Garage floor coatings

[papak]

Just starting the process of having the garage floor recoated. I applied two coats of a solvent based epoxy to a properly prepared concrete floor about 10 years ago but after two builds and a lot of repairs, it is looking pretty worn. I keep going back and forth between epoxy and polyspartic/polyurea. Do any of you have any "real world" experience with either? I've pretty much ruled out the tile options.

[Brightonuk]

Why?

I was going for the Epoxy (cause the wife did not want tile) but I snagged the exact number I needed for my floor on "Craig's List"

Not the color I wanted and had to make do with what I could get.

The wife admits she was wrong and likes the way it turned out. 

 

Not the premium look some members have but they are resilient and easy to clean 

[sf4018]

Dunno about epoxy but My garage has polyspartic, it’s been easy pretty resilient and still looks good after 5 years. Doesn’t do well with getting scraped by sharp or heavy metal objects though, but I’m not sure anything would.

[Croc]

This thread is timely - I just started shopping for a new garage floor.  My old one was done 6-7 years ago and has not held up as well as expected.  It was a granitex polyaspartic 1 day curing surface.  Looked good intiailly in a light/med gray but has discolored badly over time, shows scrapes easily and has marked up from hot tires .    The textured surface makes it difficult to clean short of hand scrubbing thinners with a stiff brush, and that does not even work well.  

 

First thing I have learned, dont use textured surfaces as they are not any more resilient than smooth and a bear to clean.

 

Second thing I learned from discussions yesterday is the urethane surfaces have higher temperature resistance than epoxy which has a lower melt point.  Not sure if this is really important but I do drive off track and into the garage with hot tires.    

 

@papak Why did you rule out tiles?

[papak]

I took another look at tiles and found a tile sold by "armorgarage.com". ¼"thick PVC with a better locking style than the others I had seen. They weigh about 4 ½ lbs each (19.5x19.5"). I don't see them sliding around. The quotes for polyspartic and epoxy were pretty high by my estimation ($2500-3500), perhaps because of California environmental considerations. I know that when I last exposed the floor (8-10 years ago), I purchased a high quality solvent based epoxy on the East Coast and brought it back on the jet. It was unavailable in SoCal. The tiles are half the price of the coating quotes. I don't have the hot tire issue as I usually let the car sit outside a bit when I get back home. I'm much more concerned about abrasion tolerance (floor jack, etc.)

 

I'll take B/A photos