New Epoxy-Coat Contest

[rugerlady]

Spring is in the air, and I'm feeling generous!
I am doing a repeat of a previous contest, I need you to tell me why you deserve a free Epoxy-Coat kit. Humor will definitely score you BIG points. I will be giving 1 full kit (your color and flake choice) to 1 st place, 2nd place 1/2 kit (your color and flake choice). More prizes may be given out. This will run from today until April 22nd. Winners to be announced on Monday April 25th. We had alot of fun with this last year, lets have some fun and get creative!!

 

[Call me the Breeze]

You're not giving us a list of words this time?

 

[FilthyZ]

Do we publicly submit our entry or pm?

 

[rugerlady]

No list of words this time. Just you being creative.
All entries must be submitted publicly. No PM entries will be accepted.

 

[rugerlady]

Here is the last contest we did like this.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61394&highlight=Epoxy-Coat

 

[Enloe]

Well here goes. I have a great many projects but no money to do them. I have a 7 year old boy and a 4 year old girl and they take all my spare coinage. My dad passed away about 9 years ago and before he died he gave me a car. It is a 66 Corvette. Everytime I went down to moms garage there it is and it would be too painful when I looked at it. Well I am finally ready to get it over to the house and make it "cruisable" again. A nice new floor would sure be appreciated also it would give me a chance to supervise my boy and get him used to working on some projects.

 

[zchrisz]

I don't deserve anything free, i don't think anyone does, i bought my very first house and started fixing it up, came with a detached neglected 250sq ft garage used for storage, i usually work in the garage on everyone else's car, cleanup is kind of difficult with the old concrete floor, it's pretty much smooth except for a few spots. was going to attempt the epoxy coat after i did not win the last testing giveaway from legacy, but would you know it, the fiance was laid off and now I'm just trying to make ends meat. whoever wins, congratulations.

 

[dawg]

why do I need a new garage floor you ask?
Because im tired of my floor making my cars look like ****

 

[formek]

Stolen from a song I found on the internet called Two car garage I did not see who wrote it but with a small modification it seemed to fit.

I used to be Mr. Free, tall, dark and cool
I did a solo act, made up my own rules
Then you came along and changed my point of view
Oh baby, what am I gonna do?

Just look at me, looking at you
I can't believe the things I'm looking forward to
Would you believe I'm thinking about a

Two car garage and a two story house
And a couple of kids we can brag about
Give me a two-tone Chevrolet and too many bills to pay
And Epoxy-Coat Floor with glow in the dark flakes to make me happy living that way

 

[xrdad]

Christine,

you know I need this floor!!!

Why, just last week....

 

[1steve]

Does it come with free installation? How much to ship?

 

[rugerlady]

Does it come with free installation? How much to ship?

No free installation, it is a DIY kit! I think your missing the whole point of the FREE thing. Really wouldn't be free if you had to pay for shipping. PS, I see your new so I will also let you know, I never charge GJ members for shipping even if they don't win it!

 

[formek]

Wow I thought this thread would be on Fire. OH Well better chances to win LOL LOL

 

[xrdad]

sung to the tune of 'Everyday' by Buddy Holly (RIP)

 

[PatDoody]

I am gonna go for the sob story on this one lol

Christine,
So I recently purchased my first house! yay me! and with it came my first non-rented garage! yay me again! Well being a gear head of course I start fixing up the garage first even know the house needs a ton of work on its own. Insulated the walls, hung nice plywood wall board, painted everything, painted and hung some cabinets left over from the parents laundry room, and some new florurecent lights... Almost ready to move my benches and toolbox into. Of course I wanted to hold off till I coated the floor. But then disaster strikes! why me! The other day poking around in the basement I come across what seems to be a large pile of splinters on the ground. I look up and I am looking at the underside of my carpeting... No wood left to speak of... Well needless to say I found extensive termite damage to the entire front of the house. There goes all my "making my dream garage fund". I now have to spend close to 15k to have half of my house rebuilt. ughh. I guess that's life. You know the old saying "if it wasn't for bad luck I would have no luck at all", well it definitely applies to my life the past few years.

even if I dont win the contest I will eventually be putting in an order for your product it def looks like the best one on the market. ohh and a little side note my garage is only a 1 car so I will settle for second place [wink wink nudge nudge]!!

