Thread 28598800

Sup /o/,

Anyone else have a polyasparatic floor put in, or do any type of garage floor upgrade? Looking to fix up the garage floor as it needs some repairs: hairline cracks and damage from salt, pockmarks. Feel like the repair plus putting in pic related would be a good idea for aesthetics and keeping the floor generally easy to clean from snow, dirt and oil. Anyone have any regrets putting this in or should I look at other options like polished concrete.?

my stepdad would make me sleep in the garage as a kid sometimes because he said I was snoring too loud

FWIW, I like floors like this a lot, but the kits that they sell typically do not give this level of coverage with the glitter shit. My dad has a 2.5 car garage(like an extra door for a golf cart), and he used two full kits that should have been plenty, but it still is very sparse. I'd honestly pay someone to have it done professionally if I was going to do it, just to ensure there was good coverage.

He also did it on his old house, and it seems like where his tires sat, peeled up rather quickly. Another reason why I'd be willing to pay a professional.

>>28598800 (OP)
If you decide to do floor coating, then make damn sure there's some sort of sand/grit included in the resin. If not then your floor will be as slippery as ice, especially when you track in rain/snow/mud

>>28600267
Father in law had his garage professionally done. Still gets damaged from hot tires over time. Small chips in some places. Not worth it. If I were to do anything, I'd simply use the Rust Bullet garage floor paint.

Make sure you get a heavily (I mean HEAVILY) gritted surface as these look great and seem like it would have good grip but are unbelievably slippery when wet. Even though I'm aware of this, it still catches me off guard and I nearly bust my ass anytime its wet.
Also your surface prep is critical and making sure the concrete doesnt have moisture in it or it'll come off.

If you work in your garage let me give you advice: install commercial carpet anywhere your car isn’t going to be
Give maybe a one foot border of linoleum around where you’ll park, so a 10’ wide strip more or less
Standing on carpet is so much more pleasant than anything else, even dense commercial stuff

>>28600283
Yeah. I thought about it but it's around 5k for 20x20 around here and it doesn't last. I already see the marks from my wife's near 3 ton SUV on the concrete on her side of the garage. End of the day it's a garage so who cares

>>28600279
This. I almost busted my ass on one of these floors upon arriving at an rental once. It was one with a garage and I pulled the car in during a rain storm, as soon as I stepped out my foot went out from under me. That shit was like stepping out onto a patch of ice in the winter.

>>28598800 (OP)
I think the topic is /o/, but help should be asked on /diy/. That said, we used to pour these floors all the time for galleys, mess decks, and more personal spaces where people get lax and make a fucking mess.

>>28598800 (OP)
Have a professional do your floor anon.
A Coeworker of mine did Epoxy floors as a side gig, and 3/4 of his work was just removing the DIY kits that failed.

the best garage floor is just regular concrete. the whole epoxy floor trend is basically the modern equivalent of those avon ladies that would sell makeup door to door in the 50s to lonely housewives, except now it's youtubers selling the shit to men with low T.

Thanks all. I wasn’t planning on doing it myself. I’ll fuck it up for sure. The concrete needs a lot of prep work to make it level due to all the salt damage over time. Wife is also concerned about slippery surface. I may just pay to have the surface fixed and just paint. Was hoping these types of floors would be good for snow and water removal. But as I learn more about them they look good but otherwise have issues. Removing it to fix it in 10 years time would be a bigger job to grind it all down.

>>28598800 (OP)
Just paint it with normal garage floor paint for concrete like a normal person

>>28598800 (OP)
take the carpet pill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=safA4nllpRg

>>28600744
Like a few others said, I have some outdoor rugs in my garage, and it's great to sit on them rather than the concrete when I'm tinkering. I honestly could see myself going this route >>28600754 at some point.

