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Epoxy Garage Floor Grinding vs Etching
We're moving into a new place with a 23'x31' garage, half of which will become my new woodshop. Before we start moving in, I want to epoxy the floor. I'm probably going to go for the Rustoleum kit because it seems to have good reviews and I don't have to have something else shipped. My main question is etching vs grinding for the prep work. Several of my local Home Depots rent 10" floor grinders for about $200/day. My understanding of the pros and cons is as follows: Grinder Pros: Fast Nearly Foolproof No need for degreasing/priming Cons: Expensive Dusty (not too worried about this, because I have a good face shield/respirator from my woodworking) Etching Pros: Inexpensive Cons: Takes several days longer If you don't do a good enough job, you'll get peeling If you don't wash off all the etching compound really well, the epoxy will stay tacky Does that look accurate? If so, I'm strongly leaning towards renting the grinder from HD after work on Monday. Any thoughts on how long it would take to grind that size garage floor? I assume that I should repair cracks after grinding? The current garage was expanded, so there is a seam in the concrete. One more quick question, down the road we might make some changes to the layout of the house, mainly expanding a storage room in the garage and turning it into a mud room. If walls end up getting moved, how hard would it be to epoxy a small section and make it seamless? On the flip side, if the storage room expanded into an area that is already epoxied, how difficult would it be to remove the epoxy from a small section so that the floor could be leveled with the rest of the storage room before tiling? submitted by /u/Sirocka [link] [comments]
We're moving into a new place with a 23'x31' garage, half of which will become my new woodshop. Before we start moving in, I want to epoxy the floor. I'm probably going to go for the Rustoleum kit because it seems to have good reviews and I don't have to have something else shipped.
My main question is etching vs grinding for the prep work. Several of my local Home Depots rent 10" floor grinders for about $200/day. My understanding of the pros and cons is as follows:
Grinder Pros:
Fast
Nearly Foolproof
No need for degreasing/priming
Cons:
Expensive
Dusty (not too worried about this, because I have a good face shield/respirator from my woodworking)
Etching Pros:
Inexpensive
Cons:
Takes several days longer
If you don't do a good enough job, you'll get peeling
If you don't wash off all the etching compound really well, the epoxy will stay tacky
Does that look accurate? If so, I'm strongly leaning towards renting the grinder from HD after work on Monday. Any thoughts on how long it would take to grind that size garage floor? I assume that I should repair cracks after grinding? The current garage was expanded, so there is a seam in the concrete.
One more quick question, down the road we might make some changes to the layout of the house, mainly expanding a storage room in the garage and turning it into a mud room. If walls end up getting moved, how hard would it be to epoxy a small section and make it seamless? On the flip side, if the storage room expanded into an area that is already epoxied, how difficult would it be to remove the epoxy from a small section so that the floor could be leveled with the rest of the storage room before tiling?
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