Anyone have a epoxy/polyurea coating on their garage floor?

[Resnic]

I'm building a new house. I never had any experience with those epoxy or polyurea coatings before where you can put down the flakes on the coating. Does anyone have one personally that can comment?

I was considering paying a company that grinds off like the 1/8 top layer and uses the coating and flakes in my garage. Mine doesn't get abused too much but over time my old garage floor had some small pitting from salt brought in on my car in the winter and light staining.

Just with a new house I am trying to set things up as best I can from the very start.

Thanks.

 

[Muhammed]

I'm building a new house. I never had any experience with those epoxy or polyurea coatings before where you can put down the flakes on the coating. Does anyone have one personally that can comment?

I was considering paying a company that grinds off like the 1/8 top layer and uses the coating and flakes in my garage. Mine doesn't get abused too much but over time my old garage floor had some small pitting from salt brought in on my car in the winter and light staining.

Just with a new house I am trying to set things up as best I can from the very start.

Thanks.

Tell them to fuck off.

R&R

Rip out/replace.

Rip it out and pour a new floor.

 

[rampart]

I'm building a new house. I never had any experience with those epoxy or polyurea coatings before where you can put down the flakes on the coating. Does anyone have one personally that can comment?

I was considering paying a company that grinds off like the 1/8 top layer and uses the coating and flakes in my garage. Mine doesn't get abused too much but over time my old garage floor had some small pitting from salt brought in on my car in the winter and light staining.

Just with a new house I am trying to set things up as best I can from the very start.

Thanks.

you are talking about like a poured flooring, maybe "terazzo."

if so, i had the heads done on our ships. natural gloss, pick the color chip, mosiac designs possible, seems to be durable. not as slippery as i feared, but like any wet floor.....

thanks for reminding me. i have a few loose tiles and maybe i can pour a layer over the old floor? will check.

 

[Muhammed]

It sounds me that what we have here is a concrete contractor who fucked up and is now feeding the homeowner a line of BS to try to make him believe that it his fault that his new concrete is falling apart. I

Resnic :Was it the contractor or builder who suggested that you grind down the floor, thus voiding your warranty? You said it's new construction. How old is this floor?

 

[Resnic]

It sounds me that what we have here is a concrete contractor who fucked up and is now feeding the homeowner a line of BS to try to make him believe that it his fault that his new concrete is falling apart. I

Resnic :Was it the contractor or builder who suggested that you grind down the floor, thus voiding your warranty? You said it's new construction. How old is this floor?

No one tried to sell me on anything.

I was just asking if they are superior to a standard concrete floor and since I am building a new house I was looking to see if it was worth it to just do it now.

The concrete thats pitted some is in my current home that is 25 years old.

But nevermind. No one is actually addressing my actual question.

 

[Muhammed]

No one tried to sell me on anything.

I was just asking if they are superior to a standard concrete floor and since I am building a new house I was looking to see if it was worth it to just do it now.

The concrete thats pitted some is in my current home that is 25 years old.

But nevermind. No one is actually addressing my actual question.

I'm a cement mason and I used epoxy and flake on my garage floors. Even on my rental properties.

It makes the floor chemical and slip resistant and is a lot easier to clean than bare concrete. You could eat off of it.

And it's just more aesthetically pleasing to the eye. That's why I use it on rental properties. Prospective tenants see that and it just looks a lot better than some old oil and rust stained stinky dirty garage floor.

On a brand new concrete floor make sure a vapor barrier is installed under the new concrete slab and wait 6 weeks before you epoxy coat it.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I'm building a new house. I never had any experience with those epoxy or polyurea coatings before where you can put down the flakes on the coating. Does anyone have one personally that can comment?

I was considering paying a company that grinds off like the 1/8 top layer and uses the coating and flakes in my garage. Mine doesn't get abused too much but over time my old garage floor had some small pitting from salt brought in on my car in the winter and light staining.

Just with a new house I am trying to set things up as best I can from the very start.

Thanks.

We did. We had a new house built and did the garage floor within the first few months, it has been almost 2 years and we are very happy with the choice.

The price range that we got quoted was insane. The first quote from a national company was over 10k. We got it done for just over 3k and that included adding concrete to a low spot before they did the coating.

The only negative we have found is that it is more slippery than concrete so when it is wet you have to be careful.