[TowerTalk] painting concrete

[Roger (K8RI) on TT]

My shop has many coats of 2 part epoxy.

I needed to cut some wood on the table saw and didn't have a dust 
collector yet, so I laid down several sheets of polyethylene. That 
worked great, except... there was some very fine dust that made its way 
past the sheets. I took one steep onto the painted floor.  The only time 
I ever went down that fast and hard, was forgetting to take the guards 
off my ice skated.  That hurt! At least I didn't break anything.
At the W end of the shop, the S side has an 8' garage door.  I simply 
rented a very heavy, orbital sander and used a coarse sand paper to do a 
strip 8' wide from that door across the end of the shop. It worked as 
well inside and left a better finish than using sand or an anti slip 
compound.

The aprons for the garage and shop are painted with epoxy "with a lot of 
sand mixed in!

73

Roger (K8RI)

On 2/6/2017 2:57 PM, greenacres113 at charter.net wrote:
>
> 	You want to paint tower bases go to it. However, I beg you not to
> paint concrete steps & walks. Unless you use the 'sand' paint or other
> textured gripper paint. You can't imagine how slippery painted
> concrete is when wet. As a retired postal carrier I know. Two of my
> fellow carriers got their arms broken on painted concrete. If you
> insist on painting steps & walks please add the wide stick- on grip
> pads. The law suit you save might be yours. I lost a full uniform [
> big $$$] because a teenager drained a car radiator down a sloping
> concrete driveway. The homeowner bought me a new uniform & was
> thrilled I didn't break any bones. Been there done that.
>
> 	K9IL
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Roger (K8RI)


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