Old cracked floor paint options

[Dragonfish]

My garage floor is from the 70's and it's got some pretty big cracks and it's not flat or level. I don't intend to stay here forever but I'd like to improve the looks of it. I'm planning to fill the cracks but that's about it. There does appear to be at least 3 other colors painted and flaking off through out the years and I will strip all that off. I'd like to be around $200 for a floor coating, and I'm totally fine with just paint but I want a product that will at least resist hot tire transfer. I've read about many different paints but there are VERY mixed opinions about them. Does anyone have any first hand experience with any of these floor paints? I don't mind an epoxy solution but I feel like that would be putting lipstick on a pig.

 

[FJ4FUN]

Shea at Allgaragefloors.com has a good article on this.

Garage floor paint

 

[Shea]

Paint is going to peel from hot tires - period. It doesn't matter what the manufacturer states in their literature, it will peel. If you want to install something that will not peel from hot tires, then I suggest one coat of a single-part polyurea. Many of the vendors here sell it. Assuming you have a typical 2-car garage, cost would most likely be just south of $300 for one coat. It won't look perfect with just one coat, but it will protect the concrete and it will not peel providing you prep the concrete correctly.

You can learn more about it from this article. We even list the different vendors here who sell it. https://allgaragefloors.com/polyurea-best-garage-floor-coating-kits/

You can go with a cheaper water-based epoxy, but it will too will experience hot tire pickup at some point. Just not as quickly as paint. The Rust-Oleum Professional epoxy kits and RockSolid polycuramine are pretty good at resisting hot tire pickup, but their coverage rates and dry film thickness are not as good. The cost to coat a 2-car garage with one coat is similar to a single-part polyurea since you will need more product.