What's the best garage floor coating

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My house is 2 years old and the garage floor has minimal grease/oil stains on it. I've been looking at the UCoat products but I'm thinking about putting down a nice concrete stain with a protective coating. Has anyone used either of these and if you have could you please post pics and how long it's been applied. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm in Houston so it's pretty hot and humid down here (if it matters)
 
Ive had experience with the epoxy types and they work really well. I just like the look and feel better than the concrete stain. Just gives the garage a more presentable appearance.
 
I have been told Ucoat is a nice product, but you must etch the floor first with muratic acid and you must follow directions exactly and not rush the curing time. Otherwise hot tires can lift paint.
 
Im putting epoxy in my garage this summer, did some test spots, and it looks great.
 
I agree with Truls, I'll be putting Epoxy in my garage floor too. One of my neighbors did it and he showed me how it looks ad it looks great. I's easy to apply too, I purhcased two kits of it and it came with a video too, haven't seen it just yet but read the instructions and its "souds" easy. I was goin to do it this weekend but I put it off to next weekend (maybe).
 
We did the floor in a shop, transparent epoxy on raw concrete, that looks industrial macho cool..

Im doing the garage floor white i guess, or RED....the EVO would be invisable afters.


BUT the painter and I had on some fresh air masks (or whats its called) when applying it, wasnt any good ide breathing the air afters (some hours)
 
I have the epoxy type for a year now and love it. That last pic with the stand, it wipe right up. Hopefully this week I takes some pics and post them.
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sparkie said:
I have the epoxy type for a year now and love it. That last pic with the stand, it wipe right up. Hopefully this week I takes some pics and post them.
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Your floor looks great, that's pretty much what I'm looking for. Consider yourself lucky I'm not your neighbor, I'd be over there sampling most of your detailing products. :)
 
mliebs8 said:
Your floor looks great, that's pretty much what I'm looking for. Consider yourself lucky I'm not your neighbor, I'd be over there sampling most of your detailing products. :)
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Still haven't got any new pics yet. I need to clean out the wife's e-bay stuff before I take pics...Women!:p
 
That garage looks awesome sparkie makes me wish I could do that to mine, but my garage is just full of boxes.
 
we've got azko nobel indutrial epoxy on ours
Boy that was a bugger of a job. two large rollers and 1000 square metres to cover.

The only drawback with it is that it loses it's look after I've detailed about 20 cars.
 
I am so envious of you guys beautiful garages . I work in mine so much I don't have time to make that beautiful . Guess I will just have to make up my mind to stop clean it out , do the floor and while everything is outside throw most of it away .
 
I had Premier Garage do my floor in textures/broadcast epoxy (along with great cabinets. Very satisfied: cPanel®.com
 
You will need to acid etch the floor with a muriatic acid. Mix the acid with water 4 water:1 acid. You can mop it on with a regular mop. Let the acid fizz and do it thing on the concrete. Next spray out the garage with water to clean the residue. The concrete should now feel like 180 grit sandpaper. Acid stains look great but the problem is the heat from your tires after running on the hot roads. Some acid stains will not hold up to the heat and when you park the tires will cook the coating off. It is called hot tire pick up. This is something you would need to check on. I would say use an industrial coating. I have had good luck with Sherwin Williams Armor seal 1000. It comes in several packaged color. You should be able to find a salesman willing to sell it for about $150 per kit. You can bargin with these guys. 1 kit = 2 gallons. Each part with cover about 250 sq. ft. so you can get about 500 sq. ft. from 1 kit. Anyway i have used this in a barn and oil, gas, chemicals, and hot tires were no problem.
 
Also get a data page on whatever product you use. This should give you the sweat in time(the time you have to wait to use the product after it is mixed) and pot life (how long you have till the product dries in the bucket). flooring coatings are the #1 for having failure issues. Do cut corners on the floor. If you put a cheap coating down and the tires rip off paint, then more than likely you will not be about to go back over the floor with some good stuff. The reason for this is the chemicals used. The lower end will use weak solvents. The good ones use hot solvents and when a "hot" solvents are applied over the cheap stuff you will have a big mess on your hands. Hope this helps!
 
I used the Behr brand single stage epoxy from Home Depot. Do not waste your time with this product. It has been down for less than 6 months and is already failing. I followed every step in the prep process, paint process and cure times. I did a single coat of gray with a single coat of clear on top. I parked on card board for over a week. It is already stained from oil. The wife swept out the gargae from all the slush that fell off the cars from the last snow storm. It picked up some of the floor where the tires rested. I spilled a little bit of goo gone and it just bubbled the stuff up. I am actually planning to call Behr and see what they say.
 
I used an epoxy on my smooth cement garage floor and it ended up lifting all over the place; it looks terrible! I did not etch the cement, I think that is very NB..it was not recommended when I did hte job or else i would have. now i need to decide what i do next.
 
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