Can anyone recommend the best Epoxy garage floor coating?

My dad tried every kind they make... Not much difference between 'em all... Just expect to have to repaint often... It'd be interesting to experiment with plasti-dip?

 

No personal experience with epoxy. I used a concrete hardener/sealer. It seals the floor and makes the surface of the concrete harder. It's not as pretty as epoxy but it will never chip unless the concrete itself is chipped. You can get clear or colored, if you use clear the floor looks pretty much like normal concrete except oil and paint spills can be wiped clean if you don't let them sit too long. Warehouses and bigbox discount and hardware stores usually use it on their concrete floors.

Sorry, but I don't remember what brand I used.

 

Good news/bad news is that the prep work is the same amount of work for any coating if you want it to last.

 

It will cure at a lower temperature, but will be gummy/sticky longer in the cold. Have you thought about the floor tiles? Just snap together, nice surface of any kind. I just have regular concrete in my garage but it is heated and then I sweep out the gravel from the driveway every few weeks. It stays clean and still looks nice. I figure once you paint it, seal it, enhance it, coat it, or whatever else to it you are stuck forever. Basic concrete is basic concrete and looks ok. Do stuff to it, and it looks even better until you need to maintain it later because the car rubbed it away in a certain area, and now you have to blend or redo the entire thing.

We've parked cars inside in all our houses and the most we have done in any of them was a couple houses back we did the rubber tile floor. Simple solid colour, and when a tile got wrecked for some reason, it was a 10 minute fix and you could never tell.

 

This reminds me... our town has some neighborhood groups that decided to brighten up their intersections with a giant mandalas and my friend who mixed up the basic outdoor housepaint whispered to me "I mixed concrete in with the paint." And here we are a half-dozen years later all the other neighborhoods that painted mandalas washed away in our town's famous heavy rains, but the one he mixed with concrete in the paint is still there....

 

Costco also has a selection of mats and tiles.

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Not saying its the best, but I used the Rustoleum expoxy garage floor product from Home Depot. That was probably 7 years ago. So I am thinking of doing it again sometime. It looked good for a 3-4 years now it is looks older. Couple problems with the product are sometimes tires take the paint off the floor, also it fades if exposed to sun. I will try to touch up the bare spots with spray paint, hoping the expoxy holds to that better than the bare floor. The fun part of the job was sprinkling the color chips over the wet paint.

 

it's all about prepping the concrete. i saw them do it on 'this old house'. it's a big job to do it right. of course, i have no idea how that held up...

 

I put down the rustoleum product about 4 years ago and it's still holding up fine. The centerstand on my motorcycle will scratch through it so I need to be cautious and use a rubber mat.





I needed two kits to cover my entire garage plus a small tool room and the old flormica counter in there.



You need to really clean the surface really well prior to application.

 

It's not too bad except front right tire is sits on an area where the prior owner apparently had oil leaks from his car and it soaked into the cement.

...looks interesting I will give that brand some thought if I do it over again next spring. It's too cold here to try it now. SoCal you probably can do it now!

Fotomoto- nice work! I especially liked the matching shelf.

 

If you use a hardening sealer, you basically can't scrape it off. You can still scrape and gouge the concrete, but the sealer becomes one with the concrete. Look in a Home Depot or Lowes where the forklifts operate and you might see some examples of scrapes in the concrete from forklifts. You can still scrape or gouge the concrete, but since the sealer hardens it, it's harder to scrape