DaveChapin

While I was away I had my garage floor redone.

First coating failed. It looked pretty good for 3 years. But then the clear coat had effectively worn away (in the traffic areas) and could not be easily cleaned. That was bad enough. But then about 2 years after that, the bond started failing in a few places between the coating and concrete. Then about a month ago the coating started coming up in sheets. That was the last straw.

Now the home is suitable for the new resident.

One before and some After pictures...

carcommander

I have always done race deck. One of my garages is 8 years old the other only 3 but no issues.

DaveChapin

A race deck floor can certainly look sharp; but I just always preferred a shiny, smooth floor. Having said that, if I ever do this again, it's probably going to be porcelain tile.

Overdraft

I love racing yellow on the 991TTS.

DragonRR

Even your old garage floor looked about 1000 times better than my current garage floor. To be fair we live in a 900 year old house and can't have a proper garage so the garage is really an open "farm" building. Still there are advantages... our cats get to use my 911 as a scratch post and birds use the car roof as a a litter tray..

Botox

Floor looks great, would love to hear what brand of epoxy was used. How long before final coat and when you could drive on it? I have had similar failure of epoxy in my garage that I need to get redone. Did they strip all old epoxy off completely or prep existing remaining epoxy and go ontop of that? Considering cement sealer versus redoing the epoxy. I think prep wasn't done properly first time.

carcommander

I am in the industrial construction business. Epoxy floor almost always give problems, even with a pro doing the cleaning, prep and application.

Botox

Since my epoxy failed likely secondary to prep, what do you recommend doing? I was thinking of stripping it out and doing some form of cement sealant with some color? What would you do?

DaveChapin

They stripped off all of the old coating (put down by a different firm) which was a polyurea with polyurethane top coat. Then they used these huge diamond grinders on the main floor area and hand grinders under the cabinets and along edges.

I'm not sure about the exact sku of the epoxies applied, but I believe all formulations were made by Westcoat. I can say the application involved several coats of a material. First was a colorless epoxy layer thinned with acetone (something like 5 mils). The 2nd was the main 10/12 mil 100% solids epoxy layer. Then color chips into that.

Then another layer, this time 10/12 mil clear top coat applied in I think two passes. Application took 2 days. And then we stayed off it completely for another 3 days.

The firm that did the original coating was I think more known for cabinet install than flooring. So on my 2nd try here I went with a firm that just does coatings and has a mix of commercial & residential customers.

Botox

Thanks for all the info, hopefully will get my floor done right the second time as well.

918fan

That yellow on TTS is outstanding!

ECS Tuning

The garage is coming along nicely The car looks great by the way.

carcommander

Race deck or similar product. I put down myself in an hour. I have never been able to damage a tile but if you did you just snap another in. No prep needed.

Epoxy floors look great but in time almost always lift.

My turbo on 8 year old race deck.

DaveChapin

Thanks. I hate to admit it, but apart from the floor not looking good, the main reason I did this was that it didn't look good with the car. Even if the floor was spotless, the tan and yellow just didn't go very well together.

I thought a neutral, dark color would contrast better with the racing yellow.
After all, the house is just an accessory to the car, right?

GrandLaker

Damn that looks nice! I'd do the same but would be afraid it would start coming up after a few years. I got a quote from someone who specializes in garage floors and their quote was more than the RaceDeck product so I'm torn on what direction to go for my floor.