Recent content by wrigh003

Hi all- Haven’t been through in a while, but finally am back on garage improvements. Life been lifing- teenagers keep you hopping. Anyway- recently got a couple circuits added for welder and bigger compressor, which is exciting and all, but as part of that I also got a circuit put in for a mini...

After years of browsing this forum- I’m actually looking into planning a little 20’ wide by 20-30 deep shop behind my house. Not a massive place, but what will fit in my little lot if I can get the HOA on board. Million steps to go through before we start, but we do live in a tornado zone and it...

I’ve been a member here forever, but never did manage to make any headway on the old place we lived in for 15yrs. The whole house needed rebuilding, and we were busy raising kids- so the garage stuff just never got done. Anyway. Sold that one, bought a new place couple years ago, coated floor...

Thomas- man. Back when I made the 1.0 version of the index of this thread, seems a billion years ago, I thought you just HAD to be close to done with the shop and whatnot. How wrong I was. :LOL: I was working in one of those office gigs where there was a lot of downtime and not a whole lot of...

Crisis management results. Overall? Turned out to be no real big deal. There's a little textural difference where the chips aren't locked down by the clear top layer, but not much, and it's pretty well invisible. Still curing/ drying, but it's walkable now, and I don't see the seams of the fix...

I used polyurea in mine, and the garage has little stem walls up the sides. I just cut in those stem walls and a bit onto the floor with a cheapie chip brush, then backrolled over it. I would say in your situation that would be the same way to do it. Epoxy might be a little trickier since you...

Yeah - I definitely sat in silence, squatted down with my head in my hands for a few minutes, and then I think I went and got a beer. I don't think I yelled even once, which I was surprised by too. In the end, she beat herself up over it way worse than I would ever do, and besides - done is...

Minor tragedy, glad I have some leftover color coat. Guess whose wife thought he was done with the floor and drove her van straight in onto the wet final coat on her side of the garage? If you guessed me, you win a hearty congratulations. I'm not thrilled at her, but after the initial shock...

I just (15 minutes ago) rolled out the last of my topcoat for the floor. Topcoat is hard to see, especially by the dim light of one bulb and a garge door opener light, but I think I got it all. I won't miss this smell, but I'm happy with the floor turnout. Not saying I'll have glamour shots...

Funny to see this come up. My wife saw what my garage floor was looking like, noted that it was nice but not exactly sparkly, and wondered aloud whether bass-boat sparkle levels would be possible in the floor. I'm not sure we'll try it in the main garage- but if we do the shed, we very well...

I spent a lot of time away from this board. Haven't surfed much in some years, really- life happened and our kids have been growing up and frankly garage/ gearhead stuff just faded into the background for a while in favor of family stuff. NBD, it just happens. One of the reasons I came back was...

It does get easy to have that old "champagne taste/ beer budget" problem around here. Slow and steady - no need to do it all in one go. Unless you just won the lottery, in which case... rock on. I like seeing the threads where people evidently did something like that - nice for inspiration...

So- quick update. I went with ArmorPoxy's polyurea product. I had no issues getting it down, and it worked out really well for what I needed, which was flexibility in application. I racked all my tint and color coat together in a big bucket so it'd all be the same color, which made it so I could...

Well - the big moving day was yesterday. We had way, way more stuff coming from the old house than I thought, so my plan to just wedge everything into the unused spaces in the house, do up the garage floor real quick, let it cure, and then move whatever back in... didn't work out. Current status...

Went with a polyurea coating from one of the sponsor vendors here. Hopefully everything goes as planned and I can get this done before the move. I've got the time, but there may be a late night or two mixed in somewhere. I'll post results and/or a process thread once I get going.