Need to de-slippify my garage floor

Kyle
I have used some Sherwin Williams or PPG industrial epoxies but I normally use a polyaspartic polyurethane that I developed at my normal job in canton.

The polyaspartic is UV stable and it cures faster so I can do an install in 1 day and the floor can be used the next day. Most epoxies need several days for install and return to service.
 
Ours looks extremely similar to this. A quick spray with the pressure washer and it's brand new again.

Man, that's nice. Makes me think that I have way too much clutter in my garage.
 
Now I want to paint it like a runway while I am at it.
 
Man, that's nice. Makes me think that I have way too much clutter in my garage.

Yeah, like, where's all of his garage stuff???

Running a pressure washer in my garage will damage/destroy a lot of wood, some folding chairs in their bags, a toolbox on the floor, air compressor, my wife's potting soil, work gloves, etc. we cram in a car or two also.
 
Yeah, like, where's all of his garage stuff???



Running a pressure washer in my garage will damage/destroy a lot of wood, some folding chairs in their bags, a toolbox on the floor, air compressor, my wife's potting soil, work gloves, etc. we cram in a car or two also.


Everything in our garage is either on wheels or up on the walls. It takes me about five mins to back the cars out, move the motorcycle, roll the compressor, tool box, work bench, and 6 ft tall cabinet out to the drive.

TC.
 
Everything in our garage is either on wheels or up on the walls. It takes me about five mins to back the cars out, move the motorcycle, roll the compressor, tool box, work bench, and 6 ft tall cabinet out to the drive.

TC.

Yeah, you need more clutter.

I have a 2x4x8 shelving unit filled with stuff like paint, car wax, ropes, etc. A small bench with some tools and bench grinder, tool chest, 10 gal compressor, 2 bikes, 30 gal trash can and normally 2-3 filled trash bags next to it, a 5x8 trailer w/ ZTR and 21" mower, next to that is a 30" mower, 2 grass blowers and 2 trimmers and another smaller shelving unit for misc. stuff.

I clean the garage 3-4 times a year and it's an endeavor that takes a good part of a day. Really, it's the garage version of rearranging the furniture.
 
You bought this and wrote the review didn't you

http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Natural-Water-Based-Lubricant-Gallon/dp/B005MR3IVO

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1,512 of 1,590 people found the following review helpful Backyard Carnival of Death
By James O. Thach on February 27, 2014
I'm a risk analyst for a major insurance firm, so when my wife and I were planning a birthday party for our seven-year-old, Crispin, my mind naturally turned to liabilities. We'd settled on the theme of a "backyard carnival", complete with a swing set, a trampoline, merry-go-round, and a giant Slip `n Slide. So I carefully inspected the equipment for safety. It all seemed sound.

We have a home on a bluff overlooking the ocean. As it happened, on the day of the party our neighbors were trimming their fichus trees. We heard the sound of their wood chipper buzzing occasionally from the other side of our tall hedge. It was a little irritating, but not disruptive.

The party started off wonderfully. A clown we'd hired made balloon animals, Crispin eagerly opened his presents, and all the children enjoyed cake and fruit punch. The weather was mild, the skies clear. It seemed a perfect day.

Then we brought out the Slip `n Slide.

The problem with water slides is what we in the trade call "distributed water deficiency zones", or in layman's terms, dry spots. If a child hits one of these, it can put the brakes on the fun, and send them sliding down a path of medical claims--contusions, concussions, lacerations, abrasions, whiplash, back rash, and disc impaction. And that's just for starters. From there, it's a slippery slope toward major litigation.

To avoid even the remote possibility of such injuries, I invested in this 55 gallon drum of water soluble personal lubricant--the idea being that the children could enjoy the slide in complete safety, then wash off in the hose before their parents came to retrieve them. With that in mind, I dipped each child into the vat before allowing them to cue up for the slide.

