What's the latest on garage floors??

[GRB]

It's time to paint the new floor. Lift is in. My neighbor wants to go in together and get that black & white snap together tile deal. Seems to me it boils down to Rustoleum Epoxy (Lowes has alot of different colors, prep. etc.), Groits or U-Coat-It. Looks like U-Coat-It is the best but may be overpriced. Anybody try the Rustoleum or something else that works well? BTW - the floor is six months old now.

[indyjps]

garagejunkies.net, these guys discuss coatings for pages.

[DarrenX33]

My brother-in-law just finished his garage. He used medium gray POR-15 on the floor. Came out great! You know that stuffs never coming off. I think I will do the same.

[SamLBInj]

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My brother-in-law just finished his garage. He used medium gray POR-15 on the floor. Came out great! You know that stuffs never coming off. I think I will do the same.

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How was it prepped, According to the instructions you 1st have to wash it down with degreaser, then a coat of etching primer, then a coat of sealer primer, then the paint...can you skip a step or two here?

[DarrenX33]

I am thinking that they just washed the floor and dried it well before coating. They decided it would make a great floor coating when my nephew spilled some while using it on his car. They tried everything to get it off. Then the light bulb went on.

I'll double check that prep info for ya.

[SamLBInj]

Thanks, Im also in the process of the garage floor thing..I got 2400 feet to cover..Missing one step will save the back much anguish..

[92646]

I have been involved in putting car dealerships together for years. We used to epoxy floors and every time there was a problem with the floor covering lifting off the concrete. The manufacturer would say it was because the installer did not prep the floor properly. Moisture would get between the two surfaces and cause bubbles. You may want to consider using tile on the floor. It costs more but we expect to get 25 years out of the floor versus the 5 years we experienced with epoxy. If you do go with epoxy please do not skip any preparation steps because you will have problems later on.

[SamLBInj]

Ceramic tile on a showroom would be fine, but for a garage where you work on cars it would be a nightmare, you would recite every bad word you knew while trying to use a creeper,its slippery when wet, and oil will get in the grout(even if you seal it it still stains), and God Forbid if you ever dropped something somewhat heavy on it.
A working garage floor needs to be stain proof, bullet proof, blood proof, ect. and made easy to wash down and clean up. I have water lines and air lines set up all over for symplicity. The only thing that im regretting not doing was installing hot water baseboard heat in the slab...

[92646]

The picture I attached is a 40 stall Toyota dealership shop with in ground lifts, not a car showroom. We have granite floors in there. We have learned over the years to go with dark grout and let the oil seal it instead of epoxy grout. The tile has a texture to it that makes it less slippery than epoxy floors. The only down side that we have experienced so far is broken tiles because of a tool being dropped or someone using a lift with steel wheels but we replace those tile as they break.

[SamLBInj]

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The picture I attached is a 40 stall Toyota dealership shop with in ground lifts, not a car showroom. We have granite floors in there. We have learned over the years to go with dark grout and let the oil seal it instead of epoxy grout. The tile has a texture to it that makes it less slippery than epoxy floors. The only down side that we have experienced so far is broken tiles because of a tool being dropped or someone using a lift with steel wheels but we replace those tile as they break.

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