Stone Coat Countertop Epoxy Tutorial- Pour over Existing Counters with Integrated Backsplash

[Music] hi guys Rhonda's rakul is here with arcade three designs and we're gonna do something a little different today I usually show you I finish that I create on a sample board and kind of wanting you to take that sample board and transfer it to maybe a countertop or something like that today we're actually gonna talk about applying finishes over an existing countertop something that's already in your home which I get a lot of a lot of business that way and so what I've done is I've actually gone to Home Depot and I purchased a six foot long Formica countertop basically the cheapest one that they had my husband cut it for me and you can see that I left a small corner out here so that you can see the original finish okay so what we're going to start with today is a piece of the laminate and I've already prepped it to a certain extent I have come in with a primer stone coat countertop cells a fabulous primer made for slick surfaces where your adhesion is really really important I use that and I also use xim and it's available on Amazon so this is a great primer make sure that it is a bonding primer it's not just a kilts all-in-one primer or something like that it must be a bonding primer because what you're doing is you're taking your surface that's shiny and you're trying to make an adhesion so what I do is I scuffed up the area with a 220 and applied my my primer I'm gonna go ahead and apply my epoxy finish but I want to for my customer stake as a just being a sample board I'm gonna tape off so that when I pour my epoxy I can pull the tape off and you can see the original substrate on this all right so I want to discuss a little bit of the disadvantages of pouring on location with a countertop that has an integrated backsplash epoxy and it's being being epoxy is always going to run and try to self level because that's the properties of epoxy so your backsplash is going to have less epoxy on it then say your your regular surface and a lot of times you'll come and you'll do a beautiful finish on this back splash and then in the morning you come in your beautiful finish has run down and pulled all in this area right here so I'm going to kind of show you how to get around that but the first thing that you want to do is you want to add a little bit of color pre fog that color so that if it does start to run a little bit and it will you still have some interest back there you still have something for the eyes to focus on so I'll just take a little bit of color and I'm not doing a lot just and I do it over the whole board but I really want to make sure I'm hitting that backsplash like I said I'm not doing a lot I also want to do the same thing to these front corners or these front edges I'm sorry because again that's where the epoxy is going to be running off and it's going to be thinner along this area as opposed to the top [Applause] just a little bit of fogging all right so I'm gonna let this dry and then I'll come back and we'll start working with the epoxy we're back and I've let my paint that I fogged dry meanwhile I mixed ten ounces of the stone coat counter top epoxy i tented it with the white stone coat countertop base and i'm gonna do kind of a look a little wow factor I'm gonna add a little bit of their dust and when I say a little bit I really mean a little bit I don't want that to be the focus of the finish I just want it to kind of catch your eye as you walk past and if there's you know a Sun coming through the kitchen window or something that that's going to catch your eye so I'm just really adding a tiny bit all right and I've done my white base pretty opaque so when I look I'm not really seeing through to the stick it's a pretty opaque color then we're gonna dump that out here all right mix it up just in case my epoxy wasn't all mixed up on the sides I'm gonna make sure I get it now obviously I can't trial it up on to the backsplash but I am gonna get it over the rest of the surface I'm gonna watch my edges all right now you may ask why I'm not using a pure white paint since I'm using a white base and the quit and the answer is as I start doing my marble effect I'm gonna actually be tinting the white base it's gonna have kind of a grayish undertone I guess so if I were to have a stark white base then every place where the epoxy was thin at every break or illness back wall being that my epoxy is not gonna be a true white once I start bringing in some colors that vivid white is gonna pop through and you'll really notice it by going to shade lower which is what I've done here that's gonna give me some depth so that I'm not just looking through the thin epoxy and seeing a stark white background so that's why I've brought in a darker background so I'm gonna start chopping my surface addressing my edges and I'm gonna bring it up on the top you can see I'm just kind of grabbing it knowing that the epoxy is going to run back down and it's gonna pull right here in my corner now I know that so later on in the process I'm actually going to take that epoxy setting up and use it to my advantage all right this one thing you need to make sure you pay attention to is bristle hairs and you can already see where the epoxy is the thinnest because you can actually see down through the epoxy to the under color all right so I'm gonna torch these bubbles out now that's another thing that you'll notice I'm not gonna torch this back area but a bare minimum the more I torch my epoxy obviously the thinner it gets and the more it's gonna run so I'm bare minimum I don't I don't see any any bubbles on my backsplash so I don't really feel the need to use that torch on there same thing with my edges I want to be really careful about how much I actually use that heat torch you can start off with a just a black and as you chop you know obviously your