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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>What do you mean "if the concrete was messed up"
please? </FONT></DIV>
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<A title=jason@amicusgreen.com href="mailto:jason@amicusgreen.com">Jason
Holstine</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 27, 2011 3:01
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Greenbuilding] Redoing all
floors</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Hi Andy,<BR><BR>Tell that to my own concrete, when a
customer decided to spill a gallon of paint, and we used our soy-based paint
stripper and it tore right through the spilled paint, sealer, and soy-based
stain so the concrete ended up looking bare. It doesn’t have to be an
acid etch to “etch” up the sealers. Ultimately, the success of the
approach depends on the concrete and how deep these finishes/stains were
allowed to get. If the concrete was messed up, they may well be sitting
more on top than in it.<BR><BR><BR><BR>On 7/27/11 3:49 PM, "Andrew Pace"
<<A
href="andy@safebuildingsolutions.com">andy@safebuildingsolutions.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=1><FONT face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Jason...acid etching the concrete won’t remove the
sealer and paint stripper won’t remove the stain. Acid etching only
works when the acid has “access” to the free lime in the concrete. The
sealer...seals it...so this isn’t an option. The stain should be in
the concrete and not on top of it, so stripping wont be effective. The
only way to remove the sealer and stain would be to shot blast.
<BR><BR>Andrew Pace<BR>Green Design Center® <BR>Waukesha,
WI<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On 7/27/11 2:36 PM, "Jason Holstine" <<A
href="jason@amicusgreen.com">jason@amicusgreen.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Can you etch the concrete to remove the current
sealer, strip the stain with paint stripper, let the concrete properly dry
and cure, then go back and stain and refinish?<BR><BR>Also – any concrete
will naturally have a certain unpredictability in the finish pattern, with
random burnishing and highs and lows of color. So I typically recommend
take advantage of that, fly with it, and stain with a creative, random,
very cool stain pattern. You won’t know what’s mistake/old mess-up and
what’s intentionally part of the
pattern.<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT
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