Spray on Granite in 10 minutes | Stone Coat Epoxy

it breaks the surface tension and allows everything to flow and level out, if I never cut it, the

epoxy

hits that dry spot and spins, and when I cut it I use the heel, let the heel hit first and let the extended brush, the rookies stamp it. they stamp it like that, oh yeah, I see pros hit it like that and they don't spank it where it is and then it's just random, but it's like a section like that and then I'll work myself in there. See, look, you see the bubbles we are creating. Yes, that's totally normal.

I'll show you how to mitigate that. In a second child, this piece is coming to life. It already looks great. Yes, this is a really easy recipe. It's just a question. to adjust the colors to whatever you want, could you use any color in this? Any color   oh you know you're going to get the same pattern, different colors   you know? Can you imagine if you did this on a white or tan background, you know, or even teal and I used copper like this technique and a little bit of green, you know, a hammered copper patina, you know really the sky is the limit on what what you want and what you want to do, what happens if you accidentally miss a point while cutting, do you know this?

It's a redundant step, so we've already mixed it, we've already smoothed it, we're going to

spray

paint it and mist it, we could probably get away with not doing this step, but you risk getting a sticky spot. . something you know, if we had

epoxy

mixed and we're cutting everything, you're actually stirring those chemicals up again, you know, and so making epoxy for the last 15 years, yeah, I used to get inconsistent results depending on how well you do it. I mixed and what I would do is I would mix it forever, I would transfer cubes, make sure everything was mixed well and I was very worried about sticky spots by the time I started cutting it.

I never had a sticky stain again. I can't wait for the day when you dip your beard in the epoxy and it hardens and you won't have to use rubber bands anymore, which will be nice if you want to save money on rubber. bands for your mango t-shirt, simply dip them in epoxy and they will stay that way forever. Okay, we did it, we did it right, yeah, okay. I'll show you what the next step is. Come to the front to see the edges or if there are drops on the edge, oh. Yeah, now that we have a really saturated brush, yeah, all we have to do now is just brush those edges, oh okay, okay, don't really whip it, uh, at all, no, guys, Matt said no.

I need to whip the edges   another term is cut the edges but we could use we could use whip he just hit the top of the counter in bad shape and then yeah your brush some people make the mistake of putting their brush this way and you get a lot less grip right So put your brush like that like you're on the edge, yeah, and if you roll it over the top, do you need to cut it one more time? No, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, no, because we are very early in the work time.

It's going to level everything we've done up to this point it's still going to level out now come here so you can see the bubbles and the light and you'll see how easy it is to pop people make the mistake of trying to get everything the bubbles come out instantly and the bubbles will burst and then leave a void because it sure was a bubble and every once in a while dimples appear and people get scared and want to sit there with a torch until it levels out, yeah just give it a In a few

minutes

it will level out, so watch, so I'm just sweeping the surface.

I'm only an inch from the surface. Okay, I'll start by going perpendicular. After I do a full perpendicular sweep, I'll go back and do it. It's parallel, now with this particular technique, the alcohol will create indentations, it will crater the piece, it's a solvent that will react with the epoxy, this is how you would put on a top

coat

or how you would prepare for the next step. so I'm going to do half of it and then I'm going to do it this way so I don't move it. Many people think that you have to move quickly.

I'm just moving it like I'm blowing a driveway full of water. How good is it? okay, do your section, you can see the bubbles popping pretty easily, yes you can use a heat gun, you can use a hair dryer, but the most effective is a propane torch, a little more overlapping than what you're doing . Yeah, oh, I see it, you can almost see that wave right in front, yeah, and now go perpendicular and pick up the pace of the hair, perfect, perfect, spreading like glass, yeah, you know what? Do you know what the real test is of how well you looked at the reflection of the lights on the piece and then moved that light across the piece with your eyes and it will tell you if you got the bubbles out?

So look at our lights and the reflection, oh yeah, and you just kind of move it around, it's pretty glassy, ​​just like that, you wait five

minutes

, it'll be perfect, yeah, I can't detect any bubbles, maybe just uh, but we're ready to Next step, I'll show you what we do. I'll make it brown is really my undertone color. I can do most of this with clay, but I can switch, so let me do my clay right, make sure I'm happy and I'm only going to do little sections at a time, if I try to mist the whole piece, by the time I get there , the

spray

paint will have sunk quite a bit and won't react the same, so start with small sections, you can always go larger. once you're more comfortable then I'll be fine, I got it, now I'll hit it right away, that's great, look at the depth it gives you.

