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What are your thoughts on Garage Floor Coatings?

Tango

Tango

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Who had had their garage floor done? What are your thoughts? Polyurea base, Polyaspartic clear coat. Colored plastics chips in between. Damn this stuff is not cheap! 15 year warranty, lifetime against yellowing. Epoxy coating. 5 year warranty. They also grind down the concrete and fill in the cracks. :thumbup: Tom :spyder:
 
Had our lower shop done. Expensive but bullet-proof. My opinion? If you're going to stay and you're going to use it. It's well worth the effort to go with the good stuff. Otherwise, you'll always wish you had.
 
Tango said:
Who had had their garage floor done? What are your thoughts? Polyurea base, Polyaspartic clear coat. Colored plastics chips in between. Damn this stuff is not cheap! 15 year warranty, lifetime against yellowing. Epoxy coating. 5 year warranty. They also grind down the concrete and fill in the cracks. :thumbup: Tom :spyder:
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If this is for an area in a commercial with very high traffic go with Ron's suggestion. If for your home go with the epoxy. I did my garage with Epoxy 20 yrs ago, and only had to touch up a couple of area's, a couple of times.... The key is in the PREP, before you apply it ..... It's your money .... good luck .... Mike :thumbup:
 
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The diy products from Home Depot and Lowe’s do not hold up and are like ice in the winter when there is any moisture on them.
 
We have epoxy now. In a year it has started to come up. Chip here and there. Big spot from the truck's tire. I know the prep was not done correctly. Builder did it for free. Yes, I know we paid for it somewhere else. LOL :thumbup: Tom :spyder:
 
I did my garage, shop, and patio about 15 years ago with an industrial epoxy. The stuff they use in refinery oil storage tanks, purchased from an industrial coatings supply. It has held up exceptionally well. If you do any welding and cutting, the molting slag will leave burn marks. As others have said, prep, prep, prep. The only time it has ever chipped is when very heavy steel, such as a big brake rotor, has been dropped on the floor. But then the epoxy chip has concrete stuck to to the bottom of it.
 
The key to any epoxy floor coatings ability to last is a good prep job on the concrete, and actually having good concrete to start with. It is possible to repair crappy concrete, but the price for that goes out the roof.
 
EdMat said:
The key to any epoxy floor coatings ability to last is a good prep job on the concrete, and actually having good concrete to start with. It is possible to repair crappy concrete, but the price for that goes out the roof.
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I think this is true with any surface coating you decide to use.
 
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