EPOXY Regrets!!
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Anyone have experience running 9000lb equipment that turn tightly? skid steers and treaded machines? Leaning towards epoxy because I don't want fluids sitting under tiles that will forever live and likely carry the odor. The couple examples of tile I've seen are in garages that are more for show than "work". Curious what this group has experienced. Thanks!
James-W
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A lot of things have been mentioned as positives about a Racedeck floor, but there is one other thing I would like to add. Sometimes in the Winter months I need to work on one of our vehicles. When I have the vehicle in our heated garage and need to lay on the floor to get under the vehicle, having the tiles on the floor feels a lot warmer than laying on bare concrete. Maybe that is just a small thing to some people, but I have to tell you, to me it is a VERY nice thing and my old bones are grateful for it. Also, just walking on the tiles my feet do not get cold like they did when I was walking on bare concrete in the Winter months before I got the Racedeck flooring.
James-W
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I have Racdeck diamond flooring inmy garage, but I don't have anything that weighs 9,000 pounds to drive on it. I drive our cars in the garage from time to time to do change the oil, rotate tires, things like that. i have turned the front wheels on the tile floor and there was no damage what-so-ever to the tiles. Obviously my car front wheels turning on the tiles is not even remotely the same as turning a skidsteer would be, but why would you turn a skidsteer in your garage?
NakeDiesel
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I turn my skidsteer 90 degrees bringing in pallets of feed, I store them between bay 1 and bay 2 so their easy to get out of the man door when I'm feeding in the winter. I also buy pallets of concrete or mortar when I'm working on those types of projects around the farm.
James-W
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You must have one heck of a big garage. None of my business, but why would you want to store feed and bags of cement in your garage? Wouldn't a barn or a storage shed be a more appropriate place to store items like that?
As for myself, I have a 24X36 garage and I do mostly woodworking in my garage so having large pallets of stuff in there is not something I would do. But if you have a very large garage and you use it for storage then I guess it works for you. Do you have epoxy or Racedeck tiles on the floor of your garage?
NakeDiesel
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My shop is 40x80, so it's decent sized. No other buildings to store stuff in. Bought my 120 acres of bare land 13 years ago, built roads, brought house in, septic, electric, well all been done since then. Shop build 8 or 9 years ago. Had planned on building another building last year, but with prices of steel, put it off. Will eventually build another one to store the motorhome and equipment under eventually, but it won't be closed in, so no good for feed storage. I weld, cut, do wood working, body work, painting cars, etc in here. Currently have a 1963 4010 John Deere completely torn down and going back together with it rebuilding it as I go with new gaskets/seals/etc.. and painting as I go.
Dakotadadv8
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5 years epoxy floor no issues yet, maybe year 10?
inphx
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Two pages of thread and no one mentioned porcelain tiles?
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I'm so glad you had a positive experience. I actually put down my own waterborne epoxy that lasted and war very well. It wasn't as shiny and I decided to treat myself for my 50th birthday and had a company come in for $5000. Grind off my water board epoxy and install a 100% solid epoxy system with chips and a clear topcoat. That ended up being the biggest mistake I ever made on my floor looked great for almost 3 years and now it's an absolute mess that the only way to repair is to grind off and start from scratch. I don't think I'm up for investing any more money in this garage floor as far as epoxy goes and then will probably just scrub it myself with a floor buffer and an abrasive pad to remove all the loose flaking topcoat and cover the whole flaking mess up with interlocking tiles.Geez i must have lucked out with my budget epoxy job. I did it myself with a little knowledge from here and besides scratches and dropping things that chip concrete mine looks great after 5 years. Yes it was intimidating to have never done it before and yes i somehow did not mix one section well and had to scrape it up but i'd do it again in a heartbeat.
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Kaizen
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I hear ya. Nothing worse then forking over money only to have it look like ****. You could always just fill your shop with a bunch of big tools so you never see it. That's the GJ way.
Kaizen
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I think that's mostly a southern thing. As i'm from the north i have to ask.....don't you drop tools and chip it? Also how the heck do you not fall on your rear when it gets any liquid on it? That stuff is so flat i have one that i use when sharpening chiselsTwo pages of thread and no one mentioned porcelain tiles?