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Garage Floor Thread - Need Help

robt_sf

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Been lurking here for a while trying to figure out what to do for my garage floor. I had gone back and forth witht he idea of staining + epoxy clear, but figure now painting would be best to hide everything. I'm starting this thread to chronicle what I'm doing, along with getting hopefully some advise from people who've gone through this already.

So I have several questions that hopefully somebody can help with.

1) As seen in the photos there are cracks present. I live on a mountain of granite or heavy stone. Not much movement as I understand. I've owned the place for 5 years and the cracks have not moved visably. I figured that I would notch the cracks in a v shape, and fill them with cement to smooth. That would then be smoothed out when I Di-Teq grind the floor.

2) Throughout the floor there are circular pits, do I just fill them like puttying wood?

3) Any good reccomendations for getting rid of the old oil stains? I've tried TSP, laundry detergent, borax, etc.
 

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I'm in the same boat as you... trying to figure out what to do.

After searching through these forums I have ruled out epoxy.
I am heavily leaning towards either Racedeck or Swisstrax flooring. Today I emailed vendors of both products for free samples so that I can narrow my selection.
 

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The nice thing about tiles or even roll out flooring, most of the time none of this needs fixed. Now if you have huge holes in the floor or giant variations that are steep, yes you might need to fix that. What type of stains are they?
 
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While I have nothing against the racedeck type covers, I really don't like the way the look. I really like the look of either polished concrete, or painted.

What has been the experience of putting down the epoxy with containments present? I deal in the woodworking industry and any contaminant on a wooden floor will cause the finish to often times fish eye around the spot. Is this the same with the paint / epoxy? If I grind & acid etch should that clean up most things?
 

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While I have nothing against the racedeck type covers, I really don't like the way the look. I really like the look of either polished concrete, or painted.

What has been the experience of putting down the epoxy with containments present? I deal in the woodworking industry and any contaminant on a wooden floor will cause the finish to often times fish eye around the spot. Is this the same with the paint / epoxy? If I grind & acid etch should that clean up most things?

Sorry, I misunderstood. Scotty has you pointed in the correct direction!
 
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