[DeTomaso] NPC: Painting Garage Floors

[Brian Dudley]

A great resource is www.garagejournal.com. There are a lot of manufacturers and suppliers who contribute plus real users. I used a product from Wolverine which is a high quality epoxy after I saw a friends floor. Search for user FFPL for his story and pictures. I used pretty much the same color but I used a different clear with special grit to stop it being slippery. 
Dropped suspension arms, wheeling trolley jacks, welded on it and it still looks great. It stops the floor from feeling cold and damp, reflects the light and brings a smile to your face when you open the garage door. I have tried different floor coating this is by far the best i have used, it did take a lot of work though.

On Apr 1, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Ron Hyde <parapantera at aol.com> wrote:

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> Mike,
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> I recently did a garage floor project and chose the "Acid Stain", my floor can be seen here http://home.comcast.net/~parapantera/site/?/page/The_Garage_Project/.  The cost was considerably less than a coating, and since it etches into the concrete it is more durable.  Do a search for "acid stained concrete" for more information.
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> Ron
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Thomas <mbefthomas at comcast.net>
> To: detomaso <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Sun, Apr 1, 2012 10:11 am
> Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC: Painting Garage Floors
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> 
> I'm starting to research painting my garage floor as the final step in a
> garage-ma-hall" project to give the Pantera and her stablemates a proper
> nvironment to rest in.
> I'd like to know what experience the collective has regarding types of floor
> reatments, doing it yourself vs. hiring somebody, etc.
> I have a three-bay garage with about 8' of extra shop/space across the back.
> ooking at most of the DIY offerings, were I to do it myself, I would
> robably not try to do all three bays at once as there is just too much
> tuff to find another home for, short of renting a portable storage pod to
> ut in the driveway and finding another garage to put the Pantera in during
> he process.  However, I'm not sure I want one of my cars in there during
> he drying process for the various treatments it has to go through should
> omething be hanging in the air that would settle on the paint and do a
> umber on it (obviously, ventilation is a must, and I've got that covered). 
> It looks like up to a week between the start of the cleaning and final
> ainting, given all the drying time required in-between, and just the labor
> o do it.
> There are also a vast number of available products and coating systems to
> ade through.  Also, I'm fairly certain there is some sort of concrete
> ealer on my existing floor, which would make surface prep more of a
> hallenge.  The floor is about 25 years old, few if any cracks, plenty of
> tains but not terrible ones.
> Thanks in advance for any and all input.
> Mike Thomas
> anteras Northwest
> ellow '74 L #6328
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