Metallic Epoxy Flooring FAIL | Complete Breakdown | Don’t Make This Mistake!

Metallic Epoxy Flooring FAIL | Complete Breakdown | Don’t Make This Mistake!

In this video, I give you a complete breakdown of our metallic epoxy flooring fail and what went wrong and how our beginner install of a DIY metallic epoxy floor failed. You will see just how easy they actually are. Several companies are marketing DIY kits to beginners (Spartan Epoxies/Leggari). Even smaller mistakes can lead to costly failures when working with epoxy flooring. Learn from our tips and our mess up and don't make this mistake! I hope this helps you decide if you want to try this project out for yourself.

00:00 Intro
00:38 The moment the mistake was made
03:08 Us Hitting our heads and almost falling because of our spikes falling apart
03:43 The moment we realized we failed
05:00 Jason dancing
05:10 We explain in detail what exactly happened

See the complete install (start to finish) and how we fixed our fail by clicking the link below. We used a Spartan epoxies kit. Leggari is also another epoxy company that offers DIY kits. Video: DIY Metallic Epoxy Floor Kit: Start to Finish Install by Beginners | Watch Before You Try!

[SgtDonovan]

Has anyone else ever messed something up like this? Share your biggest DIY fail! The best one wins a prize!

[sterlingwitherspoon]

Same thing happened to me last night man....I'm so devastated. I literally mixed 5-600 sq feet just to start painting the edges first. By the time I got ready to actually roll the floor....I poured onto the floor and the stuff would barely spread. At that point I knew I was scared!!! I learned my lesson. Mix and get straight to the pour don't waste no time.

[doranvee]

Your mistakes are not in vain.Your video helps me know what not to do. I sincerely thank you

[aaronwenger]

Omg, thank you guy's for this video. I've had this happen to me on wood projects when I got way to aggressive, or overconfident with my mixes. Literally laughed out loud, but I felt horrible for guy's. Epoxy mistakes are not cheap!

[TanukiOfficial]

Thank you for that instruction clarification! Sometimes, what we are expecting to happen can override what the bones' bare understanding of the instruction is telling us.

We can read more into the instructions than what it says.

That's a good reminder.

[yoniesharnessshopllc]

If your watching the video like I did and wondering what happened, it overheated due to mixing everything at one time.
Lesson: spread quickly.
Tip I've seen elsewhere, if you want to mix it all at one time, set the mixture into water, it will dissipate some of the heat, but still take precautions to not overmix

[glengarbera]

Thanks guys for a honest video, and some great tips. Nothing beats practice.

[lorrieBeauty]

The dance at @3:30secs OMG 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you did him dirty🤣

[cesarlopes]

I was going to make the same mistake, but now I'm passing. Thanks!

[Delmer.Regalado]

My first floor with my father on our garage we let the material in a bucket and as we are rolling it 5 minutes in we see smoke starting to come out the bucket, by the time we tried to throw it on the floor it was already like a rock and looked like lava that had cooled off 😂 you live and you learn !!

[martasanchez]

Is there an update video to this? I loved you guys' honesty on this. Would love to see how it turned out

[dennispalmer]

I use the same spikes for driveway sealing . Had to install the spikes myself so I didn't have that problem. Hoping to get into the epoxy flooring business soon. Hope it went well the 2nd time.

[jeremylawson]

You live and you learn, thanks for the lesson gentleman

[istra]

Every school in exchange you gain knowledge and
In my work I can chose between fast, medium or slow hardener ( but strength of the bond varies accordingly).
Of course epoxy is temperature and moisture sensitive ( it will affect curing ), and creates it's own temperature trough chemical reaction, which is starting as soon as 2 components are in contact.... Bigger the mixed batch - more volatile chemical reaction is, creating higher temperatures ( just what you have experienced ) .... and higher the temperature - faster ( curing ) solidifying .
For cleaning or diluting coatings- acetone can be used.
After floor - you can start building boats ( just add glass fiber )
Good luck !

[mikeodell]

I’ve been doing these 25 plus years ….it gets old hearing how easy it is from home owners that watch YouTube.

[ziggyzdesign]

😂😂😂 thanks for this vide. Love it. Especially the positive attitude.

[mmconcretesolutions]

Another Trick is you can use Baseball or Golf Cleats in place of the Janky spike shoes.

[spartanepoxies]

Oh man you guys are awesome. I loved how you guys worked this out and learned from your experience! Keep up the great commentary. Thank you for letting us know that Bryan was fishing and working. It must be a difficult thing to balance a computer on a boat 🤔! All jokes aside thanks for the video guys.

[mouellefabricante]

Can you put clear epoxy over exterior marble floor ?

[markcazaressr.]

Went out and bought spike cleats. To self level. They work so much better