glass cast is a unique epoxy resin designed to produce a beautiful hard-wearing and UV stable clear coating for flaws bar tops woodwork projects and more in this tutorial we'll show you how to use glass cast to create a stunning glassy penny floor including preparing the floor working out how much resin you'll need and the correct procedure for mixing and pouring the resin to ensure you get the unmistakable glass cast results let's start by running through the main things you'll need for this project first stop for a candy floor is pennies lots of them the number you'll need will depend on the size of your coins the coin calculator on the glass cast product page can work this out for you you'll also need a sealant gun loaded with a high quality DIY adhesive to stick the pennies down and we recommend grouting your pennies so you'll need black grout and a squeegee the glass castration of course will show you how to work out how much you'll need shortly and the correct mixing buckets are essential you'll need two of them we'll explain this properly later in the tutorial when mixing the resin you'll need a good mixing stick basic safety gear and a spreader glass cast self levels allowing it to produce totally flat glass like appearance but this does mean that your floor must be perfectly flat before you begin if you're unsure check with the spirit level the resin itself will do a great job coated là gì Tín Phát of bonding the pennies to the floor so you only need a thin bead of DIY adhesive to hold them in place the one we're using here starts off white so you can see where you've put it but then cures clear which is ideal although sticking the pennies down is straightforward it takes a long time depending on the size of your floor we recommend using strong alcohol on friends or family when persuading them to help once you've got all your pennies stuck down we suggest grouting the floor we'll do this with a rubber squeegee and a Ready Mix black tile ground grouting around the pennies does a few things firstly it seals the floor ensuring that resin can't leak down through any gaps secondly it gives a great looking dark contrast around the pennies and finally it creates a flatter surface to pour the resin onto which results in a smoother flatter finish of the cured floor once you're done it's essential to leave the grout to fully dry because glass cast is sensitive to moisture and if the grout isn't fully dry then it will react and could spoil the appearance finally sweep or vacuum to remove dust or loose material from the floor how to work out how much resin you'll need is a really common question but thankfully we can suss this out with a simple song for a penny floor you'll need 2 kilograms of glass cast per square meter of floor our small demonstration board here is 1.
25 by noir point eight meters multiply them together and we get one square meter we just need to multiply the 1 square meter of floor area by the 2 kilos of resin per square meter to find that we need 2 kilograms of resin for this 1 square meter demonstration most floors are a lot larger than this and will often need 10 20 or more kilos of resin the success of your glass cast project will all come down to the mixing and pouring procedure if you're about to do this for real pay close attention to this section glass cast uses a two-to-one mix ratio by weight that means you would mix one kilo of resin with 500 grams of hardener this is not the same as two-to-one by volume so use electronic scales not a measuring jug to mix the resin you'll need two buckets number them one and two and make sure they're plenty big enough for the batch sizes you'll be mixing thoroughly mixing large batches of resin by hand is very difficult and slow for most floors you'll need to mix and pour in smaller batches doing so also reduces the risk of the resin overheating or curing in the bucket when attempting to mix larger quantities so stick to a maximum of 5 kilos per batch to demonstrate the batch mixing process on our demo board we'll do to 1 kilo mixes thoroughly mix the red in in bucket one making especially sure you're scraping the sides the corners and the mixing stick itself after about three minutes transfer the mix to bucket – it's really important to just pour don't scrape the resin from the first bucket by double potting in this way we ensure that no one mixed resin from the corners or sides of the container can ever end up on your floor mix the resin for another three minutes and then straightaway pour your first batch of resin starting at the furthest point of view floor you then need to get straight on with your next batch the procedure for each additional batch you mix is exactly the same start with bucket one make sure you zero your scales and then weigh out exactly twice as much resin as hardener mix thoroughly for three minutes and then pour the mix from bucket one to two mix thoroughly again for another three minutes and then immediately pour the new batch onto your floor so that it combines with the resin already on the floor depending on the size of your floor you may need to do some spreading out of the earlier batches before you've mixed and poured all of your resin when you do come to spread the resin and not spread alike this works great use it to gently steer the resin into the sides and corners when you first pour the resin you will see tiny bubbles in the resin itself from the mixing process but you shouldn't worry about these a tall glass cast is a very special formulation which
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after only a few minutes will start to react and drive out any air bubbles trapped within it all that's left to do now is keep the room as dust free as possible whilst the resin cures how long this takes will vary depending on temperature the optimum cure temperature for glass cast is 20 degrees C which should mean that the resin is touched dry in 24 hours and ready for light traffic in about 48 hours but when your floor looks as good as this be sure to leave it as long as possible and test a small area for hardness first although we focused on pennies in this tutorial there's a million creative services you could pour glass cast over this final floor has been made using real dance singles or maybe you've got a drawer full of beer bottle tops which could be turned into a floor or tabletop and here we've poured glass cast over dry carbon fiber fabric for real high-tech appearance whatever project you've got in mind glass cast will ensure a stunning lasting finish for your creative ideas if you have any questions at all just get in touch with our helpful team and if you've not done so already place your order today and get your project started.