 

[xrdad]

Wow I thought this thread would be on Fire. OH Well better chances to win LOL LOL

formek, I really want this one.. get your game face on

By the way.. this is for my beautiful house! LOVE THE SIG!

 

[AKheritage]

Well I guess I will chime in. I am not new to the forum just havent really posted much. I am currently deployed to Iraq and will be getting home during the summer months. My wife and I just bought our first house 2 1/2 months before I left so really haven't had a chance to do much to the house at all. I first and formost need to get a fence up for the puppers and then it is on to many other things. There are a lot of projects in store being that this is our first house and it is brand new and I have to finish the basement also. Thanks for the consideration and putting on a contest like this.

 

[rugerlady]

Wow I thought this thread would be on Fire. OH Well better chances to win LOL LOL

No kidding, we had so much fun last time with this one. Guys, FUNNY stories please!! A couple good ones so far! Come on guys, I know you can do better than this

 

[jagxl1]

So, times have been getting tough. Lost my job and needed to find alternative work. Tried the moonshine business in the garage to make some cash. Well the damn still tipped over and spilled all over my concrete. The concrete started bubbling from the ingrediants in the still. So, I quickly reached for a jug that was on the shelf thinking it was water. Nope it was gas, threw it on the alcohol then dropped my cigarette out of my mouth the whole damn garage went up in a ball of flames. The concrete was still there, damaged but there. So, I built another garage over the concrete.

Hmmm, what to do for work now. I seen an ad in the paper "growers needed for medical marijuana". So, I thought to myself "that can't be to hard". Went to the local store and picked up a "You too can be a hydroponic grower kit". Well I live in the hood so I thought I better put up some sheets over the windows. Got me some nice heat lamps and mounted them to the ceiling. Got me some seeds from a mail order kit. Started growing some medical marijuana. I would water them every day and read books to them to get them to grow. Well, one day I go out to my garage and low and behold they have taken over my garage. They grew arms and mouths and started telling me to feed them or they would eat me. So, I quickly grabbed the gas can and burned them and my garage down. The town was filled with smoke, people were driving 5mph everywhere. The drive throughs were backed up for miles, the seven eleven ran out of twinkies and candybars. My garage was burnt down again. The concrete was still there but a little more damaged. So, I rebuilt again.

So again, I needed money. I bought myself a couple of cameras, some swings to hang from the cieling, a bunch of toys, and a big jar of vaseline. I put an ad in the paper "women needed: must be flexible, enjoy playing with toys, and know how to apply vaseline in the right spots. Well for this type of work I need a clean floor as not to spread diseases and something the cameras can roll over smoothly for filming. Well my floor being through two fires isn't exactly clean or smooth. I'm also strapped for cash so a free floor would be the best thing that has happened to me in a long time.

OH, wait a minute you perverts. You think I was making **** in my garage. No, no, I opened a daycare with swings, toys, and vaseline for diaper rashes. The cameras are for the kids to film there plays they make up jeez.

 

[xrdad]

I don’t have a sad story to win this contest

This is my 4th home, my 3rd new one.
I moved in about 2 years ago.

I sold my last house because my ex wife moved into the house directly behind mine! She would wave to the kids from her back deck.
My new wife (only living together for 3 months at the time) was pretty freaked out about this.

You see, I met my current wife at a birthday party for my best friend, who is by the way homosexual.
I noticed her right away when she got there, but because she was walking with her girl friend and this WAS a gay party… I naturally assumed

Well, as the night carried on (we were taking a boat cruise in the Toronto harbour), she’d had a few drinks and a wave that hit the boat knocked her off balance, right into my arms!