Yeah, you don't want to spray more than that. If you continue, you will wash away. take it out   uh-huh, okay, now I'm tempted to spray that again, but I'll leave it at that, I see, okay, I love that look, man, I'm going to do this half, you're going to do that half, okay ? Start on that edge, okay, and then I'll do what you see, I'm not going to go into order, like I did on that corner. Look, I'm not doing stripes, bro, I'm heading in that direction, huh? Hey, so you should stay away from things that look geometric and man-made and see that I'm barely pulling the trigger, maybe a little bit more right there, that's really cool, yeah, okay, I'm going to use a little less of spray paint on this. time, yes, now it's almost translucent, I use a little less, yes, light mist, oh, I like that color, man, beautiful, okay, now it's your turn, look, look at the difference, this is seen now, this It looks a little cheesy compared to the look you're getting, but what is it?

What happens is you're looking through, you see here, the spray paint is pushed by the metallic aha and you see that base, it gives it a 3D look, so the purpose of that base is to make that rock right. It looks like it's a rock, so if it didn't, it would just be black right there, oh, I see, yeah, that inner layer really did, aha, it comes to life when you start doing it in this style here, okay? Let's see what happens - you helped me spray the rocks at mom's house - right, yeah, so you're pretty good with some spray paint - I noticed you've had some experience - and that's not about labeling road signs.

No, okay, come on, don't do it, I want to let that be good, nice brother, good move on to the next section, I like the big drops, man, it looks good, there is no look at the last section you just made, It's so good, man, that's all, don't overdo it, remember. The edges first because all of this will also flow down, aha, so when you do that you don't want to put too much metallic because then it will become too clayey, you can always add more metallic. you can't really take it out and see what the purpose of the black spray paint is.

People think we're hiding everything, aha, it gives it a bead, it gives it that rock structure and black works best, but white paint works with other paints. It works but black is the best glossy black and we also sell it in our store. Okay, let it sit for a minute. You know, what I could do here is just add a touch of silver and some spaces that might be a little too much. black for me, huh, so I'm going to play some silver right here, I don't know if I like it, let's see what it does, maybe I'll do it like that's a section, I don't know.

I think I like it better, just clay, what do you think? The clay looks very good. I mean, this looks like a piece of

granite

that you would see in a

granite

installation. It really looks, you know what watch? I'm going to get it for free. and loose with this, just put a little bit in this section and then what we could do is ask our customer if he wants some silver or if he likes just clay. Now you could remove this by just going back with black over the top uh clay or you really need to let it sit for a while if you're going to do that because the alcohol on the top will become like water and then it'll just wash off it becomes necessary you need that alcohol be drops that can't reach each other or then melt that paint into nothing.

I see, yeah, look at this circle, this is real pro advice, so it seems almost too circular. Yes, what I do is it has surface tension. the alcohol is coming out okay so I'm going to touch it and then I'm going to take this and just bring some of that dye back in a little bit, oh yeah and that's it, now it's going to stop growing and it's going to look more real. Oh yeah, so do that one over there, just touch it and then touch it and bring it in a little bit. That's it, ready, look now.

Now I really like that silver rug. It looks like a silver vein running through there. Yeah, you know what? let me do it since I like it, I'm just going to do a little bit more here where I don't like it where I made it a little too tight right here I like this to look like

stone

this still looks like

stone

but maybe it's a little too dark for me, it's okay, so I'm just going to go through that section a little bit like it's a vein, yeah, and let that grow on me. You know, the only good thing about this is that if you're a contractor working on the jobsite, you can completely involve the client in this, get to where they're part of the color variations, they also want more silver, they want more clay, absolutely , absolutely and when you know what I do when I do these four clients, I absolutely include them, but if I do them in my store I will say, hey, look, I'm about to do the important part, the fun part, I'm going to color, I need you be attentive.

On your cell phone I'm going to start sending you photos and then I make the smallest piece of your kitchen, so if it's a little piece that is next to this, next to the stove, I start to do it, I take a photo of it. I'll send it to them, I tell them: I love it or I hate it, we go to both extremes, I give them license to hate it, yes I hate it, which is nine times out of ten, they love it, they can't believe what you did, but let's say that Oh, I just think it needs a little more of that silver color.

So you do it, take another photo. How is that? Oh, a little more, take it. Send it to him. I love it. Now you have a template. Yes, don't show them anything else. to the kitchen when you deliver it, I guarantee they will love it because they approved of it. Yeah guys, remember if you have a few chunks, that's normal with alcohol. The consequence of using this technique is that the alcohol arrives and will begin to spread. It will create these big craters that look quite natural and then it will dissipate and let the epoxy level out; however, if you continue doing this too late in the cure time, you won't have time to self-level again, we have a good hour, hour and a half at this temperature, we are at 71 degrees, we have a good hour and a half for this to move So if we were making a giant kitchen we'd be fine yeah but I'm going to make a clear

coat

anyway I don't care if there are imperfections at this point all I'm looking for is a pattern that will fill itself out yeah guys visit us anytime at stonecoatcountertops.com call anytime for free project assistance and until next time remember you got this see you in the next video you got this