Garage Floor Coating..

[Quigs]

We specialize in a new type of coating. 100% Solids Polyurethane/Polyurea blend. It is chemical resistant, impact resistant to 52,000psi, and flexible so concrete cracks will never show through.

We are in the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information go to our website.

Thanks

 

[Rob]

Quigs,

Welcome to the Corvette Action Center. Personally, I voted "yes" as I've heard that moisture can seep through concrete which is the basis of most garage floors. Obviously, moisture is a primary source of corrosion for automobiles, so in my own humble opinion I think a garage floor coating is important.

On the aside, I'm going to move your thread into the Corvette Stables forum rather than this forum as it deals more with Garages. For the record, if you would like to advertise formally here throughout the site, please feel free to check out our Advertising Packages

 

[DetailingDude]

We specialize in a new type of coating. 100% Solids Polyurethane/Polyurea blend. It is chemical resistant, impact resistant to 52,000psi, and flexible so concrete cracks will never show through.

We are in the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information go to our website.

Thanks

Please contact me at thatdetailingdude@hotmail.com. I'd like to see if I can do a review of your product on my website.

 

[BigRed]

OMG YES!

The shop where I work (as a mechanic) DOESN'T and if and WHEN you spill oil's or coolant on the concrete, they will saturate into the concrete and will be there to stay

Two reasons why this is BAD

Looks Gorgeous! (Sarcasm?) Lol
and
It will become very slippery. You constantly have to use floor dry not for spills but for traction!

Paint it seal it whatever and allow this crud to be washed away harmlessly.

 

[Derek]

Hello...looking for this...is it available in Australia??

 

[*89x2*]

I too have been considering a sealer for my floor...
I contacted a company that did a local shop and for my garage, they wanted over 3 GRAND to install the "system" (26x32)
Needless to say, for 3 g's you would really have to want something like this, as there are a few do it yourself systems out there if you care to try...
I will add, they have alumn flakes or other abrasives that cam be installed w/ the coatings to stop "sliding" in the shop.
will check out the site just mentioned

 

[BlackNBlue95]

We Did This in My Garage

We did this in my garage at home.. using an expoxy.. My Cousin Lord J... works for a flooring systems company and we got it for a steal.. anyway looks really nice he can even do some custom stuff too like if you wanted checker board finish or a stencil or something.. we also put crushed glass (it's fine like sand) we did this for traction when it's wet I dunno if it was my personal garage I would may not have went with the crushed glass.. it's hard to slid stuff on it.. and to sweep.. eh well may not be my garage but it seems to be with my vette and bike in it.. I love my parents!

-Rick

 

[Vetsvette2002]

I put down the Rustoleum brand 2 part epoxy in light gray in the summer of 2001. Sure wish I had done this 25 years ago when the floor was new. Cleans up is soooooooooo easy now. He** I even have a mop &B wringer for the spills and when I drop a tool it hasn't chipped yet and the floor jack has steel wheels too.

Don

 

[Interceptor430]

Hey Rick!!! Nice looking floor and garage there.....uh...that other car in the floor pic looks real familiar to me - like a couple of my muscle cars....can't see much of it...but it sure looks like the left front fender of a '66 Galaxie!!? Is it?

Oh yea....shop floors must be sealed to protect the concrete.
Just depends on what you do in that area.....I sure can't get real 'pretty' with my shop floor (priming/bondo/base coat clear coats)....but the house garage?....man I'd love to do it in black and white squares!

 

[BlackNBlue95]

Hey Rick!!! Nice looking floor and garage there.....uh...that other car in the floor pic looks real familiar to me - like a couple of my muscle cars....can't see much of it...but it sure looks like the left front fender of a '66 Galaxie!!? Is it?

Oh yea....shop floors must be sealed to protect the concrete.
Just depends on what you do in that area.....I sure can't get real 'pretty' with my shop floor (priming/bondo/base coat clear coats)....but the house garage?....man I'd love to do it in black and white squares!

Thanks.. I love the way it looks too.. only PIA part is sweeping it because of the crushed glass(like sand) makes it hard to get leaves and stuff swept, because it's kinda like sand paper..

YES you are right.. damm your good..

66 galaxie 500 352ci.. will be for sale too.. it's a tennesse car 99% rust free and the floor boards seem (havn't gotten to really be under it much yet) to be solid and rust free aswell.. 56K miles I think only it's a 1 owner car.. so if anyone is interested let me Know I'll tell you more about it.. I'm not asking a whole lot for it either.. I just need to get it out of my driveway.. and use the cash towards a better daily driver..

-Rick

 

[JohnZ]

Two things are important for a garage floor - what's on top of it, and what's underneath it. For an existing floor, you can't do much about what's underneath it, but many different sealing systems are available for the top surface. I had Home Pro Floor Coatings ( www.homeprofloors.com ) do mine after it was poured/cured - steel shot-blasted, then two poured coats (24 hours apart) of 2-part industrial epoxy resin, with the second coat tinted and fine silica sand sprinkled in it for anti-slip when it gets wet.