>>28600754
this is an awesome idea if you don't actually do anything in your garage
>but he has a project car
I'm sure he's workin' reeeeal hard on that thing. It also happens to be completely spotless itself
>is showing off "high traffic" areas in his garage on the carpet as a metric
a clean garage is very ideal but I find it very hard to believe this guy actually does anything because any chemicals such as oils, coolant, or atf would annihilate that carpet quickly and he only mentions just surface dirt and grime from a dirty transmission sitting on the carpet

Dang ol concrete is good enough
That paint shit is for sois

I had the garage floors done by a local company before I moved in. They did a great job. It's way easier to clean the epoxy floors. Looks much better

>>28600779
>it very hard to believe this guy actually does anything because any chemicals such as oils, coolant, or atf would annihilate that carpet quickly
so you just didn't watch the video and decided to comment on it anyway?

>>28600779
I don't even know who the guy is but it look like he's done more work than 99% of /o/

>>28600779
Commercial grade carpet comes in squares that are easily swapped if they become damaged.

>>28600779
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwDciLExyNg
not a car garage but woodshop
it's shitty commercial grade plastic carpet. If you destroy a tile you just rip it up and put a new one.
the noise and temperature insulation from carpet is a godsend

if you want to spend big money, something like swisstrax is professional grade shit that will look incredible. but I'm not about to spend $4000 to do my garage floor

>>28598800 (OP)
I have an epoxy floor without grit. My garage is only used as a workshop, not a garage, so I opted for the smoothest I can get. It is slippery when wet, but it also (mostly) cleans completely from any oil spills using brake cleaner and a rag. It was built by a professional five years ago.

>>28600848
how tall is your ceiling?
I want a lift but my ceiling is only 10 feet.

>>28600854
I have 3.3m ~11ft, so with these small cars I get almost the full range of the lift.

>>28600893
how tall is the left itself? you give me hope that my height will be fine.

>>28600828
Lol, that shit sucks, wrenchlet

>>28598800 (OP)
I have this floor but in white with grey flecks. It's amazing. I would take it over polished concrete literally every time. Every house I grew up in and now my own has had it. It's a priority.

It's pretty diy friendly if you dont want to pay.

>>28600283
Whoever did it did a shit job then, lol. That's just the fact.

>>28600703
Yeah nah. Either you've never had either or a just a coping poorfag.

>>28600948
>>28600947
>>28600944
it's so bizarre how you guys will fight about absolute anything at all. you're really this passionate about garage flooring to hurl insults over what different people use?

>>28600912
It's like 2.8m tall. There's smaller two-post-lifts as well. Already getting the car off the ground and being able to get under it on a wheeled cart is worth a lot and enables work that's otherwise impossible or really difficult. Check out TwinBusch for a wide variety that we get in Europe, they habe some variants specifically designed for DIY in small garages.

>>28600988
Because poor people love to chime in telling people that their shitty cracked and stained concrete floor is the best possible thing and they haven't even experienced or tried a different one.

>>28600754
I used something like this on the 1/3rd of my garage that is my home gym and it's good for that. Almost all of my cars leak some oil, even the one with the freshly rebuilt engine, so I have to put cardboard down anyway. I'd be concerned that if I tried to steer while on the stick down carpet it would pull the carpet up/twist it off the floor because I often have to pull in at an angle then straighten the car to get around other cars. Personally, my garage floor in the part of it that is dedicated to cars and working on them is just painted and it's fine, just can't use brake clean or acetone to get oil spill residue off because it takes paint with it.

>>28600988
The people talking shit don't even have garages because they're rentoids. Not sure why they care about your floor or what color your walls are.

>>28600292
>ya bro just carpet your garage
You're insane dude. That would get so dirty and gross so quick. Do you have a fully carpeted bathroom too?
Just keep a fair of comfy garage slippers if you can't handle a little bit of walking on concrete.

>>28601521
>comfy garage slippers
Something like these I presume

>>28600988
Brother it's a bot-eat-bot world out there.

>>28601521
Commercial carpet is great in a garage

Much more interesting and /o/ related thread than all the EV/truck/pol troll threads

>>28601606
it sounds retarded. you mean to say you drag around greasy dirty floor jacks on a carpet?

>>28601691
It's so bizarre to me, people completely understand garage floor mats and rugs, but a carpet which is the identical thing but bigger is flummoxing.
Instead of a broom you use a vacuum. That's it.

