Around here in S.E. MI my local retailers carry the Rust-oleum
Epoxy-shield garage floor version and a Epoxy-shield basement floor
version.

I have the prototype version of the Tan Rust-oleum garage Epoxy-coat(I
bought the product at a flea market for $20 a gallon and needed to find
more and was instructed to go to Lowes or H.D and look for the
Rust-oleum brand.) and I have to say that it has stood up well to the
abuse that I have put it through so far! The $50 a gallon price tag was
a little hard to swallow when I needed to get more, but, I'm happy now.
OH, and it didn't go as far as the instructions stated it would. I
needed to apply 3 gallons fairly sparingly to cover an 18'x20' garage
floor. If you want your floor to look some-what smooth without most of
the texture of the concrete you may need more. And, YES, I found out
the hard way that it can be and is slipery when wet! Call a sand blast
supply house for the different types/textures of grits that can be
applied during the installation of your epoxy floor(this is what the
pro's use/do). The Epoxy coating that I bought, had a bag of what
Rust-oleum calles terazzo flakes(dried multi-colored chips of the very
same epoxy that is being applied) that is to help aid with the
slippery-ness when wet, I didn't like the effect and did not apply it,
because I felt that it made the floor to "busy" and if you dropped
anything small(screw, spring) you would have a hard time finding it.

I had a couple of heavily oiled down spots that I had used Castrol
super clean to help to try to disolve the oil spots, I scrubbed my ass
off. So far the Epoxy hasn't peeled or flaked yet over those areas. The
kits that I had bought had an instruction video that was supplied and
had warned me not to pre-etch the floor with a muratic acid type
solution, but I did anyways, and then neutralized it with baking soda,
then applied the supplied formula.
Did you buy a kit type form that includes an etching agent? IF you
wish, I still have the instruction video from the rust-oleum Epoxy coat
floor finish that came with the epoxy that I put down around here, if
you pay for the shipping, I'll mail it to you, I'll even pitch in the
flakes that I didn't use. Tracy


wrote:
I am going to paint my shop (garage) floor with epoxy paint.
Rustolium sells
two grades, "Garage floor paint epoxy " and "Industrial epoxy" paint.
I
purchased the "Industrial" quality on the assumption that if it cost
more and
is more difficult to apply that it must be better. Does anyone have
sugestions/precautions/advice on applying these products? How good
are they?

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