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Guys I am renovating my garage, was wondering what you would recommend? For the floor ?
currently it’s tiled in a off white, it’s only used for 3 sports cars and 3 bikes, no workshop or oil / dirty work takes place in it nor do I store anything so it’s a clean room.
im having the walls skimed with creatstone And may just seal that leaving a natural look, I don’t want a floor that lifts or Is not able to work with vehicles turning? So a hard wearing floor would be great.
So would like to know about epoxy ? Or similar, any advise ..do’s don’ts and so on....
Had a company apply epoxy along with what appears to be vinyl flakes finished with a sealer to my garage floor. Preparation is the key. Monster machines removed the top layer of the concrete floor prior to the process. They assured me that a floor jack and jackstands would not harm the finish. You need professionals to do this. DYI process is useless. Can sent you a pic if it helps.
Had a company apply epoxy along with what appears to be vinyl flakes finished with a sealer to my garage floor. Preparation is the key. Monster machines removed the top layer of the concrete floor prior to the process. They assured me that a floor jack and jackstands would not harm the finish. You need professionals to do this. DYI process is useless. Can sent you a pic if it helps.
make sure to get a good warranty... my epoxy garage floor finish started failing about a year later with tire heat causing the finish to flake off... contractor would not correct... said it was a product failure not prep or install...
I don't remember thr product used but it was a multistep process to clean and etch concrete, the a base coat, color coat with flakes and a hardened clear finish...
Had a company apply epoxy along with what appears to be vinyl flakes finished with a sealer to my garage floor. Preparation is the key. Monster machines removed the top layer of the concrete floor prior to the process. They assured me that a floor jack and jackstands would not harm the finish. You need professionals to do this. DYI process is useless. Can sent you a pic if it helps.
By far the most durable this floor is 14 years old. It's all in the preperation. Expensive but worth it.
Not sure where you are located, but here in the Chicagoland area, I was referred to a company called Broadleaf (I have no affiliation) and they epoxied my garage floor.
(even if you are not in this area, their website has lots of inspiration pictures)
The cost was just over $5K for a 5-car garage. It has held up incredibly well.
And yes, as others say, most of the work (and thus cost) is in the preparation.
I have replied to your email and I am more that happy to sent you some pics and videos of the process. I had this done when I added a third car garage to my existing two car garage. The process took an entire day and I believe I had to keep the cars off for 4 or 5 days. (It took that long for the smell to evaporate) No DYI can duplicate this process, it requires some pretty heave duty concrete cutting machines. (see attached pic) along with some foul smelling epoxy stuff.
I have replied to your email and I am more that happy to sent you some pics and videos of the process. I had this done when I added a third car garage to my existing two car garage. The process took an entire day and I believe I had to keep the cars off for 4 or 5 days. (It took that long for the smell to evaporate) No DYI can duplicate this process, it requires some pretty heave duty concrete cutting machines. (see attached pic) along with some foul smelling epoxy stuff.
thank you 👍
no email yet
but following your advise thanks
Not sure where you are located, but here in the Chicagoland area, I was referred to a company called Broadleaf (I have no affiliation) and they epoxied my garage floor.
(even if you are not in this area, their website has lots of inspiration pictures)
The cost was just over $5K for a 5-car garage. It has held up incredibly well.
And yes, as others say, most of the work (and thus cost) is in the preparation.
When I built my new house and shop I looked into doing the epoxy fancy floor but the cost was just off the scale and I also still planed on doing more restoration work using jack stands and floor jacks and despite what they told me I wasnt buying it .
I did want a solution to the concrete dust as it was brutal .
my shop is 32X40 . Its dirty in the pic and its been recoated since this pic and has more shine . This was first coat on bare concrete.
I searched around until I found someone who sold oil based epoxy floor paint . I bought a shed load of it .
I also bought a shed load of Varsol .
the first coat went onto a clean bare concrete floor but it was 50/50 paint/Varsol so it soaked right into the concrete .
Since then I-have recoated it with another coat of about 75/25 Varsol .
Its standing up to the abuse very well considering and its cheap to redo it every couple of years .
The odd bit of hot tire pick up but nothing that I cant live with .
it cost about 100$ CAN to do it , epoxy was about 15K .
We even did the same finish on our basement rec room floor with rugs here and there to break up the grey .
Last edited by Vantagelvr; 06-12-2020 at 05:27 PM.
I used Granite Garage floors, which are all over the nation. I agree with what others have said that it really needs to be done professionally. For our 3 car oversized garage I believe it it was about $5,000 and honestly it's some of the best money we've spent. I love being in my garage now.
06-11-2020 | 02:43 PM
