Will epoxy fill in rough spots and grinding marks?
Epoxy does not completely fill in rough grinding spots or residual tool marks. These textures can stick out through the top of the finished coating, leaving an abrasive surface that feels like asphalt or coarse sandpaper. Because the floor constantly catches on microfiber washcloths, it becomes practically impossible to clean.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1re-renting and running a large floor grinder over the smooth spotsDid this help you?
- 2relying on full broadcast flakes to hide surface imperfections and sinsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Now im nervous that the epoxy won't fill these type of spots”source ↗
“Do I need to go back and rent the big grinder again or are these spots able to be filled with the epoxy?”source ↗
“im so nervous to vacuum and clean the floors just to apply the stuff to find out i fd up”source ↗
“It feels awful, like asphalt. It's not smooth at all, I cannot imagine trying to clean this.”source ↗
“The problem is that some of them are sticking out of the top of the epoxy. So if you run your hands over it you feel these little flexible pieces.”source ↗
“I dragged a small microfiber washcloth over it and it was catching so bad, like pulling it over the coarsest sandpaper.”source ↗
Where this came up
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