Need to de-slippify my garage floor

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My garage floor is painted/coated and very smooth.
When it gets wet it is like ice (only not as cold)

At some point I'm going to bust my head open.

Was thinking of putting some sort of grip tape like on airplane wings (aviation related) but that may make it hard to clean.

How can I address this?
 
Home depot and lowes sell a floor coating epoxy with sand for grip. $100 for 400sq ft. Might consider that. Or taking a fine grain sand paper to the floor to scuff it some

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Something like this would probably work.

Google "garage floor coatings" if you haven't already. Lots of choices.

Mark
 
Spray it with truck bed liner.
 
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Strip it, prime it, and apply a rather thick coat of oil-based paint. While it is wet, liberally sprinkle sand over the paint. Let it dry, then apply another coat over it.

There's actually a special sand made for that. It's called "non-slip additive." But it looks a lot like sand to me, and I suspect that that's exactly what it is.

Rich
 
Just do what we use to do back in my technical theater days on slippery stages...mop it down with a bucket of water mixed with a 2 liter of Coke!
 
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We had a pro do an epoxy coating with nonstick across 700ish sq ft @$4/sq ft. Google Monkey Bars garage solutions. 10 yr warranty and it's done in about 72 hours. I'll have to take pics, but three guys on my street have contracted for the local guy to do it since then and we were the first in our development to have it done.


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cowman said:
Really cool but expensive option:
http://www.racedeck.com/?crtag=value&gclid=CI7ylrGf_8gCFYU5aQod5-QJ2g
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I had Race Deck in my garage in Ohio. It's good so long as you don't do your own work on your cars. Since I do my own work on my cars, that means things like oil, coolant, transmission fluid, and brake fluid end up on the ground, along with red-hot items that I've just torched out with an oxy-acetylene torch. The Race Deck becomes slippery with all but the latter, for which it just melts.

I don't suspect Bryan works on his cars, so in that case I think RaceDeck would solve the problem nicely. It also allows you to make the floor whatever pattern you want, which is a nice feature. But yes, it is expensive.
 
Throw some sand on it.

I guess that's too easy and not expensive enough....
 
My garage slab is old, cracked, spilled on, and not flat. It would need to be ground down and/or etched before applying any sort of coating, which sounded like an expensive PITA.

G-Floor looked like the best solution given those constraints.

In all honesty the garage probably needs a sump pump and channel drain, which puts me further into good-money-after-bad territory, so I will likely not bother.
 
Just go to Home Depot and buy the Rustoleum garage floor kit. Your choice of tan or gray, but tan is hard to find. It's high temp epoxy paint, along with something to etch the concrete for improved adhesion. A 2-1/2 car garage kit is about $100.

If you just paint it, the heat from your tires or any hot liquids that drip out will ruin the paint, and it will peel.

Do put the sand in it, and stir frequently while applying, as it will settle it. Normal epoxy painted floors are slippery as snot if your shoes are wet.
 
I may run up to HD today and look at some of these suggestions.
The former owner had it done (I don't know what but it is maybe epoxy coating ?)

It is nice but any water on that floor and I almost always bust my azz or break out the dance moves trying not to go down.
 
Hank S said:
Just go to Home Depot and buy the Rustoleum garage floor kit. Your choice of tan or gray, but tan is hard to find. It's high temp epoxy paint, along with something to etch the concrete for improved adhesion. A 2-1/2 car garage kit is about $100.

If you just paint it, the heat from your tires or any hot liquids that drip out will ruin the paint, and it will peel.

Do put the sand in it, and stir frequently while applying, as it will settle it. Normal epoxy painted floors are slippery as snot if your shoes are wet.
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We did this several years ago; gray with the blue/black/white chips. Has held up very well, but we did a LOT of prep, including renting a high quality floor scrubber to ensure the floor was oil/detergent free, flood rinsed and dry before we started.
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
My garage floor is painted/coated and very smooth.
When it gets wet it is like ice (only not as cold)

At some point I'm going to bust my head open.

Was thinking of putting some sort of grip tape like on airplane wings (aviation related) but that may make it hard to clean.

How can I address this?
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Go to the local industrial supply and get a sack or two of glass beads and enough paint to do 2 more coats. Put on another coat and spread the glass beads thick enough to have a dry surface layer, and evenly, onto the wet paint as you work along and then let it dry. Once dry sweep the excess of glass beads away and let Eren use them as a vase filling or whatever pretty thing she can think to do with them, or find someone with a glass bead box who wants them. Now put a top coat of paint over the floor. You now have what 80% of boats have at least somewhere on their decks as a non skid surface. It works very well, but is tough on swimsuit material and tender skin, feet it's fine. You can also create nice pathways and designs by masking off their patterns beforehand, then removing before the top coat, or leaving if you want to do a two tone on the current floor. You could just create yellow pathways of common travel that cures the problem without doing large areas that aren't a problem, if that's good enough.

