Question For You With Painted Floors

[Mikes61]

So I’m really OCD about keeping things clean. Do you guys with nicely painted and tiled garage floors have a hard time keeping them really clean?

My grey/black RaceDeck isn’t too bad in my 2 car garage, but I just finished an additional 920 sq ft attached garaged and I’m thinking about having both garage floors painted a light color with fleck.

Is it going to be a pain to keep clean?

 

[BigGarage]

So I’m really OCD about keeping things clean. Do you guys with nicely painted and tiled garage floors have a hard time keeping them really clean?

My grey/black RaceDeck isn’t too bad in my 2 car garage, but I just finished an additional 920 sq ft attached garaged and I’m thinking about having both garage floors painted a light color with fleck.

Is it going to be a pain to keep clean?

I prepped and painted my floor in 2012 or 2013 I think. I wasn't living here yet. Now that I live here the only cleaning the floor gets is after I use the router or table saw. I am not OCD about it but if I was it wouldn't be a problem to wash it in the summertime.

Dennis

 

[Garage Flooring]

So I’m really OCD about keeping things clean. Do you guys with nicely painted and tiled garage floors have a hard time keeping them really clean?

My grey/black RaceDeck isn’t too bad in my 2 car garage, but I just finished an additional 920 sq ft attached garaged and I’m thinking about having both garage floors painted a light color with fleck.

Is it going to be a pain to keep clean?

Be careful with coatings under tile. If it is a glossy coating with little traction, the tiles can move around. It is not typical but it happens.

I find the TrueLock Ribbed flow-through tiles to be the easiest to keep clean - compare price to RaceDeck Freeflow. I probably would not put a coating under them, if I did I might even just to a Kilz product or 1 coat of clear polyurea.

A properly installed quality garage floor coating is very very easy to keep clean. It is much harder to install than tile, but we walk people through it all the time

 

[FJ4FUN]

So I’m really OCD about keeping things clean. Do you guys with nicely painted and tiled garage floors have a hard time keeping them really clean?

My grey/black RaceDeck isn’t too bad in my 2 car garage, but I just finished an additional 920 sq ft attached garaged and I’m thinking about having both garage floors painted a light color with fleck.

Is it going to be a pain to keep clean?

IMHO, nothing is easier to keep clean as a seamless polymer coating like those that we, and others, offer here. As long as you avoid the old school abrasive traction additives that tend to hang up mops, you'll find that dirt, sawdust, chemical spills etc. are much easier to clean up and keep after. That being said, for the OCD crowd, consider a non-abrasive traction additive such as our SpheriTex to break up the high gloss produced by these types of coating systems as the gloss will tend to highlight ANY dust present (of course, for the true clean freeq you may appreciate anything that reveals dust...?). Finally, the one thing that we find that really bugs the OCD crowd is exposed control joints as they will collect all manner of dirt and debris. For small saw cut joints we recommend filling before coating with our IntegraFlex, for the larger troweled joints we recommend filling after.

 

[blacksporty]

So I’m really OCD about keeping things clean. Do you guys with nicely painted and tiled garage floors have a hard time keeping them really clean?

My grey/black RaceDeck isn’t too bad in my 2 car garage, but I just finished an additional 920 sq ft attached garaged and I’m thinking about having both garage floors painted a light color with fleck.

Is it going to be a pain to keep clean?

With the fleck you can't see the dirt or any screw you drop, ever.

 

[Armorpoxy]

A coated floor is absolutely easy to clean. As stated above flecks 'hide' minor issues, dirt etc and create a visually clean look, but makes dropped small parts challenging to find. Solid color floors show more imperfections, dirt, etc. Sadly no free lunch!

We offer both types.

 

[SlotlessMan]

Mine will show dirt as I park all winter and work on it. Drains help. The thing is that it's easy to clean with water and a squeegee, sometimes a mop if pretty messy. Accidentally spill a quart of oil on the floor takes about a minute to clean up. A few scratches from the sleds sliding around and some yellowing by the doors but still shines and looks good after 18 years.

I chose battleship gray with white and blue specks. Did it myself. I agree with the comment that it can be harder to find things you drop though.

 

[dcg9381]

So I’m really OCD about keeping things clean. Do you guys with nicely painted and tiled garage floors have a hard time keeping them really clean?

Now that the garage is for cars (only) and not for anything else, that's immensely helpful.

My grey/black RaceDeck isn’t too bad in my 2 car garage, but I just finished an additional 920 sq ft attached garaged and I’m thinking about having both garage floors painted a light color with fleck.

Fleck will hide things a little better than a light solid color. Fleck is also a traditional garage floor coating.
My shop has an expensive robot vac. Every other trip down to the shop or so, I clean robot out, and send it on it's way again... Makes a big difference long term, you're cleaning without doing much.

 

[e015475]

For day to day cleanups, I had a 30" dry mop that was treated with WD-40 (spray it, roll up the mop head for a couple of days before using) When it got looking pretty nasty, I just threw it in the wash. I had 2-3 so I always had a clean one.

I kept a cotton mop and a Rubbermaid mop bucket in the closet in the garage for my epoxy floors. I'd mop the garage/shop floors maybe once a month using hot water and a little bit of Dawn dish soap. Kept a spray bottle of Simple Green or 409 to pick up the greasier spots while I mopped. After a couple of months, throw the mop head in the wash.

I found a used floor buffer/burnisher and about once a year I'd buff the floor with a 3M white Scotchbrite pad that the sold in Home Depot. I used a spray bottle to apply some ZEP "Buff UP" to mist the floor ahead of the buffer and just buffed until it dried.

My floors were epoxy with a urethane top coat. This just after I redid them after about 20 years of use.