My opinion: Coating makes the floor more slippery.

Yes, when not done correctly.....

Cannot do it up north! Road salt and chemicals are killer. See then all the benefits including aesthetics.

Why coat your Garage floor?
 

1. Improved Appearance, your home is a showcase of you so why not add to the showcase with a beautiful garage floor.
2. Protection of the concrete, concrete is susceptible to staining and wont be able to be cleaned. Coating your garage floor makes for easy maintenance!
3. The coating will protect the concrete from damage. if you drop things the coating will take the brunt of the impact and usually the concrete wont crumble or chip underneath it.
4. A coated garage floor will give great curb appeal when the garage door is open and can increase the value of the home!
5. Helps keeps the garage looking tidy. thus making you feel good when walking through your garage!
6. Who doesn't love a finished garage floor..... it will always make you smile, especially when its been done By Innovative Concrete Coating

I think it is becoming more common everywhere. I recall roughly ten years ago the place where I was getting my car serviced had his entire service section done.

Like everything else endless debate. We had ours done when we bought our then new home. It was done almost 10 years ago and still looks new. Far easier to have done or do yourself before all your junk is in the gargage. Far easier to keep clean. We have a gas golf cart. People with electric carts if they spill acid on the floor, it will damage the paint. The paint is epoxy BUT the clear coat on top is ????? polyurathane and can be damaged. It is not epoxy, I think because epoxy turns yellow.

We did not. You can add a grit to the top coat to prevent slipping. When you spill oil on the floor it is really slippery. I would expect adding the grit makes it more difficult to clean.

Coating
 

It truly depends on the coating, we offer slip resistant concrete coatings. check us out, we do lots of Garages, patios, lanai's, Driveways.

Garage Floor
 

all we can say about it is we like it more than we thought we would - in addition to housing our vehicles, its like my basement area that we had up north but so much nicer, its also how we 1st walk into our home generally

we used HD Hand Designs Corp, thought they did a really nice job to epoxy seal our garage floor

good luck

Cement "dusts", plus washing a coated floor is easier than washing concrete as concrete absorbs water.

My bare concrete garage floor does not "dust". I don't wash it, I just sweep it with a broom.

Garage floor
 

Mass would have been a great place to seal the floor. Any oil drips, spills, dirty, salty snow dropping off the car all winter, it all cleans right off. Otherwise, over the years, the unsealed cement just soaks it up, and it’s not coming out.

I epoxied my floor in Mass about 5 years ago. Still looks like the day I finished it and that's with it being coated with road salt and sand during the winter. All I do is rinse it down and use a giant squeegee to push the water out. The house we purchased in the villages has an epoxy floor and I plan on doing it over again. Whatever was used was a fairly cheap product, the clear coat has yellowed badly.

[QUOTE=rogerk;2139921]Yep, the guy here that did mine did not know what he was doing and did not apply an epoxy.
Any kind of rubber left on the floor just melted into the paint.
:swear::swear:

Probably depends on whether or not it's self rising flour.
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I had my garage floor done in Virginia and loved it.
Should have gotten a different contractor here. But it was done before I knew about ToTV..
:grumpy::(:(

I had my garage painted and they also used heavy shard to make sure it was not slippery. My garage floor was so smooth that when a little water got on it I slipped (it was like GLASS) and almost fell on the concrete. I was lucky I didn't get really hurt.

All coatings I tried up north can not withstand the salt/warm tires

The one that I used in Mass does withstand the salt and warm tires. I'm actually thinking about doing garage floors in the villages. Going to re-do mine here as whatever was used when it was put down has now yellowed and it doesn't look good at all.

Who did your garage floor?

Looks nice, money to burn

I was told when we had our Lani and patio coated not to use mats with rubber backing.
Have anyone been told the same.
The reason rubber will stick to the surface over time.

[QUOTE=kitnhead;2139673]First home I lived in, here had a floor that was sealed. When a puddle of water got on it, I fell and nearly broke something. The second home I purchased had a large grease and oil spot on it that I couldn't clean up so I had someone come in and clean and paint it. They painted it with epoxy and then laid down some paint chips and then urethane coated it. Looks great, cleans up easily and the paint chips are prominent enough to give me traction even when wet. Never fall or slip on it. I get compliments all the time.

Simple answer to a reasonable question.

The wear and tear on a garage floor in MA, is significantly different than in Florida. The mud, oils, salt, etc from MA roads, will eat away at most any type of "coated garage floor".

If you go back to MA and want to do something with your garage floor, use a process called "Retroplate", which is essentially a "polishing" process. Unfortunately, it can get a little slippery when wet. The other choice, is "dyed concrete", but that obviously only works when building a new garage.

I build automobile dealerships in MA and I can tell you, I'd never put an expoxy or any other applied finish to a Service Department floor. If you notice, some of the M-B, BMW, Lexus dealerships are now using a "tile" floor in service departments .... maintenance nightmare.

Spoiled Garages
 

Up North, where it gets very very cold, you almost never see a garage with a coat. Down here where it rarely gets below 30 they are more common. Go figure. People just do not want to see their garage shiver.

I’ve owned and sold many homes in Florida and never once has someone said ,oh you have a beautiful home but you haven’t painted the garage floor or driveway , so we won’t be interested. A garage is a place to park my car and leave the trash and where I spend about 5 minute a day in , there’s no wall of tools , ladders or even a golf cart in the golf cart garage part , sometimes a garage is just a garage

I never had a garage in Massachusetts so in Florida it was out first garage and we had it painted along with the lanai, our entire outside patio going the length of one side and across the back and our front entry way. Mostly we did it for looks and cleanup. We have not done the driveway and front walkways yet but we plan to to keep them clean.

Why does it matter to anyone what someone else does, as long as it has no effect on them? I like my finished floor. Did I have the garage floor painted up North? Nope, but I may have painted it eventually. I like my garage floor here. It looks great and that's all that matters to me. Whether or not someone else likes it, means nothing to me. I painted my patio in back of my home, too.

Because it looks GREAT! I like my things to look nice.

a driveway is just a driveway, and a garage is just a garage. Why spend good money to make them look nicer?

And a car is just a means of transportation, used to get from point A to point B. Why do people spend good money for Mercedes, a Cadillac, a BMW, a Lexus, or even a new Toyota, when a 10 year old KIA would do the same job?

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Because they want to?

Because I like nice things. Some people don't. And a car is not just a car.

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Just in case your meter is broken...:D:D:D

Pretty soon, people will be planting pretty plants, just because they look nice.

There are days I wonder the same. Could be I just have a loose screw?

Why epoxy garage
 

We did ours and we love it. Your garage here is on the same level (no steps) to your house. You just walk right in. The epoxy is easy to clean or mop, so I can walk out there barefoot and get what I need any time (we store lots of things in garage). Also clean keeps the bugs out. So it isn’t because we have lots of money laying around, we want to keep up with our neighbors, or any of those ridiculous reasons lol. For us it is functional. Ours is not slippery at all.