The Slip `n Slide itself performed admirably, as did the lubricant. That, in fact, was the problem. Due to the slight downhill gradient of our yard, the children built up so much speed that they skidded across the lawn and into a retaining wall at the other end of our property, with sufficient force that I had to put an end to the activity.

I endeavored to roll up the mat--no easy task, as the lawn surrounding the slide was itself now lubricated, and I struggled to maintain my footing. When I looked up from my labor, I grasped for the first time the scope of the liabilities I had unleashed--a horde of extremely well-lubricated seven-year-olds, hyped up on sugar and desperate for fun.

I saw young Eliza Gimmelman climb onto the trampoline. She began jumping, but the pad soon became so slick that she lost all control. Her wild flailing unfortunately fell into harmonic synchronization with the motion of the springs, propelling her ever higher, until she soared above the trampoline's safety enclosure, over the hedge and into the neighbor's yard. There came a ghastly grinding sound, and I could tell from the crimson plume that followed, it would be a total loss.

Twins Jeremy and Mason Lafferty were on the swing set. Having attained the swings' full range of motion, they were apparently having difficulty holding on. At that point, the swings became human catapults. Mason separated on the backswing, arcing over the roof of our home toward the street beyond. I surmised from the screeching tires, car horns and screams of horror that he was also unrecoverable. A terrified Jeremy soon lost his grip as well, sailing forward over the bluff, and plummeting 300 feet down into the ice-cold, shark-infested waters of the San Francisco Bay. An open claim, but not promising.

The rest of the children were clinging to the merry-go-round. Having just witnessed the violent deaths of at least two of their playmates, they were no longer in the mood for fun. However, the lubricant had dripped from their glistening bodies into the central cog, allowing it to spin far faster than it was designed to, and this, likely combined with other factors--their relative weight distribution, the slight incline of the ground--caused their motion to become self-sustaining, and the centrifugal force built upon itself until they became a blurry, screaming disk of human suffering. Then they began to fly off like cannon balls.

Martin Duckworth was the first to go, causing significant structural damage to our greenhouse. Lisa Aurelio shattered a line of ceramic garden gnomes, and Ethan Green slammed into our Audi Q7 so hard it had to be written off--as, tragically, did he. Several other children left what looked like gingerbread man indentations in the siding of our home. It was terrifying.

When the wheel finally came to a stop, there was only one child aboard. As luck would have it, it was our own beloved Crispin, huddled in the center of the merry-go-round, weeping. My wife ran to him and hugged him with all the might of a relieved, traumatized parent. A little too hard, as it turned out. Lubricated as he was, he shot from her arms like a wet bar of soap, up fifteen feet in the air, landed on the trampoline, and then soared, in a half-gainer, over the hedge, into the wood chipper.

Since then, I've asked myself a thousand times, is there anything I could have done differently? But in the end, no actuary table could have predicted this bloodbath. I can only conclude that this was an act of God. And that, to me, is truly terrifying. Because we're not covered for that.
 
Yeah, you need more clutter....

...I clean the garage 3-4 times a year and it's an endeavor that takes a good part of a day. Really, it's the garage version of rearranging the furniture.


We did that for about 15 years. When we moved to Colorado and built our dream home, we built the garage with the idea of building a plane in the near future. That required something easy to clean and easy to reconfigure, so everything had to be rollable or off the floor.

Once we start building, what's on the wall will probably move to overhead storage to free up space for the build.
 
So I ended up getting norsk pvc flooring. It's not the cheapest $/sqft, but the material is great. It has some give to it, so it's easier on your feet, and you're not clacking around on hard plastic. The tiles have drainage channels molded in so water won't pool underneath. They go together easily with a mallet. I'll probably end up buying a few boxes at a time until I cover most of the garage.
 

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You live in Texas and can park your cars in the garage? Everyone I know has their garage full of their toys that their wives do not let into the house.

You are as rare as hen's teeth.
 
