DOT Street Epoxy?

[GarageChop]

Hi Everyone,

I was loading my car at Menards yesterday and happened to look down at the yellow epoxy lines on the pavement in the parking lot. I was wondering what you guys thought about using that stuff on a garage floor? I have a buddy that works for the local village street department here that could probably get me enough to do my garage--is this even an idea worth entertaining? That stuff seems very durable. Any ideas either way?


Thanks,


-Mike

 

[GarageChop]

On a side note, I would not use yellow, I'd go with the white that they use to paint street lines.

 

[Itzkwik]

One of the jobs I do at work is stripe the parking lots at the 7-11 stores in the area every spring and fall. We use a chlorinated rubber paint from ICI. It is sprayed through a Graco LineLazer machine. Have also used the regular oil based traffic paint. I would not reccomend either for a garage. Neither one seems to hold up well long term. Very difficult to get a smooth even finish on large areas. You would still need to do all the prep work that you would using epoxy. This stuff is hell to remove when it starts to fail. My advice would be to use a product designed for garage floors and save your self a lot of aggravation.
Not sure, but I think the large trucks that you see painting lines use a heat process with the paint. Don't think it would work rolling or spraying it.

 

[99gt]

Hi everyone!

Finally a thread I can comment on, I run a epoxy longline truck for a private contractor in the northeast. We spray the epoxy at 2200 psi. and at a temp. between 120 and 140 degrees. Its a 2 part resin 1 part catalyst mix. The proportions have to be right on or your epoxy won't dry, the margin for error is small. Even with shotblasting it doesent do well on concrete. It wouldn't work well for a garage floor but we have a Binks hand gun with a mixing tube on the end that we could do a 2 car garage in 10 min. lol.

 

[BoCRon]

Hi everyone!

we have a Binks hand gun with a mixing tube on the end that we could do a 2 car garage in 10 min. lol.

Please post so I can come watch!

Annette