[Shop-talk] Epoxy garage floor coatings

[Mike Rambour]

  If you are set on epoxy, I have been on GarageJournal since 2005 and I 
have to agree GarageFlooring is probably the best, just based on all the 
positive comments over the years.  There has been others that came and 
went, but he stuck around with good reviews. As far as salesmanship 
there were a few that are now gone that didn't even try to hide the 
marketing, GarageFlooring seems to balance it pretty well.

  For me, I went with Racedeck 15 years ago and love it.  And to keep it 
British'y since this is team.net, here is a recent post about my 
Racedeck, if you avert your eyes from the flooring, there are 2 1934 
Singer's (a 1.5Litre and a Le Mans) and one 1959 Mini in the pictures. 
http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=359487

     mike


On 5/3/2017 5:19 AM, Jim Stone wrote:
> I am just about ready to coat my new garage and have been researching 
> different coatings for a while.  While I had good luck with the 
> original Rustoleum Epoxy about 15 years ago, my research has led me 
> away from any of their current coatings.  The general consensus seems 
> to be that the water-based epoxy is terrible, the solvent-based 
> (“Professional") is ‘ok’, and the Rock Solid has some problems, as you 
> have found.  After spending some time on Garage Journal I decided to 
> go with one of GarageFlooring.com <http://GarageFlooring.com>’s 
> products.  (http://www.garageflooringllc.com)  There were other 
> suppliers with good reviews, but I liked the low key way their 
> president, Justin Krauss, responded to questions.  He answers them 
> directly and doesn’t try to use Garage Journal as an overt sales tool, 
> while other suppliers on the forum treat every question as a sales 
> opportunity.  The products may be identical, but I prefer dealing with 
> someone like Justin.
>
> I emailed Justin directly and he responded with his recommendations 
> very quickly.  We have had multiple email discussions as I continue to 
> educate myself and one phone call just yesterday.  He has continued to 
> be as I observed on Garage Journal: easy to deal with and not at all 
> ‘sales-y’.  His recommendation to me is their Polyurea coating.  It is 
> expensive (my garage is almost exactly the size of yours and I will 
> spend over $1000 all in) but seems to be worth it.  My other 
> consideration was Rust Bullet, which is a little less expensive and 
> has very good reviews.  I ultimately eliminated it primarily because 
> of the smell; it sounds like the Amerlock that Nick recommended and 
> apparently really stinks when it is going on and for a few days 
> afterwards.  Our garage has living space above and adjacent to it and 
> I didn’t want to risk stinking everything up.  Plus, I want my wife’s 
> help on this and she would have real trouble with the smell.  FWIW, 
> Justin told me that Rust Bullet had been his favorite, but he would 
> use Polyurea if he were doing his own garage today.
>
> I can’t comment on the actual product yet, but feel like I have 
> selected the right supplier to help me.  Actual painting is still a 
> couple of weeks away.  Good luck!
>
> Jim
>
>
>> On Apr 30, 2017, at 12:57 PM, john Mitchell <jmitch at snet.net 
>> <mailto:jmitch at snet.net>> wrote:
>>
>> I decided to do an epoxy floor in my garage and it's been a total 
>> nightmare.   The guy painting my house said he could do it and had 
>> done others before.  I prepared the floor by grinding down to bare 
>> concrete with a diamond pad on a floor machine rented from Home 
>> Depot.  I let the painter choose the product.  He bought Rustoleum 
>> Rock Solid which said there would be enough for a 2.5 car garage. My 
>> garage is a basic 2 car 22' by 24' with a little cut off for a 
>> chimney.  He used the kit and there is no way it was going to be 
>> enough as it only coated 3/4s of the garage and thinly at that. He 
>> went and bought another single kit to finish and of course it didn't 
>> match the first color.  He let it dry a few day and sanded the floor 
>> to level the decorative chips in the paint and used another 2.5 size 
>> kit to top coat it.  the color is a tan and gray area rose through 
>> the paint basically ruining the looks of the paint. I can't really 
>> blame him as he followed all the directions carefully.  I think 
>> Rustoleum will reimburse him for all the paint I hope.  At this 
>> point, I want to grind it all back off and start with another 
>> product.  Anyone had any recent experience with garage floor 
>> coatings?  Thanks very much,  John Mitchell  Shelton, CT

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