261845 EPOXYSHIELD Garage Floor Coating Kit, 2.5 Car, Gloss Gray

OK, the process is finally done on our 2 1/2 plus 1 garage and we love the outcome. It came out great and I want to tell you the full story. Yes, using this product you will save a lot of money versus calling a professional and yes, it is easy to apply with caveats that I will spell out for you and yes the kit does cover 2 1/2 standard garages. First, do not believe that you can apply this and be back in your garage in 3 days; second, it comes out better with the clear over coat; third, make sure you watch some YouTube videos on the process so you know what to expect. Now for the details: 1) You must clean your garage floor thoroughly before application. The etch product is included with the kit however if your floor is oily, greasy, painted, or otherwise stained, you will need additional products to clean it first. My garage floor was new so not stained however the builder did spill something on the floor that water beaded on so I knew I had to strip that prior to application. The epoxy actually bonds with the concrete so anything that prevents bonding will cause the finish to peel later. Clean, clean, and clean again! I pressure washed first, used the provided etching, then bought additional products as necessary and repeated the process until I was satisfied the floor was clean. You will need a squeegee and a stiff floor broom for this process. 2) After cleaning, wait 3 days for the floor to dry thoroughly, longer if it is very humid or you live in a damp area. If it is not dry, the epoxy will not bond with the concrete. The instructions say to tape a 2 x 2 piece of plastic to the floor for 3 days to test for moisture; DON'T DO THIS! I did it the first time and the adhesive from the tape left a residue that I then had to remove and reclean the floor again! The 3 day clock restarted. To help the drying process I ran a floor fan 24 hours a day for the 3 days which helped a lot. 3) Once the floor is dry, you can start the painting process. Pay attention to the instructions on painting time and temperature as this affects how long you can work with the paint. Only walk on the cleaned floor with clean shoes or socks to avoid any contamination. Use your blower to ensure there is no dust, dirt or bugs on the floor prior to painting. Mix the product as directed but I found that the color was consistent and did not need to mix the base paints first. Also, mixing is a PITA and very messy, losing precious paint. If you are painting the foundation walls too like I did, start here. This is tedious work and takes time so have help. Remember, once the epoxy is mixed in the paint, you are on the clock before the product becomes unusable (called pot time). It took us the full 2 hours to paint the 12" foundation walls, cut in along the wall/floor joint, and paint the floor which stretched the limit. Use a 12" or 14" roller if you can. I believe the instructions say paint in 4' x 4' sections but I found it easier to add the color chips, if you are using them, by painting a 2' x 8' section (it is easier to spred the color chips this way). Clean up tools with soap and water. 4) Color chips; we wanted more color than the base gray so we went very heavy on the chips. We actually bought 2 extra bags of chips for the 2 1/2 car garage (4 total bags used) and used both bags from the kit for the single car garage. After 3 days of drying, we used a shop vacuum to knock off any loose color chips before we used the clear coating sealer. 5) At this point elapsed time is a minimum of 7 days (unless you have to reclean like I did) and if you apply the clear sealer, which I highly recommend, it takes another 3 days of drying. So my floors look great and make the garage pop; only time will tell if it lasts.

Did a lot of research and this is the most highly recommended without lift so I went for it. Did two garages. There are plenty of flakes. I was worried we would run out of paint so put it on too thin on the first garage and had to do a second coat. The square footage shown on the box is a generous single coat...I did up the wall about 12" also ... there is enough. Don't be afraid to put on a nice thick coat and then you only have to do a single coat. It has a great sheen... you don't need to buy an additional top gloss. The second coat made the garage floor look absolutely perfect since we did the first coat too thin. (Note: I had already sprinkled flakes lightly on the first coat because I didn't know we put it on too thin and I'd need a second coat. I was worried it wouldn't look good painted over the paint chips but because I did more chips on the second coat you really couldn't tell. Not ideal but just in case the same thing happens to you fyi you can paint over it!) I liked it better when I sprinkled more flakes compared to the other garage where we did less flakes. The single box I bought at home depot to do the second coat had a plastic pouch which made the job 1000 times less messy than the double kit which had cans. Its hard to mix the cans (part A and B) completely and I think it contributed to our first coat not looking the best. The pouch is SOOO easy and neat its a dream. They should make all kits this way and get rid of the cans! Make sure you etch the floor and rinse thoroughly and allow to dry for a few days before applying the paint and frog tape your edges. The prep work is the hardest part. If you plan to paint your upper walls do it before you do the floor. (Once you see the floor painted you may want to paint the walls too... that happened to us. It's way easier to paint the walls first so you don't have to tape, its ok if it drips, etc). By the time you get to painting the floor and sprinkling the paint chips its the rewarding (somewhat fun) part. You must sprinkle the floor chips immediately.... work in 4 foot by 4 foot sections and sprinkle right away. It's best to throw up in air in small handfuls. Dries quickly and they won't adhere well after about ten mins or so. Make sure you read the directions beforehand because there is a pot life (amount of time the paint is good for) depending on the temperature. Maximum is two hours so best to do with two people if possible and work fast. Also read about temperature requirements.. can't be colder than 55 degrees at night for two nights, etc. Def wait at least 3 full days to move stuff back in your garage. I'd wait longer if you can as it take a full three days for the paint to fully cure. I wouldn't drive on for a week. I did not add the grit... the flakes give it enough traction. All my paint kits (2 from amazon and one from home depot) were the same color and blended perfectly. Complete transformation and worth the effort... so much cleaner now. Highly recommend!! :) Update: Just did another small two car garage at a rental property that was previously painted and I only purchased a single garage pack because I thought I might be able to get away with that since it would not soak up as much pain as it would on a unpainted cement floor. I was right there was more than enough left over (I could have done a three car garage with a single pack) so if you are painting over an existing painted floor you don't need to purchase as much square footage also when I first wrote this review two years ago there were more than enough paint chips. I even threw some out. Although I was putting down slightly more chips on the floor I just painted we literally ran out when we had only completed a quarter of the garage . I'm not sure if they now don't give you as many chips as they used to but I would recommend buying an extra pack of the paint chips. You can always return them but it's a bummer when you're in the middle of your paint job to not have what you need because the pot life is so short you can't stop and run out and buy more.

