Garage floors....

[king4wd]

Lowes and Home Depot both carry heavy duty garage floor paint for just what you're looking to do. It may be polyurethane based, but I'm not sure. Good luck. The special concrete will work even better, but that's a bit more expensive than a few coats of paint.

You could always dig the garage floor out, and then have it re-poured with color dyed concrete. You would need to order the concrete with the correct add-mix to resist grease and oil (fly ash is good for that; it gives a super smooth finish to the slab, as well. If you used 4000 pound mix with fiber-mesh, it would withstand hundreds of years of abuse). You would never have to worry about the durability of the finish, and it would never chip or fade...

[goodtimes]

OK, here is the deal. I have a 40' x 20' cement slab that I want to coat with something. The goal is to have a good looking finish that is easy to clean and keep oil from soaking into the concrete (resale value).

The floor will have to stand up to a fair amount of abuse, including very high localized heat (cutting and welding), needs to be fairly easy to patch (when I drop things on it), must completely seal the concrete, and must be able to be "installed" by me (no professional flooring systems--I can't afford them).

I am leaning towards a 2 part epoxy paint that I have used for machinery in the past (but never on a floor). It is very hard, and isn't too expensive (~$120 for a gallon of paint and a gallon of catalyst). Has anyone used this type of paint on a floor? Use anything else for a similar application that did (or didn't) work?

I need something soon too. Both the truck and jeep are leaking oil. I wan't to get the slab done before it gets too soaked with oil...