Scrape Excess Flakes

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What happens here

Once the first flake coat has cured, use a floor scraper or a stiff broom to scrape off any loose or vertically oriented flakes. Sweep or vacuum up all the scraped flakes. This step ensures a smoother surface for the next layer and prevents flakes from poking through the subsequent coats.

Goal: Remove loose and protruding flakes from the first epoxy layer.

Tools and materials

Shop Vacuum — Cleaning up scraped flakes
Stiff Broom or Floor Scraper — Removing loose flakes

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flakes. We took about I think it was 3 hours 15 minutes. Uh took a a break, waited for that to cure. You know, we came back and then we scraped those. And this was a system we don't want to drag this out, you know, quite a few days. We're trying to get this done, you know, in 2 days. So, we did the scraping. Then we came back and did a coat of polyaspartic on top of that which is a longer cure time. 35 minute cure time

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