Garage floor covering

[steamboat]

I have been thinking about covering my garage floor with epoxy paint made for garage flooring. Here's my question, I have spilled everykind of oil on the concrete slab and have had paint spill on the slab. I have cleaned the spills up of course but residue of the spills still remain.

How clean do you have to have the concrete to apply the floor coverings.

 

[slickgt1]

Wow you need a lot more reading to do. You need it very clean, like diamong grind, and acid etch, and maybe bead blast. It all depends.

That is why I say go with tile.

 

[Garage Flooring]

I have been thinking about covering my garage floor with epoxy paint made for garage flooring. Here's my question, I have spilled every kind of oil on the concrete slab and have had paint spill on the slab. I have cleaned the spills up of course but residue of the spills still remain.

How clean do you have to have the concrete to apply the floor coverings.

So lets look at this practically. When I was a kid growing up we had an old garage door that had lead based paint on it. It was flaking and a total disaster. If we repainted that door, without the proper prep, no one would think that it would hold up.

The same is true of a garage floor. Oil, especially causes major issues with epoxy. Then a year later, if that, people write in about how their epoxy 'failed' from hot tires when in reality it was just not properly applied.

I would start with some Pour N Restore. Why, not because I sell it, trust me, its not a high profit item... IT WORKS. Use it first and **** any oil that's in the floor out. You may need to repeat. Then use a degreaser or detergent and clean up the residual on the floor.

You will need to acid etch you floor or preferably grind it. This is not for cleaning but to profile the floor.

If all of this sounds like a lot of work, it is! BUT a beautiful epoxy floor is well worth it. If you would prefer not to do the work, products like our garage floor tiles and garage floor mats are designed to go directly over your existing issues and give you a beautiful floor.

 

[Shea]

Justin is right, floor prep for epoxy does take a lot of work, but if done right you are rewarded with a beautiful floor. If you think the prep work might be more than you want to do, there are numerous alternatives available for great garage floor coverings. Take your time and read up a little like the first post suggested and then you can make a more informed decision about what you want to do.

Good luck!

 

[tobiasa]

When you are making the decision about the look and feel you want for your floor, pause to reflect on the reasons paint may be out shined by a floor covering. In this article we will discuss a variety of garage floor coverings available to you outside the standard painted floor.

 

[pauloman]

there are many cases where oil damage is so bad that nothing you can do will work to get the epoxy to bond. I cringe when machine shop owners call be about epoxy floors.


Generally you clean and clean and then clean again. A crude test is to pour water on you cleanup and not have it bead up (old salesman's trick). You pretty much do you best and then cross your fingers and hope for the best. The fine print on the epoxy can will tell you it not their fault if it fails over an oil stain.

I often suggest to folks that they test epoxy or paint over the cleaned stain for a few weeks or months. See if it stays down.....