So this is my bathroom right now.
I would like to put in a epoxy floor ( or something similar).
I couldn't care less if the resulting floor is the most perfectly straight floor in existence.
Can somebody give me a quick run down of the process and general feasibility?
My plan would be this:
fill up that hole with sand or gravel and put something like a 10+ cm section of concrete on top so it's flush with the current floor.
Current floor is very old tiles, i guess.
They're more akin to flat bricks.
Best case scenario would be that i just dump allot of epoxy on top to i have something like a 2 cm pool that self levels.
When I look this up i mostly get told that this is basically impossible.
the proper workflow would be this:
Fill up the hole. Use insane amounts of epoxy filler to create a perfectly level floor. Use some sort of epoxy floor primer. Use some special adhesion enhancing compound and then put on the actual epoxy floor compound.
I feel like they just want to shill me products.
But honestly I don't know.
Fill the hole like you said then just use some self levelling screed. Epoxy over the top of that.
nice, that sounds reasonable
and thanks to you too,
this will finally be the quality content my youtube channel needs !
Just make the epoxy river floor bro, I already made you a thumbnail
Doing it yourself SUCKS.
The fumes really got to me.
A1 respirator filter works for epoxy fumes. Been there.
Look up a product called Ardex
I do polymer floors professionally
You want to put in the concrete and then grind the floor as smooth as possible
Then you need a thickened epoxy spread with a notched squeegee at least 10 mils thick (the squeegees will tell you how many mils they put down at) load your roller and back roll smooth
If you have any bubbles, sand smooth and fill the tint holes that created the bubbles with cheap latex caulking or anything that dries fast that's thick enough to hold your next coat from making more bubbles
Then, you need to do another layer of epoxy something like 20mils thick. You can use a gauge rake or if you can find a proper 20mil squeegee, use that.
Make sure this coat is slow curing epoxy so it levels out
From there, you'll probably need to roll on a coat with non-skid (unless the whole floor will be covered with rugs) or the floor will be stupid dangerous when wet
You want 100% solids epoxy so you don't get outgassing (bubbles)
And that will mean any bubbles on the prime coat are pin holes in the concrete which is why you need to plug them.
To thicken the prime coat, you can use some cabosil or extender T or fine paper fiber. You want it to be as thick as cheap fake syrup. It needs to settle itself out but not so quick you get so many bubbles. It shouldn't take much thickener, but without the thickening agent, you'll have 1000 bubbles
The pic is what your squeegee for your second coat needs to be if you want any chance at getting it smooth
It'd be way easier to throw plastic down and put LVT on top of it
thanks for the indepth infos.
that actually does sound like epoxy isn't the right approach here.
I think I'll start by filling int he hole and cleaning the floor properly.
Would that polymer suit outdoor use on a steel roof? I've a shipping container (next time I'll buy another one-trip not WWT garbage) I'd like to coat once and have last twenty years.
Pour self leveling concrete over everything, then add your floor
This but fill everything deep with regular concrete first