SPIKED SOLES FOR EPOXY FLOORING

Spiked Soles For Epoxy Painting

These one size fits all spiked soles are a great insurance policy. Allows you to go back and walk on wet epoxy coatings for touch ups. Also when using Armor Chip or Armor Granite garage floor epoxy kits you can walk around in the wet epoxy making it much easier to apply the chips evenly and allows you to apply the chips to a larger section of applied floor epoxy. Makes getting the job done faster and easier.

See the Must Read tab for a clever way to disperse the chips evenly for a professional looking garage floor epoxy finish. The spikes are required for this technique to work.

Unlike landscape spikes that are much longer and are very slippery in the wet epoxy these spikes are specifically designed to work in wet epoxy.

Here's a series of images sent in by a customer who came up with a simple but yet very effective way to spread the chips out evenly on his garage floor. As you can tell by the pictures he did a perfect job with the chips. This is how he told us he did it.

FIRST GET A PLASTIC CONTAINER, PREFERABLY ONE WITH A HANDLE. DRILL SOME HOLES IN THE BOTTOM, ABOUT 3/8" DIAMETER.

NOW FILL THE CONTAINER HALFWAY WITH CHIPS, HOLD CONTAINER SIDEWAYS UNTIL YOU ARE IN POSITION THEN TURN CONTAINER UPRIGHT SHAKE CONTAINER WHILE WALKING IN THE EPOXY WITH YOUR SPIKE SOLES(MUST HAVE THE SPIKES). THE CHIPS WILL NOT COME OUT UNTIL YOU START SHAKING AND THEY WILL FALL STRAIGHT DOWN OUT OF THE CONTAINER. ONCE YOU'VE DONE A SECTION TAKE A STEP BACK AND LOOK FOR BARE SPOTS, IF YOU HAVE A SECOND PERSON THEY CAN ACT AS A SPOTTER. FOR BARE SPOTS JUST WALK UP TO THEM IN YOUR SPIKED SOLES AND ADD A PINCH OF CHIPS WITH A LITTLE SHAKE OF THE CONTAINER TO FILL IN.

AS YOU CAN SEE THIS METHOD RESULTED IN A BEAUTIFUL CHIP PATTERN THAT IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS. THE ARMOR GRANITE KITS INCLUDE A PAIR OF SPIKED SOLES, WITH ARMOR CHIP THEY ARE PURCHASED SEPARATELY.