Here’s one option for you - I did this on my garage floor and it removes EVERYTHING and I mean everything. The HEXPIN platter attaches to a normal floor polisher. You want to pick up a set of the TURBO CUT disks to attach to it. Your only problem is that if you are not careful your cement will get too smooth. Its strong enough that it will take the top layer of cement off. I had to hunt around for a while but I was finally able to find the whole setup at Home Depot in Yorba Linda, CA. I don’t know where you live, but … Anyway good luck!
Chipping the resin works by setting a sharp putty knife or chisel against the base of the epoxy then tapping with hammer, popps the epoxy off real good, the epoxy will bring a thin layer of cement with it but that can be evened out later, pm me, wear eye protection. A hand plane blade is a good broad chisel.
was the floor you cleaned with the hammers smooth or broom finish? we tried a hammer, and that chipped the concrete. its a broomed finish, and i think this means grinding is necessary. if its not, that would be wonderful!
Hi,
That was smooth finished, the floor in the garage. Plus it’s, oh, approaching fifty years old. Thinking about it, a rough broom finish might not be so cooperative. Is the epoxy fracturing or denting?
To patch chips, use a little portland cement, a little sand and a little slaked lime, recipe is on the portland cement bag. Wet the chipped concrete before you slap a little in there with a trowel or wide putty knife- then hit with a stiff coarse brush whn tis almost gone off. It’s prolly gonna come in handy.
hope that’s of use
doc…
Howzit doc, There's a product called Durarock that is just like cement but comes in a container whiich is smaller than a bag of cement. I have used it before nad it is rock hard after setting up, plus no need to add rock and sand, just add water. Aloha,Kokua
the epoxy kinda fractures and chips. the big mystery now, is why an angle grinder with a coarse wire attachment isn’t really taking down the epoxy. i’m hitting it with a ball peen hammer to separate it a little, and then grinding and that works ok, but it usually just gets parts of the spots. the epoxy doesn’t like coming out with the angle grinder, and it leaves a huge black smear wherever i use it, whether or not it actually removes anything. i haven’t figured out this phenomenon yet either. any ideas?
Chipping up the epoxy shouldn’t be gouging out the cement, if it is stop, popping the epoxy off should be like popping resin drips off an unmasked board surface, if its not popping off clean I think you’ll need to rotary surform or course sand it down to next sanding it down smooth with the concrete. On my garage floor the resin drips popped off real good but took the cement glaze with them leaving a slightly roupher blemmish than the surrounding cement glaze finish, that rouphness can be blended with muriatic acid, test first to make sure it looks good to the landlord, digging/chipping up the cement finish will be very hard to fill and blend.
Ah, okay, what’s happening is this. The stuff fractures with the ball pein, but what happens with the wire brush on the grinder is it’s just heating it up and maybe burning it a little. The ideal tool would be one of the pneumatic scalers they make, about a zillion little needles come out and punch away rust and such. But you don’t have one handy, I’ll bet, nor do I just this moment.
Now, what you can do is smack it to break it with the hammer, but all the stuff isn’t getting out of that texture on the concrete. So, you giotta get it loose. What I would use then is a brick chisel , using it as a scraper -
That might get the worst of the stuff broken loose from the concrete with the least damage. You’ll have to play with it a bit, to find out which works best, with the textrure, acrioss the texture or maybe a diagonal. One will work better, you can be sure of that.
That helping any?
Oh, and kokua, we have a similar product from the Sakrete people out here, I should have thought of that myself… but this was a cooking, bread making and such day here at Casa Doc today, plus cleaning the shop some where I ran across a bag of portland cement. I’ve seen that stuff used with pine tar to caulk really, really big seams in boats, which is almost creepy - caulking a boat with mud…
doc…
How the bejesus you managed to get 150 sq ft of area of resin on the floor I can’t imagine!!! I usually get most of the resin on the board…
But the question is’nt gonna help the fact of having to get it off!!!
I’d pay a range of the ideas the other guys have suggested, but at the end of the day they are all hard graft, so just perservere.
If the house is really due for demolition, I’d suggest the landlord is stirring you on the issue, but i’ve always tried to leave a place cleaner than I found it just to smooth over any potential dramas getting my bond back…
Josh
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If the house is really due for demolition, I’d suggest the landlord is stirring you on the issue, but i’ve always tried to leave a place cleaner than I found it just to smooth over any potential dramas getting my bond back…
werd. if your security deposit is one month’s rent, then just don’t pay for your last month. with only one month to go, it’s not nearly worth it to evict you for nonpayment. and besides, if the house is as crapped up as you say, there’s probably plenty of code violations. you could justify a withhold of rent for sub-standard living conditions.
boiling water, turps, Boiling turps?
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A friend and I glassed a couple of boards on our driveway. The problem is that we’re renting, and we made a bigger mess than intended. Now there are epoxy drips all over the concrete. The landlord is very angry and wants a new driveway. Naturally, we don’t want to buy him one, and would rather try a simpler, cheaper solution. I’m currently using a floor polisher with a carbide wheel to try and remove the epoxy, but its going very slow, and may not do the entire job. Does anybody have experience with this? Any good ideas? thanks in advance
chizzle and a rubber mallet or hammer…
i have to same problem at my house but its poly resin…
and you have to think, its my mom i’m dealing with here…
i’m afraid shes going to come into my room and castrate me… thats not good at all
my combo worked for me and hopefully it will work for you
aloha!*
-big rick
Howzit soulstice, The idea of not paying the last months rent could cause problems. Here in Hawaii a landlord cannot ask for first and last months deposit, but the security deposit can equal the same amount as a months rent. I have seen rental ads on the mainland that ask for first and last month rent plus a security deposit which I imagine can be quite expensive. If a person here tried to use the security deposit as a last months rent the landlord can charge a penalty plus a high daily rent rate until they actually pay the months rent. But this is Hawaii and poster of this thread doesn’t say what state he lives in so I don’t know their rental laws.Aloha,Kokua
lotsa loopholes in florida…always check your local landlord-tenant laws.
Howzit soulstice, Since I’ve been through this kind of thing before I know the Hawaii landlord/renters laws by heart. Went through a nightmare with a landlord years ago, he tried to charge us for the outside glass fixtures on lights that fell off due to the rusted screws holding them (normal wear and tear ) and even said we owed him for a sliding screen door, but he forgot there never was a one until I bought one. There were lots of things he tried to charge us for but in the end my lawyer friend straightened him out and we got most of the deposit back. Some landlords are just out to get your deposit any way they can. Aloha,Kokua
Flamethrower…
Oxyaceteline torch…