We laughed and talked and laughed and talked some more… she wasn’t gay!??? Her best friends date cancelled at the last minute and she was invited to come out. WELL!

3 weeks after we met on the boat, she asked me to marry her!
A month later she moved in, and then all hell broke loose when my ex found out.

2 and half years of divorce court later, thousands in debt, a blended family with 5 kids aged 6/11/13/13 and 15, we have the busiest house in the neighbourhood.

So, we’ve been together about 3 years now… it’s been a heck of a ride.

Our new house has 1 and a half rooms painted now, the basement still needs to be finished (but I need to cut larger windows out of the cement walls first because 2 of our boys sleep there), the landscaping is being done through a plant sharing program with the neighbours (divide your perennials and swap them for something you don’t have..)... everything is on a budget.. and I love a deal!

So like I said, I don’t have a sad tale to tell.. everything is coming up roses for me and I couldn’t be happier.
Well, if I had a glow blue flake floor in the garage mahal, maybe I could be a bit happier?


I wish I could have invented this story, but it is non fiction… you can’t even dream this kinda stuff up!!!

 

[FilthyZ]

My story isn't sad but has been a very long process of hard work. My wife and I were married in May of 2009 and bought our first house (Me - 24 Her - 28). It was a bank foreclosure in a great location.

We knew going in the house needed a ton of work on the inside, we just didn't know how much more it needed. Previous owners decided to cut all the electrical in the attic every 6 ft. Stuffed toy cars, lighters, etc. down the toilets and drains to clog them up. All the walls needed torn down and redone due to using furring strips and paneling. We gutted the entire house and began the long process. 4 months later of working almost every day after work and all day on the weekends we were finally able to move in. I have put my blood, sweat, and tears (literally, torn meniscus) into making this home our own. But it was lacking something. A GARAGE! We only had a small metal shed that was falling apart that the past owners left behind. And so it began.

Fall 2010 we broke ground for the new garage that I only envisioned as a place to store the cars and other things. One thing leads to another and we're going all out. Stamped and colored stone concrete, more lights, more everything! It became my "baby". We took a break after the concrete and block and winter hit. And so I sat day after day of cold, wet, snowy weather looking outside at unfinished garage. As well as and our cars being neglected. January I said that it was enough and we're finishing the garage. -5 degree temperatures in Ohio were forecast but it didn't stop me and my buddy from working. Day 1 we built the walls, Day 2 the walls went up, Day 3 the trusses, roof, and sheathing all on. It was actually beginning to look like something!

Fast forward a few months to today. I am finishing the outside up, and all the electrical is finished. I have exhausted myself, my wife, and my friends who have helped me out. The inside is next project to finish. By myself again. I enjoy the time spent with the wife and friends as my work schedule has become a bit crazy with the end of both school years (University and Elementary) coming to an end. My work schedule is 4 - 12 hour days of teaching and Friday is just my 7 hour day. My vacation starts in May and what better way to spend it then finishing the inside of my garage? But what would make my life a lot better? Opening that garage door every day and seeing that new epoxied floor from epoxy-coat! Clean ups will be a breeze, and working inside my garage would be even better sliding around on such a nice floor. Most of all, a finished house that I can say I did on my own.

Thanks for your time and a great way to share a story of mine!

 

[formek]

formek, I really want this one.. get your game face on

I like your song but It is not an origanal thought. The gantlet has been droped.

Never ever give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[rugerlady]

Please view the previous contest thread....this is more of what I had in mind.
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61394&highlight=Epoxy-Coat

 

[jagxl1]

Hey you never said a true or fictional story. All you said is humor goes a long way.

 

[rugerlady]

True I did, I'm not saying all the stories....just want to keep this one fun.

 

[rugerlady]

Love the picture!

 

[vtx531]

Love the picture!

Sorry, for the poor quality. It was from my cellphone camera.

 

[formek]

Reasons Formek should win

10 – Tony Soprano might stop by if Formek don’t win

9 - So that Formek will not have to hear any more about the royal wedding


8 – So that Formek will not get any madder about the foot ball lock out. “we are in hard
times Guys and he has a floor to install!”

