Garage Floor Coating

[Bird]

If this is what HD sells, then I put it down in a floor in FL. Looks good but I found that the hot tires after driving back into the garage would lift the paint....anyone else?

I put carpet runner pcs. down under the tires which seem to do the trick.

My son-in-law said that happened to his mother's garage after he put the stuff on her garage floor a year or two ago. He thought maybe it was just because she didn't give it time to cure before she put the car in there in the heat of the Texas Summer. Anyway, he said she put some rubber strips down in her garage, but I didn't ask for details.

Did you use full length carpet runners, or just pieces under the tires when you park? Our washer & dryer are in the garage and when we bought this place, there was about a 15' carpet runner from in front of the door into the house to in front of the washer/dryer; in other words down the left side of the garage floor. It was in such shape that it's going in the Waste Management garbage truck tomorrow. And today we've been to Home Depot, Lowe's, and Garden Ridge looking at carpet runners. Haven't bought anything yet.

Any suggestions appreciated.

 

[Pixguy]

Yea Bird, carpet runners that I bought from one of the box stores is what I use. They are 2ft wide and I cut them about 18" and use just under the tires.
I do think the hot Florida tires contributed to it, because the garage was new when I etched and power washed it.

Still looks good but does get a little slippery when wet, which reminds of a........ Never mind, family forum. ;-)

 

[Pixguy]

I added a 2X4 so the Mrs. Wouldn't take out the wall.

 

[Bird]

I added a 2X4 so the Mrs. Wouldn't take out the wall.

I got a Pro Park precision parking guide and she still gunned the engine to jump it and punch a hole in the wall.

 

[pacerron]

I got a Pro Park precision parking guide and she still gunned the engine to jump it and punch a hole in the wall.

Hang a volleyball from the ceiling on a rope that touches the windshield in front of the driver. Easier to see than something on the floor.

 

[Bird]

Hang a volleyball from the ceiling on a rope that touches the windshield in front of the driver. Easier to see than something on the floor.

In the house we owned before I retired, our oldest daughter hit the wall at the front of the garage once, so I hung two tennis balls on fishing line from the ceiling; one for her car and one for my wife's. They knew to drive in to where the tennis ball was touching the lower left corner of the windshield right where the state safety inspection sticker is.

 

[pacerron]

In the house we owned before I retired, our oldest daughter hit the wall at the front of the garage once, so I hung two tennis balls on fishing line from the ceiling; one for her car and one for my wife's. They knew to drive in to where the tennis ball was touching the lower left corner of the windshield right where the state safety inspection sticker is.

There you go... much better than gunning it over speed bumps
I've got the ball on a hook so I can easily take it down when working out there. If I don't I continually back into it with my body or head.
A speed bump would be worse. I'd trip on that even though knowing it was there.
I really am concerned about you coming in from the bright sun outside and slipping on something wet on that paint that you don't see. I think I'd just carpet the entire floor build a screen assembly behind the garage door and make it a Florida room.

 

[jwstewar]

If this is what HD sells, then I put it down in a floor in FL. Looks good but I found that the hot tires after driving back into the garage would lift the paint....anyone else?

I put carpet runner pcs. down under the tires which seem to do the trick.

We put the Quikcrete version down on our floor. It looked very nice like Bird's when we first did it, but now that it has been down for a couple of years we have big spots where the tires have lifted it. The Suburban takes big chunks, but they are in consistant spots, the car takes little spots, but I end up having to move the car around some based on other items in the garage so it has several spots. I've been going to redo the spots and put down some self-stick rubber floor tile that I bought from Harbor Freight. I think I picked 8 of them up, but that will probably just be enough to do for the Suburban because its tires are so big (285/55R20).

 

[dodge man]

The tires can get warm and stick to the paint, thats why it gets lifted. I put it down on my floor about 8 years ago and it didn't hold up well. I had painted my prior with cheap floor paint, and didn't get 100% of it off before I used the good stuff.

DP said it lets the water stand for days in the winter on his dads floor? Where did it go before? Soak into the concrete? That can't be good either.

 

[Bird]

Son-in-law said after hot tires stuck to some of the paint, his mother found some rubber strips to put under the tires, but he wasn't sure exactly what, or where she got them. I intend to let mine cure for a week or so before putting the car and pickup back in the garage. However . . . I've had one of those Pro Park precision parking guides for the car for quite some time and today I bought another one from The Container Store for the pickup. Then at Home Depot I bought 6 TrafficMaster Walk Off Mats (18" x 27" short nap carpet with non-slip backing) to put one under each of the other tires; $2.97 each. And I bought a 25" wide carpet runner, 13.5' long that will be in front of the washer & dryer; $2.97 a linear foot.

Unlike jwstewar, I do not have to move things around in the garage because we have a 21' x 25' shop/recreation room and an 8' x 12' garden tool storage building.