Clean Garage.

[FI Spyder]

I've painted the other half of the garage (along with 10'x12' utility room or as I call it my engine assembly room) with Rustoleum Epoxy garage floor paint (two part). One gallon did it all even though I expected two. It's $100/gallon but Canadian Tire has it on sale periodically for $70. You sprinkle on granite chips as you're rolling it out. I even took the shelves partly apart to paint under it. The garage hasn't been that clean/organized since I closed in the car port and never will be again. I just wanted to memorialize it to the world as proof of this moment in time.[:p]







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[mb4tim]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! Wanna do mine? it's 45x36

-Tim
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[Bendder]

That looks great. What did you have to do to prep the floor for the coating?



Mark
1977 TR7 FHC
1978 TR7 FHC
1980 TR7 DHC
1980 Rover SD1 4.0L

[rgsSpider]

I'm jealous!

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[Beans]

Very nice & clean, I hope oil can be removed easily [:D]

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[nervousnewowner]

i dont even have a garage [:(] as i type this my wife is actually nagging me about my tools being in the house..........


Dave...

the project at birth, watch it evolve...I hope...

[RadioGuy]

Well it didn't stay clean very long....you parked that nasty 30 year old car on it !!!![;)]

Looks really nice..


Maintained on Saturday…Drive on Fun-Day !!! 1976 FHC - 1980 DHC

[nick]

What do you have to do to get the oil and dirt up before you apply the epoxy? I've been thinking of doing mine but everything I read about the prep discourages me.


nick
'79 TR7

[Hasbeen]

Absolutely beautiful, I did something about half as good, 20 years ago, when I first moved in here. But, I'll bet you can't find a thing when you need it, [}:)] & go wandering around in circles trying to figure out where you stored it. [:D]

Hasbeen

[FI Spyder]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by nick</i>

What do you have to do to get the oil and dirt up before you apply the epoxy? I've been thinking of doing mine but everything I read about the prep discourages me.
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Any oil spots (not many as I usually have cardboard down under engine transmission area as a early warning system for oil leaks) I spilled a little paint thinner on them and scrub them with a scrunched up newspaper. Then let it evaporate. The paint comes with a powdered cleaner that contains citric acid or some similar mild acid that both cleans and etches the floor. I scrubbed it with a stiff bristle broom. You then flush it out of the garage and squeegee it out. In the case of the utility room I just kept moping it up with a sponge mop until I had it all up. There was one spot where the paint didn't grab about the size of a dime. I mixed up some epoxy glue and glued it down. Didn't happen on the other side, I don't know what was on that small spot that the paint didn't stick to.

If your cement floor has been sealed before you can't use this paint. You test by putting a drop of water on the floor. if it stays beaded it's sealed. If it soaks in, it's not.

Oil just sits on the surface and can be wiped up with any solvent as its epoxy.



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[FI Spyder]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Hasbeen</i>

But, I'll bet you can't find a thing when you need it, [}:)] & go wandering around in circles trying to figure out where you stored it. [:D]
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You've got that right. I just get the wife down there to find it. She says "What am I looking for". Naming it means nothing so I say something like "It's a white plastic tub about the size of a margarine tub with green writing on it and it says Quaker state on it." She says "you mean this here?" mean while I've been looking for it for 15 minutes.[:p]

I always say it's genetics. Men went out hunting mastodons and had to find their way back to the cave so they are good at directions. Women had to be able to find the bone needles in dimly lit caves so they are good at finding things.[:p]



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