Epoxy floor disaster last week in Phoenix - did I screw up by trying to fix it myself?

I was pouring a metallic epoxy in a garage and the humidity spiked to 80% halfway through, causing fisheyes all over the finish. I tried sanding and recoating that section but now there's a visible line between the old and new layers - should I have just left the imperfections alone and called it a day?

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nancyramirez2d ago

My buddy tried the same thing up in Flagstaff last summer, thought he could save a few hundred bucks doing it himself. Drove all the way down to the Valley to borrow my floor grinder, got it halfway done, then the monsoon rolled in and ruined the whole pour. He ended up having to chisel out a four foot section and repour it, and now you can see where the new meets the old like a scar in concrete. Sometimes you just gotta live with the imperfection and move on, because chasing a fix usually makes it worse.

abbyf792d ago

Oh man, that story is brutal lol. I had something kinda similar happen with my patio a few years back. What actually worked for me was just accepting the crack and filling it with a decent concrete patch compound instead of trying to grind and repour the whole thing. I used that Quikrete stuff with the bonding adhesive built in, and honestly you can barely see it now after a couple of seasons of weather. Sometimes the easiest fix really is the best one, even if it feels like half-assing it at first.