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If you have read up on garage floor paint at all, you will know that one thing remains very consistent between the different directions of the various garage floor coatings. The floor has to be extremely clean. Different manufacturers’ and experts’ opinions vary on if you can paint over existing paint by just cleaning it, or if it needs to be stripped down to the concrete. The purpose of this article is to help you decide if it’s time to clean the garage floor for your epoxy garage floor coating. Cleaning unnecessarily is not harmful, but it is not particularly necessary. As always, be sure to check your garage floor epoxy kit’s directions for any additional steps.

Do You Have A New Concrete Garage Floor?

One of the first things to consider is the age of your concrete garage floor. If new, you have to wait. Putting chemicals on new concrete is not a good idea. Wait at least 30 days before you even think about cleaning, and definitely before applying epoxy garage floor paint.

What’s The Weather Look Like, Ollie?

Is it forecast to rain within the next 24 hours? Rain increases humidity, which will cause the epoxy garage floor paint to not dry correctly. Will your garage flooring be ruined if it dribbles on hour 23? Probably not. However, why take the chance if the rain is already in the forecast?

Temperature Matters Too

You should also be aware of the temperature. In some areas, this is particularly bad. Experts suggest that you not put down epoxy garage floor paint when the temperature rises above 90 degrees, or drops below 55 degrees Fahrenheit. 89 degrees is probably okay as long as the floor itself does not feel hot. However, going too low can be bad because you can bet that if it’s 55 degrees in the air, then your concrete is cooler, and that could be a problem. Do not push the envelope; there is no point. You will be doing a lot of hard work, so do not do anything that will mess it up before you even start.

Is The Floor Ready To Be Cleaned?

If any of these problems exist, do not bother cleaning your garage floor. Seriously, it is not worth it, just go find something else to do, because otherwise you will just be cleaning it again once the problem clears up. Between sweating stains, humidity, dust, and whatever might come off your cars, the floor will not be remotely clean within 72 hours of cleaning it. However, if everything looks good, you can move on to cleaning your garage floors.

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I can bet you have seen quite a number of epoxy flooring with bubbles on them. The size of bubbles varies a lot, from an inch in diameter to as small as pinhead. You can find them in groups or scaterred around the floor. This is usually due to a phenomenon called ‘out gassing’. And it happens when the epoxy begins to dry up. Because the temperature rises, air is hotter and it expands into a bubble under the epoxy coating.

To prevent bubbles being formed in epoxy floors application of a primer is recommended. Also never apply the coating in direct rays of the sun and always use a drill of a slower speed when mixing the coating.

Use medium roller if you already decided to use one. You need to take care how you apply the epoxy, make slow, gentle motions. This will be helpful in preventing bubbles from being formed in epoxy coatings.

You can use rotary scrubber ans some sandpaper to remove all those bubbles on your epoxy floor. Use some sandpaper to roughen the bubbled area as a first step. Then scrupulously clean the dust. Then with a rag wipe the surface area with a strong solvent. After this another coating can be applied. Fisheyes is another type of bubbles that can occur. One of the reasons is the silicone that remained on the surface.

This can be cleaned by scrubbing the surface area with sandpaper of a medium grit. When you are finished with this, you can clean the entire place with solvent dipped rag. Now you can apply that epoxy coating you prepared for the session.

Consider shot blasting or sand blasting the entire epoxy coating in case the bubbles are spread all over that floor. You will need to sand blast the entire area of epoxy coating first. Afterwards clean the problem area with acid. You can isolate the entire area, in case it is rather small. Repair the area and then apply the coating again.

The moisture is one more reason why bubbles appear in our epoxy garage floors. To verify this break one of the blisters thus formed and see if there is any moisture inside.

In case you are thinking how hard it is to repair those epoxy floors, stop it right now. There are plenty of people who find this job quite hard. In case you have a handyman skills, you can do this task without blinking. You can easily repair your epoxy garage floor. The truth is, we can all do this if we try.

Get some epoxy repait kits from the local home improvement store, or have them delivered to you from some internet store. You will be given a complete package and it would contain everything that you need to repair your epoxy floor.

There would be epoxy patches included, and they would be the ones you have to put on the damaged areas. You can use these repair kits on all floor types, no matter what kind of traffic that floor gets.

Epoxy paint applied on your concrete surface will easily be repaired. It is a biggest reason so many people like to have this covering option for their floor. Applying epoxy paint on your floor takes a bit more time, but making necesary repairs is not that troublesome at all.

You should not braek the tiles or concrete just to fix the epoxy paint that is on them, that is not necessary. It is possible for this to happem with ceramic tiles, but not with epoxy paint. The process of repair is so easy you can do it yourself. I am sure you will not have to hire a handy man to to this job for you, mix the solvents and apply epoxy paint on the area that is damaged.

After you read all the information on the label, you can start with the work. It’s best to buy branded kits and use the products that are odor-free so you can apply them with easy. One more great thing is that a repair kit will dry out in a record time.

This means that you will be able to use your garage to full extent in a quick manner. When you apply the repair putty, 24 hours are needed for it to do its work.

When you think of the maintenance of your clothes dryer, there is a lot to keep in mind. Though it is likely something you think about the least, it could be the one cause you the biggest problem. Failure to maintain the dryer vent is the number one cause of clothes dryer related fires.

It is hard to understand the importance of ventilation maintenance if you do not understand the whole system in work.

While the clothes is being dried, the lint is being removed and blown outside through the ventilation ducts. The trap will capture only 60 percent of the lint that comes out of clothes dryer. This part of the clothes dryer should be pulled out, but do it before you dry the load and start removing the lint. Well, that is only 60%. And what will be with the 40%?

The part of the lint that managed to pass the trap is going outside, all the way through the duct system that comes out of your clothes dryer exhaust. The duct work is that weird looking hose that seems to come out of the wall, but it actually is a hose that comes out of your dryer and it is going outside. While you may not see the rest of the path, it leads to the outside of your house, and to the dryer vent. There will definitely be lint that is simply too heavy an sticky to make it out of the line so it will stay on the walls for indefinite time. You should take care of this at least once a year.

The final stop for lint, on the way out of your dryer, is the dryer vent. This is a flapper vent top that is at the end of the line outside. This is where all that hot air is finally set free. Lint will continue to build up, of course, which is a big fire hazard and a big obstacle for your clothes dryer to do its work properly.