BTW, you can use sand, dirt, walnut shells, whatever, to get the effect, but glass beads provide the nicest result. Also, I have taken to using Rhinoliner sprayed down on decks, especially steel and aluminum, for the non skid deck coat where we don't use teak. It's the best thing ever for non skid and corrosion prevention, but it's expensive. Lasts forever though and through work boat abuse slinging tank racks of compressed breathing racks on and binding them down.
 
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SixPapaCharlie said:
I may run up to HD today and look at some of these suggestions.
The former owner had it done (I don't know what but it is maybe epoxy coating ?)

It is nice but any water on that floor and I almost always bust my azz or break out the dance moves trying not to go down.
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I wonder if the current coating will cause any problems for a new coating trying to stick to it? Muriatic acid is used to etch concrete for coatings, but that stuff is serious to work with.

Maybe rent a floor sander and use sone extremely coarse grit and scuff up the current coatin? That might take some of the slick off it. I'n not sure what you are dealing with right now.
 
I did the garage in my previous house. Bought a cheap mop to use with the surface prep solution. House was pushing ten years old. Swept with broom, mopped, dried, mopped with included solution, rinsed, dried and painted. Nine years later there were no marks on it at all. But it was slippery when wet! Use some sort of grit mixed in with the paint.

Buy the Rustoleum kit, skip rental machinery and follow the instructions. A squeegee will help the floor dry faster after mopping and after rinsing.

For a better appearance, use a brush and get paint down in the gaps and cracks, at least as far as you can see. That made the cracked corner in my garage look like tan stone all the way through.

If you use the included color chips, paint about three feet wide and throw the chips down. If you paint too much floor first, you won't be able to get the color chips onto all of it.
 
TCABM said:
We had a pro do an epoxy coating with nonstick across 700ish sq ft @$4/sq ft. Google Monkey Bars garage solutions. 10 yr warranty and it's done in about 72 hours. I'll have to take pics, but three guys on my street have contracted for the local guy to do it since then and we were the first in our development to have it done.


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Ours looks extremely similar to this. A quick spray with the pressure washer and it's brand new again.
 

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SixPapaCharlie said:
My garage floor is painted/coated and very smooth.
When it gets wet it is like ice (only not as cold)

At some point I'm going to bust my head open.

Was thinking of putting some sort of grip tape like on airplane wings (aviation related) but that may make it hard to clean.

How can I address this?
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One word.....Suction cup shoes!!!

Ok....ok...ok....might have been more than one word:eek:

But still cheapest solution:yes:
 
TEFLONSEAN said:
One word.....Suction cup shoes!!!

Ok....ok...ok....might have been more than one word:eek:

But still cheapest solution:yes:
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Actually, wouldn't leaving his car outside and not sing the garage be the cheapest solution? Just sayin'.
 
So why is your garage floor wet anyway? Are you washing cars in there? Hole in the roof? My garage floor is never wet????
 
pigpenracing said:
So why is your garage floor wet anyway? Are you washing cars in there? Hole in the roof? My garage floor is never wet????
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Ice/snow melting off cars in winter
Rain dropping off a car which had been driving inn the rain
 
flhrci said:
Actually, wouldn't leaving his car outside and not sing the garage be the cheapest solution? Just sayin'.
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Hey! I never SING inn the garage!
I care too much about my neighbors to do that to them
 
pigpenracing said:
So why is your garage floor wet anyway? Are you washing cars in there? Hole in the roof? My garage floor is never wet????
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The garage floor doesn't have to be wet. Wash the car in the driveway and come trotting into the garage to get something on a hot summer day wearing a pair a flip flops and you'll bust your ass real quickly.
 
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pigpenracing said:
So why is your garage floor wet anyway? Are you washing cars in there? Hole in the roof? My garage floor is never wet????
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lol, you obviously don't live in the midwest.
 
I install these types of floors on the side to make 100LL money.

If your current floor coating is in good shape, not chipping, peeling, hot tire spots, etc you could add another layer of coating with some anti slip in it.

For prep clean the coating, scrub/sand with ~100 grit or green pad. I use a pole sander (like for drywall) so im not on my knees doing this. Wipe down with acetone, MEK, alcohol, etc. Apply paint or coating and add non skid, a small amount of play ground sand or chips. You can top coat with color or clear to help lock it in.

If you want some color chips to lightly sprinkle, let me know. I did about 110 sq ft a couple weeks ago and it was only a couple pounds. Just cover shipping. I have some blue, gray and tan blends extra from other jobs.

Oh and the $4/sq ft price some one mentioned is spot on for most areas.


If you want some help, I will be in DFW area after new year. I could bring my roller frame and spike shoes. Ill trade you for a hamburger run in the Cirrus. If its fixed.:D
 
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