Previous owner left me.....

[SSMUFF]

Not really sure what they did to the garage floor but it has peeled where the tires are and even where the car drips water after a 100 degree day.

So is that paint? or bad epoxy?

What can I do to have a nice solid floor?

I have seen the vct tiles and that is a no since I have kids and don't want them to slip and fall.

The deck tiles I am worried about mold and causing damage to concrete.

So that leaves me with epoxy. DIY kits fro Lowes or HD? some people say no buy the $$$ of the internt.

First post here but love the site. Been lurking around for a month.

 

[Printer Mike]

Welcome! I recently joined, myself. Great place!

Sorry, I can't help due to lack of experience. Bet you will get many different opinions!

 

[gesoffen]

Regarding deck tiles, there is a recent thread discussing the performance of race deck and similar floor tiles with respect to mold. Everyone who's chimed in with experience has reported no under tile mold issues.

If you're set on the epoxy route, I'd avoid the box store kits, especially the water based ones - that is probably what you have on your floor now. Likely, your only avenue for epoxy is a grinding of the existing floor (to remove old epoxy and prep for new), and a quality 100% solids epoxy. If you search on the flooring section of this forum (or just read many of the new threads as they come up), you'll start to get a feel for your what product may be the best for your application. Regardless of what you use, remember that proper preparation is the key. Also, there are many DIY friendly, 100% solids, quality epoxy kits out there - don't cheap out on the crappy box store kits.

 

[thundercow]

It's easy:

1. Grind off the old coating with a diamond grinder. You'll also prep the floor at the same time.

2. Finish it with high-grade, high-solids epoxy--use the best you can buy. It'll last a decade, at least.

 

[Jaguar Fan]

Not really sure what they did to the garage floor but it has peeled where the tires are and even where the car drips water after a 100 degree day.

So is that paint? or bad epoxy?

What can I do to have a nice solid floor?

I have seen the vct tiles and that is a no since I have kids and don't want them to slip and fall.

The deck tiles I am worried about mold and causing damage to concrete.

So that leaves me with epoxy. DIY kits fro Lowes or HD? some people say no buy the $$$ of the internt.

First post here but love the site. Been lurking around for a month.

Welcome!

Can you post some pictures of what you currently have?

 

[SSMUFF]

I will try and get some up this weekend. I use the garage for auto work plus small wood/handyman projects. That is why I thought the epoxy floor would be a better choice.

 

[timgr]

If you like VCT, one possibility is an anti-slip VCT tile.
http://www.armstrong.com/commflooringna/products/vct/safety-zone/_/N-75hZ1z141yg

 

[nissan_crawler]

I've put one of those "crappy box store epoxy" jobs (valspar) on my 55 year old floor that was covered with (literally) over an inch of dirt/grease/oil when I bought the place. It's been on for over 5 years of welding/grinding/torching/plasma cutting/fabricating/woodworking/pickup parked on it. No trouble, none. I've beat the hell out of that floor. The only spot it has worn off is where the front tires catch the lip of the garage (I back in), and the rear tires are wet and spin. It took 4 years to burn it off, even at that. I'll touch it up one day.

Most people that piss and moan about the "crappy box store epoxy" didn't do a prep job worth a damn. I used 6 gallons of purple power, a heavy duty scrubbing broom, two boxes of tsp, acid, and 13 hours of pressure washing to clean my floor (22x24). The paint is stuck.

 

[jermar]

Forget those in home tiles. I have a Racedeck floor. http://www.racedeck.com/ Much less effort than paint.

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a153/jermar/