[Tigers] garage floor coatings

[Chris Thompson]

Ditto here.  About 10 years ago built my dream garage at the time - a 
3-car with a lift.  Used Ben Moore's best 2-part epoxy, and have been 
very pleased.  I'm sure if I scrubbed or pressure washed it right now, 
it would look like new.

Am building my new dream car garage at the new house - an 8 car garage 
with 3 lifts.  Considered briefly putting down porcelain tile, but have 
gone back to 2-part epoxy.

But of course, if you haven't poured your pad yet, absolutely put down a 
couple layers of plastic just before the pour.  And then, like Bill, I 
run a dehumidifier in the summer.  I use heat pumps in the winter in the 
new garage, as they do a great job of getting rid of the moisture, too.

Bill's unvented gas heaters will add moisture to the air in the winter, 
and would be interested to hear why you might want to do that.  In the 
current garage, I started with that, too (cheapest heat).  After about 2 
years I thought to put in a carbon monoxide alarm.  It went off right 
away - I thought it was broken.  Obviously, that wasn't the problem.  I 
immediately took out that heater and put in a vented gas furnace.  I 
spent a lot of time in the garage those first couple of winters and in 
retrospect thought that the CO really had been negatively effecting me.  
Wouldn't recommend it myself for health or humidity.  But it seems to 
working ok for Bill.

Chris

On 3/22/2011 5:50 PM, Bill Waite wrote:
> Peter,
>
> About 6 years ago I built my "dream" garage here in Michigan where humidity
> and heating are issues.  I've had very good luck with 2-part epoxy floor paint
> (bulletproof in my experience).  Where I really spent time, however, is in
> insulating the walls and ceilings, lots of soffit vents, plus I added a Reznor
> ceiling mounted gas heater (vented through the roof) and a "attic fan" that
> kicks on at high temps in the summer.  .  The "un-vented" heaters can add
> moisture (or at least that is what I was told at the time).  I also purchased
> a really good dehumidifier and have it at a medium setting year round.  Runs
> only when it needs to.  That combination (great insulation, venting, heater,
> fan and dehumidifier) keeps everything very cool in the summer, warm in the
> winter and dry all year.
>
> Last May I had our '65 356C Porsche coupe (owned since 1975) media blasted and
> have been working on the metal work ever since.  The body is blasted bare...
> and not a spec of spot rust has appeared.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Waite
> Grand Rapids, MI