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When using lambswool applicator to apply sealer and wax after acid staining, how do you keep it from showing the "lint" when you use it the first time? Also, how do you keep the sealer and wax from making little bubbles? Is there anything you can do to get rid of the bubbles if they are already dried?
While there are lint free lambswool applicators you usually need to brush them with your palm or brush to remove lint. Bubbles are usually put in the product with stirring or dipping. If you pour on floor after letting it stand in pail for a while after mixing you can avoid some bubbles. You can also mop the acid stain with soda water to help stop chemical action as acid reacts with cement causing gas. Be carefully not to change the look of your stain. If dried a light screening with 100 grit and a rotary scrubber will shave off imperfections. Then coat again.
Best of luck
Harvey Chichester
www.concrete-floor-coatings.com
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Harvey Chichester
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Concrete floor coatings, repair, decoration etc.
Experience
Harvey Chichester is a well published principal of Durall Industrial Flooring, a company with more than 40 years experience in developing special flow-coatings for industrial and residential floors. Automotive and shopping centers, breweries, food processing plants, manufacturing plants, airplane hangars, car washes, kennels, warehouses, printing plants, residential basements, pool decks, and condominiums are among some of the facilities in which he has installed floors. http:\\www.concrete-floor-coatings.com
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Durall Manufacturing, Bloomington, MN, is the only industrial flooring manufacturer that also makes over 500 specialty cleaners. Durall’s 40 years of flooring chemical manufacturing experience has produced a special preparation of cleaners and an application system assuring optimum flooring adhesion and wear results. Durall provides factory-direct support for these new products. Kits of materials are customized to owner specification and delivered directly to the job site. Kits include full directions and 24/7 help lines staffed by seasoned flooring experts, so professionals and amateurs alike can successfully install a quality floor. Visitors can obtain free, job-specific quotes on materials or nationwide turnkey installations by completing a simple questionnaire at www.concrete-floor-coatings.com. This full-service concept allows anyone to enjoy the benefits of industrial strength floors successfully
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Google shoes over 3,000 publication listings where articles of Harvey Chichester are presented
Education/Credentials
MBA, BSB, BA University of Minnesota
Past/Present Clients
Pillsbury, General Mills, Iowa Beef, Cremates, Japs Olson Printing, Banta Printing, Airforce, Coast Guard, Marines, Northwest Airlines etc.
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