Etching Basement Floor

Wear rubber gloves to protect your hands while etching the floors.
Etching basement floor. Use a stiff bristled broom scrub solution into surface until foaming action stops. Working in 10 x 10 sections dampen surface with water and apply clean n etch. In fact for about 3 months i thought i was the mac daddy of basement finishing. For garage floors and other smooth troweled concrete mix gallon of seal krete clean n etch to gallon of water in a garden watering can.
Safety goggles are a mandatory part of safely etching concrete. But when i asked about it my new friend said we didn t need to mess with it that we just had to clean the floor thoroughly and then slap the stain right on there. Finishing a concrete floor in a basement warehouse or factory is a way to seal it to prevent substances from penetrating below the surface which can potentially cause damage. For many years it was a standard method of concrete preparation used by nearly all industrial commercial and institutional floor coating installers depending on the floor size and system to be installed.
Acid etching is the process of applying hydrochloric muriatic or buffered phosphoric acid to a slab then rinsing it off with water. Mix a concrete etching solution with water in a plastic container. But more than that it was a complete waste of 2 straight weekends. This one cost me a couple hundred bucks.
Everything i d read said we d need to etch the basement floor before painting or staining and the etching stuff was on the shelf right next to this stain. All newly poured concrete or bare concrete floors must be etched for the garage or basement epoxy coating to stick properly. A plastic watering works well for pouring the solution on the concrete. I made a lot of mistakes when i was finishing my basement but this one really hurt.