Recent content by Atamido

This is for a brand new house, with no previous garage coatings, oil, etc. Ideal for something new, but I'm on a budget so won't be doing polyurea. I'm curious if the TLK500TC kit needs a second gallon of polyurethane to completely fill in the flakes with 12lbs of flakes over 400sqft. What's...

The polyurea systems are nice, but outside of my budget. @Shea: I really do like the guides. They do a great job of distilling out a lot of the information in a way that simply wasn't available when I did my first floor. Thanks. I do plan on at least doing a heavy spread, and living with any...

I've been searching for the past several hours and have found these two options explicitly mentioned in the forums: Devoe Devthane 379UVA Aliphatic Urethane Gloss Enamel Paint Legacy Industrial: HD322 high performance urethane Benjamin Moore Corotech High Gloss V515 Aliphatic Urethane Coating...

What polyurethane top coat should I get to put over a two part epoxy for the garage floor? History: I did my garage floor 5.5 years ago using two coats of Rust-Oleum EpoxyShield Professional (a 2-part epoxy), and then a top coat of EpoxyShield Premium Clear Coating for a clear top coat...

What I liked: 1. After close to two years, it is holding up like new. We part two cars on it everyday (Rav4 and Honda Fit) with no hot tire pick up. We live in central Texas, so the tires definitely get hot enough. My 2yr old left a rock right at the lip of the garage that I ran over, and it...

What I would have done differently: 1. I should have just purchased a decent breathing mask to apply the etching acid. I risked damaging my breathway and it took much longer. 2. I liked that the 18" roller covered more area with each stroke, but with how sticky the epoxy was it took a lot of...

Steps to complete: 1. Washed the floor with a hose and broom, and tried to use a scraper to get any globs of dripped paint 2. I etched using acid I purchased at Home Depot. Muriatic acid, I believe. I've used it before, but forgot just how dangerous the fumes were. It was a 3 car garage...

It's been 1 year and 8 months since I've done my garage floor with epoxy I really wish I had taken the time to respond before now when everything was fresh in my mind. I also wish I'd taken some pictures, but I was in a hurry. We moved in, and I think I etched the first night, waited a day or...

They put up the sheetrock and painted in the garage, and I have a few concerns. 1. You can see some paint splattered on the edges of the concrete. It doesn't completely cover the concrete and the edge isn't going to be seeing much stress. Should I be worried about cleaning it off before I...

Kudos on getting your garage fixed up. I would suspect that because the poly bonds strongly to the top of the epoxy, that the epoxy will bonded pretty strongly on top. It certainly won't be as strong as the same thickness in epoxy, but it'll probably be stronger than the original design...

I hadn't seen this mentioned before, and hadn't thought about it. Is it necessary to seal any joints in the concrete before applying epoxy?

Yes, definitely get some anti-slip. Both Home Depot and Lowes sell anti-slip additive. However, the most popular kind seems to be SharkGrip, and I saw some at Lowes last night. (Online Lowes has the pictures swapped for the sizes. :confused:) Familiarize yourself with the packaging look of...

Agreed. Although in this case the Rust-Oleum Epoxy Shield Professional is solvent based, not water based. I was just making the point that solely using a % solids statistic was not a basis for declaring an epoxy better/worse in comparisons of cost (or performance). Epoxy-Coat may be a far...

I haven't done my floor yet, so take these answers with a grain of salt. 1. Color is totally personal preference. From pictures, it appears that most people go with gray. I stopped by the local Lowes tonight and they had a hanging thing in front of the concrete paint that showed the gray and...

@Roger555: In my head I'm imagining that the seal between the garage door and painted surface will be much better than the garage door and concrete. That should hopefully reduce any chance of leakage underneath, but I don't know that it matters. At least if it yellows at all over concrete, it...