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Flooring choices for new home

vOliva

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Joined
Jan 12, 2010
Messages
5
Location
White Lake, MI
Closing on our new home tomorrow and am absolutely torn between epoxy or Swisstrax Ribtrax Eco, and was hoping to get some good input from you guys. :bowdown:

For a 3 car 651 sq ft garage I was quoted 2.25 a sq for 100% solids epoxy. It would be a 2 day ordeal which includes grinding the floor, primer coat (Norklad 200), finish coat (Norklad 200), as well as decorative chip & non skid. My concern is that the price seems too good to be true. The company that provided the quote does has many positive reviews between google, thumbtack, and facebook. Living in Michigan my other concern is that the concrete will develop minor cracking after the epoxy has been put down which would drive my OCD through the roof.

On the other hand I obtained quotes for Ribtrax Smooth Eco with the price being just a tad higher than the epoxy. I absolutely love the fact that I can install the floor within a few hours, as well as the fact that I can always take it with me if we were to move down the road. My concern with Ribtrax Smooth is that it won't be nearly as easy to clean as the epoxy.
 
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KMCENT

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Aug 14, 2020
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Location
Michigan (Personal Home)
What did you decide on for your floor.? I live in MI too and salt eats most surface coatings. I’m looking at Swisstrax Ribtrax Eco as my garage floor solution.
 

nadogail

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Jan 23, 2009
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Location
Coronado, CA
We use Sheet Vinyl in every room that has water, Kitchen, Bath and Laundry.

Carpet or ceramic tile in the others.

Our Garages are concrete floors.
 

tdkkart

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Jun 17, 2006
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Location
Eastern Iowa
Carpet would be my absolute LAST choice for flooring, especially if you have children, adults, elderly and pets living in the home. Now that we have ceramic tile and composite flooring in the majority of our home we have become keenly aware of how nasty the carpets in most homes have to be. The amount of stuff that we clean off our hard surface floors every week is incredible and there's only 2 of us plus 2 dogs in the house. There's NO way a vacuum is going to get it all out of carpet unless you were vacuuming 24-7.
 
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