Garage Floor Coatings

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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.