Pure white floors?

[Twizzstyle]

First post on this forum, so hello!

I am buying my first house (close in a few weeks) and I'm going to be doing a lot of work furnishing the shop. It's a detached building, about 620sq ft, was built just a few years ago. I do a little work on my cars, but this will mostly be general project space (although my dune buggy will live in the shop)

I'm going to do a floor coating (leaning towards EpoxyCoat right now) but I'm trying to decide the color. I am thinking I would like to do pure white with no paint chips, just for the best lighting possible in the shop (the walls and ceiling are all finished and painted white).

Does anybody have any photos of pure white floors? Do you like it? Not like it?

 

[mikeyr]

35 years ago, I painted my mothers garage floor all white for light reflection as I started a restoration project, I loved it. After about a year or so, the floor was pretty torn up and greasy but still gave me good light reflection. Remember those days were when you had one or maybe 2 incandescent bulbs in a garage so everything helped. That floor is still there, I sure wish I knew what kind of paint I used, it has never peeled up with hot tires and I sure did not etch or clean the floor like you are supposed to, I was a teen ager, I just rolled the paint on after sweeping (I assume I swept).

On my grown up garage floor, I used Racedeck tiles and I went all White under my lift for the same reason as I did in the past, light reflection and it sure works great. But I won't do that again under the lift, it gets too dirty with grease/oil.

Nowdays with all the lights we put in our garages, I think all white floors would overpower everything. It sure looks good when its clean but its too much work for a real restoration shop where you will be pulling motors, doing transmissions, welding, etc.

 

[nate379]

If I did white in my garage it would stay white for about... oh.... maybe a day after putting it down.

 

[thegarageguy]

White floors are a pain to install but beautiful when finished.

 

[Twizzstyle]

Yeah, something like that in my shop would be gorgeous!

What makes it a pain? Just getting an even coat? I imagine the paint chips hide deficiencies in the install...

 

[thegarageguy]

Since we do not work in a controlled environment, it's difficult to stop dust, lint, bugs and even other trades from ruining your work. White sometimes needs multiple coats as well because it's semi translucent. Normal monolithic colors show flwas but white is worse. Very difficult to make look good.

 

[Twizzstyle]

I called EpoxyCoat this morning to get a few samples sent to me, I think I've narrowed it down to pure white, white with either gray or blue blend flakes (probably grey), light grey, or taupe.

 

[TheShrine]

I went the white with gray and black (Graphite) chips route. I also put clear coat on mine.

The +'s = looks great, reflects light well, goes well with the B/W VCT and the white Corvette looks good on it.

The -'s = the white shows EVERY flaw in the surface concrete and the clear exaggerates it, debris shows although the flakes help and the clear coat amplifies the dust and the resultant footprints.

I am re-doing mine and going back with the white, same flakes but NO clear coat.