>>28601694
vacuum doesn't get out oil/fluid or the million tiny metal particles. I use my garage as a general shop too so you think I'm going spend twice as long vacuuming out all the sawdust and wood shavings too? Fuck no just sweep it out the door. Plus carpets attract all kinds of lint and random shit. Even rugs and floor mats are retarded. Admittedly I do have a roll of the foam anti-fatigue mat in a corner, but it's pretty rare for me to even bother rolling that out. Sheet of cardboard does everything I need 99% of the time

>>28600828
I really want something like that for the "workshop" area at the back of one of my garages. Even the ~64 sqft I need is eye-wateringly expensive with the big brands though.

>>28601705
you sound like a retard, so not surprising you find a carpet perplexing.

>>28601934
Explain it in a way that makes any sort of sense then mega mind.

>>28601949
if you live in bad climates and don't have a well insulated garage, carpets make it significantly warmer in the cold and cooler in the hot compared to bare concrete.
noise doesn't bounce off of carpet like it does concrete
carpets make moving shit around a lot easier
carpets look better
carpet isn't much harder to maintain. some soap and water if you spill oil (which you'd probably use anyway even if you dripped oil on concrete) will get it out. If it's that bad, just replace the bit of carpet that got messed up.

this isn't like high end carpet you'd do a room of your house with, it's thin shit ass carpet.

>>28601959
Oh, you should have just said you don't actually work on anything. You see I actually work in my garage, which makes all your points pretty useless.
>warmer in cold weather, cooler in hot weather
not really it's just that carpet transfers less heat underfoot compared to bare concrete (which is irrelevant because I am already wearing my comfy garage slippers).
>muh sound
lol. lmao even
>looks better
brand new carpet looks worse than concrete imo, and the carpet will only get worse
>carpets make moving stuff easier
objectively false what are you even talking about.
>isn't much harder to maintain
>proceeds to list a million things you don't have to bother with when using concrete

>>28601986
>Oh, you should have just said you don't actually work on anything. You see I actually work in my garage, which makes all your points pretty useless.
lol I promise I work in my garage more than you. my entire livelihood is from working in my garage.
>not really it's just that carpet transfers less heat underfoot compared to bare concrete
retard
>lol. lmao even
retard
>brand new carpet looks worse than concrete imo, and the carpet will only get worse
retard and bad taste
>objectively false what are you even talking about.
retard
>proceeds to list a million things you don't have to bother with when using concrete
retard

>>28601994
Very compelling. Weird how every shop and every garage (of people who actually work on motor vehicles) I've ever been in uses concrete or those nonslip tiles. And never carpet, oddly enough.

>>28601998
your goals in life should be higher than the bare minimum oil change monkey's hellscape. even just an epoxy floor is a vast improvement over concrete, yet you don't see them in commercial settings. because commercial settings are about what's cheap, not what's actually nice.

>>28601998
nta but you're just wrong about insulation. carpet does a lot for sound deadening and temperature. how is this even a contention?
personally I think garage tiles like >>28600828
are the best option

>>28602009
By desiring a worse flooring material that requires constant upkeep? Nah I'm good. I have seen plenty of home gamers with epoxy flooring too and it looks decent, but invariably has to be redone every few years.
>muh niceness
I really don't care about "niceness" when elbows deep in a tranny swap or rebuilding suspension or what have you.
>>28602010
I didn't say carpets don't provide sound deadening, just that it's irrelevant. And true they provide *some* insulation but it's extremely insignificant.

>>28601949
You’re thinking of carpet like cloth, but it’s PET, it’s just a comfy plastic floor
Plastic is easy to clean with water and a wet dry vac, plastic doesn’t really take stains well, plastic is extremely durable

>>28602035
PET is not as easy to stain but it still absolutely will. Especially oil and other automotive fluids/chemical. In any case I still ain't interested in wet vac-ing my garage floor every day. Are you nerds just obsessed with vacuuming things or what's the deal?

>>28602052
>but it still absolutely will. Especially oil and other automotive fluids/chemical.
question, what the fuck are you doing to your garage floor that this is a problem? are you just dumping your oil and shit straight on the ground? do you not have oil drain pans and cardboard?