7 – Glen Beck could help install now that he is unemployed.

6 - So that Formek does not have time to figures out who the Kardashians are
and why they are famous

5 – Did I mention Tony Soprano might stop by if Formek don’t win
(In my toughest NJ ascent)

4 - Meat loaf would not accuse Formek of steeling his Epoxy Coat


3 – So that Charlie Sheen could continue to say winning!

2 - - Did you Guys hear me Tony Soprano is going to pay you a visit if Formek don’t win (In my toughest NJ ascent)

And the number one reason is……..

1 - So that Formek does not have to beg his wife for the money to do the floors in the shop.



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[ssathre]

So after years of saving, I’m finally building my 26x32 garage / workshop. After looking over flooring options that fit our budget we decided on an Epoxy based solution. With lots of research later (mainly after reading this site) we decided on Epoxy-Coat.

One of the posts that made up my mind to go with EC was the recent thread “Frustrations with Epoxy Coat”. I was truly impressed with EC’s customer service as they went out of their way to fix someone else’s obvious mistake… So, I figured this is the company/product for me as my life seems to be a sad parody of the Red Green show. We figured on using at least 2 full kits but I’m probably going to need an extra kit or two to fix the eventual disaster of my own creation.

I’m not trying to predict anything here (I never make predictions. I never have and I never will) but this is how my projects usually end up. I seem to get into a hurry with projects and that’s where the trouble starts. Patience is a virtue I wish I had waited for, as it seems I have none… I try to be patient but it just ends up taking too long and I end up making a misteak.

Even if I don’t win the giveaway I still plan on using EC, they just have a great product. And if I manage to screw it up, I promise I won’t come on this forum and start bashing EC for not providing me with enough common sense in the kit.

 

[rugerlady]

.
Even if I don’t win the giveaway I still plan on using EC, they just have a great product. And if I manage to screw it up, I promise I won’t come on this forum and start bashing EC for not providing me with enough common sense in the kit.

That, right there ..... is funny!!

 

[formek]

I don’t have a sad story to win this contest

This is my 4th home, my 3rd new one.
I moved in about 2 years ago.

I sold my last house because my ex wife moved into the house directly behind mine! She would wave to the kids from her back deck.
My new wife (only living together for 3 months at the time) was pretty freaked out about this.

You see, I met my current wife at a birthday party for my best friend, who is by the way homosexual.
I noticed her right away when she got there, but because she was walking with her girl friend and this WAS a gay party… I naturally assumed

Well, as the night carried on (we were taking a boat cruise in the Toronto harbour), she’d had a few drinks and a wave that hit the boat knocked her off balance, right into my arms!

We laughed and talked and laughed and talked some more… she wasn’t gay!??? Her best friends date cancelled at the last minute and she was invited to come out. WELL!

3 weeks after we met on the boat, she asked me to marry her!
A month later she moved in, and then all hell broke loose when my ex found out.

2 and half years of divorce court later, thousands in debt, a blended family with 5 kids aged 6/11/13/13 and 15, we have the busiest house in the neighbourhood.

So, we’ve been together about 3 years now… it’s been a heck of a ride.

Our new house has 1 and a half rooms painted now, the basement still needs to be finished (but I need to cut larger windows out of the cement walls first because 2 of our boys sleep there), the landscaping is being done through a plant sharing program with the neighbours (divide your perennials and swap them for something you don’t have..)... everything is on a budget.. and I love a deal!

So like I said, I don’t have a sad tale to tell.. everything is coming up roses for me and I couldn’t be happier.
Well, if I had a glow blue flake floor in the garage mahal, maybe I could be a bit happier?


I wish I could have invented this story, but it is non fiction… you can’t even dream this kinda stuff up!!!

Hay In the safety of your kids you need to be cutting open that basement wall in stead of putting down the highest quality floor covering (Epoxy-Coat) money can buy!

Just looking out for you and your Family.

