telekinetic
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I'm looking at doing a no-flake aircraft-hanger looking floor. I want it to be durable and UV stable. It is a 2-car working garage, and will see jacks, jackstands, engine hoists, hot tires (Phoenix, Arizona summers), and general fabrication and woodworking shenanigans. No welding yet...
I was going to do the usual flake floor, but I dropped a C-clip at work the other day in our lab which has flake floors and it took me twenty minutes with a flashlight to find it. Nuts to that!
I would love a system I could DIY install in a 3-day weekend so we can start moving tools into it and out of storage to work on the REST of the projects in the house.
I'm trying to keep it close to $1/sqft (It's about 480) if I can, but I'm willing to trade money for convenience up to about $2/sqft as long as I'm not also trading durability.
Should I just get an epoxy floor kit with 100% solids and leave out the flakes? I was leaning towards the Legacy HD-322 Pigmented Urethane for a top coat but I didn't know what to put under it. I've also looked at the Legacy Xtreme PolyAspartic line, but I'm not sure how well it works standalone, how easy it is to DIY, or what kind of surface prep it requires. I'm not afraid to bite off a big project but if I'm setting myself up for frustration I'd rather know it going in.
Is there another non-epoxy floor option I should be considering to get the aircraft-floor-type-finish? I'm not picky about gloss vs semi, there is never snow on the roads and I don't wash my car in the garage so slip resistance isn't much of a concern.
It's thanks to this forum that I'm not just buying 2 of the big box $70 kits and expecting it to be awesome, so thank you for that already.
I was going to do the usual flake floor, but I dropped a C-clip at work the other day in our lab which has flake floors and it took me twenty minutes with a flashlight to find it. Nuts to that!
I would love a system I could DIY install in a 3-day weekend so we can start moving tools into it and out of storage to work on the REST of the projects in the house.
I'm trying to keep it close to $1/sqft (It's about 480) if I can, but I'm willing to trade money for convenience up to about $2/sqft as long as I'm not also trading durability.
Should I just get an epoxy floor kit with 100% solids and leave out the flakes? I was leaning towards the Legacy HD-322 Pigmented Urethane for a top coat but I didn't know what to put under it. I've also looked at the Legacy Xtreme PolyAspartic line, but I'm not sure how well it works standalone, how easy it is to DIY, or what kind of surface prep it requires. I'm not afraid to bite off a big project but if I'm setting myself up for frustration I'd rather know it going in.
Is there another non-epoxy floor option I should be considering to get the aircraft-floor-type-finish? I'm not picky about gloss vs semi, there is never snow on the roads and I don't wash my car in the garage so slip resistance isn't much of a concern.
It's thanks to this forum that I'm not just buying 2 of the big box $70 kits and expecting it to be awesome, so thank you for that already.