Redoing My Garage

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grr456

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Having the walls and floors done on Monday...They say they can do both in one day - I don't believe it, but we'll see.....

Before I moved everything out of the garage...I already moved three of my tool boxes and welder to the front garage.

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Starting to move stuff into my front garage - The three toolboxes and welder I first moved...Then the rest of the stuff....

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Now the nearly empty garage. I still have to wash the walls and floor. I will move the rest of the stuff outside when they show up to paint...

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Nice! I emptied mine out and sprayed the walls and ceiling yesterday. I’m saying no way paint and floor can be done in one day. What kind of floor?
 
Golden said:
Nice! I emptied mine out and sprayed the walls and ceiling yesterday. I’m saying no way paint and floor can be done in one day. What kind of floor?
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I don't think they can do it in a day either. I epoxied the floor 25 years ago when I built the addition and it has held up better than I ever expected. It was gloss when I first did it, but that has worn off quite a while ago. I am going to have it done the same as the front garage, where all of the junk is now. Just a gloss gray with some flakes in it...
 
Excellent. Keep us updated for sure. And if you’re happy with the outcome of the floor, I may get the contractors name. I have been debating whether or not to do the garage floor. Maybe in 5 years.
 
Golden said:
Excellent. Keep us updated for sure. And if you’re happy with the outcome of the floor, I may get the contractors name. I have been debating whether or not to do the garage floor. Maybe in 5 years.
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I can tell you it is $2 a square foot to do the floor - I checked around last year or two years ago when I did the front garage and everyone is pretty close. The price hasn't changed in several years. I did the floor myself the first time, but now they are going to grind the old finish off with a giant buffer with a diamond wheel on it...

They are charging me $750 to do the walls and shelves....It would take me 3 or 4 days to do it, I also hate painting...

Gary

Gary
 
mustangmike6996 said:
I did a shop 3.5 cars wide and 4 deep. That was suck a huge painin the ass. $2/sq is pretty reasonable. I'd do it now if my concrete wasn't pitted and 60 years old
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My front garage was pretty pitted and they did it. They said they could fill it with some sort of hardening epoxy stuff, let it dry for a day and come out the next day, grind it down and you'd never know it was pitted. I told them that I am going to just park my cars in there and it wasn't necessary to do that. They poured the stuff on pretty thick and it filled the small pits pretty well and it looks very nice now, so I am happy. I think it was going to be $3 a foot instead of $2.

I just washed the walls and floor so it is ready for the painters...

I had to take the compressor apart so I could move it easily....I am going to have the painters help me move my sandblaster, compressor and wash tank outside when they get here....

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That's pretty crazy, I didn't know that was an option. That might be a plan changer. I was pricing out Racedeck but I'd rather have epoxy.

I'm interested to see the finished product when they're completed
 
$3 per square foot is far cheaper than race deck. However, if you ever decided to move you could take the floor with you.
 
Golden said:
$3 per square foot is far cheaper than race deck. However, if you ever decided to move you could take the floor with you.
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True, and the other benefit is being able to replace sections of floor if you ruin part of it for whatever reason. Im not sure if Racedeck helps with cold floors in the winter or not but that could be another benefit. I just finished insulating and drywalling my garage (still need to mud and paint)
 
mustangmike6996 said:
True, and the other benefit is being able to replace sections of floor if you ruin part of it for whatever reason.
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The red epoxy has lasted nearly 25 years and I've spilled everything on this floor (including brake fluid) and nothing really affected it very much. While it isn't as shiny as it once was, it is certainly easy to sweep anything up or pick up spilled oil from it and not leave a stain. I painted the underside of my car and actually painted a car in the garage and all of the overspray comes right up. The paint that doesn't come off right away will wear off long before the epoxy does....

Just my .02....grr
 
Well, the floor guy flaked out on painting the walls - Even though I sent pictures and he said he would do it, when he saw it in person, he said he couldn't do it. Someone else is coming out to paint it in a couple of days..

Anyway, he did do a very nice job on the floor....When I built the addition, the contractor did a real crappy job on the cement and there were a lot of ridges in the cement from some plastic swinging in the wind after he finished. This guy ground everything pretty flat and smooth and it looks good now.

The garage is 24x30 and the cost was $1250

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