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slomaro3.4

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Found an installer I liked now I’m just figuring out what flake colors I want for my floor. Any design opinions? Being near Pittsburgh I like the steel city one, but is that too busy with OSB walls? He is using Torginol colors.

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slomaro3.4

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Also if anyone has advice, since I've already mounted my maxjax, do I:

1. remove the posts and tape over the holes or fill them with cotton balls or something (leaning this way)
2. leave posts in place and epoxy around
 

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You have my FJ in your garage. Good taste in cars, not so fond of the floor if you are doing work in there. Part of my decision making process is picking a floor color also. While gray is perfect, it seems boring to me. I may go light blue, no flakes.
 

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Light colors, in satin or semi-gloss tend to work the best for spaces where there's lots of work going on. They help reflect light without being too mirror-like, are easy to clean spills from and don't hide things that fall. The downside is that anything that spills and stains will standout if not cleaned up completely before they can attack the coating. Lots of solvents, and petrochemical based things, both liquids and solids, will attack almost any of the normal coatings when left in contact for longer periods of time.

Our hangar floors are semi-polished concrete with some type of sealant, with a light gray mushroom epoxy where the suction danger zone is located. If you look closely, you can see tire tracks on the gray from repeated contact. That tracking comes from hundreds of movements aross the same path, over several years.

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What is the tiny flake stuff called?
I ran across some of that in a campground building in the bathrooms. They used the product on shower floors. It looks and feels like epoxy coat but the flakes are tiny. The floor was grippy and yet seemed like it would be easier to clean vs large flake. The smaller flakes have less camouflage effect. The small flakes didn't look so busy.

In my garage I have large flake with high color contrast and full dense coverage. My woodshop has large flake with low density coverage. I prefer the low density flake coverage when items drop.
 
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slomaro3.4

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Light colors, in satin or semi-gloss tend to work the best for spaces where there's lots of work going on. They help reflect light without being too mirror-like, are easy to clean spills from and don't hide things that fall. The downside is that anything that spills and stains will standout if not cleaned up completely before they can attack the coating. Lots of solvents, and petrochemical based things, both liquids and solids, will attack almost any of the normal coatings when left in contact for longer periods of time.

Our hangar floors are semi-polished concrete with some type of sealant, with a light gray mushroom epoxy where the suction danger zone is located. If you look closely, you can see tire tracks on the gray from repeated contact. That tracking comes from hundreds of movements aross the same path, over several years.

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I considered polishing concrete too, I love how easy epoxy cleans up though. Dope picture!
 
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slomaro3.4

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You have my FJ in your garage. Good taste in cars, not so fond of the floor if you are doing work in there. Part of my decision making process is picking a floor color also. While gray is perfect, it seems boring to me. I may go light blue, no flakes.
Thanks on the FJ, I’m 100% working in there. I feel like my whole shop’s look right now is sort of bland
 
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