So.. I want a white floor in my garage

[ringer]

but like a lot of folks, I've done so much research that I am confused with which product to go with. Looking for input and maybe even pricing if someone wants to email or PM me.

I want a gloss white without flakes. I want it to be easy to clean, but I don't want a broken hip from it being slippery either.

My garage is a small attached 2 car with 420 sq. feet of concrete that was poured in 1996. The concrete appears to be in excellent shape, but is very smooth. It does not have a sealer on it now. I plan on renting a diamabrush system from my local; home depot. If needed I can rent an edco grinder from a local tool supply joint.



I am currently thinking about a 100% epoxy with a primer and topcoat. My concerns with this system are the short pot life (I will be working on my own) and the length of time it takes before I can move my stuff back in or park the car on it.

I am also considering a polyuria type system. I would still want a primer and topcoat. I understand these systems cure quickly once rolled, but have a long pot life. I also understand these systems are "thinner build" but I am not sure this matters to me.

I mostly use the garage for light homeowner type stuff and a place to wash/detail my cars. Pricing is certainly a concern, but I guess I'm looking for a compelling reason to go with one type of system or the other. I definitely do not want tiles or mats.

 

[creativecars]

Years ago before all the epoxies, I managed a shop where we painted the floor with white industrial enamel. Fairly inexpensive, $60.00 for a 30x45 floor and we could afford to spruce it up every year. This was a hard working shop with scraping jacks, brake fluid, lacquer thinner, greases and paint spills. In a year, it was time for another coat. Worked well and always looked nice. The white made the shop seem brighter and easier to find things dropped on the floor.

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

White epoxy must be top-coated with a white urethane and clear-coated if used where rubber tires live.

 

[Garage Flooring]

but like a lot of folks, I've done so much research that I am confused with which product to go with. Looking for input and maybe even pricing if someone wants to email or PM me.

I want a gloss white without flakes. I want it to be easy to clean, but I don't want a broken hip from it being slippery either.

My garage is a small attached 2 car with 420 sq. feet of concrete that was poured in 1996. The concrete appears to be in excellent shape, but is very smooth. It does not have a sealer on it now. I plan on renting a diamabrush system from my local; home depot. If needed I can rent an edco grinder from a local tool supply joint.



I am currently thinking about a 100% epoxy with a primer and topcoat. My concerns with this system are the short pot life (I will be working on my own) and the length of time it takes before I can move my stuff back in or park the car on it.

I am also considering a polyuria type system. I would still want a primer and topcoat. I understand these systems cure quickly once rolled, but have a long pot life. I also understand these systems are "thinner build" but I am not sure this matters to me.

I mostly use the garage for light homeowner type stuff and a place to wash/detail my cars. Pricing is certainly a concern, but I guess I'm looking for a compelling reason to go with one type of system or the other. I definitely do not want tiles or mats.

If it were my floor I would do two coats of our All Weather Floors Polyurea in white followed by at least one coat of clear. I believe Nohr S would also be a good choice.

Etching or grinding will be required.

 

[JStar4]

Polyurea drys fast! Def not a do it your selfer product. Its expensive but the most durability! I top coated my glitter floor with it 5 months ago still no scratches or anything looks perfect like the day i did it. Ill be doing all white floors in my house. Im gonna prime coat it first. Then do 2 coats of 100% epoxy @50 sqft per gallon so its gonna be very thick but white is def my fav

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

We have a customer doing a white floor now, hopefully he will post.


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[Dick in Wisconsin]

Why white?

I put "regular" Rust Bullet from Jason on my shop floor. Light grey in color which I think is natural. Extremely easy to clean (whether fine dust or leaking oil/bear lube) and much to my surprise is not slippery when went.

 

[ringer]

Just personal preference I guess. I knew I didnt want a dark color floor and I have had two grey and one tan coated floor.

 

[Tony_G]

You did not mention tile, but I went with gray/white porcelain tile, more gray than white (only on the edges), but I'm sure it would look great all white as well!

 

[NewShockerGuy]

Just paint it.
Paint gets a bad rap for no reason other than people justifying their epoxy installations.
I havr a white painted floor in the wife's garage.
After 10 years now it can use a touch up.
A 23 buck gallon of paint will probably do it.
Move stuff out, roller it, move stuff in.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of people NOT on GJ have painted garage floors and live with them just fine.
Some people justify high end tools and foam box shadow liners, some justify epoxy. Same mentality.

