these 914s deserve a nicer floor, waiting for floor finishing options Options

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

as you who have seen the shop area before, it is now much expanded, we are waiting for another lift to be installed and then will refinish the floor, we are between epoxy and concrete polishing. Please does anyone have an opinion on either method?

[914forme]

I will say epoxy does not hold up to welding. No idea how I would know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

We have at least 32 shops in our environment we are in transition from epoxy to polished concrete. Why, because epoxy starts to look like crap after a few months of the heavy use we give it. We would repaint the epoxy floors every summer during shut down.

I do love the look of clean epoxy floors.

Floor in my shop, epoxy 20 years, I have thousands of little burn marks all over it, some places more than others. It looks like crap, and I find myself wanting to clean it all the time. Especially if I get a bit of brake fluid, or some sort of cleaner on a spot. Rest of the floor looks like crap. The clean spot stands out like a magnesium fire in a cloud covered lunar eclipse field.

My old shop was polished concrete with a super good sealer. Only issue I had in it, and my garage at the house is when I drop something heavy on it, it will chip the surface. Heavy is like a big piece of plate steel. Or I did weld some heavy plate in one spot, and popped the surface, due to the heat load. That is not a sealer or epoxy issue, that is a concrete reaction to loads of heat. If you just lightly drop out of your car or a tool off the ladder, the tool takes more abuse than the floor coating. I would go back to sealed concrete in a heart beat if I could.

Dropped hardware? My epoxy is so dirty with burn marks you have lost that ability, I take a flash light, shine the beam across the floor, and lost hardware will cast a shadow. Found it, done.

[bbrock]

My old shop was polished concrete with a super good sealer.

Do you happen to know what that sealer was? I have hopes of building a proper shop and would still like to go with concrete if I know I have a good sealer.