Last summer we bought a modern house we've always wanted. Wanted a bigger garage but this is pretty much as good as gets in Miami. The garage had been painted with H&C when it was built in 2007. For anyone thinking of going this route, you can see what it looks like five years later. In any event, over the last 6 months we got the rest of the house sorted. Now it's my turn to fix up the garage. I already put up racks across the ceiling, now the floors, then the entire back wall will be filled with blue Saber cabinets and work bench, flat screen, compressor, mini split, etc., etc.
I put down uCoat epoxy in my last house. It was a pain and I always worried about it coming up. Because of the previous coating, I was not in the mood to prep the floors in this house. I was actually going to leave the floor but you know how that goes. But then I thought about Racedeck. Close to $1500 to do my garage (minus discount). Then I started reading here and discovered that people had done porcelain tile.
I found my tile on CL. 12*24 inch concorde atlas italian rectified porcelain tile for $2 a foot. It's beautiful and the contractor I bought it from said it was $9 retail. He was going to use it for a commercial job that went south. He seemed a bit surprised it was going in a garage. Anway, good deal. Picked up 500 ft. Was going to install it myself but subs are so cheap here. The gc I bought the tile from gave me a recommendation for a tile sub who is going to do the job for $500 + materials. So we should be right around $1800 for this install--not a bad premium over Racedeck.
We bought 15 bags of thinset, 2 bags of grout, and Star Bond to apply to the surface--to help the thinset bond to the previous H&C coating.
Today, we chalked the center of the garage. Then he applied the Star Bond. Tomorrow he's going to lay the tile in a 1/3 offset bond pattern (thanks for the idea Dakota). Then he's going to grout on Tuesday.
**Finished pics are on 3**
This is now:
I put down uCoat epoxy in my last house. It was a pain and I always worried about it coming up. Because of the previous coating, I was not in the mood to prep the floors in this house. I was actually going to leave the floor but you know how that goes. But then I thought about Racedeck. Close to $1500 to do my garage (minus discount). Then I started reading here and discovered that people had done porcelain tile.
I found my tile on CL. 12*24 inch concorde atlas italian rectified porcelain tile for $2 a foot. It's beautiful and the contractor I bought it from said it was $9 retail. He was going to use it for a commercial job that went south. He seemed a bit surprised it was going in a garage. Anway, good deal. Picked up 500 ft. Was going to install it myself but subs are so cheap here. The gc I bought the tile from gave me a recommendation for a tile sub who is going to do the job for $500 + materials. So we should be right around $1800 for this install--not a bad premium over Racedeck.
We bought 15 bags of thinset, 2 bags of grout, and Star Bond to apply to the surface--to help the thinset bond to the previous H&C coating.
Today, we chalked the center of the garage. Then he applied the Star Bond. Tomorrow he's going to lay the tile in a 1/3 offset bond pattern (thanks for the idea Dakota). Then he's going to grout on Tuesday.
**Finished pics are on 3**
This is now:
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