I am using the 5/8" XP for the next layer of my entire shop, ceiling too and its fire rated Type X. I dont think the 1/2" XP is.  I think thats your basement, I might consider using the 5/8", at least on the ceiling.

My brother is telling me the Georgia Pacific is better and this Purple XP stuff is prone to very easy edge breakage.

This product cost a heck of a lot more money than regular drywall, I am hoping it works out for me.

Yes,it is the fire rated 5/8" xp that I am using. The few places that I called, they said they do not sell the 1/2" due to lack of customers. If this won't work, then I wasted a big money.

@HAXIT Don't forget to seal all duct openings and doorways.  The dust from grinding of concrete can permeaeevery room in the house.  Don't ask how I know. 

Oh, what the heck, I can't resist.  I once ran into a delivery problem with a floor pour in cold weather. First load came right on time. first  delivery in morning from supplier.  second was supposed to arrive at 8:30 or 9 o'clock.  It finally arrived, after burning phone lines, at around 4pm and getting dark with temp plummeting into the twenties.  Needless to say, some serious repairs were required later on. I rented a grinder for a day during Christmas/New Year week while owner would be away on Ski trip.  I sealed all doorways into the main house and proceded to grind away. A dayor so after New Years Day, I got a call from the builder on the job to call the owners.

The owners happened to be a pair of Cranky Yankees from the  hills of Vermont.  I had really hit it off with them as they were he sort of people and humor that I had grown up with in he Berkshire hills of Massachusetts.  I liked them and he felig was reciprocal. I called as directed.  Isthmus they had jut gotten home about two hours earlier and from the ton of he man's voice and the ringing in my ears, I could sense a little, this is a story about a Cranky Yankee, remember!. That phone was exploding in my ear.

It seems they were greeted with a hin film of white dust over everything in the house. The dut had permeated to even between bed sheets and all closeted clothing. I offered to come over to help with the cleaning.

"Tinker!!!  If you show your face in this house, I'll kill you!!!!!"

We did end up as friends once again, but it was my good forune they were the sort of family who did not carry a grudge.  I did many more jobs for them.  when i retired from mason biz, i even took care of their yard for a few years until they moved away.

What had caused the dust problem? Even though i sealed all doorways, i had forgoten about closing off heating return duct covers.

I can immagine that with your attention to detail, you would not make a mitook like that, but just thought i'd remind you.
Tinker

Even though, I was sure that my concrete floor had no moisture but again I did the test before order anything just to make sure.
I taped dawn a 2' x 3' plastic on the floor and opened it up after 24 hours. If you can see any concrete discoloration, moister or water dripping from the plastic, then epoxy flooring would not be a good idea but the test result was very promising.





Here is how the floor is looks like before.



 

Step 2: The floor is covered with epoxy primer and checking for desired  humidity and temperature.



   

I'm assuming that is a garage, and not that you tore everything apart. 

BTW Your floor, as everything else you have done, looks great. As long as the floor is not wet underneath the concrete, you should have no problem except possibly from condensation. If the subfloor is wet (it appears not to be) you can xpect condensation problems.
Tinker

I'm assuming that is a garage, and not that you tore everything apart. 

BTW Your floor, as everything else you have done, looks great. As long as the floor is not wet underneath the concrete, you should have no problem except possibly from condensation. If the subfloor is wet (it appears not to be) you can xpect condensation problems.
Tinker

Yes, it is the garage or more correctly the old shop in the past, transit for new tools at the time and welding shop in the future.
Isn't garage was made to park the car? Not when I own it.

Step 3&4 and the result.
After primer the base coat went on the top then I had to broadcast the color chips and after 12 hours put the top coat on.
So, the floor is three layer and the color that I chose was mid gray with three colors white,black and neon green chips.
Here is the close up pic.



And the result.

This is my favorite thread on this board!

Quote from: HAXIT on December 16, 2016, 12:00 PM

It is finally here.

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@HAXIT

Happy days

Hopefully that'll be me soon ... just made an offer on a property (fingers and toes are crossed) with a newish 3 and a half bay workshop that I'd line and floor seal. Though I'm likely to be less detailed than you

Are you just filtering the air or are you going to A/C the space?

Thanks Kev, I wish the best of luck for you for the property. Without having the space we are almost paralyzed.
I will just filtering the air.

The room is almost done and the floor needs to be cure from 10 to 14 days before any heavy machines move in but light foot traffic is ok. Next week is Christmas and new year which both arrive on weekends and after that I will move in and do the shop tour. I would say in 3 weeks I will be up and running the shop. Thanks everyone for comments and following this post.

The only experience I ever had with Epoxy on a concrete floor I had to allow  NO TIME for curing.  The floor was full of cracks, holes and spalts from being  used as a dairy.  The floor  had to be steam cleaned every day.  The dairy was bringing in milk from local farmers before  8 am every day, processed, bottled and shipped out befor  noon every day. We had to wait until the steam cleaning was completed by around 4pm before we could start doing anything.  We were using a type of epoxy that we mixed with sand base and would  be cured within an hour or so.  i had three helpers who did the mixing and feeding the lone mechanic (me) who was working on hands and knees all night.  Someimes i was lying on my belly and stretching out under tanks and machinery.  By the time we finished, i was like half drunk.  The floor was no longer full of holes and spalting, but there were  a ton of tooling ridges.  the owner was happy even tho i was not.  I don't know why he had us do the floor, as he closed the business within a very few months.  I think the job was a necessity to satisfy milk inspectors so he could finish his obligations until the property could be sold.  I vowed to never do another epoxy floor again.  From what i am seeing of your floor, and from others, there have been big improvements in the overall process. 

