Garage Floor Coatings

[68EFIvert]

I used Epoxy Coat after much research. My floor has been down for 5+ years now and holding up well. The clear top coat tends to yellow where exposed to the light so keep that in mind when selecting a color. Here is a link to the product.
http://www.epoxy-coat.com/residential
I has held up well to welding (small burn spots where slag falls) and is easy to clean up. I even had paint overspray on it and cleaned it off with some pretty aggressive solvents and it held up fine. Heck it has even stood up to a master cylinder that was leaking brake fluid for months without problems.

[Razzor67]

Sherwin Williams also makes a commercial grade floor epoxy. I use it in my shop it covers about 12000 square feet and has held up well for the last 14 years.
Ray

[slimjim]

I used Epoxy Coat after much research. My floor has been down for 5+ years now and holding up well. The clear top coat tends to yellow where exposed to the light so keep that in mind when selecting a color. Here is a link to the product.
http://www.epoxy-coat.com/residential
I has held up well to welding (small burn spots where slag falls) and is easy to clean up. I even had paint overspray on it and cleaned it off with some pretty aggressive solvents and it held up fine. Heck it has even stood up to a master cylinder that was leaking brake fluid for months without problems.

I spent the hour prior to starting this thread reading up on epoxy coat and it is probably top of my list, a few repetitive bad reviews caused me to enquire. bud good to know what it can withstand. Did you use the flakes? its controversial that they use them on top of a single coat, but you're saying you also used a clear coat. I have a windowless garage so I shouldn't have a yellowing issue.

Sherwin Williams also makes a commercial grade floor epoxy. I use it in my shop it covers about 12000 square feet and has held up well for the last 14 years.
Ray

Sherwin Williams commercial grade rexthane and 1000hs are also considerations, I have their SDS sheets and it threw me off that they say they may exhibit tyre marks, which could just be them covering their a**es seeing that it is very popular for commercial use.

[68EFIvert]

I spent the hour prior to starting this thread reading up on epoxy coat and it is probably top of my list, a few repetitive bad reviews caused me to enquire. bud good to know what it can withstand. Did you use the flakes? its controversial that they use them on top of a single coat, but you're saying you also used a clear coat. I have a windowless garage so I shouldn't have a yellowing issue.

My floor is grey with the 3 color blue/gray/white chips. The yellowing on my floor is from leaving the garage doors open. If I were to do it again I would use the beige floor to hide this a bit more. The floor hold up to just about everything I have thrown at it. About the only thing that has caused damage is when something hits it hard enough to chip or scrape the concrete. You can scratch it if you have something sharp sliding on it but sliding floor jacks, jack stands and that kind of stuff doesn't damage the floor. I did my 5 car garage in a few hours and then put the clear coat on the next day.

I will say that if you are pouring the floor make sure it is clean and there is not a sealer coat on the floor. My builder put a sealer coat on the floor without checking with me and I spent an entire weekend with a diamond grinder taking it off. That really sucked! Like sheetrock work I will hire someone to do that if I ever have to do it again.

[slimjim]

I also have the Sherwin Williams commercial, absolutely love it, 9 years later and not a mark. Not even from my scissor lift steel wheels rolling back and forth with a car on it.

From what you can remember did you use the two-part epoxy or their single component product? they were raving about the single component being better than the two-part and the rep had applied all 3 of their products on a section out back to compare and the finish between the 2 were identical. The 3rd was just a waterbed epoxy not recommended for a garage.
Price wise it's the same.

My floor is grey with the 3 color blue/gray/white chips. The yellowing on my floor is from leaving the garage doors open. If I were to do it again I would use the beige floor to hide this a bit more. The floor hold up to just about everything I have thrown at it. About the only thing that has caused damage is when something hits it hard enough to chip or scrape the concrete. You can scratch it if you have something sharp sliding on it but sliding floor jacks, jack stands and that kind of stuff doesn't damage the floor. I did my 5 car garage in a few hours and then put the clear coat on the next day.

I will say that if you are pouring the floor make sure it is clean and there is not a sealer coat on the floor. My builder put a sealer coat on the floor without checking with me and I spent an entire weekend with a diamond grinder taking it off. That really sucked! Like sheetrock work I will hire someone to do that if I ever have to do it again.

That's good to know, I actually hadn't considered the benefit of the yellowing appearance on the beige floor. I was planning on the gray until now. I've already etched my concrete, I'm not entirely happy it is uniform so I will do it again. But mine is just a 2.5 car garage.

[Tincup]

Sherwin Williams also makes a commercial grade floor epoxy. I use it in my shop it covers about 12000 square feet and has held up well for the last 14 years.
Ray

I also have the Sherwin Williams commercial, absolutely love it, 9 years later and not a mark. Not even from my scissor lift steel wheels rolling back and forth with a car on it.