Epoxy floor - “pro” style

[KrisZ]

I’ve done the garage floor with the Rustoleum epoxy kit from HD on my previous house, but it scratched quite easily and you had to be careful with heavy things like floor jacks etc.

On the recommendation of my general contractor friend I decided to give “pro” epoxy a try.

I used Rockhard epoxy as base and their polyaspartic top coat.
Did the concrete grinding and over flaked the snoot out of it.
I must say that the results are much better than the big box kits and so far I dragged several heavy things across it and it didn’t scratch or lose the flakes.

It was a lot of work though. The kits are simpler.

 

[Kira]

Looks stupendous! Congrats
Care to share total cost...or cost / square foot?

 

[KrisZ]

Looks stupendous! Congrats
Care to share total cost...or cost / square foot?

It was almost $1k in materials. Plus around $250 for the concrete grinder rental.

 

[JTK]

That looks awesome!

Many years ago in my previous home, I skim coated the entire basement floor with concrete re-surfacer, then once that cured, I epoxy painted the whole floor with a two part product from Muralo. It was recommended to me by the local Ben Moore store at the time. It held up wonderfully the 6 more years we lived there.

 

[parshisa]

Looks terrific. I've used HD kit about 5yrs ago, and it generally held up well minus peeling under the tires where my wife's pilot is parked. Maybe i'll do try this in my next house...if it ever happens

 

[KrisZ]

Looks terrific. I've used HD kit about 5yrs ago, and it generally held up well minus peeling under the tires where my wife's pilot is parked. Maybe i'll do try this in my next house...if it ever happens

Hot tire peel is apparently an inherit trait of the water based epoxy kits from the big box stores.
The normal two part epoxy doesn’t have that issue supposedly.

I just checked my receipt and the base two part epoxy in a 3 gal kit was only $165 and if you don’t want to over flake, you can have it for roughly $200.
The biggest cost is the top coat and the flakes, which I needed 3 boxes worth, at 40lbs and $110 each.

 

[OVERKILL]

Looks incredible! Nice work!