Solid Color Floors? (with Wolverine products)

[DB2]

I am getting ready to do my 625 sq ft garage with Wolverine products. The slab is now 6 months old with zero defects.

I'll go ahead and say it...I am not a fan of the look of flakes in epoxy floors and would prefer just to have a solid, light grey coating.

Almost everyone here does go the flake route...but has anyone gone with a solid color, particularly with Wolverine products, and was it possible to get a very even, consistent finish? And how do you foresee the floor holding up, without flakes to disguise any scrathes etc?

This garage is purely a "man cave"...it will hold my one "fun" car and my woodworking equipment.

 

[GeorgiaHybrid]

DB2,

You are not alone. I plan on doing mine this spring but in white instead of light grey. I would rather have the extra "light" reflecting from the floor. At my age and with poor eyesight, I'm doing good to find the car at times.....

 

[mxgo]

I used Wolverine products, just recently. Just add their anti-skid additive to the top coat and it will give you a semi-gloss matte finish to the floor. It looks great!

 

[AlphaGarage]

Reviewing our records it's clear that almost all projects use some amount of DecoFlakes, but not all. We have a client who installed an epoxy system w/o flakes in a commercial fabrication shop where he builds and works on race cars. And the LiquaTile color he used was White.

He ordered BondTite for the primer and white LiquaTile 1184 as the top coat. He declined to use a clear coat.

I just called him for an update. The floor coating is still in good shape and he continues to receive compliments on it. There are some dings where heavy items were dropped and the impact was great enough that it actually chipped the underlying concrete. There is also a rough spot where the coating dulled in front of his sander, but he said he works on that spot for a couple of hours every day. Finally the area by the garage doors where the LiquaTile is exposed to full sunlight has yellowed, although he only notices it when the door is closed. Overall he reports the Wolverine coatings are holding up well, especially since it a heavy use working shop and there is no protective clear coat over the pigmented epoxy.

Here's what the floor looked like after it was coated.


BTW: All epoxies yellow, and it's an issue that Wolverine is always working on, just a few months ago we started shipping a new LiquaTile formulation that has considerably improved UV resistance.

The yellowing is caused not only by exposure to UV light, in fact an epoxy coating in a completely dark room will still color shift over time. That's because the coating is also affected by oxidation, essentially some of the epoxy's components when wxposed to oxygen are rusting.

EnduraShield 2254 (a polyurethane) when used as a clear coat will slow down both processes. It works by filtering out some (but not all) of the UV light hitting the underlying epoxy, plus it encapsulates the epoxy helping prevent oxygen exposure. As a clear coat it also provides an extra measure of abrasion resistance.

 

[bofus]

I mixed light gray half and half with white. I did not use Wolverine products, but if you read my thread, you will see some things to do...and some things not to do.

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13700&showall=1

 

[DaRkILLa]

you are not the only one, i plan on using a solid white finish on my garage when ever i get around to it.

 

[ironroad 9c1]

Wish I hadn't used flakes. Nothing negitive about em, I just think the floor looks cleaner with out em.

 

[jmh21586]

I used Wolverine standard gray on my floor. No flakes.
It will obviously show dirt more than a floor with flakes, but I really like that airplane hangar look.

 

[sgrammel]

you are not the only one, i plan on using a solid white finish on my garage when ever i get around to it.

Solid white...man you must like to clean up a lot

 

[DaRkILLa]

Solid white...man you must like to clean up a lot

lol i wont mind. ill just be like " damn thats a nice floor" everytime i clean it lol

 

[RDW920]

mxgo How well does the anti skid work? i want to epoxy coat my floor (after shop is built) but don't want something slick when wet.

 

[mxgo]

mxgo How well does the anti skid work? i want to epoxy coat my floor (after shop is built) but don't want something slick when wet.

Very well, that was also my worry.