Hey all,

I'm looking at coating the floor of my garage with a shiny epoxy concrete garage floor specific paint.

I Like the muscle gloss product, but it seems expensive. Anyone have any experience with any of these products and / or pictures of a finished product?

Thanks

 

Holeshot,

I used Epoxy-shield in the UMG (Ultimate Man's Garage) this past summer and am VERY satisfied with the results.

The key to good adhesion is prepping/etching the concrete. Epoxyshield and Musclegloss both come with a Citrus based etching powder. Not wanting to subject myself to muratic acid fumes, the powder was used. All oil, paint, etc. must be removed. Brake cleaner, a wire brush, a bunch of clean rags, and elbow grease do the trick.

Muscle Gloss looks very similar and have a wider selection of colors.

Imagery as requested.

Before:



After exibit A:



After exhibit B:

 

Bob,
Where can you buy Muscle Gloss?

 

We used the Behr concrete paint and I'm not very happy with it.

 

Va,

http://www.musclegloss.com/

 

I used a kit from Rust-o-leum, it takes two kits to do a two car garage. It's a two part epoxy. Bought it from Home Depot. As Bob said the preparation is the key. I've been happy with mine so far, it's been about three months. I'll try to post pics later..

 

yea, I used some garage concrete paint from Lowes and it didn't stick very well. After it rained and the concrete on the outer edge of the garage floor got saturated, the painted floor started peeling. I am not happy with the result. I don't know why it did this, but I could have done something wrong. I have never painted a garage floor before.

 

And I just happened to find this yesterday:

Explanation of Different Types of Garage Floor Coverings

The type of garage floor you should use depends on how much you work on your car. With tongue firmly in cheek, here are some pointers on what garage floor you might need, from the internet, author unknown:

Plastic tiling squares -- Poseur who does no work on his car, collects Gryot's Garage catalogs (the one that explains which way to turn a nut), and is completely clueless about mechanical things; owns full set of solid gold tools stored in titanium tool boxes, but has never used them. Garage was featured in Architectural Digest.

Painted Floor -- Deluded Yuppie, obsessed with waxing and polishing; owns set of matched Falcom screwdrivers and gold plated wrenches stored in Zebrawood box and $300 plastic creeper and $5,000 hydraulic lift used to detail the inside of the wheels. On first name basis with the Snap-Off truck guy. Garage was featured in Robb Report.

Bare Concrete -- Does most of his (rarely, her) mechanical work; may rebuild engine once in a while; tools are stored in beat up tool boxes when not in use; tools are from various manufacturers including Snap-Off, CrapsMan, Procto, Mac, and others. Checks out garage sales and pawn shops on a regular basis; owns $15 wooden creeper. Has problems with rodents who enter the garage to feed on sandwiches he eats while working on the car. Recently scrounged a table saw from a garage sale, so he can build an extension onto the garage; wife allows him in the house if strips naked and bathes in GoJo first. Garage was featured in local PCA club magazine, but rejected by Pano.

Floor covering material unknown, area Hazmat team afraid to enter premises. -- Owner incessantly rebuilds both engines and transmissions; probably owns several cars but it's hard to say as over half of them are in various assortments of boxes. Tools are scattered around various piles of debris. Often makes own specialty tools and knows how to use odd bits of rock and tent stakes to substitute for factory tools. Rodents are afraid to enter the garage because of toxic odors from the floor, shelves, etc. Learning carpentry skills to build an apt. above the garage, as wife has kicked him out of the house. Garage floor was featured in Archaeological Digest.

Author unknown, from the Internet.

 

 

go with the muscle gloss, i tried the cheaper way with the home depot 1 part epoxy and, well, to say the least, not happy.. , looked fine for, OOOOO, 2 weeks....


jim

 

Thanks, Bob.

 

Like Ike said..I also used the Rustoleum Two-Part Epoxy.It's been about a Yr. and i'm very happy with it.It comes in gray or tan and you get little paint chips to sprinkle over it and they actually melt into the wet epoxy.
Hope this helps!

 

The ultimate garage flooring.......or something

www.racedeck.com

 

Very nice Mr. Gator!!!

Gotta bud that did his batcave in Armstrong Escelon commercial grade tile (black). Looks awesome and tougher than shizznit.

Bob

 

I saw an article in MM&FF(or might have been Truckin'), that had spray in bedliner material, sprayed on the entire floor and a few inches up the wall.
Looked awesome, but I'm sure its not cheap.

Jason