I close on my new house next week. Seeing how there will be nothing in the garage, it's a fine time to do the floor right with some sort of epoxy paint/whatever.

So, what do you use? Shultzy has the Rustoleum Epoxy stuff in his garage. Looks all pimpy, but apparently after ~1 year of use, it seems to be coming up in places. Any other options? I'd like to do this right the first time.

 

Try this place

Bling Bling!

They look fancy

 

We have had luck with Griot's Garage floor epoxy paint stuff. Seems to age well, and I'm planning on using it on my new house, too. Congrats. Also, don't forget to install plenty of lights.

 

Steve only carries the best:

http://www.ultimategarage.com

Warren

 

musclegloss should be really nice but when I asked the local painting store they said it was VERY HARD in ley down, But good.

 

MuscleGuard looks awesome. They have great taste in cars too







edit: that is 5 pictures, it turned out to be quite a puzzle.



[Modified by JMU1337, 4:12 AM 11/18/2002]

 

There's a car in that picture?

 

go to Home Depot and ask

and smart thinking doing it now!

 

Heated floor

 

good call....i'm building a garage right now and will now add paint to the list!!!

 

Yeah, that muscle gloss stuff is the shizznittlebamzit (right click, save as.....). Floor looks good too.

The Griot's Garage stuff looks promising. Can't tell from the web site, but does it have any of that pimpy non-skid stuff?

I found some last night somewhere on-line that had a 10 year warranty. Can't find the link now, dammit. Price was between the Rustoleum stuff and the Muscle Gir....I mean, Gloss.


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Warren: can't find any flooring info at that site



[Modified by MaddMatt, 10:25 AM 11/18/2002]

 

heard that you put a cup or two of sand in with the paint....that will make it non skid,,,,for the cheapo in all of us i'm sure sand would work!

 

my dad has a 64 corvette that same color and a 66 too it is one car that truly amazes me, it has very little work done to the motor and ran low 11's on SHiTTY very small width street tires, he was smoking a zo6 out of the hole and pulling away very hard at the 1/8th mark when he missed a shift and the motor doesnt have a rev limiter....

 

I bought this Rustoleum Epoxy, but haven't laid it down yet. It's $60 a box and one box cover 1.5 in garage space. So paying $120 to cover a 2 car garage was kinda debatable. I bought it from Home Depot.

Thanks,
Victor

 

i have used the griots garage floor paint and it is great after about 2.5 years. it was kinda expensive (i forgot how much i paid) is all i remember, but mucho worth it. one down side is, when the floor gets wet, it gets kiinda slippery.

i have used the rustolem garage floor paint and it is crap!!! about 6 months later the paint started to peel off. i might have doen something wrong when applying it, but i doubt it.

 

Get off that car you crazy bitch!!!!!!

Dan

 

I'd let her touch anything that I pwned.

 

I don't see a floor in that picture. I can barely make out a car.

 

An alternative to paint... A friend of mine had NatureStone installed. He likes it a lot. My only complaint about it was that sometimes it was painful to neal down on it.

http://www.naturestonefloors.com/garages.htm

 

My garage has a grass floor, lot's of fresh air to ventilate the exhaust though

 

http://www.ucoatit.com

 

Anyone heard of this stuff?: http://www.armorpoxy.com/html/about.htm

Pros: 10 year warranty, less expensive than anything I've found, including the Rustoleum stuff (~$55/gallon +~$8 for the non-skid addative)

Cons: Looks like it might need 2 coats.

What do you guys think???

 

The hooded garage painter has struck again!

 

Trying to make sense of all this confusion about epoxy paint, etc. I decided to just go ask some experts: Sherwin Williams. They've been painting stuff for 100 years now. Hopefully, they have a handle on the situation.

The guy recommended their epoxy paint (obviously, I mean, he's not going to recommend Glidden paint, right ). It comes in 2 parts. Each part is 1 gallon. That would make a total of 2 gallons. Easily covers a 2 car garage in a THICK layer. He said the stuff smells really bad and I of course should do this in a well ventilated area. I've noticed that things that smell really bad are generally bad for you, but more often than not provide the best results. In addition, this stuff completely hardens and is unworkable 5 hours after mixing. None of the other companies mention that. So, I'll be purchasing some Sherwin Williams epoxy paint for the job.

If I don't pass out and get brain damage from the fumes, I'll report on how it goes.

BTW, as of yesterday at 9am, I own a house again.

edit: Umm...huh huh....spelling's hard....


[Modified by MaddMatt, 7:57 AM 11/27/2002]

 

Good luck, I'll be interested in how your garage turns out. The previous owner of my house put some paint/epoxy stuff on the garage floor and it chips and flakes HORRIBLY whenever I used the jack or jackstands (pressure points). Half of it has flaked off, so my garage floor looks nasty, and there are paint chips everywhere.