It's so awesome, turned my garage completely. In the end it looks totally professional grade. Make sure to mix it well before applying. Coverage is enough for two car garage of standard size. Also, i put epoxy on the side wall where dry wall board ends and 1 feet concrete wall starts. Decorative chips aren't enough if you want a good coverage, recommend to buy two extra packets of same color to give better coverage on chips. Otherwise it's a great product and easy to apply. Also make sure to not rush put it on the floor. Give yourself some time and thoroughly clean the garage with anti greasers and wash multiple times to make sure there is no dust on the floor. Also while you etch the floor make sure to fill any gaps or dividers on the floors as after etching it will be like you will have to clean the floor many times. I have also applies the cleat coat on the top which made it more good looking and rock solid. Just remember to clean all the tools after epoxy as that could easily stick on the tools and hard to remove and make the tool unusable for clear coat. (Paint brush, buckets, rollers etc.)

It took a bit of work, but the biggest part was just cleaning out the garage so we could get to the floor. 20 years of stuff, even though kept around the periphery, was still a lot of stuff. We just moved most of it out onto the driveway although we also filled up the garbage can and threw a lot away. Yea! It's hard to know how long it will last, but we did a pretty thorough job of cleaning, scrubbing and scraping the floor. A cleaner solution comes with it that contains citric acid and seemed to work well loosening up past paint, car droppings, and various dirty areas. It came with two gallons of gray paint which was more than enough and two bags of colored (blue, black and white) sprinkles which took a while to get use to sprinkling evenly. We divided the garage up into two halves and it's a bit obvious they were done at different times. The earlier part has thinner paint and more sprinkles. The later part is thicker paint with fewer sprinkles. The sprinkles do a great job of covering up floor imperfections. We were fortunate to have a week of great weather to do this project. Cleaning out the garage took a full day. We did the cleaning in an evening, painting and sprinkling in a day, and then let it dry for two days before putting stuff back over another day. The sprinkles sit on the top of the paint and do crunch when they're walked on which was a bit surprising. We've been parking the car on it for weeks now and it looks great! Not perfect, but I see the mistakes I made just like any DIY project I do. I wish there was some way not to do that.

Thanks so much to all for the instructions, especially Andrew Rickel! It took us a while to prepare for this with a lot of steps and tools we needed to get. We had two Painters and a Sprinkler; materials we used: *cement patch to cover some cracks (not the major divider lines, those need to stay to allow expansion/shrinking of cement floor) *cheapest 5 gal bucket *good large scrubber brush (for cleaning garage with degreaser/ etching) *water hose for rinsing garage (scrubber may help but we did well without it) *two quality roller naps + good roller base and long screw in handle for each *two cheap paint pans *several paint sticks (free at Home Depot paint counter) *FrogTape (for protecting walls around the the perimeter of the garage) *several wide brushes (for detailing side lip of the garage with epoxy) *clean parmesan cheese container for sprinkles *gloves and respiratory mask for everyone (most will hate to have this on, but epoxy is intense on the lungs!) *slippers/ratty clothes you don't care to ruin *cheap tarp to protect the floor in the house near garage door (we had to go in/out while prepping and managed to track some stuff in) *bring garage opener/ water with you *keep a trash bag outside (when you are done, you put all the used/disposable stuff in it right there) The kit contains two large metal containers with epoxy mix and two smaller containers with activator compound. We emptied out garage, cleaned the floor with degreaser and etcher, rinsed well, let dry, filled in random cracks. Covered the entire perimeter with paper tape at the wall-floor lip junction. On day X we used a 5 gal bucket to first mix both epoxy bases for an even color, then divided the uniform mix between the two containers. Since we had two Painters, we added the activator compound to each of the base, stirred, and waited a bit per instructions. Then three of us attacked the garage. First we went around the perimeter and covered the border with a brush. Then poured the epoxy in two paint pans, one person rolled per each side in small increments, starting from the far end of the garage, backing toward the garage door (cracked a bit for circulation); I sprinkled over the just painted areas. We worked fairly quickly. We worked our way out of the garage (brought garage opener), then once everything was covered, we put all the disposables in a large trash bag and put it in the dumpster, so we could walk in the house clean and be done. We used it for our smooth cement, fairly new garage floor in a 2,5 car garage. There was enough of mix, but just enough so. Someone here recommended to use a parmesan cheese container for sprinkling - great idea. Plenty of sprinkles created plenty of friction on the floor to prevent slipping. We live in Wilmington NC (high humidity), did our garage May 2017, and parked outside for about two weeks. Since then we have not had any issues with any damage to epoxy (no cracking, hot tire pick up, etc). The floor looks amazing!!!

