Epoxy-Sheild Floor Installed this weekend

I just got inside from washing my truck....and yes, I still love the floor. Very easy to clean. Now for the rest of the garage...it is amazing how messy I can make it in 3 months.
 
Hey guys, I just bougt 5 of these kits to do my new garage (new construction). Will this stuff stick to walls? I was wanting to paint the cement footings in the garage as well (about 2' tall.) Also, I think I'm going to rent an orbital buffer to really clean the floor.
 
One more thing. I'm thinking of filling in the joints w/ some concretete repair filler stuff. Just to make the whole garage seem smooth. Yay or nay? Hope that makes sense. Thanks.
 
PADZZ said:
Hey guys, I just bougt 5 of these kits to do my new garage (new construction). Will this stuff stick to walls? I was wanting to paint the cement footings in the garage as well (about 2' tall.) Also, I think I'm going to rent an orbital buffer to really clean the floor.
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As long as what you are trying to do is smooth concrete...I would say go for it.
 
PADZZ said:
One more thing. I'm thinking of filling in the joints w/ some concretete repair filler stuff. Just to make the whole garage seem smooth. Yay or nay? Hope that makes sense. Thanks.
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I say yea...but remember, prep is everything.
 
I have this on my garage floor too, but I think that no matter what brand you use they all start to peel eventually. Mine has done so very minutely where the car sits, and rain and such drains onto the floor and then sits there. My father in law recently installed tile in his garage, and it looks great. Time to upgrade from a coating to a whole new floor!
 
Given the great preparation that you did on your bare concrete, I think that acid-etch staining would have been a better choice. The finish penetrates deeply and, by definition, can not chip. After nearly 1 year in my garage, it still looks new.



Dean



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And I would say that yours was professionally done judging by the cars in your garage, and the size of said garage. I tried acid etch stain in my living room, and it didn't hold up for crap. It has a lot to do with the concrete you are working with too. I just don't think ours was durable or smooth enough to last. Going back to carpet soon, especially with the new kiddos.
 
Dean said:
Given the great preparation that you did on your bare concrete, I think that acid-etch staining would have been a better choice.
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I am still not sure if that was sarcastic or not.
 
Tasty said:
And I would say that yours was professionally done judging by the cars in your garage, and the size of said garage. I tried acid etch stain in my living room, and it didn't hold up for crap. It has a lot to do with the concrete you are working with too. I just don't think ours was durable or smooth enough to last. Going back to carpet soon, especially with the new kiddos.
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Correct. Acid staining concrete is not a DIY job. I used a local "Increte" contractor. The clear coat solvents are really potent and not friendly to the human respiratory system.
 
DIY is a relative term. Someone is always doing the DIY if you know what I mean. The stain I used is the same your contractor used. Stain-Crete by Increte. Sealed with the same stuff your contractor used, and prepped the very same way. My concrete just didn't hold up to the foot traffic and chair sliding action. The concrete itself started to pop up in chips in high traffic areas. The way to do it is to know you want it done when they are laying the slab and have the concrete prepped for it from the get go. I think 30 years down the line when carpet has been covering it was not the ideal situation. Your garage looks like a million bucks!
 
i've used rustoleum's product in two garages. the curent one's about 3 years into it and the only areas it's chipping is where we dropped a heavy piece of metal. It's a heavily used garage. We've got a project car. And we're constantly spilling fluids, roiling our 600lb table saw back and forth, etc. It is all about the prep. We acid etched and waited a really long *** time for it to completely dry. I have a humidity meter that I used on the ground to check from dryness. Didn't use the chips as we found out the hard way in our previous home the chips don't really give good grip so this time around we used sand.
 
Tasty said:
DIY is a relative term. Someone is always doing the DIY if you know what I mean. The stain I used is the same your contractor used. Stain-Crete by Increte. Sealed with the same stuff your contractor used, and prepped the very same way. My concrete just didn't hold up to the foot traffic and chair sliding action. The concrete itself started to pop up in chips in high traffic areas. The way to do it is to know you want it done when they are laying the slab and have the concrete prepped for it from the get go. I think 30 years down the line when carpet has been covering it was not the ideal situation. Your garage looks like a million bucks!
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I agree, DIY is a relative term. There are some projects that really depend on experience and repetition. That fact that someone uses the same material (i.e. Stain-Crete) doesn't always amount to the same result.



For instance, I imagine that you would agree that DIY dentistry is a bad idea. :nono



Most epoxy floors that I have seen, especially DIY jobs, always end up the same. Peeling and lifting. Some take a few months, some years. I think that the ideal garage floor finish has yet to be developed, but you should look at commercial applications for what really lasts.



Dean
 
The garage looks great! you should add a baseboard to it to give it some really nice definition, I have pictures of garages before and after with baseboard (rubber variety), and its cheap to do!



Now on the epoxies, I've applied epoxies to a few garages, and haven't been overly impressed with them. They seem to lift rather quickly, which make it hard for me to recommend to people to go with an epoxy.



My personal opinion is to go with a floor covering, as your guaranteed a lot longer life out them then the epoxy. As mentioned above the Race Deck is a great product with a 10 year warranty. Another product I like a lot is the G-Floor with a 5 year warranty.



Now the Race Deck, and the G-Floor are both more money then an epoxy... but when you factor in 2 coatings and the prep work to removed the first coat in a few years, that pays for a flooring hands down!



Now this is just my 2 cents....



Cheers,

Quentin

www.TotalGarage.ca
 
If interested in G-Floor, Home Depot lists it on their internet site and claims free shipping on orders over $49. I've looked and can't find an exclusion for free shipping on this flooring.



Goto www.homedepot.com

click on flooring

then click on garage flooring.
 
Hey everyone,

It has been more than 6 months now and it is holding up very well. I have not experianced any chipping or peeling. The only thing I have noticed is a little bit of discoloration in the are under my truck because it was leaking coolant for a few weeks.



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Here you can see some marks in the ground that are not the epoxy's fault by any means.

I burned rubber coming out of my garage one night and this is what is left of the rubber from the tires. I did that about 3 months ago and there was no peeling or chipping as a result of it. I was impressed the epoxy could withstand that.



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I will update it regularly for you all to see. So far, I am extremely pleased.
 
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