POR-15's garage floor covering, Has anyone tried this stuff? Options

[NickS]

I did a bit of research and read through the various threads here about floor coatings but I don't recall anyone mentioning POR-15's product : http://www.stoprust.net/Floor-Coatings-p-1-c-30.html -

I ran into it on a thread on corvetteforum.com (amazingly enough, they were talking about actually WORKING on their cars int he garage and not discussing which floor would resist staining from an accidental spill of their favourite car wax (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) ). It looks like its only been out a few months but so far it seems ot be getting some pretty good reviews so far.

Its a tad more expensive than 2 part expoxy. I've got about 800sq ft to cover. According to ucoatit.com its just shy of $700 for their 2 part expoy with a clearcoat top and I'd need 2 of the 400sqft kits from of the POR-15 stuff which is $1010

THoughts / Comments?

- Nick

[CrashTestDummy]

And what wax do they use on it after it cures? (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif)

[Blainefab]

Nick - The deluxe kit from POR-15 only adds sparkle chips and clearcoat - you could could save some bux and only get one of the deluxe kits (for the Vette side of the shop) and one of the regular kits (for the race car side).

The POR-15 stuff is a solvent based 2part epoxy, much like the EPO Coat VA that I used in my old shop: http://www.dcdynamis.com/concrete.html

[marka]

Howdy,

Looking at the POR website link above... So the prep for this stuff seems to basically be "sweep and vacumn the floor"

??

If so, and if it works, I'll probably go this route. Needing to power wash / etch / whatever the floor sounds like a PITA...

Mark

[Unbalanced Engin...]

My garage floor is complete crap. The top surface it continually comming off as white dust and I'd love to be able to fix it with a coating. One of my neighbors tried one of the Lowes floor coatings and it came back up in about 3 months.

Does anyone out there have experience with something that would work in this case, or do I need to re-pour the whole garage floor. TIA and sorry for the minor thread hijack Nick (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Jason S.

[NickS]

My garage floor is complete crap. The top surface it continually comming off as white dust and I'd love to be able to fix it with a coating. One of my neighbors tried one of the Lowes floor coatings and it came back up in about 3 months.

Does anyone out there have experience with something that would work in this case, or do I need to re-pour the whole garage floor. TIA and sorry for the minor thread hijack Nick (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Jason S.

From the reading I've done, you should be able to use one of the industrial epoxy coatings or POR-15. There were a few discussions on a few threads about concrete being too soft. If I recall right, the recommendation for a couple of vendors was to apply a chemical that helps the concrete set and harden up. It was specifically for older concrete that had not hardened up (yet). I may have one of those threads saved on my machine at home, I'll check this evening..

- Nick

[NickS]

Nick - The deluxe kit from POR-15 only adds sparkle chips and clearcoat - you could could save some bux and only get one of the deluxe kits (for the Vette side of the shop) and one of the regular kits (for the race car side).

The POR-15 stuff is a solvent based 2part epoxy, much like the EPO Coat VA that I used in my old shop: http://www.dcdynamis.com/concrete.html

Bah, the vette's going in the existing garage attached!

The reason I was leaning towards the clearcoat was to make clean up a little easier and to add an extra layer to help prevent chipping / cracking from things falling on it. I have zero intention of putting the sparkle stuff (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I was under the impression the POR stuff was different from the EPO Coat you used. Now that I re-read it I"m not so sure now. It might be cheaper to go with the Dynamis stuff then...

- Nick

[Blainefab]

Something else to consider is the ability to recoat the stuff - no matter how sturdy an epoxy it is, there will be some impacts that will chip thru into the concrete, and molten metal will discolor it, at least. My high use fabrication areas will get a recoat yearly. The parts of the shop I used only for wrenching stayed hard and glossy and fluid cleanup was a breeze.

[94bird]

You might try this series of posts for background on doing a good floor epoxy covering. http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9102

If you read through the forum, specifically in the flooring area, you'll see a lot of mentions of the POR-15 covering also. I've been doing research on my own regarding floor coverings, as I plan on doing it next year. Still haven't decided on epoxy vs. tiles (like RaceDeck) though.

[Powerslide91]

I used the Lowes kits (Rustolum I think) in my garage when we built it. Prep was sweep, wash, the paint. It has held up well to two years of fabbing and general garage work. Part of my reasoning to use the Lowes kits was being able to get it cheap and easy to touch up damaged spots. So far the expoy has stuck well. As mentioned above, dispite being careful there are chips in my from dropped items. I think it cost somewhere around 500 to do a 6 car garage.

Best money I spent. This kit or one of the others, an epoxy floor rocks. Careful if not adding the flakes, this stuff can be super slipery when it gets wet.

Jeff