4SFEDZ

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i want to do a coat on my garage floor with something that will protect it from chemicals, look good i would like it kinda shiny, and not slick if it gets wet! what do yall recommend?

ulakovic22

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How long do you want it to last and how much do you plan on spending?

4SFEDZ

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cheap as possible.

Nauticalstar

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I did the epoxy from home depot in gray. its shinny and i added the paint chips. they are black, blue, white, gray. i love it. it gets slippery when wet =P I spent $120 for 2 kits because i did a 2 car garage.

Mikes99SS

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You could always do a clear coat on the concrete. it's pretty cheap

WeeWolf

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I believe they sell a sand that you can add also to keep it from being so slippery, but that coating works awesome if you let it dry properly.

Franco

I spent like $350 on the floor, Armstrong 12" Comercial Tile from Home Depot, I have had it for about a year and park on it every night not a single problem.

Brickyard

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Thats a pretty sweet garage ^^.

My parents are planning on the Home Depot epoxy, I'll post up how it works after I get conscripted to put it in lol

night ryder

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for me the epoxy was good for a little while then the color started getting to me, and wished i had never done it. once you do it, you do it, no turning back. i also had snowmobiles i would drive on it and the carbides would chip them up pretty bad. glad i dont live there anymore, because the garage floor got to me

99problemz

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Any pics of your garage?

Trans Am Jam

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I just painted my dad's garage with gray home depot floor paint ...mad cheap....looks pretty damn good.

slayer_taunu

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i used U-Coat-It... came out nice, but it was a little pricey. about $600 to do a 2.5 car garage

ulakovic22

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Did you do that here at the apt. complex or somewhere else?

bigfatls6

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I used the Homedepot stuff and it is crap. Any time any kind of gas or any thing like that gets on it it bubbles up and comes off. Its a waste and doesn't last. I did mine a year ago and I am fixing to redo it again. I will probably do it with tile this time.

99problemz

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Was the big *** spider included with the $600?

rooster99ss

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that's exactly what i plan on doing. that PVC tile is really the cheapest and best looking option, and it's probably the easiest to install

Ovidiu

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I'm in the process of doing mine, but I got some high end industrial grade epoxy (Wolverine Coatings). Cost is around $3/sqft, depending on options... That being said, it seems to be indeed really good quality.

z28evans

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www.garagejournal.com has some good info on garage floors.

here are a few of mine taht i did last summer:





Benjamin moore industrial epoxy, has held up good so far. Spill oil? Wipe it up, mop up dirt and oily messes, etc.

djjab57

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thats the way discount tire has there shop floor and it is slick when wet, i dont know how they walk on it . im also planning on painting my garage floor but have not seen the do it yourself products done in person, they are not very much except for one. the u coat it kit, but i have seen this one and it looked great but like i said a little pricey for the kit

chupr0kabra

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I did my previous house's garage with the over the counter Rustoleum product Lowes sells. It was a 2 car, and even though one kit should be enough, I ended up using two kits, because I had to do one half of the garage at at time.

Moral of that story: don't mix the epoxy and the paint until you're ready to lay it out. It will become a puck.

I didn't like the way the chips looked, so I didn't use them. That was a mistake. When wet, the floor was VERY slippery.

Also, after a couple years, the spots where the tires came to rest started peeling a bit. Nothing major, but noticeable.

On the plus side, that floor saw oil, blood (mine...stupid shock install), trans fluid, coolant, brake fluid, differential fluid, Coke, beer, cat pee, and all sorts of other fluids, and nothing left a stain. Everything was one wipe with a damp paper towel or Clorox Wipe away from being clean.

The only thing that was at all hard to get cleaned up was sesame oil (a little concerning, since that's something you actually EAT), but some scrubbing with Dawn got that done.

In the new house, I wanted something a little more durable. I looked into having Home Depot come out and do their professional stuff, but MY GOD that is expensive. I forget the exact numbers, but it was a few THOUSAND dollars for the three car garage.

I'll probably end up doing VCT tiles instead.


-Mike