How we pour — Epoxy Design PRO

In the shop

Slab to mirror. Five steps, no shortcuts.

Every floor Epoxy Design PRO lays starts as the same two-part resin these tables are cast from — same degassing, same cure schedule, same person watching the pot life. The difference is that a table is inspected from eight inches away, so it's the harder test. Watch us pass it, then decide about your garage.

4 years air-dried · kiln to 7%

The slab picks itself

We buy rough-sawn and air-dried, then kiln down to 7% moisture. A slab that isn't dry will move after the pour and split the resin, so this is the step nobody sees and everybody pays for. The end grain gets chalked with the ring count — that number follows the piece all the way to your invoice.

Both faces machined · all voids sealed

Flat, then flatter

Both faces get CNC-flattened against a torsion box. Then every knot, check and insect track is flood-sealed — miss one and the pour finds it overnight and drains through onto the floor. Live edges keep their shape; only the bark comes off, by hand.

2" lifts · degassed · 6-day cure

The pour

Deep-section resin goes in at about two inches per lift, degassed between lifts, because thick epoxy generates its own heat and a single deep pour will cook itself cloudy. Tint is built up across passes so colour deepens with depth instead of muddying. Then six days of nobody touching it.

Sanded to 3000 grit

Sanding is most of the job

Up through the grits to 3000. This is where a cheap table gives itself away: stop at 400 and the resin stays hazy, skip a grit and you leave a scratch that only shows once the oil goes on. There is no shortcut and no machine that does it for you.

Hardwax oil · repairable finish

Oil, not plastic

Hand-rubbed hardwax oil rather than a sprayed lacquer shell. It sinks in instead of sitting on top, which means a scuff sands out and re-oils in an afternoon instead of needing the whole top stripped. It's the same argument we make about a floor coating you can maintain.

Why you should care

A garage is the easier pour.

Everything above is the same discipline that decides whether a coating lasts fifteen years or peels in two.

Moisture is the killer
A slab that isn't tested for vapour drive delaminates a floor exactly the way a wet slab splits a table.
Prep is the product
Diamond grinding a garage is the same job as machining a slab flat: the bond is mechanical, or it isn't a bond.
Cure time isn't padding
Rushing a cure is how a floor goes cloudy and how a river table cooks. We publish the schedule and we keep it.

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The resin bench

On the bench right now.

Every floor we lay starts as the same two-part resin these tables are cast from. If you want to see how we handle it before you hand us a garage, start here.