Garage Floor Coating vs Floor Jack

[59ctd]

I have a single stall workshop/garage - maybe 400sq' or a bit less. We are going to have it professionally done with a 5 step polyhybrid coating. Wife and I both agree the salt pitting needs to be remedied this summer as it is etching the floor in areas fairly badly. This is a always heated year round shop in MN. Heat is via radiant loops in the cement.

To the main question I have - What is the durability of this type of coating when dragging the big floor jack across the floor and raising a car or when putting the vehicle on jackstands or other things like this?

 

[dirtydrew420]

I have a polyurea coating on mine for about a year now, and it sees a good deal of that with no problems so far. Only issue I've had was with dropping a rotor from 4ft and that's gonna be a problem for concrete no matter what's covering it!

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[Vintage Veloce]

There is no substitute for getting references from your installer and going to see those floors yourself. Ask to see a couple active shop floors that have been used for more than a year.
I have a buddy who has moved twice and had two floors done and loves them. Said the floor were perfect. He sent me a picture... and then he said he never noticed the cracks and dings until I pointed them out.

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

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[Armorpoxy]

Hi,
Unfortunately there is not a 'scratch proof' coating made. Even if your floors were super hard granite, dragging a sharp piece of steel or similar could damage any floor.

That being said the epoxy coating and high performance topcoats sold by us and other vendors on the GJ are extremely scratch resistant, and in the unlikely event you damage the floor they are easily repaired.

For example if you have a jack with old rusty wheels, best to fix the wheels as that will make world of difference since all resinous coatings such as epoxy and polyureas can get scratched from steel with a load on it which has a higher hardness rating.

Normally general common sense usage will result in many, many years of long service life of a commercial grade floor.

 

[Woodsdesign]

I used Race Deck by Snaplock. My floor had a lot of oil spilled on it over the years so I was concerned epoxy would not stick. I am very pleased. Cost was about $1,500.

 

[Imatk]

I have polyurea and it's held up very well for the last couple years. I DO have a couple scratch spots from where something was dragged and a bolt was stuck under that something.

It's cosmetically not great, but hasn't affected the integrity at all.

Make sure whoever does it puts enough clear on top... I had to fight with the installer because they only put one coat. Then they finally came out and did another, but didn't clean it well enough on the second coat.

I foolishly had someone else do it because I didn't want to screw it up. Should have just done it myself honestly.

 

[kram71]

I have seen floor jacks damage both epoxy and plastic flooring. I would recommend using a piece of wood under the jacks no matter which flooring you end up getting. The good thing about the tile flooring though is if its damaged just pull it up and replace the $2-$3 piece.

 

[59ctd]

The guys finished up the polyurea floor coating earlier this afternoon. Now the lengthy project to move all the tools and equipment back in here.

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[spectrum1c]

The guys finished up the polyurea floor coating earlier this afternoon. Now the lengthy project to move all the tools and equipment back in here.

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[Sumboodie]

I used Race Deck by Snaplock. My floor had a lot of oil spilled on it over the years so I was concerned epoxy would not stick. I am very pleased. Cost was about $1,500.

Ouch!

I did epoxy in my 650 sq ft garage for about $400.

 

[GlennSullivan]

We have had 16 years of heavy work in our garage which is single color 100% solids Epoxy. Generally speaking the floor coating held up well, but now we are getting separation of the coating where hot tires have rested in the summer and in recent years parking our large SUVs in there in the winter after being driven in the snow and salt - which we never did in the past. I think both of these situations contributed to the issues we are experiencing and we have decided to redo the floor.

 

[codyhannah]

Polyhybrid is available in a variety of coating systems and it is generally used on floors as a topcoat. It has many advantages such as extreme UV protection, molecularly bonding, chemical resistance, and many more!