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I have 850 sq ft to cover for the garage floor. I like the look of gray epoxy with color flecks throughout, but had not so good luck with a water based epoxy kit (Rustoleum) on my last house. Was great for a few yrs then hot tire pickup got out of control.
I would be inclined to do a professional grade coating for the floor in our place we just moved into, but it's not the trimming and rolling on that deflects me, it's the prep and the fact we're moved in and have stuff in there now. Why didn't your dumb arse do it before you moved in you ask? Good line of thinking, I absolutely would've but for the cold temps in the 20 F's I felt was too cold to foster a good job being laid in. And the wife was champing at the bit to move in asap, without regard to man things like doing the garage floor first before populating the garage with an array of stuff.
So, the prospect of prepping for an epoxy job, waiting for drying out of the concrete then applying the product, waiting another several days for final drying. Meh.
So I'm kicking around those interlocking pvc (or whatever they're made of) tiles and simply laying those down. There's a company that makes them in faux slate appearance and many other alternative looks to the usual coin or diamond patterns which I don't particularly care for. They can be had as large as 20 x 20" which is attractive when needing to cover the floor space I need to. However, I'm not that good at tile trimming and wonder how trimming them in along the walls would look.
Decisions decisions.
I would be inclined to do a professional grade coating for the floor in our place we just moved into, but it's not the trimming and rolling on that deflects me, it's the prep and the fact we're moved in and have stuff in there now. Why didn't your dumb arse do it before you moved in you ask? Good line of thinking, I absolutely would've but for the cold temps in the 20 F's I felt was too cold to foster a good job being laid in. And the wife was champing at the bit to move in asap, without regard to man things like doing the garage floor first before populating the garage with an array of stuff.
So, the prospect of prepping for an epoxy job, waiting for drying out of the concrete then applying the product, waiting another several days for final drying. Meh.
So I'm kicking around those interlocking pvc (or whatever they're made of) tiles and simply laying those down. There's a company that makes them in faux slate appearance and many other alternative looks to the usual coin or diamond patterns which I don't particularly care for. They can be had as large as 20 x 20" which is attractive when needing to cover the floor space I need to. However, I'm not that good at tile trimming and wonder how trimming them in along the walls would look.
Decisions decisions.