[Luccia at Pelican Parts]

Originally Posted by Tidybuoy

Your garage floor appears to be in excellent condition so there would be very little prep involved with epoxy.

I did epoxy on mine and I do like the sprinkles. Yes, it can be difficult to find a small screw if dropped but not too bad. My friend & neighbor did his without the sprinkles and I like it just as much as mine as it is a super clean appearance. I noticed that Jay Leno's garage is epoxy without sprinkles.

For your question on epoxy vs poly - it's generally both. Epoxy first and then a top coat of poly.

For my garage, I used commercial grade epoxy which is much thicker than the Rustoleum stuff at Home Depo. I believe mine is 23mil compared to the 3-6mil for Rustoleum. I guess it is a matter of how thick you put it on but for my stuff, it would be very difficult to put on thin as it was like rolling honey.

I also have a friend that has the snap together panels that sits on top of the concrete. He has a fantastic garage and I really like the flooring and you can do a whole variety of patterns.

Here's mine:

Thanks for this! I like the non-sprinkles look too, but just worried about grip as a friend said he's almost laid himself out more than a few times this past winter as he didn't have enough. Guess it gets pretty slick when wet! LOL

So the poly on top just helps "seal" the deal you would say? Definitely don't want to do the job again. We were going to try and do it before we moved in, but it was so close to winter/thanksgiving that we just didn't have the energy. So it's only seen one mild-ish winter so far and that's why we definitely want to get it coated sooner rather than later.

Thanks for the info on thickness as we were definitely just looking to go with the kit from Home Depot. Where did you get your kit?