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Weather Man

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I'll share the cheapo route to go, LOL. I decided to protect my garage floor after 10 MN winters. The salt was starting to etch and spall the concrete. Power washed, patched spalls and etched the concrete. Went down to the paint store and bought the kit ($100) where you mix the paint and epoxy equal parts and some sprinkles.

It does a good job keeping the salt off the concrete, but it has to be touched up every Fall before winter.
 

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Love my epoxy....hard to see in the pic, but it’s a mix of white blue grey....cleans easy

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I went a little different route. I wanted maximum light in the garage when working on things so I painted the walls gloss white, and did the floor in an oil-based gloss white. I then bought 8 gallons of two-part clear epoxy and balloon white pearls from the dipyourcar website. I mixed up the pearls and epoxy in 5 gallon buckets, poured it throughout the garage, and spread it evenly.

Here's what I started with. I dipped my Viper in the garage a while back and there was terrible overspray:
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I rented a machine from Home Depot with a DiamaBrush concrete prep tool to shave away all the overspray as well as a bit of the existing concrete. It's important to wet everything down or you'll get tons of dust. Then came the paint:
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I then put 8-8ft LED shop lights, each 7200 lumens for a total 57,600 lumens on the ceiling. Here's what it looks like now and is AMAZING to work in.
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An idea of the shine:
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Durability has been great with what I've done in there so far, but I did chip a dime-sized chunk of the epoxy when I dropped a whole Porsche differential gearset from just over waist high. Oh well.
 

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It wouldn’t crank if pats was issue.

You also would get a key code.

I have a second key that’s just a key.
Can open door and put on radio.

Once I turn key to run. It sets a code that say your key is bad.

The pcm is very smart


looks great Brad, what did that run ya - or did you have the hookup on that too?

Some nice floors in this thread. I wanted to do an epoxy floor a couple of years ago but the contractor told me to test for water leeching first. I didn't have water but I did have white chalking. So I tested the floor for a week and found out that I had a small amount of moisture that leeches through. That's a no-no for epoxy. So my next option if I choose to do it would be a RaceDeck.

How did they have you test for this?
 

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We went with a polyurea coating from ArmorPoxy for the new garage, I don't see the exact kit on their website anymore but they do still have a SPGX "no mix" polyurea kit.

It's held up well so far, I still have a little bit of the garage left to paint soon. The only spot that took damage was where the forklift bringing in the rotary lift got stuck and spun the wheels on the concrete, I'll touch that up when I finish the floor. Otherwise between various chemical spills and dropped items, it's held up fine.

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A year or so ago, I started making a few calls about having a polyaspartic coating done in my garage. Quotes were $5-$6 /sq. ft and that didn't include the stem walls. Is that what I can expect to pay in North Alabama? At 1000 sq. ft of floor, that is a hell of a commitment.
 

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There are systems that can deal with that.

I should have been more specific.

There are moisture barrier products that can be put under the coating. I was referring to a new slab that needs to pass the "moisture test" before you apply a coating. That said, if I had moisture problems, I wouldn't chance it, i'd go Race Deck.
 

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A year or so ago, I started making a few calls about having a polyaspartic coating done in my garage. Quotes were $5-$6 /sq. ft and that didn't include the stem walls. Is that what I can expect to pay in North Alabama? At 1000 sq. ft of floor, that is a hell of a commitment.

Sounds right, i'm at 1100 sq ft and had the same quotes about 3 years ago. They did call back with lower prices a month later, but I had already done it myself.
 

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Im gonna start making some calls, maybe guys will be hungry right now. One Epoxy flooring company here already has 20% off your job pop up as soon as the site loads, based on the prices you all are listing that's a solid .75-$1 a ft
 

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Buddy here in Indy had his done not too long ago. $4-4.50 / sq. Ft.

Small fortune to do his footage, but it looks great.

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Damn that's a nice setup.



I was all for epoxy but was worried about doing it myself. I did it years back on some old concrete and had pretty pathetic results, I think my prep was bad.

I ended up ordering Garagetrack, which is the lower tier from RaceDeck, I'm out about $1200 and I like the idea of not having much prep work and something softer to kneel/lay on.

It hasn't showed up yet but I'm hoping I like it, my only concern right now is buckling or melting it with welding. I really like the idea of taking it with me if I move.
 
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Damn that's a nice setup.



I was all for epoxy but was worried about doing it myself. I did it years back on some old concrete and had pretty pathetic results, I think my prep was bad.

I ended up ordering GarageDeck, which is the lower tier from RaceDeck, I'm out about $1200 and I like the idea of not having much prep work and something softer to kneel/lay on.

It hasn't showed up yet but I'm hoping I like it, my only concern right now is buckling or melting it with welding. I really like the idea of taking it with me if I move.

I did a similar product in my last house in the garage. Loved it for around $1000 for a two car garage. Only reason I did it was because my concrete slab was in really poor shape and i didnt want to epoxy over it and have it chip more, so I just covered it up. It looked great, held up great (for the 2 years I had it installed) and was easy enough to clean. I never welded on it so can't comment there. I didnt leave enough gap on the edges so mine would buckle up when exposed to direct sunlight in the summer, but other than that was fine. Like any flooring, leave 1/8-1/4" on the edges for expansion and you should be fine.
 

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I did a similar product in my last house in the garage. Loved it for around $1000 for a two car garage. Only reason I did it was because my concrete slab was in really poor shape and i didnt want to epoxy over it and have it chip more, so I just covered it up. It looked great, held up great (for the 2 years I had it installed) and was easy enough to clean. I never welded on it so can't comment there. I didnt leave enough gap on the edges so mine would buckle up when exposed to direct sunlight in the summer, but other than that was fine. Like any flooring, leave 1/8-1/4" on the edges for expansion and you should be fine.
Will do.

I'm planning on 1/2 all the way around. If it buckled I would lose my shit.

Also, I found out forum members on garage journal get a healthy discount on RaceDeck, so I called the place I ordered the garage track from and cancelled that order and went with the higher quality race deck for only $200 more.
 

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