sand from the sprinkler pole.
Think of the principle of fire sprinkler systems in buildings, they are evenly spaced to they cover the whole area of a room. You just do the same thing but with sand and an air compressor.
Looks great!
They make a hand crank garden seven duster. It’s used to blow seven dust on.
Great video! I would like to do this for my home. Would you kindly recommend the products\material
that you used here?
Why not use a pressure washer for the cleanup, with a rotary nozzle. Probably one of my favorite tools to prep floors for epoxy provided it isn't too green of concrete.
As for texturing, I run a sand blaster to just cast it lightly in the air and have it land. You can vary the pressure and the media flow to suit your needs. Lower pressure with a higher media rate can get a lot covered very quickly.
Another option if you do not have on site power is a mulching blower like what Stihl makes, you just draw from a bucket and slowly addv in the media
never used the blower,looks like it worked pretty good
You should try a hand held fertilizer sprayer for the sand application
If it's too hot would you do the sealer at night. Where do you want to do it first thing in the morning when it's at its coolest.
Try using a sand blaster. Play with the nozzle to get distance and pattern.
Con - will need a large volume air compressors on site.
You asked for a suggestion on how to throw the sand on the Apoxsee Maybe you can use a regular Landscaping hand spreader for the sand...
Try a textured ceiling hopper sprayer. You'd need to reduce the orifice size, though. The small hand-held kind that plug into a compressed air line.
Had a thought...how about utilizing a ceiling texture sprayer (they are cheap enough) to spread the silicates....I mean it is all texture right.
A hand held spreader for grass seed or fertilizer can spread it somewhat evenly..
If you used Apoxsee squeegees, and 24 inch rollers. You could probably do it in one coat. You also need shoe spikes. To be able to walk on top of the wet Apoxsee. And you can be more consistent by doing it with your hand.when you use shoe spikes you can walk on the wet Apoxsee.The Apoxsee squeegees, Is what gives you a more even coat.And the 24 inch rollers come give you a better finish look.Plus it’s quicker!
Hmm, what's wrong with pre-mixing the sand into the epoxy?
Just got our concrete down. Building our new barndominuim
Try one of these RYOBI 18-Volt ONE+ Cordless Power Spreader Model P2402
Great job.
🎉it’s perfect
What if you used a seed spreader like spreading grass seed. The type you hold up and spin it and it spreads the seed out a ways.
They have special boots with nailpoints on the bottom so you can walk around on top of wet epoxy. Nailpoints fill in by themselves if the epoxy is wet.
I don't think they are walking on the wet epoxy. They work away from the wet edge.
@@charlesgraham843 but they could easily apply grit any way they wanted, even in adverse wind conditions. Also, let's be honest, if you're doing epoxy and don't have those boots, what do you do it something goes wrong, or if you're doing interior? Color blends also make those boots necessary as well. Not every person wants a solid color floor.
what about using those seed spreaders for the sand ?
Could I do this when it’s cooler outside say 50-70 outside during daytime and 40s at night?
Used to use stuff called shark grip slip resistant additives and you just mix in with the epoxy
Try a spot sand blaster they have different orifice sizes and nozzle tips
Wow those are really nice just wondering if the get wet are they slippery?
Maybe a seed broadcaster could spread out the sand. Unless it's too fine, I don't know.
I had the same idea. I've seen a hand broadcaster used for glass bead grit in the past, but with #5 sand it may be too hard to control.
It is slippery when it rains Thank,
was thinking maybe a shop vac on reverse but unless its a heavy duty model with metal blades, sand will probably eat the plastic. If you keep using the leaf blower would make sure to keep the sand away from the in take. it will screw the plastic fan up and the bearings if it even has any. Was also thinking about the seed throwers but then you kind of end up with crescent patterns in the sand. Maybe install some kind of trickle feed into the leaf blower. Only good example i can think of is if you cut a hour glass in half and stick the small end of the hour glass into the neck of the blower. and you will have to stick the glass in at a angle facing out of the blower because you will get back pressure and no sand will come out because the wind will just keep pushing the sand into the small tube/pipe
Also i highly recommend you epoxy Matt's Demo HQ. i have a feeling he will be the stain master
The last few coatings I saw done around here (Bowie County Texas) were covered completely with sand, swept, then the next coat.
I like the blower idea! But jeez, use a cheap Harbor Freight blower instead of ruining that Milwaukee throwing sand through it!🥺
I feel bad for the impeller blades. Lost some cfms for sure.
can you mix it into each batch? use a handheld grass seed spreader and figure out the proper spreader setting for the desired consistency.
Have you tried adding nonslick in to you mix.
Yes, hard to get it consistent because it loads up more at beginning than at the end. Can see roller marks.
Popup tent for safe, Texas 101 there. Cool idea to epoxy pourch
Is this the same type of epoxy / process that you could put in a garage?
Try using a grass seeder the small one that u put on ur chest it works perfectly u can adjust the flow for more or less
What is the winter temperature there?
Sand to refusal. More sand and sweep up excess the next day it makes the area awesome
Its no fun slip-falling on painted concrete. Next door neighbor had painted carport floor, took me down twice. Lightning fast boom body slams & instant tunnel vision concussions. One of her friends fell there and became a guest for a month or so from her injuries. I'm paranoid now when its raining and I see painted concrete & haven't bought shoes without making sure they have some kind of grippy bottoms since.
Will you do work in another state.