>Stinky for the first few months after being poured.
Hard to believe. It's a chemical reaction that takes hours, not like oil or alkyd where the solvent evaporates and continues to outgas for weeks.
> stinky
Ya, no, that’s bullshit. They may be off gassing deadly shit, but it doesn’t really smell bad, or of anything after it cures.
There's all kinds of epoxy coatings, and even if you narrow it down to the ones specifically made for floors there's a bunch of different types and systems made for different applications and qualities like chemical andv
related stain resistance, resistance to wear from scrubbing in food service areas, resistance to deformation under pressure from vehicles, ease of recoating. and so on. There's ungodly expensive two part epoxies that are practically bulletproof, and cheap one part water based epoxies sold at Walmart.
It's kind of like asking what we think about "wood floors"...totally depends on the location/use, type of wood, its quality, and how its installed.
> Bulletproof
Naw, that’s bullshit; I tried these many times over the decades, did the whole ‘etching’ process, parked outside for a month. First day I parked inside epoxy paint stuck to the tires and flaked off.
Another thing they don’t tell you is you have to overt it with UV resistant polyurethane. Otherwise you’re wasting your time.
Like I said, there's all different types of epoxy that you do t even know exist, and garage floors are only one application with very specific requirements.
Garage floor epoxy systems are also marketed as cheap quasi magical "solutions" to ugly/ stained existing floors and that simply isn't the only floor surface epoxy gets applied to.
100% solids epoxy is available with UV protection, just not at the consoomer hardware store marketed to diyers for prettying up the garage floor with muh roller.
The ideal reaction has a perfect stoichiometric ratio between the epoxide and nucleophile, but in reality the ratio will be off by a bit and you can have unreacted monomers or side-products which can slowly vaporize. Its the same deal with the expanding foam ceiling insulation, looks great in theory but any unreacted residue can be quite noxious for quite a while.
There's all kinds of epoxy coatings, and even if you narrow it down to the ones specifically made for floors there's a bunch of different types and systems made for different applications and qualities like chemical andv
related stain resistance, resistance to wear from scrubbing in food service areas, resistance to deformation under pressure from vehicles, ease of recoating. and so on. There's ungodly expensive two part epoxies that are practically bulletproof, and cheap one part water based epoxies sold at Walmart.
It's kind of like asking what we think about "wood floors"...totally depends on the location/use, type of wood, its quality, and how its installed.
mom wants to do it in our half-basement thing, I don't really give a shit, better than bare ass concrete
we might do tiles instead, it could literally end up cheaper
>"wood floors"
we /parquet/ in this shithole
it's fragile bullshit but I guess its nice to think about having real tree pieces on your artificial ass concrete even if it will disintegrate from 1 liter of water being spilled while laminate is 99% of it and cheaper
floors should be wood or concrete. if theyre inhabited by humans, then wood 100%. who the frick came up with this molten plastic shit that produces a ton of toxic garbage and looks gaudy as frick. jk, it was americans, of course.
Looks good when it's a big room that's well lit. Kind of a silly meme for most residential use unless you're rolling in money to have the space and complementary color scheme of the room. Commercial, good way to make a statement.
Oh, it depends. Sometimes, happy, sometimes sad, you know.
Not a fan myself but I saw one a few weeks ago that was done like a old Map of the world, that looked nice.
I'm skeptical.
>we
Stinky for the first few months after being poured.
If you drive onto it too early it'll peel up.
The vapor is bad to breathe.
>Stinky for the first few months after being poured.
Hard to believe. It's a chemical reaction that takes hours, not like oil or alkyd where the solvent evaporates and continues to outgas for weeks.
> stinky
Ya, no, that’s bullshit. They may be off gassing deadly shit, but it doesn’t really smell bad, or of anything after it cures.
> Bulletproof
Naw, that’s bullshit; I tried these many times over the decades, did the whole ‘etching’ process, parked outside for a month. First day I parked inside epoxy paint stuck to the tires and flaked off.
Another thing they don’t tell you is you have to overt it with UV resistant polyurethane. Otherwise you’re wasting your time.
Like I said, there's all different types of epoxy that you do t even know exist, and garage floors are only one application with very specific requirements.
Garage floor epoxy systems are also marketed as cheap quasi magical "solutions" to ugly/ stained existing floors and that simply isn't the only floor surface epoxy gets applied to.
100% solids epoxy is available with UV protection, just not at the consoomer hardware store marketed to diyers for prettying up the garage floor with muh roller.
The ideal reaction has a perfect stoichiometric ratio between the epoxide and nucleophile, but in reality the ratio will be off by a bit and you can have unreacted monomers or side-products which can slowly vaporize. Its the same deal with the expanding foam ceiling insulation, looks great in theory but any unreacted residue can be quite noxious for quite a while.
They start peeling off in small chunks after a few months.
I have epoxy river table ptsd
There's all kinds of epoxy coatings, and even if you narrow it down to the ones specifically made for floors there's a bunch of different types and systems made for different applications and qualities like chemical andv
related stain resistance, resistance to wear from scrubbing in food service areas, resistance to deformation under pressure from vehicles, ease of recoating. and so on. There's ungodly expensive two part epoxies that are practically bulletproof, and cheap one part water based epoxies sold at Walmart.
It's kind of like asking what we think about "wood floors"...totally depends on the location/use, type of wood, its quality, and how its installed.
mom wants to do it in our half-basement thing, I don't really give a shit, better than bare ass concrete
we might do tiles instead, it could literally end up cheaper
>"wood floors"
we /parquet/ in this shithole
it's fragile bullshit but I guess its nice to think about having real tree pieces on your artificial ass concrete even if it will disintegrate from 1 liter of water being spilled while laminate is 99% of it and cheaper
Unless they're the speckled kind for garage floors there's no point to get it over vinyl tile. Also they look like shit
floors should be wood or concrete. if theyre inhabited by humans, then wood 100%. who the frick came up with this molten plastic shit that produces a ton of toxic garbage and looks gaudy as frick. jk, it was americans, of course.
Looks good when it's a big room that's well lit. Kind of a silly meme for most residential use unless you're rolling in money to have the space and complementary color scheme of the room. Commercial, good way to make a statement.
Love it. Gonna do my garage with it
A gimmick. Looks horrible as furniture too.