How long should your epoxy garage floor last?

[2many projects]

After 4 years mine is lifting at the edges, chips very easily and the tires leave a brown tire print in it when the cars are parked for more than 2 weeks time.
Is this normal?
It was a new build and the floor had cured for about 16 months before being profesionaly coated by a company I hired.
They first shot blasted it, then primed it and let that cure for two days then base coated it and followed that up with a clear top coat one day later.
It looked real good for about two years then got crummy looking.
What to do?

 

[e-tek]

I'd be pissed!! Didn't they offer a warranty? I'd think 5-10 years would be reasonable if professionally applied.

 

[awakeinAZ]

Agree - 10 years!

 

[TAMPAGT07]

I do mine about every five years. Not that it has ever come up or anything. I just love the new epoxy shine.

 

[tigmusky]

Wow that *****! I let my cured for about 2 mo. It's 5 years old now and in prefect shape expcet for welding and plasma burns are.
Daye

 

[quadracer12]

I do mine about every five years. Not that it has ever come up or anything. I just love the new epoxy shine.

i was wanting to redo mine. do you strip your old off or epoxy over it?

 

[nissan_crawler]

My valspar has been on for 6 years now, it's not a show finish (never was), but there's no damage.

 

[dmw56]

Mine is 6 years old now. It's not lifting but show wear in areas where it get the most abuse i.e. dragging heavy stuff across it, welding, plasma cutting.

 

[Ramblur]

Mine is 6 years old now. It's not lifting but show wear in areas where it get the most abuse i.e. dragging heavy stuff across it, welding, plasma cutting.

+1 except 12 years here on a Precision Epoxy broadcast system. There is
a pretty substantial mark from an alternator falling from the loft(about 9 '),
still the floor faired better than the alternator did.

 

[TAMPAGT07]

i was wanting to redo mine. do you strip your old off or epoxy over it?

I have, in the past, painted over it with an oil based epoxy. I can't remember if I purchased it at Lowes or Home Depot. I know they no longer carry it though.

I am getting ready to do mine again, but I have still not decided on a product. The floor has never came up, but I do have a few holes to fill from an old lift that I had. I also have a few gashes that I put in the floor.

 

[nuGarage]

We offer ten years warranty, and feel totally comfortable doing it. For a floor to last a decade, we feel quite strongly that the floor must be physically prepped and not acid etched....

Nathan

 

[thundercow]

We offer 5 or 10 years depending on the price structure. With good prep and quality materials, 10 years is the benchmark...

That HD epoxy? 2.5 years at best...

 

[Jarvis]

Nugarage?
Not acid etched? Can you explain as i always thought you had to acid etch before epoxy goes down.

 

[T4Turtle]

Instead of acid etching you can rent a machine to cut into the concrete to open the pores. Like a rotating assembly with a diamond tip blade, from what I can gather.

Anyone got a picture of this apparatus?

I would like to hear more on "real world" longevity of all the products.

 

[A_Pmech]

10 years here. No peeling, chipping, or lifting.

I've had over 10,000lbs roll over it on machinery skates with no problems multiple times. Plus the usual pallet jacks, forklifts, motorcycles, cars, etc.

Rustoleum "Industrial/commercial" epoxy kits, acid etching.

 

[tcianci]

Mine is a StonHard floor, I put it down myself over a 20 yr old really abused floor. Its been there about 8 years and beside the obvious abuse I have caused it, it seems to be rugged as all getout. This material is typically used in industrial applications and the prep that is done for it is usually Blast-trac to abrade the concrete.

 

[XR80David]

****'s its peeling... Isn't it unavoidable to leave a car parked for a long period of time and there to not be a mark after right?

 

[Markgyver]

Instead of acid etching you can rent a machine to cut into the concrete to open the pores. Like a rotating assembly with a diamond tip blade, from what I can gather.

Anyone got a picture of this apparatus?

I would like to hear more on "real world" longevity of all the products.

Its called a ShotBlaster they rent for about $400 per day
http://www.sunbeltrentals.com/equipment/equipment.aspx?itemid=0320310&catid=s347

 

[Ray-CA]

My Valspar coating is fine and I put it down in 2000. The only trouble areas are where I dropped a jack-stand and "chunked" out a chip of the floor. That would have happened with any flooring.

I'd check your paperwork for a warranty.

Ray

 

[thundercow]

A picture of the apparatus, an edco dual-head grinder (being used on my garage, and the results below it):

finished here:

Instead of acid etching you can rent a machine to cut into the concrete to open the pores. Like a rotating assembly with a diamond tip blade, from what I can gather.

Anyone got a picture of this apparatus?

I would like to hear more on "real world" longevity of all the products.