When I was renting a house years ago the owner though it would be wonderful to paint the garage floor a light gray color. It looked good for about 6 months until it start chipping everywhere. Anytime I drove in/out of the garage it would chip/peel...etc. I would find tiny paint chips on my floor mats/ carpet of my cars/ and inside the house from walking and the chips sticking to my shoes. It was the most annoying thing ever. Anytime I dragged anything on the floor guess what happened... chips everywhere.

My neighbor painted his floor just a few months ago. Had a bunch of paint and mixed it all together and it came out to be a some tannish color. Painted the floor. Looked really good for a month, then it started chipping everywhere from where they drive the cars in and out. Personally if I am moving ALL the stuff out of my garage I don't want to have to keep doing that on any type of recurring basis just to repaint my garage floor and then wait for it to dry. I have no place to put any of the stuff in the garage to store it out side.

I'd really have to say painting is not a good option if one wants to do it once. I would say epoxy is superior to paint when on the floor. I know for a fact that if my garage floor was painted that it would look like *** now from all the work I've done on our cars or other projects. Not to mention all the stuff dropped on the garage floor. I definitely do have scratches in the epoxy floor but no chips and nothing delaminating like I've seen with every instance with normal latex painted floors that people do.

-Nigel

 

[Armorpoxy]

White floors, even when topcaoted with white urethane topcoat (required to prevent yellowing) can get stained from certain tires with performance additives in the rubber. These stains cannot be removed. We would suggest parking pads under the tires if you go with white

A more durable choice would be our white Spartacote polyspartic, two coats. More stain resistant and 100% non yellowing, can be used outdoors.

 

[JStar4]

You could epoxy then put polyurea top coat i did my glitter floor like that. 330 sqft per gallon

 

[Armorpoxy]

We have seen white epoxy under clear polyurea or urethane yellow. In our opinion no clear topcoat would protect white epoxy which yellows and discolors/grays even in artificial light.

A few years back our Sample Dept. made white 100% epoxy sample chips without topcoat and they turned grayish and this was in a room that the lights are often off and the samples were kept in a drawer! White topcoating them solved the problem 100%.

If a client wants a white fleck floor they need to do white epoxy, then white urethane or polyaspartic and fleck into that, and then clear over the flecked floor we would suggest.

 

[JStar4]

Interesting. I have black basecoat under my glitter but inside my house i plan on doing over 2k sqft white in the future so would you suggest i could pour 100% epoxy then do a layer of white polyurea? Im not a fan of just polyurea inside my house cause it is so thin and will not hide small imperfections plus its very expensive. I use hp spartacote and they recommend for color coats do 2 coats at 330 sqft per gallon then one clear coat on top at 330 sqft gallon

 

[Armorpoxy]

For residential white floors we use white epoxy primer, white epoxy and white urethane or polyaspartic. It's imperative that the white that 'sees' the light be white pigmented urethane or white polyaspartic.

Thanks!

 

[JStar4]

Do you use water based epoxy as primer or 100% solids for the prime coat?

 

[Armorpoxy]

We use either a water or solvent based primer which are about 50% solids.

 

[JStar4]

Cool thanks!

 

[Armorpoxy]

The reason that primer should be a lower solids content is that it 'bites' better into the porous concrete. Then, once the floor is primed, the 100% solids epoxy sits nice and high on the primer and can't soak in so you get full value and thickness of the expensive epoxy.

 

[ringer]

so, here is what it looks like

 

[James-W]

I recall a long time ago a friend of mine had a painted garage floor. He didn't paint it, the floor was that way when he bought the house. He didn't particularly care for it all that much (yellowish-green color) and eventually nearly all the paint wore off and it was bare concrete again. He liked that better.

 

[stm317]

so, here is what it looks like

Nice garage, and nice car! I'm torn between the aesthetics of a white floor, and the functionality of light gray. Which product did you end up using? How did the install go? Anything you'd do differently next time?

 

[Armorpoxy]

Our light gray color is almost like a pewter. We also offer an off white. Both are easier to keep clean than white in a garage.

 

[JohnnyK81]

Just paint it.
Paint gets a bad rap for no reason other than people justifying their epoxy installations.
I havr a white painted floor in the wife's garage.
After 10 years now it can use a touch up.
A 23 buck gallon of paint will probably do it.
Move stuff out, roller it, move stuff in.

You know, I second the paint in this scenario.

What, you're going to move pads around the garage so your tires don't touch it? And if they do, then what? Scuff, recoat? An expensive product does not seem like a good choice in this scenario.

 

[ebonyswan]

Surprised no one has said before this but you can get Rustbullet in white....