>>28602056
Stuff splashes/mistakes happen. Oil changes, brake fluid flushes, fork rebuilds, tranny fluid changes, spraying down super crusty shit with PB blaster/brake clean/carb cleaner, painting stuff, changing anything related to an engine's cooling system, etc. there are plenty of sources of drips/splashes. Which o don't have to be autistic about because my floor is CONCRETE like God intended.

>>28602056
>t.never removed anything with oil or hydraulic fluid in it from his car

>>28602056
Oh yeah and one more, how could I forget welding. Which I assume would melt straight thru PET. I suppose you could have a gay little welding cuck station in your sea of carpet but I have mine on a cart and like to be able to move it around and weld where ever.

>>28602067
so do you just leave all the shit on the ground after the fact? you don't clean it up?

>>28602100
I've never seen someone so proud of being a poor trashy loser. you can have a shop and still keep it looking nice, you don't have to live like a hillbilly.

>>28602101
huh? No it's super easy to clean up with a rag.
>>28602104
>projecting

>>28602110
>No it's super easy to clean up with a rag.
I just use a wrap to scrub the floor a little and use a shop vac if it's needed. it's a very very minor inconvenience for having a much nicer floor.

>>28602115
just use a rag*
I also have a room off my garage that's my welding booth. complete with welding curtains, something I assume you'd also freak out about.

>>28602115
>nicer
Still disagree. Beyond "I like how it looks" (which I don't, personally). It's 100% downsides with 0 benefit.
Admittedly I love concrete as a material so am biased, though still objectively correct on this case.
>>28602116
You have carpet in your bathroom too then I assume?

>>28602118
>You have carpet in your bathroom too then I assume?
actually yes, all 5 bathrooms in my house are carpeted unfortunately. I'm removing the carpets and tiling them.
I don't see the correlation though. Do you not have any rugs in your carpet?
> 100% downsides with 0 benefit.

if you live in bad climates and don't have a well insulated garage, carpets make it significantly warmer in the cold and cooler in the hot compared to bare concrete.
noise doesn't bounce off of carpet like it does concrete
carpets make moving shit around a lot easier
carpets look better
carpet isn't much harder to maintain. some soap and water if you spill oil (which you'd probably use anyway even if you dripped oil on concrete) will get it out. If it's that bad, just replace the bit of carpet that got messed up.

If you don't like how it looks, that's fine, I don't really care about your bad taste.

>>28602139
any rugs in your bathroom*

>>28602139
>all 5 bathrooms in my house are carpeted
gross
>I'm removing the carpets and tiling them
good man
>Do you not have any rugs in your carpet?
Yes, but that's because I'm barefoot. not so in my garage.

We're already been over this. Carpets make a tiny difference in insulation. A thick pad and thick carpet is still only around r2, maybe r3. Which doesn't matter so much in my case cause it's an attached garage and the overhead doors are usually open and shutting all the time.
>noise
dawg who cares. this doesn't matter unless your garage is an empty aircraft hanger.
>easier to move things
This one is just plain wrong. Explain yourself
>looks better
wrong
>isn't much harder to maintain
Just do all these extra steps that take longer! Oh and your carpet is still ruined? Just replace it?
That's what one would call "significantly more upkeep"

>>28602157
>gross
yeah the carpet in the main bathroom was so unbelievably piss stained, it was the most disgusting fucking shit. I ripped that up and am retiling currently
>This one is just plain wrong. Explain yourself
it's easier to slide shit on carpet than it is to slide it on concrete. unless there's something sharp on the bottom, in which case you'd probably put it on cardboard anyway to not fuck up your floor.

>>28602164
Do you not have a dolly?

What's wrong with raw concrete?

>>28602164
>it's easier to slide shit on carpet than it is to slide it on concrete
that's simply not true. Not counting that virtually everything in the garage (that's not permanent) is on casters anyway.

>>28602170
erm, uh its too LOUD and therefore BAD. You need to install carpet that you wash, shampoo, wet vac, blow dry and replace every month.

>>28600828
Why the fuck would I want this oil, dirt, and metal dust trap for a floor?

>>28602188
It's worth it in a professional environment to reduce slipping hazards and corresponding worker's comp/hazard pay. In a personal garage or a shop that's staffed by competent people, though, it's pretty useless

>>28602172
>that's simply not true.
now you're just lying lmao
carpets have less friction than rock.

