So, I spent the better part of 10 years destroying my parent's garage. Long ago I promised them i'd re-do it... so this year the guilt mechanism kicked in.
My plan was to epoxy coat the floor and give it a good repaint and it would take 2-3 weeks. As usual, things snowballed and three months later I did the following:
-ground the concrete slab to remove old paint & the top layer
-parged the foundation wall
-re-screwed and re-taped the entire garage (along with tons of patches)
-applied an epoxy coating from Ucoatit
-repainted the garage
I highly reccomend the Ucoatit product for anyone who wants to re-do their floor. Mine had a lot of pitting which even after grinding was still there. I spent a whole day patching all the pits with their 2-part patch, along with putting a levelling epoxy overtop it. The results were very good although the next time I do this it will be even better.
I still have to do some minor things before I move back all the things I didn't throw out into the garage again.
Here are some before, during and after shots:
Before:

Note the pitted floor:

Garage Re-Taped:

Floor after grinding & washing

Levelling Epoxy

Final Top Coat

 

Looks great brother....!!

 

is all that pitting from road salt? looks good by the way! are you going to paint/coat the lower part of the wall?

 

Looks great. How hard was the Ucoatit to use?

 

Glenn,

The floor was pitted from road salt dripping off the cars, and from the fact that it was likely a very poor mix of concrete with a lot of water in it, which affects the strength of the top layer.

Jon,

the Ucoatit products are easy to use and their customer service was very good. The levelling epoxy is reccomended for professional installation only, but I had no trouble with it and had the benefit of a cooler day to increase the pot life.

 

Looks freaking great Steve!

 

Very nice! That would be a good hobby for after retirement.

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Very nice! Amazing how expoxying the floor and little paint can really spruce up a garage.

 

Looking great!!

 

your name is Steve?

 

Nice Steve!

 

Looks awesome! That epoxy flooring is incredible stuff!

 

Do mine now?

 

well done man, that looks slick

oh to have a nice garage lol

 

Hello all. I came here to these forums to seek advice from good folks like yourself.

In 2014 I bought property which included a 30x40 building. It has a concrete floor with a perimeter of one layer concrete brick, and then 2x6 construction above. When I purchased the building, there were 2 rooms framed out, which I later expanded upon. The building was also insulated prior to purchase with pink insulation. I ran electricity to the building and wired it all up. I used Red Guard and coated the whole garage and then tiled directly over that.

Problem I'm having now is high humidity in the building. My humidity guage is reading 89% humidity for days on end. I saw some mold build up on the drywall which I cleaned with bleach and {NICE TRY SPAMMER-MOD}used Kilz2 paint to cover. I have since put in a 750cfm fan to help keep air moving but there is still high humidity and also looks like spots of water on the concrete/RedGuard where I haven't finished tiling.

The concrete is cold to the touch and the air yesterday was 81degreesF. Is this humidity caused from the cold floor meeting the warm air? How do I combat or solve this issue? Should I insulate the floor? Getting nervous because I don't want to ruin my investment on this building. Any thoughts help--Thanks in advance--Cheers.