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Glueing down flooring to a sealed slab?

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Re: Glueing down flooring to a sealed slab?

Posted by Gregory La Vardera at June 10. 2008

Just scanning the above site. I think this looks very good.


Read the directions - they recommend their etching floor prep for almost all installations, and this stuff will remove any sealer. They have several speckled premixes, but you can make your own base color fleck mix as well.


 


I am not brave enough to install this stuff myself, maybe in a garage, but not in the house. I'd get an experienced installer.


Re: Glueing down flooring to a sealed slab?

Posted by Jeffrey Rous at June 11. 2008

Thanks Greg.


I am going to have to check this out on a floor somewhere. I have seen the samples at HD and I just cannot tell how they will scale up from a 3"x3" square sample. Still, based on that sample, I can be pretty sure of what my wife will say. I am not encouraged. I like the idea of a white base with black, med. gray and lt. gray chips (poor man's terazzo).


APC cork said that their urethane glue should work. Simple Floors said that a urethane glue will only work on a solvent-based sealer, not an acrylic urethane sealer. I asked the concrete guy and after a long email detailing how our ruined floor was not his fault (full of lies, BTW), he said it was solvent-based.


Re: Glueing down flooring to a sealed slab?

Posted by Gregory La Vardera at June 13. 2008

This vendor seems to have a better material from reading their tech info - more solid chips in the mix. It may make a better appearance than the samples from HD, unless that was the same brand?


 
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