View Poll Results: What did you do to your garage floor?
Epoxy that thing
55
53.40%
Tile is the best way (please give opinion which you prefer)
20
19.42%
I like my garage floor like I like my women... naked.
28
27.18%
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Epoxy or tile
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2016
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From: Florida
To me, it's a vanity thing. Purely cosmetic. Impossible to justify. I can make a better case for encapsulating a crawlspace, for example. Or ceramic-tinting the windows on the entire house in order to save utility cost. Same thing for epoxy on the driveway--I don't get it. Unless your expoxy is glow-in-the-dark so you can have a minorly-illuminated driveway at night without additional accent lights--it's just cosmetics. Not much different than slapping exposed-carbon-fiber /carbon-fiber-look parts on to everything. Probably why both are popular with the Corvette crowd.
There are better places to spend money. Some of y'all on here have museum-quality garages with immaculate details, adornments, exhibits and features; and a house attached to it featuring boob-lights with incandescent bulbs, formica countertops, 1" plastic venetian blinds and/or plastic roller shades, contractor-grade toilets, drop-in showers, popcorn-ceilings, etc. I wouldn't be surprised to find some of y'all have pastel green toilets/tubs and 1"-2" floor tile in the bathrooms that was state-of-the-art in 1965. And Hex-lights are like nano-leaf lights for the garage-obssessed (vs. the gamer/den obssessed); overplayed and of dubious versatility.
I get it. Some people would rather live out of their garage. Grease-monkey junkies to whom living indoors is an anathema. I mean if that's you--go for it. But then why have a house? Get a 40x80 steel building and make a barndominium with "finished living space" a tiny afterthought of the floorplan. When garage space is 50% of your floorspace--then sure, epoxy that bitch. When your garage is just an undersized, stamp-pad, 2 or 3 car bay mostly added as a seeming afterthought--why bother?
/rant
p.s.
Do stilt-house owners in FL and the like--epoxy their grade-level? I don't recall ever seeing it done. Must be pointless.
There are better places to spend money. Some of y'all on here have museum-quality garages with immaculate details, adornments, exhibits and features; and a house attached to it featuring boob-lights with incandescent bulbs, formica countertops, 1" plastic venetian blinds and/or plastic roller shades, contractor-grade toilets, drop-in showers, popcorn-ceilings, etc. I wouldn't be surprised to find some of y'all have pastel green toilets/tubs and 1"-2" floor tile in the bathrooms that was state-of-the-art in 1965. And Hex-lights are like nano-leaf lights for the garage-obssessed (vs. the gamer/den obssessed); overplayed and of dubious versatility.
I get it. Some people would rather live out of their garage. Grease-monkey junkies to whom living indoors is an anathema. I mean if that's you--go for it. But then why have a house? Get a 40x80 steel building and make a barndominium with "finished living space" a tiny afterthought of the floorplan. When garage space is 50% of your floorspace--then sure, epoxy that bitch. When your garage is just an undersized, stamp-pad, 2 or 3 car bay mostly added as a seeming afterthought--why bother?
/rant
p.s.
Do stilt-house owners in FL and the like--epoxy their grade-level? I don't recall ever seeing it done. Must be pointless.
All four of the garages I epoxied were/are working garages. If you're "active" in a garage and you have any spills of any kind, epoxy cleans right up. An oil spill on concrete is permanent until the end of time. A spill of any petroleum on tiles in no picnic either. Epoxy just keeps cleaner and is far easier maintenance than concrete or tiles.
I've built complete cars on these floors:
I've built engines from the ground up on these floors:
I supercharged and tuned this C6 over these floors. In fact did dozens of tunes here.
I've easily done 25 brake jobs on these floors. And all is on the same floor which varied in years, up to 12 years old. Look closely at the floor in any of the pics and see if you can find any:
Chipping
Peeling
Wear
Tire marks
Anything
Last edited by BlindSpot; May 30, 2024 at 10:49 AM.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2015
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From: Southwest Florida
Epoxy is garbage and one of the worst things you can put on a floor. The sh*t dont last but a few years, and it's a waste of money. I went with Polyurea/Polyaspartic with the chips. Comes in many different colors. It was around $4000 to do 24x24 garage. Came with a 15 year warranty, and it was done in one day. Couldn't put any vehicle on it for 72 hours. It's 4x stronger than epoxy coated floors. It's easy to clean, it's textured and you can't slip on it.
That’s why I had this company install my epoxy floor. 90% of the floors they install are for commercial buildings, car dealer maintenance buildings, aircraft hangers, etc.
Last edited by Maxie2U; May 31, 2024 at 04:01 PM.
