Garage Floor solutions?

[bossy22]

This summer I'm going to be getting a heater installed in my garage with the intent of making it a workout room and a bike and ski/snowboard workshop. I will be putting a tv in there as well for spin sessions in the winter. I will also do oil changes for the car in there. The car won't be parked in it, but when I need to do minor service, I plan to make room for it.
Its a good size garage. Wider than a standard 2 car garage.
I was thinking of using ucoat it. Any have any experience with it? Or can make other recommendations?

Thanks

[GP_Matt]

I used something like this on my floor.
http://www.homedepot.ca/product/behr...er-grey/939032

It has held up okay for a few years although I park two cars in there and it has started to wear out around the tires.

[speede5]

Go to a commercial paint store, General Paint carries it here, and get Amerlock 400. It's a 2 part and it will cost a tiny bit more than the econo coatings you can get at HD or Lowes, but it will outlast everything.

Just make sure you use a respirator with a P100 cartridge, this stuff is toxic when it's curing, but you can beat it with a hammer once it's on and you won't chip it off. (well I'm sure you could if you tried, but you get the gist).

http://www.norkan.com/pdfmanuals/Ame...or-Coating.pdf

[Northendzone]

i believe that the heat from the ires eventually wear out this above stuff.

bossy, have you thought about looking at some kind of sport court material

[Shin Pad]

Do you know if your garage floor as a vapour ######er under it? I would guess that it does not. The point is, you have to use a product that is water vapour permeable. If you use a product such as an epoxy or other coating that is non-permeable, the moisture from the slab and from the ground below, will eventually cause the coating to delaminate.

Your best bet would be a concrete sealer. For a garage application, I would use one of the following:
Hydrozo 100 as manufactured by BASF.
Sealmaster 100% as manufactured by Technical Barrier Systems Inc.
Dry-Trete 1000L as manufactured by DRE Industries.
Protectosil 300 as manufactured by Evonik.
SW-244-100VOC as manufactured by Sherwin Williams.
SIL-ACT ATS 100 as manufactured by Advanced Chemical Technologies.
Sikagard SN-100 as manufactured by Sika Canada Inc.
I specify these sealers for locations such as fire hall apparatus bays (where they park the fire trucks). I have also specified it for locations such as the lowest level of parkade floors (where the the slabs are on grade). They are all Alberta Transportation recommended Sealers.

If you want to go a bit cheaper, then you could look at a product such as one of the following:

Ashford Formula as manufactured by Curecrete Chemical Company Inc. and distributed by Duracon Consulting Inc.
Liqui-Hard as manufactured by W.R. Meadows.
Seal Hard as manufactured by L&M Construction Chemicals Inc.
Shur-Seal as manufactured by Paul M. Wolff Co and distributed by Star Industrial Floors.

These sealers densify the concrete and provide a good surface. If you are doing a lot of oil changes, then you should go with one of the products in the first list.

Note - all of these are clear sealers, so you will still have a grey concrete appearance to your slab.

[Bean]

Shin Pad do you do this for a living? I'm looking to have this done on a new garage floor and I'd like it to be done right (as in not by me).

Can anybody recommend a place that'll do the garage floor coating for me?