Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Garage Floor Solutions

[Brian Keegan (bks281]

I was there for Rick's "grinding party".  I was tiny compared to Rick's "ballast" guy. He did make the process work much faster.

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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+bks281=hotmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> on behalf of Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 10:11 AM
To: 4redude
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Garage Floor Solutions

 

When I moved to the new house, I went with an epoxy too.  I can't recommend highly enough the customer service staff or the product at Ucoat-It. 

Prep, prep, prep... it's the key to a good installation.   Do it before you move in so you can take your time and not worry about moving your stuff in, out or around while you are in process.

The big issue with moving into a garage already done is whether or not they used a traditional concrete sealer when they put the concrete down.   If it's been sealed, the sealer has to ground off before the epoxy goes down.  Don't listen to anyone who tells you otherwise.  I've seen the results if you don't.  You could peel the epoxy off their floor in sheets big enough to wrap Christmas presents.  Any good rental shop should have the grinder for doing this.   Get the biggest machine they have...  the job will go much smoother.   Voice of experience*** - Hopefully, you have a kid, nephew or neighbor who is over 250 lbs. who can come stand on the grinder while you move it around.  Makes the job much easier/faster.  A small hand grinder will quickly take care of the edges.

I did over 2000 Sq ft and have only had to repair one small spot (3" circle) where it lifted in "my garage".   "Her garage", 600+ Sq ft, has all kinds of spots lifting... sorta.  The original house garage was over 30 years old.  The epoxy is not lifting but the concrete is separating.  As Erik mentioned about hot tires, they will pull.  In my case when the paint is coming up, it's bringing a thin patch of concrete with it.  Just old, not good concrete.  I can't blame the product for this issue.   I repair those spots regularly and haven't had any repeat offenders.

I've had two buddies put down Race Deck in the last 5 years...  neither lasted more than a couple years before they pulled it up and went with epoxy.   I asked why and just got angry stares.

On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 5:55:57 AM PDT, Matt Boyd <ferrari308driver [at] gmail.com> wrote:

All,

I'm about to move into a new (well, not brand new) house with a 20'x31' oversized 2 car garage. This is finally my first place where I'll have the place to store my toys and have room to work on them. Please discuss recommendations for garage floor coatings.

I'm leaning towards epoxy because while I could do tiles, the cars WILL leak (1985 Ferrari and 1939 Rolls-Royce are NOT oil tight, in fact the Bijur system on the Rolls is designed to "leak"). I imagine the tiles will leak through and "someday" that entire mess will still be on the concrete beneath.

I'll probably lean towards having a professional do the prep and application because I want to get this done right the first time.

Thoughts? References? I do know how to Google, so I'm really just looking for your personal recommendations.

Thanks

-matt

'85 308

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