 

[mattdawe]

The reason I should win...

I'm a 2nd year apprentice mechanic. Wage isn't the greatest yet.. Wife =

We've had our second home under construction for some time now..closing end of April... Wife =

House - $366,200 Wife =
Heat pump - $16,000 Wife =
Upgrades to house - $20,000 Wife =
Paved driveway, landscaping, fence - $10,000 Wife =
Legal fee's, property tax - $8,000 Wife =
New car -$26,000 Wife = ...gun aimed at me

Based on the above $$$$$$, looks like i'll be spending a lot of my time in the garage....so a nice floor would make Me = ..and maybe her too

 

[Agusta02]

me and the little lady just bought a house together. She got a new kitchen........I should get an epoxy coat.........how else am I going to stay warm in the garage?

badaching!

BTW.......does an epoxy coat chafe? I have sensitive neck skin

 

[Square2.0]

I just picked up my keys to my first home not but 30 minutes ago and I see this thread. By the time this contest closes I will have just moved into my first house.

My home comes complete with a 600 Sq ft garage. A little small but still very usefull. (thats what she said) Truth is I'm buying the house for its garage. The fact it has bedrooms, living room, and that thing some call a kitchen is more of just a bonus. I will be spending most of my time in the garage. I take that back, I will be spending all the time in that garage I can. I have lived in an apartment for 3 years now and I’ve absolutely had it of not having a place to work. I'm all ready having dreams of how I'm going to upgrade my garage and what I'm going to fill it with. My eyes are bigger then my wallet (aren’t all ours) with my plans and money for a good flooring kit is there but will need lots of time to grow if left in the sad state its in now. If I win this kit I will be able to start my garage build up the proper way…… From the slab up.

In this garage I know I'm going to be very busy using my skills and working on cars. I will be working on my friend’s cars, my families cars, and I'm sure at some point while working on one of there cars a neighbor or two will also ask for some repairs. My garage is going to need a very nice floor if its to survieve me living there and still look good doing it. Assuming I ever get all that work done at some point I might even be able to work on my own project car…. but thats just me talking crazy.

My main problem is the fact my project car doesn’t like the current floor. She’s aging and I believe she is going though some kind of car mid life crisis. My car is very good looking and doesn’t like being seen parked on such an ugly and unfinished slab of rock. I try to tell her to look on the bright side and alwas point out the slab is at least clean and not full of cracks but she is having none of it. Do the right thing. Give my project car a nice place to be. I have a feeling if she feels better about her surroundings she might run better. Help me, Epoxy-Coat. You're my only hope.

I also would like to epoxy-coat my floor as it might also start my neighbors on an epoxy coating spree. I have noticed they seem to be the “we have to keep up with the smiths” type. Well my last name happens to be Smith so I think I have a real chance of this working. As I am a firm believer that all garage floors should come with an epoxy coating. What I'm saying is I NEED this kit to start the next trend in my neighborhood! After seeing pictures of other epoxy-coat installs on this site I know I want one REAL BAD. I know that after seeing my new floor my neighbors will want one too.

In the end what I'm asking for is your help so I can salve my cars mid life crisis and to also use my neighbor’s jealousy against them for the greater good of my new neighborhood.

Of course I would post plenty of pictures on this site of my floor once it’s done. Good quality installs are drool worthy and need to be shared!!!!

Thanks for reading my story and your consideration.

 

[jcp907]

Why me?
I just bought one and a half kits through Lowes with your help…Thank you by the way.

In the process, I had to convince two Lowes Employees (one in paint, one in flooring) that Epoxy Coat Does exist! Also, that they could order it. And…that you were actually capable of helping them enter it into their system, even after hours! Finally, they did.

From the sounds of it, after I paid, and they faxed you the PO, you called them and let them know that to total price was incorrect. They had me come back in and cancel/reorder to adjust the price, to save me money! Now, that’s excellent customer service!