Before the floor was poured, we put down a layer of heavy poly Visqueen as a primary moisture barrier, then laid 4'x 8' sheets of 1-1/2"-thick high-density closed-cell foam with heavy foil on both sides on the poly for insulation and another moisture barrier, then laid the mesh on wire supports and poured the floor.

The resulting floor is warm, dry, indestructible, and a snap to keep clean (no automotive chemical fazes it, even brake fluid, and hot tires won't mark it or lift it). The foam sheets were about 28 cents/sq. ft., and the HomePro Floors coating was $1.82/sq. ft. installed.

 

[sleepyhead]

Garage Floors...

I spent almost all of last year redoing my 2.5 car garage - insulation, drywall, gloss white paint, a door, black trim, etc. I ended up going all the way and having a company called Allstar Floor Coatings do my floor. I was pretty impressed. They can do ANY color and tons of different styles (obviously the more complicated, the more money though).

I ended up going pretty conservative and went with a silver-gray color with black and white speckles. They even fill in the gaps in the cement with a compound that pretty much hides the gaps and still allows for expansion.

Here's a couple of pics if anyone wants to check it out.

All I have to do now is paint the trim around the bathroom door in the background of pic 2 and do something with the ceiling and then get a workbench and couple other things and I'm good to go!



-J.


P.S. Hmm....seems like every file I try to attach is too big no matter how much I trim down the pixels. I'll try posting pictures another time - when I have more time to mess with it. Maybe I'll post them in the gallery - I think there's more room there. Eh, Rob?

P.P.S. Interceptor430...I really, really wanted black and white squares too! I asked the company how much to do with their epoxy compund and they said it would be around $5,000!!!! (I did get my wife to make me some black and white checkered curtains for the window, though!)

 

[Interceptor430]

Rick....thanks for the compliment....I was sure it was a '66 Gal, but had to safe with the question. Looks like the color is
Emberglow....I have a white '66 2 dr hardtop - has the emberglow interior...390, c6, a sweet old 1 owner car (b4 me).
My other one is a Vert....427, dual quads....undergoing resto.
Sorry to fill the frame here with 'ford talk', but the thread did say
'muscle cars' and wasn't specific as to the make/model.

10-4 on sweeping the floor with the grit in the paint....it's tough to do....I usually sweep mine out with a long wand on my air hose....150 lbs of air pressure sure makes a nice fog-o-crap fly outta my shop often...:L :L

Good luck on the sale Bro....Sadly(as I'm sure you know), those
'66 Galaxie's just aren't worth much at all....and sadly, they probably never will be either......but hey, they have frames under them that make many Chebby jealous.

 

[Rob]

JohnZ,

I hope you don't mind, but I copied the photos you provided here to a folder on my desktop for future reference. The design that you have is almost perfectly in line with what I have planned for my own future garage. Awesome job!!

 

[AmosF16]

I used Rustoleum's garage epoxy to cover the garage floor at my house. Comes in either beige or grey (I used the grey), and comes with flecks of paint you sprinkle on the wet epoxy that makes it look like spattered paint. Awesome looking, and it keeps oil, trans fluid, etc from getting into the concrete. Isn't slippery, either, like some I've seen on acft hangar floors. Applies really easy (just like painting a wall but in the horizontal--trim the edges, roll the rest). And it's relatively cheap; cost me ~ $100 to do a two-car garage. Well worth the cost and effort. Andy

 

[Interceptor430]

Johnz....that's one awesome garage there!
Sleepyhead....wow...that kinda price tag is definately prohibitive!
Yea, I'd sure like to do b/w checks....will have to figure something else out on that...the house garage isn't used for anything except parking vehicles....and I've dressed it out in Neon, a 50 state license plate collection (all 1966 plates), and other car related items...the juke box lives there too...so a b/w checked floor would be sweet...would compliment my '91 White Vette, and my '59 Black Thunderbird Convertible(with a white rag top).
oh well...

 

[sleepyhead]

Okay, I'm gonna try to post 1 of the pictures again...Let's see if this works.

-J.

 

[Corvette-Pilot]

I had used concrete paint on mine before the new epoxy stuff came out.
It looks great and helps with clean up but isn't tough enough and peels.
If I ever do it over I will get the 2 part stuff at Home Depot.

 

[Tom Bryant]

My floor was installed in the same manner as Johns but I was leaving town for 3 weeks and had to get stuff moved in. I used a roll on concrete sealer that I had used before. Applied several coats and it holds up pretty well and has a fairly nice gloss and surface texture. Mops up real easy and I sweep it with the shop vac. It doesn't like solvents or thinner spills but is easily recoated and touched up.

I definately see a poured coating in the future. I visit several customers with this type coating in their manufacturing facilities and the stuff is bulletproof. I'm redoing the other garage where the drivers sit this summer and am planning on an epoxy coating for that floor. It's 12 years old and the same sealer I used on the shop is still holding up but the epoxy in a color would look much nicer.

Tom

 

[ZR1 MK]

Garage Floor Coating..
We specialize in a new type of coating. 100% Solids Polyurethane/Polyurea blend. It is chemical resistant, impact resistant to 52,000psi, and flexible so concrete cracks will never show through.
We are in the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information go to our website.

I went to the website. I left a message on the phone number provided and was never contacted. What is the story?
Mike