This weekend I finally finished up my Supercoat garage project. I spent alot of time on this site reading about what worked, didnt work, problems, issues , prep etc.. Good Information to be found here!
I chose Supercoat because a buddy used it a few years ago & his looks really good still. He treats his alot harsher than I will treat mine ( welding etc). I will be doing routine auto work in mine ( I say that now but who knows what hidden projects will happen to the 65 GTO) .. plus wrenching on my motocross bikes. Also looked into epoxycoat & durall.
Here is the main part of the garage with the frige , freezer & some storage moved out into it from a 10x10 area I did first..
I rented a shot blaster for $500 but it broke in 15 seconds. They told me it would be 2 weeks to fix it. That really ticked me off as I had everything planned out. So off to plan B.. Acid Etching. I really wanted to avoid this but I went to home depot & bought a few gallons on the nasty stuff & then to HEB for 5 - 4lb boxes of baking soda. So I acid etched sections & scrubbed it with a stiff garage broom, after a bit neutralized with baking soda & rinsed 2 times with water & sqweegy & then pressurewashed & squeeged. Then I used a hand grinder to rough up a bit more where the cars will be.
Here is the floor drying out...
Due to weather & work I didnt get to tackle the floor for over a week... Here is the 1st coat ...
Day 2 - 2nd coat with flakes...
The wifey threw most of the flakes out & decided to do the steps in a heavier coat. Note - we added the dark blue, metal flake silver chips. The standard color is white, black & cobalt blue which kinda gets lost in the grey. Oh & some of the white ones are glow in the dark which look neat at night.
Day - 3 1 coat clear & the anti skid..
Day 4 - 2nd clear coat & more anti skid...
close up of floor flake pattern..
I used the 2 part top clear coat as opposed to the standard glaze coat that comes with supercoat. The 2 part clear is lots more durable than the reg glaze coat esp to chemicals , oils etc...
I talked to Dawn, Brian & Ken @ supercoat & they were all very helpfull & easy to contact.
I guess my only gripe is in 2 areas you can see where i started & stopped rolling to throw the flakes out because the grey is slightly off color to the other 75% of the floor. Its like 1 shade too light. But its hard to notice & is where the car/truck will be parked. Otherwise really happy with how it turned out.
I chose Supercoat because a buddy used it a few years ago & his looks really good still. He treats his alot harsher than I will treat mine ( welding etc). I will be doing routine auto work in mine ( I say that now but who knows what hidden projects will happen to the 65 GTO) .. plus wrenching on my motocross bikes. Also looked into epoxycoat & durall.
Here is the main part of the garage with the frige , freezer & some storage moved out into it from a 10x10 area I did first..
I rented a shot blaster for $500 but it broke in 15 seconds. They told me it would be 2 weeks to fix it. That really ticked me off as I had everything planned out. So off to plan B.. Acid Etching. I really wanted to avoid this but I went to home depot & bought a few gallons on the nasty stuff & then to HEB for 5 - 4lb boxes of baking soda. So I acid etched sections & scrubbed it with a stiff garage broom, after a bit neutralized with baking soda & rinsed 2 times with water & sqweegy & then pressurewashed & squeeged. Then I used a hand grinder to rough up a bit more where the cars will be.
Here is the floor drying out...
Due to weather & work I didnt get to tackle the floor for over a week... Here is the 1st coat ...
Day 2 - 2nd coat with flakes...
The wifey threw most of the flakes out & decided to do the steps in a heavier coat. Note - we added the dark blue, metal flake silver chips. The standard color is white, black & cobalt blue which kinda gets lost in the grey. Oh & some of the white ones are glow in the dark which look neat at night.
Day - 3 1 coat clear & the anti skid..
Day 4 - 2nd clear coat & more anti skid...
close up of floor flake pattern..
I used the 2 part top clear coat as opposed to the standard glaze coat that comes with supercoat. The 2 part clear is lots more durable than the reg glaze coat esp to chemicals , oils etc...
I talked to Dawn, Brian & Ken @ supercoat & they were all very helpfull & easy to contact.
I guess my only gripe is in 2 areas you can see where i started & stopped rolling to throw the flakes out because the grey is slightly off color to the other 75% of the floor. Its like 1 shade too light. But its hard to notice & is where the car/truck will be parked. Otherwise really happy with how it turned out.