Through the process you have EXCEEDED my expectations so far…thank you Christine! I am glad I ran across the name of your company in the thread that started as complaints regarding coverage of your product. It highlighted the excellent customer service that you offer! Is flattery working?

Not so much? How about pity?
I started the tear out in my garage two weeks ago by renting a pod, and emptying the garage...after having a "fire sale" to get rid of all of my spare parts, to pay for the renovation to the garage. I had to leave town for business and came home to a fallen tree, fallen fence, and an unhappy wife as a result. This was the week after she drove my new (to me) car, cracked the windshield, and had the front end sandblasted from getting stuck behind a dump truck. The car is now in the body shop…because the garage is torn apart…and all my money has gone to the fence (and the wife)…and here I sit with no ceiling, partial insulation, and Epoxy Coat Floors on the way!

Pity not working? How about blackmail? I have one and a half kits on the way. I have 120 linear feet of fluorescent lighting. If I don't win, I will leave them on day and night until my floor changes color, in ten years I will post about how much Epoxy Coat Floors are negatively affected by UV…but, if I was chosen as a winner…I would add a kit for UV protection…

Still not convinced?…how about Kissing ****…? See my sig...

 

[willy3486]

Friend, theres is a heap of good stories here. I am goin to tell mine now. I hope all of yall like it. I grew up in the country and I am a country person. My dad didn't have a tractor he still used a mule when I was growing up. I learned how to make do with what I had and learned how to reuse stuff. So when I got my shop I used a lot of recycled stuff. If you asked why I would want it the reason would be because I would like to have something that was actually new in my shop. As far as my floor goes its not the best looking. It has a lot of stains and such that I would like to cover up. The worse stains are from my tractor.

Being a country boy at heart I went down to the local co-op to hear and learn from the farmers. I hear tales of the stuff they had. And what caught my attention was tractors. I didn't want a mule ,they too much like this girl I use to date,smelly and stubborn. Anyway I listened to the tales and heard about a john deer tractor and thought I gotta get me one. I new the old farmer down the road had one on his farm he was wanting someone to get. So I listened to these farmers. They talked about all they could do. They said the best ones had diesel but the exhaust was black. Anyway I hear tales they could out pull a mule or horse. They pull those 20 foot trailers,pulling plows,harrows and other stuff.

Well I went by the farmer by my house and asked about that old john deer he had. He said if I could get it home and not bring it back I could have it. He was sick of it. So I rushed home and got the wife to take me back over. I saw the john deer and got on that old thing. At first I had to push it to get it started but it finally did run and I drove it home. I was proud of that old thing. To me it was a thing of beauty. Those farmers would talk about the john deer green paint but I figured this thing had been in the weather too long. I took it home and washed it really good. I used it a while like that but its exhaust as they called it stained the floor really bad. I figured as bad as the exhaust was that it was a diesel.

Well I thought if its suppose to be green I would paint it. I went down to ask the farmers at the co-op about painting it. They said I could use a oil based paint and I asked would it leave its fur sticky. They asked what are you talking about. I said if I paint it with a oil based paint wouldn't it have sticky fur and how do I keep it out of the deers eyes? They asked me if it had wheels and I said what would it do with wheels but it did have antlers. They then tell me a john deer tractor has a engine in it like my truck does. I guess that the word tractor is a fancy city slickers word for iron horse as we use to call them. Well I let the old john deer go and got me a metal tractor. But I still have the exhaust stains on my garage floor. If I win the floor coating is there a additive I can add to make the deers exhaust stains smell more like a rose? Well thats my story .

 

[dd564]

Wow. This is perfect timing... I've just joined the forum recently to read some reviews on some cabinets I bought at Sams Club, and I've been spending more time in the flooring section of this forum trying to decide how I could shine up my garage floor to be the envy of the neighborhood without my wife getting all angry about the budget. This might be the way how.

 

[DD564s Wife]

Honey???

Is that you?

 

[dd564]

Honey???

Is that you?

What?!

 

[DD564s Wife]

What?!

What in the world are you doing on here? It's 1:30 in the morning! Come back to bed!!