- Leggari specializes in
epoxy resin for floors, counters, and more - Its experts show us how to install one of its custom epoxy kits to transform a simple
basement floor into one with an epoxy river flowing through it. - The process includes a primer, base coats, highlight colors, and a gloss urethane topcoat with grit additive for durability.
Narrator: I'm Tim Krumland, and I'm a cofounder of Leggari Products, a high-end manufacturer of coating products. Today, we are transforming a basement
You can kinda see clearly that the floor has been prepped and shotblasted. And what that does is it just removes a lot of the imperfections, the impurities, so that you're down to something solid.
We're applying the base coat of our silver metallic epoxy. And we always start on the perimeter or the edge of the project. And on this particular project, we're working backwards, so we're just going to do one wall and work all the way across the floor.
After we apply a couple batches of this base coat, we're drizzling our black metallic epoxy over the top of it. Now, what this does is it adds kind of an accent color within that silver. We're wearing metal baseball cleats so that we can be elevated above the metallic epoxy and we don't slip around.
We're adding black by itself along the edge of that silver using a watering can. Now we're grabbing what's called a pool trowel, and we're just slowly blending just the edge. Now we're adding gold right after that and turquoise right after that. We add gold again. And then black again. We're bending over, being very careful to make sure that we don't blend the colors too much.
We're just getting rid of that hard line because we want this whole floor to look fairly natural. We want everything to flow together and just marbleize.
Now that the vein is finished, we're just continuing the process again, just like on the other side of the vein. So we're laying the base coat of silver and drizzling black highlights and swirling again.
We like to go back and spray denatured alcohol on the floor, and what that does is it just helps it level out very nicely. It helps it have that real glass-smooth finish that everyone loves.