black is gonna mix with a white and give you some Gray's but I I honestly I like to start with a darker gray then I can always get darker with my black and I can get lighter with my lighter grace so I actually do use several shades of grey and I'm gonna be very very liberal with this I'm gonna start off but I happen to know that this particular customer wants a marble that's pretty great I know that she she kind of does want more of a grey and not a lot of white she's gonna have stark white camp cabinets so she wants her countertops to have a little more color in it so I know that kind of going into it so I'm gonna be a little more liberal I guess you would say with my color and I'm just kind of chopping those colors in and letting it kind of start to move and make its own designs now I am putting color back here but I'm not gonna put in a lot of color and I'll tell you why because as this starts to settle you're gonna see these colors drain down and they're gonna start to pull over here in the corner and I don't want that yet I am gonna go back with some more color but I did want to put a hint of color right now but that's about all I'm gonna put on the backsplash right now all right so I'm kind of liking that I'm gonna come in with a different color gray I'm gonna come in with a smoked gray that first one I used was a dark gray this is a smoked gray just a little different shade not a whole lot of variations just a little bit okay so I'm using my heat oh yes I'll just use my torch if you have taste just be really careful that you don't catch that tape on fire and I only tell you that because I've done it alright so I'm gonna hit it just a little bit of the pearl metallic missed in 91% isopropyl alcohol with the mica powders so I'm just gonna hit just a little bit and it's gonna be just like the diamondettes that I put in there I'm not putting enough on there to really cause a wow factor it's just gonna be a hint all right now use my heat gun move it around get that marbled effect going [Applause] and again I'm not gonna be doing a lot on the backsplash okay you can already see how much white I have here and how it's already running off that backsplash so if I hadn't have fogged any color on this backsplash it would just be a solid gray but I knew in advance that it was going to be running off and that I was going to have my pattern end up the little wedge so I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna add a little bit of color now I'm just gonna leave that alone and I'm gonna let this set up for about 15 minutes and I'm not gonna touch it anymore at all I'm gonna walk away and I'm gonna let all of this kind of set up a little bit so I have a little more thickness the epoxy is gonna get thicker so when I go back and I add some color it's gonna want to stay so I'll check back with you in just a few minutes so we're back and I've let my epoxy set for about 15 minutes now it's the temperature in here is is pretty nice I've got my AC on and it's probably 75 degrees I guess it's not gonna set up super fast I have about 45 minutes worth of work time but I'm just bringing in some more epoxy and I'm just kind of painting it on picking up some of this epoxy that's run down here in this void this little curve and I'm just gonna paint it on there same thing with my edges bring in some epoxy even take it off the edge use those strips use the drips from underneath now I'm not going to torch this because if I'm torching it all I'm doing is spinning my wheels because I'm heating up my epoxy again and causing it to just run so now you see I have no color so this is where I'm actually not even going to spray I'm going to come back with the color I had here on my brush and I'm very lightly going to add some color I'm not gonna over chop it because I know that this epoxy is still going to be running just kind of bring it in there so it still has a very natural look and then down at the bottom I'm gonna bring in I'm kind of reach hop so that I can make it all look as if it were done at the same time you can even kind of take that and feather it a little bit to make it look a little more like marble so that I don't have to heat it to get it to have that melded look like the rest of the piece same thing here bring down some color not a bunch all right okay now you'll have up to 45 minutes to keep doing this and you you feel like you need to come back and just keep adding you can keep adding sometimes it's actually a good idea to mix up a little more than three ounces per square foot so that you have some epoxy left in your cup to come back and manipulate that backsplash there we go all right so I'm gonna torch that and I'm not like I said I'm not gonna torch my backsplash I'm just gonna hit it where I chopped and brought in some different colors I'll let it sit and and kind of just keep working this epoxy until I've achieved the look that I like so that's how I take care of that integrated backsplashes it takes a little bit more time a little bit more patience and a little bit more epoxy but you can get that really pretty backsplash to match the rest of your countertop if you just use these these little tips all right well I appreciate you watching today if you have any questions please reach out to me you can find me on facebook on instagram or my website wwlp.com and i look forward to answering any questions that you may have remember if you liked this video give me a thumbs up and subscribe with the little bells so that when I post new videos you'll be alerted or - alright everyone have a great day and thanks for tuning in [Music] [Music]

Channel: RK3 Designs

Views: 39,757

Rating: 4.8555212 out of 5

Keywords: Epoxy, epoxy countertop, resin, epoxy resin, epoxy tutorial, stone coat countertops, integrated backsplash, diy

Id: dlzhgbx816Y

Length: 19min 52sec (1192 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 27 2019