Garage floor opinions (flooring, vinyl, Home Depot, color)
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One of our main DIY projects these next 6mo will be redoing the garages ( 2-car with separate attached 1-car).
Would like a nice flooring option.
Think will likely be either epoxy or vinyl adhesive tiles. I know the epoxy is pretty labor intensive, relatively. Will need to acid wash, grind, prime, etc to do it right.
I love the look of the epoxy, but the house we rented recently had an 8yr old epoxy floor and it looked horrible. Granted, I don't know how "well" it was done.
Anyone have any thoughts/experience with these? Opinions either way?
I used the metallic grey epoxy with the glittery concrete speckles from Home Depot(Cant remember the brand). I did it myself. Took me a full weekend by myself with kids running around and neighbors approaching me about what i was doing. Now several other houses on my street plan on doing the same thing.
We put that in our garage, and it STILL looks glossy and new. BUT, the area near the door has discolored somewhat. I see that they now sell a UV barrier add on for their product.
Would think the epoxy floor options 8 years ago were probably pretty limited and information about how important the preparation is probably not as readily available. My bet would be floor wasnt prepared very well (which if i read reviews correctly is 99% reason of epoxy floors today 'failing'). Personally i prefer the epoxy floor and will be doing mine with that soon.
We put that in our garage, and it STILL looks glossy and new. BUT, the area near the door has discolored somewhat. I see that they now sell a UV barrier add on for their product.
That looks nice. I plan on changing the color in about a year or two so I may go with this that brand next.
Not may... it will peel and have other wear issues crop up too.
But like regular wall paint the epoxy is the easiest quality floor coating
to do small and spot repairs on **by the homeowner**.
The one caveat though is that for a large area like a 2car garage
I'd recommend that you hire out the initial the work to be done by a pro.
To compare: I've done small areas myself and am seriously thinking about doing
my 1 car garage but mine is a rather rough detached structure.
Good concrete floor though.
hth
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