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Planing to paint my concrete garage floor with a black epoxy coating. Anyone have experience with this and if a particular brand is better than another.
I got mine from Lowes got the one that was like 120.00 per box. JUST MAKE SURE YOU MIX IT LIKE IT SAY THAT IS ON THE HARDENER.
If you don't mix it correct it will get hard really fast on you. Plus if what you get has a non slip pack of stuff with it use it for sure. If you get that floor wet & don't use it you will end up on your azz really fast.
Last edited by robert miller; Oct 5, 2015 at 12:59 PM.
The floor in the picture does not look like an out of the box coating. In any case, make sure you prep the floor correctly. There is a difference in "old" concrete vs "new" concrete. In worst case, grinding the surface may get you the best results. Previosly I used "U Coat It" with great success. But it was on a new floor and only required a muriatic acid wash. But it was dangerously slippery when wet. Durability was excellent with zero hot tire lifting.
With this current garage (again "new" concrete), I decided to get a professionally installed coating called polyaspartic. Really like it a lot more than straight epoxy. Not cheap at about $4.25 to $5 a square foot installed. But it is awesome.
The concrete must be absolutely spotless for any coating to adhere properly. I had a company called Premier Garage Coatings do my three car garage 5 years ago and it is just like they did it yesterday. They use a floor grinder / sander in order to get the concrete like snow white before they begin the special glue process and then spread the 200 lbs of paint flecks on the glue. The next day they clean up the loose paint flecks and then put down the patented sealer. Three days start to finish. You get what you pay for.
The concrete must be absolutely spotless for any coating to adhere properly. I had a company called Premier Garage Coatings do my three car garage 5 years ago and it is just like they did it yesterday. They use a floor grinder / sander in order to get the concrete like snow white before they begin the special glue process and then spread the 200 lbs of paint flecks on the glue. The next day they clean up the loose paint flecks and then put down the patented sealer. Three days start to finish. You get what you pay for.
I had an epoxy quartz coating put down. I have a 2- 3/4 garage. As above, the first entire day 2 guys dud the grinder, next day epoxy and quartz, next day vacuum and epoxy and quartz again. Last day vacuum and polyurethane. Also color matched the cinderblocks to the wall color. The great thing is the floor has a texture that keeps it from being slippery, which is needed when we get 120" snow a year, but it still sweeps easily. Done about 1 1/2 years ago for $3,800.00.
Last edited by glava2876; Oct 5, 2015 at 04:06 PM.
Its a lot of work if you plan on doing it yourself. Prep is key. Get oil based, no water based stuff. You get what you pay for.
After looking at my options, I went with Racedeck over an epoxy. The racedeck goes down in two hours, and I can take it with me when I move which sold me on it.
+1 for Racedeck. About $800 shipped for my 10'x16' single-car garage.
Originally Posted by Rguy271
Its a lot of work if you plan on doing it yourself. Prep is key. Get oil based, no water based stuff. You get what you pay for.
After looking at my options, I went with Racedeck over an epoxy. The racedeck goes down in two hours, and I can take it with me when I move which sold me on it.
The key to any epoxy job is that the floor needs to be prepped with a diamond cut blade and roughed up. If you simply paint the epoxy over the floor, the epoxy will lift with hot tires. Especially hot/wet tires.
The floor in the picture does not look like an out of the box coating. In any case, make sure you prep the floor correctly. There is a difference in "old" concrete vs "new" concrete. In worst case, grinding the surface may get you the best results. Previosly I used "U Coat It" with great success. But it was on a new floor and only required a muriatic acid wash. But it was dangerously slippery when wet. Durability was excellent with zero hot tire lifting.
With this current garage (again "new" concrete), I decided to get a professionally installed coating called polyaspartic. Really like it a lot more than straight epoxy. Not cheap at about $4.25 to $5 a square foot installed. But it is awesome.
Most good kits come with a pre-wash. What ever kit you go with go by the book on it on prep & mixing it together.
The company that did my polyaspartic coating took 3 days also. The heavy lifting was grinding the floor. A base coat then application of the "flakes" and the clear coat (2 coats).
I had mine done professionally in a heated and air conditioned garage. After a year or two I had some bubbles and lifting. They redid the whole floor, and again issues, so I went with Racedeck and love it.
I used the Rustoleum two part garage epoxy patch then paint. Like everyone said before...PREP....two hours of work and it came out GREAT. And it was very inexpensive ....I think it was 35 bucks for everything at Home Depot.
Is such tile rugged enough to handle jacking up a car on?
With a good tile that has been installed correctly you will have no problems with jacks, jackstands, dropping tools etc. As others have said in this thread, there is a lot of info on this topic on the Garage Journal forum.
Check out this thread, particularly the video in post #8
I'm a little late but hope to help. Do not buy epoxy kits from Lowes/Home Depot. Those kits are water based and will not last. Specially since you are in Houston. Come in from a hot day and hot tires you're going to peal that water based stuff off. You'll end up doing more work getting rid of it to do it right the next time.
I did my own floors and it's very simple. I would highly recommend you diamond grind your floors first. You can rent a diamond grinder from home depot for a few hours and knock it out. Make sure you were a mask. You do not want to breath that stuff in. I would go over it twice at least. I went over my floors about 3 times. Cleaned it up and did the epoxy the next day.
I used a 100% epoxy and bought the kit from epoxy-coat.com as they had good reviews and decent pricing. If you have any questions or need help let me know. I was a little worried doing it myself but it's very simple and easy to apply. Saved myself $800-1000 in labor cost.
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