I did U-Coat-It on my garage floor before I moved into the new house. Three years later it is in very good condition. Brake fluid and oil are no problem. There are a few scuffs from jack stands and tool marks. I would do it again.
I did U-Coat-It on my garage floor before I moved into the new house. Three years later it is in very good condition. Brake fluid and oil are no problem. There are a few scuffs from jack stands and tool marks. I would do it again.
Yep, I know about vapour barriers. I am in a house that I dont think has anything under the concrete. My rubber mats will have water, not just condensation under them in two days. I made the concrete contractor redo the vapour barier in the new house because I wasent satisfied. He said "It O.K. It O.K." I said make me happy or leave. With the new housing slump he was happy to oblige. 
I bought the Quickrete gray from Loews. Power washed the garage with an industrial quality radial washer, Used my cleaner and theirs according to instructions. Rolled on the product and let it cure for 4 days. My Bridgestone R-1's still took it up when parked. Then in the shop portion, I found my office chair bringing up the surface. Contacting Loews they replaced the coating for me. Contacting the Quickrete people, they could not believe my issues; thinking prep was the problem. As i talked to them, I applied blue painters tape to my shop for 3" x 4' and yanked 80% of the coating off of the floor. The garage part has held up well since only allowing some coating to come up where a lot of old chemicals had soaked in. The shop I recovered in hardwood.
I've seen some great epoxy floors in shops and garages! The best ones are done by pros, though. And they can last for years, if done with industrial grade product and installed properly. I think the home store kits are probably not the commercial grade product most of us are looking for. A buddy of mine had good success with this company (you can actually get a real person on the phone every time you call): Florock. Good luck!
What no one has mentioned is that you have to let the concrete cure for months before you apply epoxy. By that point, all your stuff is in the new garage and it is impossible to paint the place cause you have nowhere to put the crap while painting. AND you probably have a bunch of oil stains that have to be cleaned before painting coating and what the heck, I just spent the budget on more MG parts rather than bother!
Before you pour the floor , get the heaviest plastic you can find. I think there is a plastic made just for that. Two part epoxy floor paints are very exspensive even if it's a DIY. And not easy to put down . Get the floor polished before the frameing goes on so that all the corners and door area's are smooth and then put a cement sealer on just like the big box stores .
A concrete sealer might be ok, but that florock with a sprinkle of those colored chips just looks so much better - and brighter. My pal's garage looks like a showplace! I was impressed with how the reflective floor improves visibility UNDER the vehicle -- even when we used the same lighting as before. I don't know that you'd get that with a clear sealer, since the concrete is so dark...
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In reply to jmendez25:
Do they sell canoes also?
bravenrace wrote: In reply to jmendez25: Do they sell canoes also?
Yeah, they're made from epoxy and they're damn sticky!
Jack wrote:foxtrapper wrote: If those epoxy coatings and such worked, we'd have used them in the hangers and jet shops.Get up to the Sikorsky facility in CT. It's all coated in troweled on epoxy. I can't speak for other facilities, but I helped put those floors in. Jack
Our Coast Guard hangars are epoxied too. I would have thought that would be bad practice- aviation is very careful about fod, so if there were peel, it could really damage engines etc, but I never saw peel. That floor was old too.
Teh E36 M3 wrote: That floor was old too.
So is this thread.
another canoe?
When has there been a thread that was zombied by two different paddlers?
In reply to alfadriver:
The zombies are multiplying, time to get your ZAVs ready
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