Epoxy over Tile Countertops

this is how i covered 93 square feet of tile countertop with epoxy and turned it into carrera marble so this client's home was in rogersville missouri as you can see it's completely covered in tile countertops we have an electric cooktop here this will be removed prior to pouring epoxy we also have two sinks and a beautiful six burner gas stove now all these grout lines prior to pouring epoxy have to be filled so that your countertop is level these will be filled with bondo prior to pouring and what we'll do is fill them sand them down and then if there's any imperfections in our bondo what we'll do is actually fill them again and then sand them down again the sink will be pulled and removed this nifty little appliance here in the corner hasn't worked in years and so the client has asked us to remove it we will patch that support it from the bottom with mdf go ahead and bondo directly over it make sure it's nice and flush and go ahead and cover that counter space we've got a small space here to cover we have a custom built island here in the center of the kitchen with our big six burner gas stove so the stove does have to be pulled make sure you use all safety precautions when pulling a gas stove make sure your gas is turned off etc again we're going to fill these grout lines with bondo make sure everything is flush and level prior to pouring you do not want to be fighting with gravity whenever you pour your liquid epoxy onto an existing surface now on this far side of the kitchen we have a drink station wine serving bar it has a wine cooler we have this a secondary sink that is going to have to be pulled prior to pouring and again we'll fill all these grout lines and make sure all our holes and cracks along those back seams are filled prior to pouring now when you are ready to bondo all of your seams and your grout lines make sure you thoroughly mix your bondo it does come as a two-part system your putty and your hardener very similar to epoxy whenever you need to mix this it needs to be on a non-porous surface and we went ahead and just mixed it directly on the counter top since we're going to sand everything down anyways but you do want to make sure you get a uniform mixture as well whenever you go to spread this i actually just bought some disposable flexible putty knives so that whenever they got too gunked up and we weren't getting smooth flattening from the bondo what we would do is just pitch those and start over with a new one if you can save yourself some time sanding by just making sure your bondo is you know beautifully done try to get as least amount of marks in your bondo as possible that'll save you some time in sanding now if your bondo has divots and things in it even after you sand it you may have to do a secondary bondo layer and then sand it again we actually did that on this entire kitchen just to make sure everything was perfectly uniform and flat better be safe than sorry on our end on the second day of prep what we are actually going to do is cover our entire surface in a bonding primer you need to use a bonding primer any time that you are covering a hard surface such as tile corian granite or any other non-porous surface so that bonding primer acts as a basically like a really strong bond between the tile and your next layers it makes it to where you can actually pour this and it's not just going to peel right off the counter top it will you know hold and be bonded to the countertop as one uniform piece again just run your hand over everything make sure it's all smooth and flat make sure you don't have any serious divots or gouges in your your bondo and then go ahead and run a tape line around everything just like you would if you were going to paint and you can go ahead and put your bonding primer on after the bonding primer is dry it goes on very thin it's perfectly fine if you see your substrate beneath the bonding primer it's not meant to cover it's meant to bond and so go ahead and wait for that to dry once it's dry you can start laying your undercoat we use white in this case because we're going for carrera marble and we actually used two coats of our primer underneath our epoxy because we just wanted to make sure that bluish gray tile was absolutely covered prior to pouring our epoxy you don't want to find out that you can later see any part of your tile through your epoxy uh design that would be uh not good so i am so sorry but the the video of us actually pouring did not get recorded so i apologize for that but here's the next stage of our epoxy project [Music] good morning today we're going to talk about what i use as my top coat and this epoxy countertop was poured yesterday directly over the tile um and so today what i'm going to do is sand it down just lightly stain to take out any imperfections or hairs or anything that might have fallen in it while it's wet and then i'm going to top coat it and this is a process where you use a roller it's not a foreon the way your epoxy is it rolls on very very lightly it is a two-part mixture just like epoxy is it is not one to one so it comes in two separate containers part a is the durability part this stuff's a little smelly so make sure you use it in a well ventilated area or whenever you open the pour and mix it do that outside part b is just the hardener um this mixture is a little bit different than what you're used to as far as epoxy being either one to one or two of one this mixture is actually one ounce of a so five and a half ounces of feet and so that will cover typically 30 to 40 square feet this is a product where a little bit goes extremely far um i this kit right here will cover about 500 to 600 square feet for me um i buy it in this kit because i top coat all of my epoxy counters like this and that's what i do full time so it does sell in smaller kits available now when we roll this one