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Has anybody used this stuff. I researched earlier postings on the BCF and didn't see it. Any other suggestions are welcome also. Wife and I bought a new (to us) house recently. She got a large single level home. I got enough space to build a 875 sq.ft. shop.

RockSolid Floors
 
Not familiar with this brand bu;t most dyi products don't hold up. I ended up having a professionally applied product. The ground the surface, filled the cracks and leveled it. They made it as course as I wished and coved up the sides to keep the snow and dirt on the floor rather than the walls. It actually keeps the garage warmer and easy to squeegee dry. I used a light color (beach sand) and the garage is much lighter and parts falling are easier to find. Oil wipes up. Most important, it does not get cut up from jack stands.
 
Have not used that brand, but if your floor is in good shape, less oil and the like you should be fine,
hopefully no bad cracks in the concrete.
If not, following tahoe's advice and allowing a pro to install the flooring product could be your best bet overall.
Having 800 square feet plus as a work space is a great gift..... good luck with it.
 
I used a DIY product Epoxy brand. I followed every direction and added days to each step to ensure it was dry. The first day I worked on my car and pulled my jack stand to me it ripped up the product. Now I have to be careful not to mess my floor up. I think it cost me $250 for a 2 car garage. It still looks good but it does not stand up at all.

Waste of $.
 
dvu101 said:
I used a DIY product Epoxy brand. I followed every direction and added days to each step to ensure it was dry. The first day I worked on my car and pulled my jack stand to me it ripped up the product. Now I have to be careful not to mess my floor up. I think it cost me $250 for a 2 car garage. It still looks good but it does not stand up at all.

Waste of $.
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That is what has me concerned. The stuff I am looking at is about a buck a sq.ft., my new shop is 875 sq.ft.,would be terrible to have it not work. I painted my previous garage with some epoxy stuff I kinda inherited, it worked for awhile but was very susceptible to damage.
 
I am trying out a Product from Home Depot A one part epoxy. It requires a cleaner step and a etch step before the final epoxy coating. I put this product down on my new home shop in Sept 09. The floor was easily damaged from rough service for the first month, then the epoxy seemed to lock down and become very hard. For the cost I am happy with the results. Any sharp edge will remove material but running my 3 ton service jack across it doesn't effect it. The floor must be degreased and power washed clean, clean ,clean. It must be dry and you must apply a etch. Adhesion is the key factor here. Skip or rush one step and it will fail.
The floor is easily repaired with a brush touch up in seconds if you do gouge it. It not only looks great it holds back the moisture from inside my shop from other wise bare porous concrete. Sweeping and cleaning is also much easier.
IF you want want to spend the big $ the have the floor done by a professional who will shot peen the concrete for ultimate adhesion.

Good luck.
 
Mark, with floor coatings you get what you pay for. Go for high-end industrial paint. It will indeed cost you about $1 per square foot, but the savings will be realized in the long run. Cheap paints do not last for long, and then you not only have to buy more but also empty your garage and strip off all your hard work, just to start over again. This is one place where you do not want to go cheap.

See here for my garage rebuild including a 3-part industrial floor coating: https://www.mgnuts.com/garage
 
The epoxy stuff I used blisters if I jack up a car and the metal wheels on the jack roll across the floor on the paint. I have to put cardboard under the whole car, jack and stands or I damage my epoy brand floor paint.

If I want to do my floor over,,, how to I get all the epoy stuff up to put down a real floor covering?
 
Before you apply anthing to your concrete garage floor, take a 2' square piece of plastic & tape it down on the floor - use duct tape all around the square so no aire can get in or out.......leave it overnight.

If there is moisture inside the plastic the next day, forget doing anything to that floor......it wasn't prepped properly before the concrete was poured & nothing will ever stick because of the moisture problem.
 
I've done our garage floor two times in epoxy. Both would lift after a year or two by hot tires. I think tile designed for garage floors would be cheaper in the long run. It's pretty thick stuff.
 
There's a roll-out product I'm beginning to like...comes in long rolls up to 22' & 10' wide.
 
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