>>28602197
assuming the thing you're moving has zero weight, sure. In real life on Earth where things have weight, they just dig into the carpet.

>>28602116
Nigger what if you need to weld the chassis, or any part still on the car? Do you have a cuck-chair in the garage too?

>>28600219
I gave my step dad a handjob in his garage kept Pontiac Grand Prix
He also sucked me off so i wasn't coerced or anything

>>28600848
A bed in that loft and thats all id need in life

>>28603245
>voluntarily huffing fumes in your sleep

>>28602170
It's porous and stains. Epoxy all the way.

>>28600828

Yes but are you going to be doing any actual work on it? Gotta be fun when the oil starts spilling...

>>28603373
>he doesn't wish to become one with the machine spirit
ngmi

>>28603979
Even your "machine" wants to breathe clean cold air. You're just a dirty chemical fart sniffer.

>>28603969
it's a good thing you thought of something swisstrax never even considered. no one but you has foreseen the idea that there might be oil spills in a garage. you should get in touch with them ASAP

>>28604018
So how did they consider it?
Because I just installed this same setup in a friend's garage and it looks good but works like shit in case of spills and dust.

Wish my garage was sealed with epoxy.
Water sweats from it during the winter.
Oil stains it easily.

All aerospace factories are all epoxy sealed concrete.
Shit is great

>>28604024
you pop up a tile, clean it, then put the tile back down.

>>28603373
anon your car doesnt give off fumes unless its on or leaking

>>28604119
LMAO! wow...... that's pretty pathetic.
I thought you had some esoteric knowledge but nope.
Just the usual dummypost.

>>28604154
>My garage is only used as a workshop
>workshop

>>28604154
if your car isnt giving off fumes, or leaking fluids..... it might be dead.

>>28604200
>what do I do if I spill something????
you wipe it up
>omg lmaoaoaooooooooooo IDIOT
nigga the fuck did you expect?

>>28604154
Anon, no car has a gas tank that is 100% sealed.
My track car after a event smells like rubber, burnt oil, and gas.
No way would I sleep near that

Carpet. Go to any office when they are doing renovations and just take all the carpet tiles they are throwing away.
If they get all oil stained and dirty then just pull those tiles and replace them.

>>28598800 (OP)
For cars, probably yeah.
For other stuff though having proper flooring in the garage is nice, especially if you use it for more than car storage.

>>28598800 (OP)
basically none of the kits you can buy at the store are worth a shit. look up Mujin on youtube, he did his basement floor and used to do epoxy coatings for a living. it's not really a tutorial but lots of good information in that video. a professional service with access to commercial-grade materials is probably worth it IMO.

>>28604119
Must have to do with the brand then because those I put together don't pop one by one. That's a good tip.

>>28603986
kinky

I am going to build my own place soon.
I want to go old school and get some red tiles.
They are made for exactly this and they are not that expensive.
Easy to clean, easy to replace and very durable.

>>28604369
uhhhhhh. what is an evap charcoal canister. maybe your pos leaks but mines doesnt

>>28604904
Euro anon? We have them here a lot in older car shops, though newer ones always go with sealed concrete, maybe because of the joints

>>28604904
>red tiles.
...bricks?

>>28602052
It is very difficult to stain. Motor oil doesn’t stain it. Orange degreaser gets everything out because it’s chemically very stable

>>28605536
No, it's made similarly though (red clay tiles).

Wish I could do the same but it's hella more expensive than sealed concrete.

>>28604203
ventilation is a key component of any decent workshop

>>28608846
>>28610340
>sleeping in a noisy environment
Industrial ventilation is no joke

>>28602056
>are you just dumping your oil and shit straight on the ground
Heh heh no what madman would scream STUPID FUCKING BITCH DUMB FUCK WHORE FUCKER FUCK YOU BITCH FUCKHEAD PIECE OF SHIT in a tantrum and leave a dropped (cracked) tcase on th floor until his next weekend is ruined.

That'd be insane.

>>28598800 (OP)


Not a fan of epoxy. Alkali silicate surface hardeners/sealers best imo.