Tinker

Quote from: HAXIT on December 18, 2016, 08:54 AM

The room is almost done and the floor needs to be cure from 10 to 14 days before any heavy machines move in but light foot traffic is ok. Next week is Christmas and new year which both arrive on weekends and after that I will move in and do the shop tour. I would say in 3 weeks I will be up and running the shop. Thanks everyone for comments and following this post.

The only experience I ever had with Epoxy on a concrete floor I had to allow  NO TIME for curing.  The floor was full of cracks, holes and spalts from being  used as a dairy.  The floor  had to be steam cleaned every day.  The dairy was bringing in milk from local farmers before  8 am every day, processed, bottled and shipped out befor  noon every day. We had to wait until the steam cleaning was completed by around 4pm before we could start doing anything.  We were using a type of epoxy that we mixed with sand base and would  be cured within an hour or so.  i had three helpers who did the mixing and feeding the lone mechanic (me) who was working on hands and knees all night.  Someimes i was lying on my belly and stretching out under tanks and machinery.  By the time we finished, i was like half drunk.  The floor was no longer full of holes and spalting, but there were  a ton of tooling ridges.  the owner was happy even tho i was not.  I don't know why he had us do the floor, as he closed the business within a very few months.  I think the job was a necessity to satisfy milk inspectors so he could finish his obligations until the property could be sold.  I vowed to never do another epoxy floor again.  From what i am seeing of your floor, and from others, there have been big improvements in the overall process. 

Tinker

If this story is more then three years ago, then you are right it has been a huge improvements since then. Of course type of epoxy used has a big impact as well. One of the main reasons in these days is the easy care and long lasting that some people prefer  epoxy flooring. Only time will tell how good this floor would stay the way it is now.

Quote from: Tinker on December 18, 2016, 09:15 AM

Quote from: HAXIT on December 18, 2016, 08:54 AM

The room is almost done and the floor needs to be cure from 10 to 14 days before any heavy machines move in but light foot traffic is ok. Next week is Christmas and new year which both arrive on weekends and after that I will move in and do the shop tour. I would say in 3 weeks I will be up and running the shop. Thanks everyone for comments and following this post.

The only experience I ever had with Epoxy on a concrete floor I had to allow  NO TIME for curing.  The floor was full of cracks, holes and spalts from being  used as a dairy.  The floor  had to be steam cleaned every day.  The dairy was bringing in milk from local farmers before  8 am every day, processed, bottled and shipped out befor  noon every day. We had to wait until the steam cleaning was completed by around 4pm before we could start doing anything.  We were using a type of epoxy that we mixed with sand base and would  be cured within an hour or so.  i had three helpers who did the mixing and feeding the lone mechanic (me) who was working on hands and knees all night.  Someimes i was lying on my belly and stretching out under tanks and machinery.  By the time we finished, i was like half drunk.  The floor was no longer full of holes and spalting, but there were  a ton of tooling ridges.  the owner was happy even tho i was not.  I don't know why he had us do the floor, as he closed the business within a very few months.  I think the job was a necessity to satisfy milk inspectors so he could finish his obligations until the property could be sold.  I vowed to never do another epoxy floor again.  From what i am seeing of your floor, and from others, there have been big improvements in the overall process. 

Tinker

If this story is more then three years ago, then you are right it has been a huge improvements since then. Of course type of epoxy used has a big impact as well. One of the main reasons in these days is the easy care and long lasting that some people prefer  epoxy flooring. Only time will tell how good this floor would stay the way it is now.

The dairy closed in the early 1970's.
Tinker

Wow, that is an incredible transformation. 

Well, the security is updated and I just had my first false alarm experience.
After the security installer left the house, I armed the system then left the house to eat something. When I came back I did not want to go upstairs but I went to garage to move some tools down stairs and I completely forgot that garage door and the shop has security now since 2 hours ago.
I came down stairs and I left my phone in the car and security company is trying to contact me but they cannot reach me. First the siren went off and the noise traveled almost to end of my street. I already know what I did, now the police showed up at the front of my door and my home phone is ringing same time again the security company trying to reach me.
Conclusion:
The system works great.
If it happen again,I might pay $500 fine.

Ladies if any and gentlemen, welcome to my workshop. About 80% is done and the 20% is all about making some storage area and clamp rack and etc...
The Hammer A3 31 is right front the door and is set up to cut anything up to 10' or I can open the door and move the machine to right and go up to 18'. At the end you can see the cms-ge set next to the drill press. Again from wall to the cutting point is 7' and can be change quickly to 9' if I have to.



Drill press is my beloved Swedish made Solberga. No belt and no maintenance, it is a gear head drill press. The top mounted motor is dust and water proof. 2 horse power with 8 speed setting which is done with two handles at the left side. The choices are 130-260-420-535-840-1070-1745-3480.Both the drill head and the table arm are adjustable 360 degree around the column and can be raised and lowered.



Tormek  T8 water cooled sharpening system with the complete jigs and accessory,rotating base and ts 740 station.



No detail on this one but I love it and it won't stay at the corner always.



The whole wall is covered with festool accessories. The Kapex is in the perfect location, from the end of the wall under the stairs to kapex blade is 18' so for long lumber there is no problem here. Ignore the wires that hanging. It is for the project in the future.