Touching up an Epoxy floor worthwhile?

[TangoFoxTrot]

I was talking with my parents, and they are considering redoing their garage floor. It currently has a "professionally" applied epoxy finish. It's only about 7 years old, but there are some spots where the tires have lifted it.

I personally think it's a big waste of money to redo the whole floor, but wanted to see if touching up on a few spots is a worthwhile option. I would say 95% of the floor is fine and not peeling.

What would be a fair price to touch up say 3 bays for an issue like this? I would say no single lifted spot is much more than a handprint in size.

 

[dandan111]

What did the installer put down?

 

[TangoFoxTrot]

I have no idea of the brand of epoxy, but any sort of warranty looks like it's not going to happen as they weren't the ones that had it done, it was done by the previous owner just before they moved in.

I honestly don't believe it was a "cheap" job because the house was not built to be sold, everything is pretty first class.

 

[Edger]

Two problems are that preparation was not good enough which is why the tires lifted it so it will all be the same, and if you touch up the lifted areas you will still see the difference because it is impossible to blend it in perfectly. The best way is to completely grind off the existing and apply again.

I think the question should be what preparation did they do rather than what epoxy did they use.

 

[MSG C5]

We bought our Florida home in 2005. It was a builder's model that we purchased and basically all we had to do with pick out the appliance package and inside flooring.

The garage had already had epoxy applied. It looked really nice until the first time I drove my car with hot and rain-wet tires onto the floor. The epoxy then lifted where the tires rested.

I called the builder who had the painter come back out and "fix" the epoxy. It worked for a little while and since I really didn't have the time to mess with it, I just installed some rubber paking mats over the epoxy.

At the time, I really didn't have the knowledge of how to correctly apply epoxy as I do now (thanks to this forum) and if I had, I would have demanded that the entire floor be re-prepped and re-finished.

In answer to the OP's question, if you still have the original epoxy mix (2 parts), you can mix and then paint touch up the spots, however if the floor underneath has not been properly etched and prepped, the paint will lift again.

I have touched up some small areas on my floor where I don't park my cars and the floor looks fine.

I am currently in the process of replacing the old, ugly and worn-out parking mats and I'm considering a Racedeck floor while keeping some of the non-parking epoxy area of the garage uncovered as it still looks pretty good.

 

[LegacyIndustrial]

Florida contractors are notorious for a producing a "weak cap". Good idea to grind as a prep medium. Ask me how I know.

 

[Rexleech]

The Epoxy floor looks very nice, but how this garage has applied for an epoxy..??