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JohnZ

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I sweep mine with a soft-bristle push broom, and use a wet mop/bucket occasionally to get stuff the broom doesn't handle. In the spring, I just hose all the snow/salt drippings/crud from the daily drivers on their side of the garage out the door. I had the slab pitched toward the doors (floor drains are prohibited here by code), and when I hose it down I just use the push broom as a squeegee.

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Vicegrip

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My 2.5 year old son rolls around all over while playing in the shop and picks up all kinds of dirt, wood plastic and metal shavings as well as sopping up oil from the floor. I then send him inside to the wife for cleaning. What he does not get up I use a push broom on and in rare fits of utter boredom I will get out the mop and bucket as pictured above. This has happened once now that I recall. Even after cleaning my floors don't look like the one in the picture.
 
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slghmmr88

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Sorry to jump in here, cause I usually just lurk since I lost my shop and house many years ago with all my tools in storage and I live in a second floor apartment, but the job I recently left as food service director for a large church had an epoxy floor. The floor was a rustoleum product in two coats with flakes and then a topcoat of clear polyurethane put on by a company that worked as a division of a concrete finishing company. The floor had pretty good use as we produced approximately 1000 meals per week. I used 1/8 to 1/4 cup of powdered tide with approximately 1 1/2 cups clorox in 5 gallons of the hottest water our system produced. kept the floor nice and shiney and didn't need a rinse moping with the light soap mix. I only mopped on fridays since the kitchen was closed and was nice to come in to a clean floor on monday morning. The color was a light green which I chose to avoid the industrial look, going more for the operating room style. Just a lurker's suggestion so take it for what it is worth.:)
 
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Hammerdown

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Dawn dish soap diluted with water, a rayon mop and bucket with a ringer, foam rubber squeegee and a hose. I rinse the floor and then wet mop it with the soap solution. I use a rayon mop so it will not catch as easily on the anti-slip texture of the coating. I then rinse it and squeegee off any excess water, repeating this process a few times so there are no sticky residues left over from the soap.
 
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awakeinAZ

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Good suggestion, they told me what the reccomend (Citrus orange) but I wanted other opinions.
 
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