Epoxy floor in machine shop

[Djstorm100]

I have a small machine shop in my garage. What I hate is the coolant used in my Haas will get on the floor and stain it. So I'm wanting to epoxy it to prevent this. A solid light grey is what I'm after. I do not want flake

My family is in the concrete supply business but I know zero about epoxy floor coating. Most of the guys that have came out to give quotes are pushing polyaspartic floor vs epoxy? The only thing I can really see, plus side of polyaspartic is it drys fast. I don't care about that. I just care about it holding up (14,000 pound new machine will be setting on it), about 80psi per foot (8 feet).

 

[FJ4FUN]

We recommend our CFLC System for these types of environments.

CFLC

 

[formula388]

When the school I work in built a machine shop, they used a high build ceramic floor, I believe the system was by Sherwin Williams, "ceramic carpet 400"
With that being said, I think it was overkill. I think for a home machine shop, an epoxy primer and base coat with a polyaspartic top coat would be sufficient.

 

[FJ4FUN]

The Sherwin Williams FasTop Ceramic Carpet system is basically a quartz broadcast system and I agree, it's way overkill for a home workshop environment unless the quartz broadcast finish look is what you're going after, in which case we can provide that as well...

Our CFLC system is much less complicated as it involves applying only two coats, Wolverine Coatings' 100% solids BondTite 1101 primer followed with their 100% solids LiquaTile 1143 Chemically Fused Liquid Ceramic body coat. The entire system can be applied and returned to service in 2.5 days. No required clear coat means less application steps (time and effort) plus easy repair and/or future re-coat if desired.

 

[Djstorm100]

This is part of my shop. The area around the Haas is just stain from coolant getting on the floor over the last 18 months.

With me running primary business and this, I honestly don't have time to do it my self. Sounds like a cop-out but family time is the up most important.

 

[cannuck]

I have a small machine shop in my garage. What I hate is the coolant used in my Haas will get on the floor and stain it. So I'm wanting to epoxy it to prevent this. A solid light grey is what I'm after. I do not want flake

My family is in the concrete supply business but I know zero about epoxy floor coating.

I think you are looking for something that will lay flat and thin on the concrete and in my limited experience is that your first problem will be cleaning the floor enough to get a good bond. I have used acid wash with some success on established floors, but find that "paint" coatings really suffer from movement of steel wheels on them (i.e. vehicle jacks). What I once saw regularly - and the supplier has nobody around who remembers that far back - was a penetrating epoxy sealant intended to make new concrete pads dust free. The floors I saw that used it were very well sealed and it didn't seem to suffer much damage from heavy use (with no further coatings added on top).

Do any of the concrete accessory suppliers still have such a coating/sealant????

FOUND IT! https://www.euclidchemical.com/prod.../sealing-compounds/euco-512-vox-epoxy-sealer/

IF you can get floor well cleaned, something like this will allow you to simply keep the natural colour or coat it with something that when it gets chipped does not allow liquid to penetrate and stain the concrete.

 

[Armorpoxy]

A single coat of our SPGX Polyurea would be perfect for this.