you don't have to worry about lap lines it's virtually impossible to overroll this stuff you can use um a foam brush is what i use a foam roller um you know the longest one possible makes for easier coverage and it goes directly over your top coat and it can be done as soon as your top is ready um basically as soon as you can touch it and it's not inventing or anything and you can sand it it does need to be scratched and stuffed before you apply so today you'll see what that looks like and um so let's get started i'm going to stand 93 square feet of counter space real quick and uh i'll be back in a minute and we'll get started all right now that we have sanded all of our surfaces you should have been able to get out any hair stuff imperfections um dimples anything like that on your countertops you should have been able to work those out with your sander now you'll notice the shine is gone so and that is just fine if you run your hands over it you don't want any um you know plumster imperfections left it's dirty though now so before we apply the top coat we have to clean it the best way to clean your countertops to make sure that everything is removed properly is with isopropyl alcohol 91 or above um you can't water is really not recommended it just comes up whereas the alcohol really cleans things and so you're going to do this multiple times just to really make sure you get any dust and imperfections off more things i buy in bulk paper towels and rubbing alcohol so what you'll notice is the rubbing alcohol actually dissipates the sanding marks and it brings that shine back but it will dry and it will go back to being that cloudy cloudiness look now we just want to make sure we get everything you don't get your sides your edges you know all the dust needs removed all right i went ahead and poured my mixture outside because uh like i said a little bit smelly um as you can see it is in two separate parts one is a clear and one of the yellow before you use part a always make sure to give it a nice good shake before you pour it in i did 11 ounces of beef to 2 ounces of bay and that's going to give us enough to do our 93 square feet that we have here today we're just going to give that a nice good mix it's gonna be a yellowish color and that's okay that's the color we want it to be make sure you're always using a clean container and people ask me what's the purpose of this top coat so this top coat especially for white countertops it adds uv protection so less yellowing over time especially like this kitchen that has beautiful skylights in it lots of natural lighting um tables things like that especially with the white where you would be able to see yellowing after 5 10 15 years this is going to prolong that additionally it makes it more heat resistant more scratch resistant and it makes your countertops usable in 48 hours rather than waiting 14 days or 30 days for full regular use you can go back to full regular use of your countertops in 48 hours so that's typically a huge selling point for most people because most people don't want to go 30 days without their kitchen so do you see any dusties or anything in your mixture make sure you get them out okay and what i'm going to do is i'm just actually going to pour this directly on my countertops so i use a foam roller just because it doesn't give me any hairs or microfibers or anything like that and we're just going to run our roller right through what i call our reservoir here on the counter and as you'll notice as you roll this back on it brings that shine back to it it gets rid of all of your sanding marks um anything like that that you buffed out this this has a very high gloss finish not as glossy as just a regular clear coat but still very very glossy as far as top coats go it still gives it a really good shine and as i mentioned a little bit of this product goes a long way so we're not really worried about lap lines at this point right now we're just moving it all moving it all around making sure the entire surface is coated if you see any dust or anything that fall into your table while you're doing this or your counters make sure you pull them out so i always re-roll back where i put the most because it picks it up and makes sure i have an even coating throughout after we're finished with evenly coating our surface what we're actually going to do is switch our roller with a dry roller we're going to roll over this lightly and you still don't have to worry really about left lines because you really can't overrule this product it self levels and it evens itself back out so now the time if you see any dust or anything that have fallen into your work surface make sure you get those out before this drive this will be dry to the touch in just a few hours and like i said back to full use and 48 so i'm gonna finish wet rolling my other 90 square feet and then we will dry roll this all right everyone after putting on our top coat letting it dry here is our final walk through with the sinks reinstalled the electric cooktop reinstalled as you can see over here in the corner that appliance is completely gone and now they have just beautiful counters right there this is our small piece over here we did go ahead and actually run a bead of caulk all the way around just to double seal those those cracked edges as you can see on my island if you look very closely there are a few lap lines right there i decided that i needed to roll it one more time after it had sat for a little bit and so i put those lap lines in and so what i do when i get those lap lines since nothing else had them is i actually go ahead and wet sand those out with an 800 grit and they pop right out and that's it that's all i have for you guys thanks have a great day

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Length: 18min 22sec (1102 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 13 2021