Best cost effective flooring

[RazorSVT]

Hey all, time to redo my garage floor. I moved into this place 5 years ago and the floor was stained red. I cleaned it well with prep and epoxied using Rust-Oleum Epoxyshield Garage Floor Coating Kit and their clear coating kit. The floor looks horendous now and is peeled off a lot of places due to years of moving a 4 post lift around and 4 hard winters of de-thawing the truck out.

Should I just prep it all again and go with another epoxy kit? Maybe a gel kit? I would love doing black and white checker tiles like racedeck or something but really I don't want to spend too much $ in this place because I don't know how many more years I will be keeping it.

Some opinions?

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[Pig In A Poke]

If you're thinking of selling leave it be, as who ever buys it won't like what you did anyways. If your staying, wait a year and collect soda bottles then tile it or epoxy it.

 

[Jinks]

Black & white Racedeck tiles will move with you. If the new shop is bigger or shaped differently you only need to buy a few to make necessary adjustments....

 

[azula]

I second the racedeck vote. Very good looking and portable as mentioned above

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Gents, a well done epoxy garage floor is a nice selling point especially when matched against comparable homes.

We get recommended by many local realtors for this reason.




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[RazorSVT]

If you're thinking of selling leave it be, as who ever buys it won't like what you did anyways. If your staying, wait a year and collect soda bottles then tile it or epoxy it.

I want to enjoy it for 1-2yrs then sell.

Black & white Racedeck tiles will move with you. If the new shop is bigger or shaped differently you only need to buy a few to make necessary adjustments....

Fair enough and I would love to, however $2-3000 is not in the budget right now.

Gents, a well done epoxy garage floor is a nice selling point especially when matched against comparable homes.

We get recommended by many local realtors for this reason.


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I agree if done right they look amazing. The problems I'm having right now is getting a floor grinder with a carbide/diamond wheel. I called the only local rental place and they have the machine and sanding or polishing wheels only. Is there any other way to get this old epoxy off? I'm guessing a 7" angle grinder would take forever to do 700sqft eh?

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Hire a local person. I used to say kid but all the kids I know are too busy with the thumb sports.


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[thomasj1]

I'd also just leave it and let the new buyers decide what garage floor they want

 

[Garage Flooring]

So my wife and I are getting ready to sell a car. The salesperson who we know explained to us, don't trade it in. Take it to the local detail place and get their best detail package. Make it look nice and it will sell for more. People in their minds over estimate the costs of fixing things and add a hassle factor.

What size is the garage and I will get you some cost effective ways to make it look nice. Not total square footage, what size and what wall is the door on.

 

[CNGsaves]

Grind it back to bare concrete . . . . Surface prep, surface prep, surface prep !!

New owner will want your botched prior floor attempt removed.

If above prep takes you 2 years . . . . then you'll be ready to sell !!

If you're done faster than that, go with quality epoxy floor paint & enjoy.

 

[RazorSVT]

So my wife and I are getting ready to sell a car. The salesperson who we know explained to us, don't trade it in. Take it to the local detail place and get their best detail package. Make it look nice and it will sell for more. People in their minds over estimate the costs of fixing things and add a hassle factor.

What size is the garage and I will get you some cost effective ways to make it look nice. Not total square footage, what size and what wall is the door on.

I totally agree with that analogy. It's 28' wide with 2' built cabinets running the length of the wall, 30' long with the 2' wide bench running the length of the wall. So 26'x28' of flooring to do. The man door is on the right side near the front, then two 7'x9' car doors.

Grind it back to bare concrete . . . . Surface prep, surface prep, surface prep !!

New owner will want your botched prior floor attempt removed.

If above prep takes you 2 years . . . . then you'll be ready to sell !!

If you're done faster than that, go with quality epoxy floor paint & enjoy.

Yes definitely a lot of prep to do but I cannot get my hands on a floor grinder with the right wheel. :/

 

[Garage Flooring]

I totally agree with that analogy. It's 28' wide with 2' built cabinets running the length of the wall, 30' long with the 2' wide bench running the length of the wall. So 26'x28' of flooring to do. The man door is on the right side near the front, then two 7'x9' car doors.



Yes definitely a lot of prep to do but I cannot get my hands on a floor grinder with the right wheel. :/

If you can get the Clark sander locally, we lend out our Diamabrush coatings removal tool. We charge you for it upfront and when we get it back we give you credit less $100 to cover shipping and insurance in both directions. At this time that offer is only available to those who use our coatings.

If it was me, I would grind it, prime it, and put down a GOOD high solids or 100% solids epoxy system. I find the high solids easier to work with -- and really interesting is that our high solids has just as much solids as some of our competitors 100% solids

Then we would add a top coat based on where you are at.

 

[Compy222]

As another option the G-Floor style vinyl mats might be worth considering. 10x22 55mil mats are around 250 each. They are mobile and prwtty easy to use. You can pick any color you want too.

 

[RazorSVT]

If you can get the Clark sander locally, we lend out our Diamabrush coatings removal tool. We charge you for it upfront and when we get it back we give you credit less $100 to cover shipping and insurance in both directions. At this time that offer is only available to those who use our coatings.

If it was me, I would grind it, prime it, and put down a GOOD high solids or 100% solids epoxy system. I find the high solids easier to work with -- and really interesting is that our high solids has just as much solids as some of our competitors 100% solids

Then we would add a top coat based on where you are at.

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As another option the G-Floor style vinyl mats might be worth considering. 10x22 55mil mats are around 250 each. They are mobile and prwtty easy to use. You can pick any color you want too.

I have 23x27' of floor to cover so would need three rolls. This is what it costs here in Western Canada! http://www.garagestrategies.com/gfloor.htm

 

[sqznby]

Sorry RazorSVT, (bad *** car by the way) I hate to hijack your thread but I'm also in need of some epoxy flooring.
My floor is bare and pretty clean, never been covered.

Is there a solid white epoxy mix available?
Any info would be appreciated
Thanks

 

[RazorSVT]

Well I've been thinking about it and with the unavailability of the grinder/ diamabrushes in my area and about the value amount of my time to do a professional epoxy system. I have decided to do three overtime shifts to pay for racedeck or motofloor tiles. It's what I've always wanted to begin with but thought I'd save my money doing epoxy, turns out it won't be much cheaper considering time involved. Anyways, when I do it I'll throw up some pics.

all and thanks for the info!