This is my first post, but I have been lurking around for little bit now, and found everyone's information and experiences invaluable.
I am getting ready to take care of my ugly concrete floors in my garages and barn pretty soon. I have two garages, I'll call them My Garage and the Family Garage. My garage is about 450sf and I use it to basically store my toys. The Family Garage is close to 750sf and true to name is the daily driver/kids equipment/light duty shop garage. My barn is around 2000sf and I use it for vehicle storage as well as weekend/hobby shop space. I will be installing a 4 post lift later in the year.
For My Garage I am pretty set on using the Race Deck free flow system and think it will look great with my cars, and as it won't get a lot of dirty cars in there, should stay clean.
I guess where I am looking for advice is on the Family Garage and my Barn. I originally went into the project thinking I would just do an epoxy floor on both of them, but through various posts on here I have moved away from that thought process.
For the Family Garage I think with the amount of abuse it makes sense to have a solid membrane system, so I stared looking into the polyaspartic coating installed by a professional.
In the Barn, after reading on here, I was leaning towards going with VCT with a clear epoxy sealer over the top. I like the ability that the VCT gives you to get creative and break up some of the large space with different color tiles.
The polyaspartic installer came out to give me a quote, and they broke it down for the different spaces and gave me a discount if I used them on all three spaces. The polyaspartic system is a little bit more than I was looking to spend, but there is something to be said to have them come out and do it all.
I have a couple questions, one has anyone had experience using different colors with the polyapartic and doing different designs on the floor, if so, how much of an upcharge for this over one color. Second, the choice between VCT and Polyaspartic, is the Polyaspartic worth the extra cost? Appreciate everyone's 2 cents! Also posted some photos of the two garages as they sit now, Thanks!
Andrew
I am getting ready to take care of my ugly concrete floors in my garages and barn pretty soon. I have two garages, I'll call them My Garage and the Family Garage. My garage is about 450sf and I use it to basically store my toys. The Family Garage is close to 750sf and true to name is the daily driver/kids equipment/light duty shop garage. My barn is around 2000sf and I use it for vehicle storage as well as weekend/hobby shop space. I will be installing a 4 post lift later in the year.
For My Garage I am pretty set on using the Race Deck free flow system and think it will look great with my cars, and as it won't get a lot of dirty cars in there, should stay clean.
I guess where I am looking for advice is on the Family Garage and my Barn. I originally went into the project thinking I would just do an epoxy floor on both of them, but through various posts on here I have moved away from that thought process.
For the Family Garage I think with the amount of abuse it makes sense to have a solid membrane system, so I stared looking into the polyaspartic coating installed by a professional.
In the Barn, after reading on here, I was leaning towards going with VCT with a clear epoxy sealer over the top. I like the ability that the VCT gives you to get creative and break up some of the large space with different color tiles.
The polyaspartic installer came out to give me a quote, and they broke it down for the different spaces and gave me a discount if I used them on all three spaces. The polyaspartic system is a little bit more than I was looking to spend, but there is something to be said to have them come out and do it all.
I have a couple questions, one has anyone had experience using different colors with the polyapartic and doing different designs on the floor, if so, how much of an upcharge for this over one color. Second, the choice between VCT and Polyaspartic, is the Polyaspartic worth the extra cost? Appreciate everyone's 2 cents! Also posted some photos of the two garages as they sit now, Thanks!
Andrew
