Checkerboard Floors and Collector Cars Look Great Together
You'll take the checker flag every time when you show off your collector cars on a checkerboard floor.
Now the Internet can get you complete quotes with step-by-step instructions on how to put down the checkerboard floor you have always dreamed of. By being artistic, you can make concrete floors develop character and give you easy maintenance. All too often collectors fail to take full creative advantage of their facilities largest single surface, their floors. Epoxy coatings can not only give you the ease of maintenance associated with a class III laboratory floor surface but great individualized looks as well.
Your project will start by measuring your floors, length and width. Then decide on the size and color of the squares that you want. 24" x 24" squares will be less work than 12" x 12" and will not give that tile look. The color can be traditional black and white, but if you have a blue car, dark blue might be the answer. Naturally, if you're going to do the work to achieve a custom checkerboard floor you want it to last. Just as with that glowing car finish, we all know that it is prep, prep, and prep that make the difference between a good job and a great job.
Ever notice how when you walk across concrete in your socks they get all dusty on the bottoms. That's because concrete continuously deteriorates and breaks apart leaving the garage dusty like your socks. A few dips of oil on concrete might still be seen years later as the oil soaks into porous concrete. But if you seal the floor with an epoxy coating that adheres well to the concrete because your prep job was good, you can just wipe off oil, gas, and dirt with a rag. You can hose out and squeegee that garage floor to a clean shiny surface in minutes.
Your prep should include a high alkaline cleaner used with a rotary scrubber and a black pad or stiff Nilo grit type concrete brush. Your prep should include a high alkaline degreaser to bring the pH of the floor up to nearly 12 as it removes the left over adhesive and contaminants. Then you shock the concrete and contaminants into letting go by switching to scrubbing with an acidic cleaner containing water softeners, detergents, and rinse agents that bring the floor down to a pH of 3.5. This jump in pH will force contaminants and vulnerable cement particles to release from the floor. The acidic cleaner also opens the floor up to allow the epoxy top coats to create a strong long-lasting bond. A final scrub rinse and the floor is ready to dry and start accepting repairs and artistic coloring.
First you should coat the entire floor with two coats of your light color. You can screen between coats with your scrubber to remove any sand, bugs or contaminants that fell into the first coat. Next pull a chalk line diagonally through the widest part of your floor to set your pattern. Now lay down any size template squares side by side in two rows along the chalk line, and remove every other one. Using blue tape, place paper that is cut one inch smaller than your templates, setting them in the open squares. Tape the paper masking down with blue tape and move on. Once complete, you just walk on the paper and use a roller and brush to fill in the open squares. Note that for best results, brush from the tape towards the center to avoid getting epoxy leaking under your tape. One coat of your dark color should be sufficient. Once you have filled in all the open squares with your dark color be sure to remove the tape and masking paper. You don't want to glue that tape to your floor.
Durall Industrial Flooring supplies kits of materials including checkerboard templates in 24" x 24" size that are customized to owner specification and delivered directly to the job site. Kits include full directions and 24/7 help lines staffed by seasoned flooring experts, so professionals and amateurs alike can successfully install a quality floor.
Web visitors can obtain free, job-specific quotes on materials or nationwide turnkey installations by completing a simple questionnaire at http://www.concrete-floor-coatings.com.
For high-resolution photo examples, visit: http://www.concrete-floor-coatings.com/photos/checkerboard
For more information, contact Harvey Chichester at: harvey@concrete-floor-coatings.com Phone: 1-800-466-8910 or 952-888-1488 (24/7)
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Harvey Chichester is a well published principal of Durall Industrial
Flooring, a company with more than 40 years experience in developing
special flow-coatings for industrial and residential floors.
Automotive and shopping centers, breweries, food processing plants,
manufacturing plants, airplane hangars, car washes, kennels,
warehouses, printing plants, residential basements, pool decks, and
condominiums are among some of the facilities in which he has
installed floors. See http://www.concrete-floor-coatings.com for
online information about Durall and its products.
During his tenure, Durall's team of chemists has produced continual
improvements to over 500 products, including the acclaimed Dura Seal
and Dura Poxy lines of epoxy floor coatings. Harvey has managed
installations in all 50 states, 5 Canadian provinces, and 7 countries.
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