Who has painted their garage floor?

[ckahleer]

I am refurbishing my two car garage and considering painting the floor. Looking for suggestions on a paint that is at least fuel and oil resistant, but preferably will also hold up to things like carbs and brake cleaner.
Thanks

 

[WideAWAKE]

I am refurbishing my two car garage and considering painting the floor. Looking for suggestions on a paint that is at least fuel and oil resistant, but preferably will also hold up to things like carbs and brake cleaner.
Thanks

Not paint, but rolled epoxy.

I’ve done it on 3 garage floors and prep is KEY.

They have all been spaces where cars were not parked so I can’t see how well it holds up to weighted hot rubber. But motorcycles, foot traffic, oil, gas… no issues.

I have not used the gloss coating on top but I hear it works well.

My shop is 30x30 and it cost about $350 to do if I recall correctly.

These pics were taken while it was still drying. It’s a much more matte finish when fully cured.

Cleans super easy with an industrial “swiffer”.

 

[zrx1100]

epoxy

 

[ThatXS650Guy]

I painted my garage floor at my old house and it was pretty slippery when wet. I hesitate to paint now because of that and the abuse the floor would have to be able to take. A quality job professionally applied is pretty expensive.

 

[gggGary]

Used the Rustoleum gray, chips, then clear epoxy. It's "pretty darned" resistant. Have some yellowing where the afternoon sun shines on it. It's been in 12 years now. I've dropped dragged and banged it with all kinds of stuff, 1500-2500 lb. milling machines have been in and out several times. short of a sharp steel edge drop it resists all. Also spilled everything; gas, oil, brake fluid, coolant, no problem. Brake cleaner, carb cleaner, acetone lacquer thinner etc will soften it but long as you just let it evaporate no harm done. I tend to use mineral spirits for most tough stain clean up. quick swipe with carb cleaner or acetone on a rag will remove dried paint etc.

 

[Niels B]

I’ve rolled epoxy as well, it last a lot longer than paint and it looks good for years - after 7 years it starts to look a little flat around my workbench - wear and tear will affect the shine - but I’ll never do paint again !

 

[ckahleer]

OK. It looks like I'll do epoxy.
Although the speckly chips look nice, I'm thinking they may provide camouflage for small parts that get dropped?

 

[zrx1100]

OK. It looks like I'll do epoxy.
Although the speckly chips look nice, I'm thinking they may provide camouflage for small parts that get dropped?

I chose light gray. Works for many reasons, including clean appearance

 

[zrx1100]

I chose light gray. Works for many reasons, including clean appearance

one more thing. I had a service coat my floors. They first put down some flakes and then poured the epoxy. the flakes gave the floor a texture, which is very helpful for traction

 

[gggGary]

I drop as many or more parts as the average guy, not an issue, when they are really hard to find head to the floor and flashlight. Yes traction main reason for chips, get oil on a smooth surface.... Also reason I have the blue mats at lathe, mill, and bench. A little softer doesn't hurt.

 

[WideAWAKE]

I drop as many or more parts as the average guy, not an issue, when they are really hard to find head to the floor and flashlight. Yes traction main reason for chips, get oil on a smooth surface.... Also reason I have the blue mats at lathe, mill, and bench. A little softer doesn't hurt.

I have a big rolling magnet that works great for small parts.

And I was dropping stuff in sand before the workshop floor.

I’ll take a speckled floor any day of the eeek over sand haha.

 

[Niels B]

OK. It looks like I'll do epoxy.
Although the speckly chips look nice, I'm thinking they may provide camouflage for small parts that get dropped?

You can pick between many color options

 

[dave_a]

My neighbor SharkCoated a standard sized 2 car garage. They surface ground the concrete before applying their proprietary goo, then the sprinkles. Nice!
$3000

 

[AUTOMAN]

Industrial work, we stripped the old paint and left the concrete natural.

It looked "ok" at first, after 10 years it looked the same.

This is with rolling engine test beds in and out.
Oil, coolant, fuel and fires did not degrade the non-finish.


cliff

 

[Mailman]

Re: painted concrete being slippery when wet.

Here in Arizona, due to our our year round sunshine and ( mostly dry ) weather, some of the post offices deliver mail by bicycle, I’ve done it myself.
My old coworker Dan,

These bikes can carry 30-40 lbs of mail in those front baskets.
Also a thing here, is for some reason I don’t get, a lot of people like to put epoxy paint on their driveways,

Every time we would get a little rain shower, almost without fail, some mailman on his bike would turn onto one of those driveways and BANG! Faceplant! mail would go flying, mailman goes on the injured list. It got to the point where every time there was possible rain in the forecast, they would make an announcement over the P.A. for us to stay off of the driveways!