You have more time to use the product than you think. Apply a nice thick and even layer. Do pre paint preparation as recommended. Have more than enough product for a three car garage. If I could give it ten stars I would. Truly amazing product

First, DO NOT cut corners on your floor prep with any epoxy floor product. That being said, I applied this to a previously and well worn epoxy floor in an 860 sqft race garage (2 boxes of the 2.5 garage kits). After several days of prep which included a final clean with Rust-Oleum floor degreaser, I applied the new release of the Rust-Oleum floor primer, which is a single part primer vs. the older two part primer. After a 24 hour cure I applied the two part EpoxyShield. Using 18" high quality 3/8" roller, the finish went down smooth and easy. The coverage over the previous smooth flooring was way more than anticipated. 2 1/2 cans easily completed the 860 sqft job. So, I allowed this initial coat to cure for a full week and went back with the last of the full unmixed can, combined the two parts and was able to spread that out over at least 700 sqft of the high impact / traffic areas of the garage. In spite of the one week difference in application, this final coating blended seamlessly over the previous application. Please note, due to the use of this garage, I did not cast the color chips over the fresh epoxy. This allowed for a much faster application and I believe attributed to the greater coverage square footage as well. The material levels nicely for a very smooth semi gloss finish. Both the primer and finish coats are water based so cleanup is easy. Ultimately, including the primer, I have a solid three coat, super resilient finish in a pretty abusive environment. Again, be diligent with your prep work and do not short cut your cure times based on the manufacturer's minimum recommendations, and be very aware of your specific application climate, (temps and humidity).

I wanted to give this product 4 stars but there were too many issues. The biggest issue is uncertainty. Is my floor clean enough? Will I have enough epoxy? Will I have enough chips? Will I paint quick enough? Will I paint myself into a corner? Do I need the spiked shoes? Do I need anti-slip additive? Did I buy enough anti-slip? Do I need a helper? Have I watched enough YouTube videos? The answers are below: 1. You MUST purchase a second 1-car garage kit. This 2-car kit will not cover unless it's very thin. 2. You MUST purchase two extra packs of chips. These are not enough, even with the additional 1-car kit. 3. Buy two packs of anti-slip because one pack is not enough for a 2-car garage. 4. The spiked shoes are 1-star products. They don't fit work boots. Don't bother. 5. You probably should have somebody grind your floor in preparation. Doing it yourself with an angle grinder and stiff brush is not good enough, and is very, very hard. I spent three weeks on that alone. 6. Can I really spread those chips randomly? 7. You will likely run thin of everything, so prepare for that likeliness. Make absolutely certain you have some of everything left over. In the end, I almost ran out of epoxy, even with the extra 1-car kit. And, I ran thin of the chips even with the extra 1-car kit and extra bag of chips. The chips did not fall randomly, no matter how high I threw them. I could not throw them up against the berms on the perimeter of the garage. I ended up with clusters and thin spots. The last 2x2' area had almost no chips, so it looks embarrassingly thin. I was very displeased. Final words: Hire a professional. This product is not for amateurs like me.

À parfaitement repondu à mes attentes avec des instructions très claires. L’ajout de flocon supplémentaire requiert toutefois d’avantage de clear.

The main work is clearing the garage and preparing the concrete as directed. Application is easy. Make sure you mix the 2 parts thoroughly. After 6 months there has been no tire pull-ups of paint. $250 plus time as opposed to paying someone 2 to 3 thousand to do it. I’d say it’s a no brainer.

Kit complet ça donne un très beau fini

This item arrived later than I was hoping. I bought the same thing from local store for 30% less. I should have checked it locally first. You always think Amazon is the best deal but it is not specially on brand name items. I could not return it. Product was awesome actually it was more than enough for 21'x 21' garage and I had 15% left over. Make sure apply generous amount with your roller and throw the chips on it as soon as you finished each section rightaway. Prep work takes most of your time.

Great product Follow the directions