You live in Texas and can park your cars in the garage? Everyone I know has their garage full of their toys that their wives do not let into the house.

You are as rare as hen's teeth.

His 'n Her garages. It's the only way I solved the problem when we built the current residence. Her's is attached to the house and she can fill it will all her horse stuff. Mine is ~100 ft from the house, has in-floor heat, a loft on top and a sign that says "No girls allowed". :D
 
You live in Texas and can park your cars in the garage? Everyone I know has their garage full of their toys that their wives do not let into the house.

You are as rare as hen's teeth.
I cringe when My neighbor has his cars in the street or driveway and he opens his garage and it looks like a Tuesday Morning exploded in there.
I try to keep my curb appeal a non issue and get the vehicles in the garage.

It does suck because I only have a 2 car garage so very little room for my hobbies but most of my hobbies are pretty indoor friendly.
computer geek stuff, musical instruments, homebrewing.
 
You forgot "aviation video production" :D
 
Try just painting an old piece of concrete somewhere you dont much care about and throw some sand on it as a test piece. The top of my floats were painted that way and they did fine. Sand might come off eventually though. Its a really grippy surface.
 
The last of the original thread as 10 months ago by Henning. Man I miss that guy <- Seriously,

Does a thread need a specific age to be Necro? Like 6 months or a year?

I was taught:
Cars are for transportation. Not storage. Not dining. So my cars (2) never fill up.
Garages are for storing cars. Anything that interferes with the parking of cars needs to find a new place.
Streets are for driving to/from the house.

Best example I've witnessed was in 2000 when I lived in Richardson, TX. I always have one of, if not the, smallest houses in a neighborhood. (no kids) So only had a 3-car garage. The guy across the street had a 4 car garage and a circular driveway. They had some 1985 minivan for a work truck that was ALWAYS garaged, and on the driveway sat Dad's MBZ S500, Mom's Lexus. and teenage boy's BMW M3. Very nice cars (ravioli == jealous)

And then it happened: We had an epic hail storm. 95% of the homes had to be re-roofed.

The morning after I was checking my fences and looking for broken windows on the house and three of them were just wandering around, practically in tears (the kid was definitely in crying) staring out their freshly dimpled livery.

Never saw their cars left again!
 
Used the Rustoleum 2-component epoxy for a 1-car garage a month ago. Apply lots of the flakes to make it grippy. The kit comes with plenty. As mentioned above, surface prep is key. There is not enough muriatic acid in the kit to etch the concrete well. Buy an extra gallon and a watering can. With existing epoxy in place, degreasing (soap and then solvent) is going to be the key step. If you can find someone to do the whole thing (prep and paint) for $4/sft, hire it out.
 
Just get some of that outdoor carpet, you know the stuff because you have been miniature golfing. Cover the floor in that crap.
Who in their right mind would buy a home that had a useless garage? The house is for the woman and the garage is for the man.
 
Maybe just try a muriatic acid wash. That might etch it enough to take the gloss off. Danger level will have to be determined and it will be an economical solution.
 
You live in Texas and can park your cars in the garage? Everyone I know has their garage full of their toys that their wives do not let into the house.

You are as rare as hen's teeth.

No joke. We have a 4 car garage. I can get ONE of our cars in there!
 
Best example I've witnessed was in 2000 when I lived in Richardson, TX. I always have one of, if not the, smallest houses in a neighborhood. (no kids) So only had a 3-car garage. The guy across the street had a 4 car garage and a circular driveway. They had some 1985 minivan for a work truck that was ALWAYS garaged, and on the driveway sat Dad's MBZ S500, Mom's Lexus. and teenage boy's BMW M3. Very nice cars (ravioli == jealous)

Musta been in Canyon Creek
 
Maybe just try a muriatic acid wash. That might etch it enough to take the gloss off. Danger level will have to be determined and it will be an economical solution.

I doubt epoxy or PU will be impressed by an acid.
 
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