EpoxyMaster Garage Floor Complete

[kkaldor]

After a lot of research on this forum and a lot of hard work in my garage I am finally finished with my floor. My floor wasn't as painless as most of the floors on this board. There was a lot of sweat and elbow grease put in.

The previous owner of my house attempted to fill some very large spalled and pitted areas of the garage floor with a concrete patch kit. It was starting to chip off very badly in some areas. So I took an air hammer and chipped out anything that was loose. I ended up filling a 5 gallon pail full of chips. There were a few spots in the centers that were still holding pretty strong so I left them. Most of the pitted areas were 1/2"-3/4" deep.

Now that I had all of the areas chipped out, I had to figure out some way of filling them back in that would work better than the junk that was put in there before. After quite a bit of searching for a patch, I decided on using EpoxyMaster's Crack Patch Kits (4 of them to be exact). So after trowelling 8 gallons of this stuff all over my floor I came up with a decently smooth floor. I'm pretty happy with how the epoxy patch worked out. It was a little difficult to trowel smoothly because it wanted to stick to the trowel and not the concrete and it got very hard to work with after about a half hour. I ended up having to use an air powered sanding disk to smooth it all down.

More to come...

 

[kkaldor]

So, now that the patching was complete I was able to move on to the easy part and finally see some results.

I ordered one full kit of EpoxyMaster Tan Epoxy. It turns out that my floor was a little "thirstier" than I thought and the kit only covered about 3/4 of my 500 sq. ft. garage. I thought it would be a little short so I did order a touch up kit in the beginning, but even that wouldn't have been enough.

So after another call to EpoxyMaster, I had another half kit on the way to finish it off. The front edge closest to the tape got really thin so I ended up coating back over most of the front half.

I'm really happy with how it turned out just because it's 100 times better than what I started with. I'm just happy to be able to roll my workbenches and tools around on the floor without them dropping into a crater. Sweeping is much easier now, too!

Thanks for looking

 

[PontiacFan]

Much better, ..., & clean up will be a breeze too!

 

[rikmeister]

nice job. looks awesome

 

[red]

What a difference! Looks a hundred times better than original floor

 

[ckgdrums]

That's a nice job! Looks great!

 

[jaggudada]

First you filled pitted areas with epoxy master's patch kit. Did you then epoxy coat the floor and clear coat etc? if yes which epoxy coating did you use. Can you please briefly describe the entire process from start to finish? Thanks

 

[rwhite692]

Looks great! If you are using this for your daily-driver vehicles, be very careful when you drive in and need to stop with wet tires...(speaking from experience)....

 

[kkaldor]

I filled the pitted areas with Epoxy Master's epoxy patch kits. Then I smoothed the trowel marks off with an air powered sanding disk. Then I put down EpoxyMaster epoxy coating and flakes. I didn't use any clear coat over the epoxy. That's a brief description of what I had above.

 

[28HopUp]

Nice job on the floor!

 

[kkaldor]

Looks great! If you are using this for your daily-driver vehicles, be very careful when you drive in and need to stop with wet tires...(speaking from experience)....

Good advice, I will make sure to tell my wife so she doesn't smash my stuff and go through the wall. Unfortunately, since I have my woodworking tools in the garage, I don't get to park there.

 

[hook982]

looks 100 times better...

 

[nip_tuck123]

I noticed you stopped the coating at the garage door instead of continuing it to the end of the slab which would put it in direct sunlight and cause it to discolor. I think I'll do the same thing, are you happy with that look? I thought it might look a little funny.