Full chip Polyaspartic in a home shop?

[Triumph1200]

Who works on cars in a home shop with full chip Polyaspartic?

Still undecided on epoxy in the spring or full chip Polyaspartic now. Like to hear from those using a full chip. Thinking about a white, black and grey chip. How do the floor jacks roll? Does the floor chip under jack stands? How easy or hard is to keep clean, do you mop or broom? Do oil, grease and antifreeze clean up as easily as everybody indicates?

Thanks in advance for the reply's

 

[Shea]

Polyaspartic floors are very durable. They should stand up with little issue to floor jacks, jack stands, and etc. Tool boxes, creepers, and anything with wheels will roll fine. Cleaning is easy as well. Generally a soft bristle broom will pick most everything up. If it's a busy garage, a light mopping with warm water and ammonia will get the fine dirt. Yes, grease, oil, and other spills clean up as easy as everyone says.

The biggest issue you may encounter with a full flake floor is that it can be hard to locate small parts such as screws, nuts, and washers that get dropped on the floor. It kind of camouflages small stuff and it can be reminiscent to finding Waldo.

 

[garage guy1of38]

Looks awesome and so far very durable.

Floor jacks roll easily and the large skyjack I used in the shop didn't leave so much as a scuff.

I mop it with ammonia and water.

Mine is a similar colour combo that you mention.

 

[Garage Flooring]

Who works on cars in a home shop with full chip Polyaspartic?

Still undecided on epoxy in the spring or full chip Polyaspartic now. Like to hear from those using a full chip. Thinking about a white, black and grey chip. How do the floor jacks roll? Does the floor chip under jack stands? How easy or hard is to keep clean, do you mop or broom? Do oil, grease and antifreeze clean up as easily as everybody indicates?

Thanks in advance for the reply's

A lot of this also comes down to how many coats of top coat (and mil thickness) you use and what color flake you select. Personally I would use a tabular alumina as my anti skid additive in the final coat as it provides great anti wear characteristics

 

[Armorpoxy]

Generally full flake floors are super durable and can handle most any usage and traffic, especially in residential use.

Disadvantage as stated above are that they make small parts hard to find. Also full broadcast floors are at least double the price of regular epoxy floors due to the much larger amount of material required.

Advantage is that in the event you damage the floor it is much easier to repair by using clear epoxy and topcoat, both of which we sell in small repair kit sizes (assuming you saved extra flecks from when it was installed).

We don't see much of a difference in 'durability' between epoxy flake systems and polyaspartic systems, both of which we carry. Our comment on this aspect is that polyaspartics cost much more than epoxy systems, about twice as much, and if you don't need the low-temp or super fast drying characterisitcs, you may be better off with an epoxy system since they are more forgiving. Polyaspartics are often used by professional garage guys as they 'save a day' in labor which offsets greatly the extra cost of materials.

We offer a wide variety of non skids which get added in the field. Our most popular is Ultrawear powdered metal small particle size non skid additive.

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Higher Impact for sure!

 

[Triumph1200]

Went and looked at garage that has the full chip down for two years, looks brand new and cleans up easy. The full chip is not as rough as I thought it would be but does seem to have enough texture that it shouldn't be to slippery when it's wet. I'll probably go with it next year.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[jhutch]

You should be happy as long as you have an experienced installer. So many advantages to full chip and polyaspartic topcoat.

 

[Eric Aull]

I live on Long Island. My garage floor is 50+ year old concrete. I had GARAGETEK lay a "polyespartic" resin floor with 'large chips' over it. The next year Superstorm Sandy flooded it with 30 inches of salt water and who knows what else. After the water went down, I cleaned it with hot water and dawn dish soap.....still to this day, looks like new. I would say that it was expensive, but is tough as nails!!!!! Would use it again in a 'New York minute'.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Agree, Polyaspartic floors are great, the downside is the liquids run about double the cost of epicycles/urethanes.

We offer both, and they both have their uses depending on the project.

 

[BuLion]

Been on the fence between epoxy, polyaspartic and race deck and pulled the trigger and scheduled the poly for May. I was surprised at the cost didn't seem too bad for 700 sq ft. Now to wait the Mi winter away. Next trigger pull is cabinets.

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Who works on cars in a home shop with full chip Polyaspartic?

Still undecided on epoxy in the spring or full chip Polyaspartic now. Like to hear from those using a full chip. Thinking about a white, black and grey chip. How do the floor jacks roll? Does the floor chip under jack stands? How easy or hard is to keep clean, do you mop or broom? Do oil, grease and antifreeze clean up as easily as everybody indicates?

Thanks in advance for the reply's

IMO, Full Chip is more impact resistant. Have your installer add an extra coat of clear to diminish the texture a little (easier to clean). We have done these floors for many auto-shops with great success.

The clear coat should be polyurea or polyaspartic and they are both very chem.wear resistant.

Good luck.

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[retfr8flyr]

I went with full flake epoxy in my garage. I did Wolverine Coatings prime coat, color coat, flakes to rejection and 2 clear top coats of polyurethane. I have used jack stand, dragged floor jacks around, dropped many heavy objects and dragged my heavy woodworking machines around on mobile bases. It is several years old now and it still looks like the day i finished it. I couldn't be happier with the floor, until I drop a small nut or washer, then I cuss for a while.

 

[CamarosRus]

A few pics of my install

 

[Triumph1200]

Made the decision, polyaspartic. Thank you all for your input it definitely helped make the decision.

It should be installed late next week or the following week. I’ll try to take pics as it goes down and of the finished job. I’ll start a new thread when it’s done.

 

[dubojr10]

How is everyone protecting their Polyaspartic floor from a 4 post lift? I'm having this flooring done the first week of Feb. but my lift has a couple obvious spots that it has scared my concrete. I'm trying to prevent that from happen again to the new flooring. Would hard rubber feet or bumpers glued or bolted work? Would they interfere with the lift operation?