Just finished my garage floor

[afx]

First post

My wife and I just moved into our new house and I finally have that garage Ive been looking foward to since I graduated college. I'm an amateur woodworker so I have alot of wood working tools such as router tables, table saws, thickness planers, jointers etc so I needed something to clean sawdust up quickly. I also do my own mechanical work so I needed something oil resistant. I read up on as many products as I could and decided the Quikrete kit would be the way to go for my first time doing this (I have a pretty good sandblast setup so removal wouldn't be such a pain). After reading every horror story and watching every video I decided to forgo the kit and buy everything separate. Anywho, the floor has 2 coats of the epoxy and 3 coats of the clear coat with chips. Im more than happy with it so far, it looks great with 0 streaking, the only thing I goofed on was not thoroughly cleaning an R12 coolant stain (I drive VW) and it came up through the paint. Other than that Im pleased and for only $55 it was a great learning expirience. The only thing I have to say is if your going to chip, buy it at home depot, you get 2 times as much for a dollar less.

 

[Sledgehammer]

Let me be the first to say......WOW!!!!

Great job. I am slowly getting ready to pull the trigger on my shop. But due to the size I am doing my research and want to make the right decisions.

Again...it looks great!

 

[igo4bmx]

wow awesome!
i too bought my first house and have a quikrete kit sitting in my garage-
how many kits did you buy? What were you steps with the kit? was it:
epoxy coat
epoxy coat
clear
chips
clear?

 

[afx]

Thanks for the kind words. I didn't buy a kit I only had to buy 1 gallon of the 1 part epoxy coat, 1 gallon of the high gloss clear coat, and 1 package of flakes (but again I recommend buying them at home depot, 2 times as much for half the price I found that out after it was done) But I assume if you have a kit that it would probably cover most of a small 2 car garage.

I went

Epoxy
Epoxy
Flake
Clear
Clear
Clear
Clear

Im pretty sure I used 4 coats of clear.

 

[UncleJoe]

Your floor looks very nice. I am in the research phase myself. My questions are: After a year, how is it holding up? What brand product did you use? I looked at Home Depot and Lowes and they offer several brands. Is one superior to the other?

Thanks

 

[mrstang69]

i would like to know also so i can redo my garage!

 

[RDW920]

I would also like to know, how slick is it when wet?