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Epoxy.com Mortar Systems can be used to make permanent repairs that no other kind of product can make. The purpose of this blog is to give you an overview of what you can use and how to use it.
Product Selection – The following are a list of Epoxy.com Products that make excellent epoxy mortars All the products listed below are zero (0) VOC, so it meets even the strictest low VOC requirements, and meets Indoor Environmental Quality/Air Quality (LEED IEQ 4.2 Indoor Emitting Materials Credit). See the individual product component technical data sheets and MSDS for further information.
Product #10 Fast Curing Epoxy Version of Product #10 Lo-Mod Epoxy Adhesive and Mortar Binder.Product #10 Cold Temperature Curing Epoxy Version of Product #10 Lo-Mod Epoxy Adhesive and Mortar Binder.
First and foremost is good surface preparation. Good surface preparation is necessary for most if not all patches to have long term success: www.epoxy.com/surfaceprep.aspx.
Prime the bottom of the whole with some of the neat mortar resin. Neat mortar resin is the liquid (A&B) mixed at the proper mix ratio and stirring in a way to insure a completely mixed product. This will typically take about 3 minutes.
Mix some of the neat epoxy into the Epoxy.com Mortar Blend Aggregate #82 or other appropriate dry clean silica sand gradation.
The amount of sand aggregate depends on the aggregate used.
Typically, the Epoxy.com Product #82 Mortar aggregate can be added at a rate of 18 to 27 lbs. of #82 per 1.5 Qt of mixed resin (1Quart of A to ½ Quart of B).
You will need to recalculate the sand above when using a different sized batch. This is doubly true if using one of or 4:1 mix ratio material.
Shallow patches tend to be a smaller amount of sand filler.
Deeper patches tend to be on the higher side.
If you get a lot of resin to the surface your mix is too wet. If your mixture after it hardens is porous, or weak then you have added too much aggregate.
For a better finish in very deep pours do it in 2 lifts.
Fill all but the last ¼ inch plus or minus with your dryer mix. Allow to cure hard (typically overnight).Fill with a wetter mix on top of that after the first one has cured.
To ensure proper adhesion between layers never wait more than 24 hours between layers.
It is always better to have your patch slightly higher rather than to low. If you are slightly high you can grind the patch back to level. If to low you will need to fill again.
For very shallow fills (1/32 or so) where the sand particles are to large you can use any of the following:
Epoxy.com Product #71 – www.epoxy.com/71.aspx mixed with one the neat (mixed A and B only) mortars above
A customer asks, “I have a patio with Chattahoochee or Chattahoochee like stone glued together with epoxy. It is no longer shinny and the stone is starting to come loose. What is causing this and what should I do about it?”
It sounds like you have a stone that was
installed with Epoxy.com Product #17 – www.epoxy.com/17.aspx
– or some other brand of stone adhesive. We tell all of our customers that
install epoxied stone that they need to maintain by re-glazing it periodically.
Unfortunately, not everyone is as forthright as us in telling their customers
this.
We recommend you take these steps every
spring and fall so you can enjoy your epoxied stone year-round.
1. Look at you epoxy stone and look
determine if it needs maintenance. If it is still shinny and you don’t have
loose stone, then you are done. Come back and do this step again in 6 months.
2. Clean your stone to remove algae, mold,
oil, grease and any other contaminants from it. Typically, contamination is
just algae and mold and can be removed with a weak Clorox and water combination
with a thorough rinse with a hose or gentle pressure wash. Allow your stone to
dry completely before proceeding.
3. Determine if it has only lost its shine
or if you have loose stone. Decide if sections of the stone are so loose that
they need to be reinstalled with Product #17 (4 below) or if there are just a
few to no loose stones and you just want to re-glaze it (5 below).
4. If stone needs to be picked up and
reinstalled in areas do that with Epoxy.com Product #17. Contact Epoxy.com
Technical support for the amount of product you need. We can also go over the
reinstallation of these areas with you. If the stone is sound or has just a few
stones that you are not worried about replacing you can proceed to 4 below.
5. Apply 1-2 coats of Epoxy.com Product #15
(depending on how bad the stone has weathered) to the top of your clean dry
stone. This will give you back your original shine and strengthen the interface
(bond line) between the stones. Product #15 is the best product to do this with
as experience has shown it lasts 1.5 to 2 times longer than convention epoxies
used for this application.
6. CAUTION: You can find single component so called “Chattahoochee” . These sealers add shine to your epoxy stone but do not strengthen the interface between the stone. Using this kind of sealer can ruin your epoxy stone. Once these inexpensive sealers are on they are difficult to impossible to remove. Making it optionally impossible to ever re-glaze the epoxy stone properly again.
As always when in doubt contact Epoxy.com
Technical support at info@epoxy.com or by
calling 352-533-2167.
Here is the picture of the chip floor – www.epoxy.com/chips.aspx that that was about 15 years old when the picture was take. It is in a Vermont Interstate Rest area. It has never been waxed. You can still see the ceiling lights reflecting off the surface. Only maintenance has been to mop it.
Chip Floor install:
Links that will make your Chip Flooring installation better and easier:
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