Complete DIY Garage Epoxy Floor Coating Installation | Testing Most Popular Kits

Both of the products look great in my opinion. I’m more amazed that you only had one crack in your garage floor! Awesome video, Scott!

I'm co-owner of Colorado Liquid Floors. We grind and use polyurea for the base with polyaspartic for the top. We have a 25yr warranty.

Your videos always give me the confidence to try new DIY projects. Thanks.

I used the original epoxy shield kit many years ago and it held up great on a 14-year-old garage floor. I skipped the included acid crystals and used muriatic acid from HD. The crystals just didn't seem strong enough based on what others said at the time. This was back in 02 and we sold the house almost 8 years ago and the floor still looked just as it did when we originally installed it. No hot tire pick up and no chipping. The inconsistency that you see is a lack of product in that area.

Great video, I especially liked the time frame. Most people don't understand how long these DIY projects really take to do it right.

Excellent informative video. Most coating failures are due to lack of proper preparation. On older unpainted garage floors it is important to thoroughly clean them, removing dirt, grease, oil, break fluid, etc, use muriatic acid to etch the floor which allows the floor coating to penetrate into the concrete for a proper bond, make sure the floor is completely dry before application and finally allow the product to properly cure before parking on or using the space. Previously painted floors should be prepped professionally via grinding or shot blasting to allow proper adhesion of the new coating. Unfortunately most home owners and so called handymen skip this vital process thus resulting in chipping and peeling, wasting time and money. Do it right the first time.

Got my floors done professionally 423 sqft for about 2400$ with polyaspartic. I started to look into how to DIY it and came down to a few conclusions. One was that the equipment rentals, materials, and prep would get me close to the professional cost but there would be savings. Two, the lack of experience with polyaspartic can definitely end up with poor results. Shot blasting floors is better then grinding them so a shot blaster would have cost me nearly $1000 to rent out for the project. Paying a professional was worth their experience and the difference in cost was maybe $500-$700 more then a possible bad DIY.

Thanks for taking the time to produce this video on a very practical topic. You are a wonderful educator. Great presentation style without attitude & distracting music. Bravo!

We had a professional do an epoxy-flake with transparent topcoat in our 2-car garage. One guy did the whole thing in one day. He etched with a rotary grinder. After dust-removal, he did a fast-curing epoxy (components mixed in the back of a truck)--then he saturated this coating with vinyl flakes. After a few hours of curing, he scraped off the excess flakes. Last step was a clear top-coat over the epoxy/flakes. It turned out really nice. I replicated the process with the RockSolid polycuramine system from a BigBox store. But I used twice as much material as suggested and ordered extra vinyl flakes in bulk to saturate the wet polycuramine. After curing 1 day, I scraped off the extra flakes with an old drywall knife on a stick, then covered with a a clear polycuramine topcoat (with anti-slip material added). These products aren't cheap, but they work great if used correctly--same result as the professional. If you use the BigBox products as suggested on the box, with sparse numbers of flakes, those floors can get extremely slippery when wet.

I am in the 1 - 3 years currently and my floor is perfect. But I also sanded my floor with a floor polisher and a diamond sanding disk. Also I used the Rock Solid on my floor.

Garage floor coating is always an awesome transformation 😊🛠️

Great video Scott. I like your meticulous effort in the details of prepping which is the key to any projects. Your survey about the durability was another plus to the video. Keep up the great work!

Having my garage floor done professionally this summer. Have a friend who had it done in 2019 by the same contractor and it still looks great.

Great video! Many of us have epoxy coated garage floors that have long since deteriorated. I think a great video would be dealing with a previously coated floor that needs to be re-done.

I used the Rust-Oleum on my floor back in 2015 and it is still there today. Rough winters with brine & salt and sand. I am just now getting a few places coming up.

Great video! The best way to test hot tire pickup is to let the hot tire sit on the epoxy long enough for the tire to cool before moving it. I understand it rained. Nice work on the installation.

I got the best result when i ground the old floor, applied a layer of self level and then epoxy coating. Epoxy can be applied to the self level within a few days

Did a DIY Rust-oleum floor and it lasted about 3 years before it started flaking up under normal use. Then a got a pro company "Guardian Floor" to replace it. More expensive but worth it. I guess it depends on how much you want to spend. Great video.

Very useful video! I watched it twice already and will do at least a couple of more times when I do the actual job! I had been putting this off for so long but after watching your video I am re-energized! 😊

Pretty good demonstration. I think the rock hard epoxy is much prettier and easier to apply. Congratulations on getting the Truck. It looks very beautiful. Thank you for sharing