RB, tile, mats or ??

[loafy28]

Hi all,

been reading thru the forum here and wanted to get the groups view on what direction I should go with my garage floor.

I have about 850 sq ft in a 3 car garage with a work space. I'm not planning on wrenching too much but just mostly small projects around the house. I had a new floor poured about 1.5 years ago and so far there are no stains, chips are anything else so I feel I have a good canvas to work from.

my goal is to be able to do something "simple" but effective in keeping things clean and tight. While I like the look of a true epoxy solution, It would be difficult to move everything out for about a week to do the entire floor at one time. Besides the moving of everything, I'm not excited about doing any floor grinding or etching.

To that end, I'm considering Rust Bullet, tiles or maybe mats for the full garage. My thinking is that I can do either solution pretty much by myself moving things around in the garage doing about 1/3 of the floor at a time. Cost is important but not my overall goal and have priced solutions out from about $800 - $1200 for the solution. I'm fine with the price range and am wrestling with what to use for this work.

Since there seems to be a lot of experience and good advice here I thought I would get everyone's opinion.

what would you do to keep it relatively simple and something I could complete over a couple of weekends?

thanks in advance for any advice!

 

[Armorpoxy]

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[Garage Flooring]

Hi all,

been reading thru the forum here and wanted to get the groups view on what direction I should go with my garage floor.

I have about 850 sq ft in a 3 car garage with a work space. I'm not planning on wrenching too much but just mostly small projects around the house. I had a new floor poured about 1.5 years ago and so far there are no stains, chips are anything else so I feel I have a good canvas to work from.

my goal is to be able to do something "simple" but effective in keeping things clean and tight. While I like the look of a true epoxy solution, It would be difficult to move everything out for about a week to do the entire floor at one time. Besides the moving of everything, I'm not excited about doing any floor grinding or etching.

To that end, I'm considering Rust Bullet, tiles or maybe mats for the full garage. My thinking is that I can do either solution pretty much by myself moving things around in the garage doing about 1/3 of the floor at a time. Cost is important but not my overall goal and have priced solutions out from about $800 - $1200 for the solution. I'm fine with the price range and am wrestling with what to use for this work.

Since there seems to be a lot of experience and good advice here I thought I would get everyone's opinion.

what would you do to keep it relatively simple and something I could complete over a couple of weekends?

thanks in advance for any advice!

Sounds like tile would be a very very good option for you.

 

[loafy28]

Justin,

doing some more research and am thinking that rust bullet might be a good approach for me. I think I can do my floor in 3 separate phases by going this route. I believe the pot life for RB is about a month so I plan to complete the full project within 30 days. I've read other threads and feel I need to so an absorption test on the concrete. My initial test was a full cup (8oz) of water just poured over a section where the car sits. Seems like it was absorbed in about 20 mins but I need to do a more scientific test and will take some pictures for people's opinions.

assuming the absorption test will pass, I'd like to do a small sample patch as you suggested on this thread http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=297314

do you sell a pint size sample of the basic grey that I could use for the test?

many thanks!

 

[Garage Flooring]

Thanks for the update. Would yo repeat with a 1/4 cup and let me know results? Yes we have small amounts for adhesion testing

 

[loafy28]

Justin,

I've attached pictures for using 1/4 cup of water at 0, 2, 5 and 10 minutes. The floor temp was 58 degrees and the humidity was 34% and air temp was 73.

please let me know if you need more or if I need to do more pictures at 20 and 30 minutes.

thanks for the help!

 

[Garage Flooring]

I would prep this floor.

 

[loafy28]

Justin,

thanks for the response

so is "prep" grinding or etching or both? also what type of absorption rate should I expect after the prep?

 

[Garage Flooring]

Ideally 1/4 cup would soak right in. If you are doing Rust Bullet even just sanding the floor with a buffer will do the trick. A light grind would also be fine

 

[loafy28]

understood

is there any videos/how to's for the sanding or grinding you would recommend?

 

[Garage Flooring]

understood

is there any videos/how to's for the sanding or grinding you would recommend?

We have not done a video on that. Diamabrush has several good ones out there