Need advice for garage floor coating

[cnfowler]

...I dont understand why people epoxy coat their floors when they are really finicky to do and it wont be long until they start to peel and chip.

Not totally true. If you prep the floor properly and, most importantly, choose the right epoxy product (not the cheap box store ones), you can end up with a very long lasting, very durable floor. I did mine, and when we moved 3.5 years later it looked like the day I did it. I had no problems with hot tire lift, chipping, peeling, etc. I dragged motorcycle jacks with steel wheels across it loaded with a motorcycle and never had a problem.

Colin

[hofiveo]

I do this on a commercial level and not sure on products available to public or regular home owners. For home garages that are not used as a mechanic shop we use buffered hydro-chloric acid prep and rinse with a costic soap and rinse with water and allow drying for approx. 24 hours and apply two coats of polyurethane. The acid prep should be about that of around 80-120 grit sandpaper for the coating to adhere properly. If you are planning to use jacks and jack stands and drop heavy parts the best prep would be shot blast floor for a 40 grit or better profile and apply epoxy at about 16 mils or thicker and topcoat with one or two coats of urethane. We use National Polymer primarily for epoxies and urethane, but also use Tennant, ValSpar, RustOleum and others depending on specs. The best is Polished concrete with dye or stained implemented in the process. If you guys need any info let me know. I will be researching some products for prep and coatings for the consumer in the meantime. Also here is a site for you to look over in the meantime
Find Decorative Concrete Contractors, Decorative Concrete Info
Also here is a link to a polished floor we did awhile ago.
My TYPE of Polishing!

[Dubbin1]

We went with the U Coat It in the new shop. You can see pictures in this thread New Shop is Getting Somewhere