Rust-Oleum 261845 EpoxyShield Garage Floor Coating , 2 gal, Gray, 2.5 Car Kit

Did a lot of research and this is the most highly recommended without lift so I went for it. Did two garages. There are plenty of flakes. I was worried we would run out of paint so put it on too thin on the first garage and had to do a second coat. The square footage shown on the box is a generous single coat...I did up the wall about 12" also ... there is enough. Don't be afraid to put on a nice thick coat and then you only have to do a single coat. It has a great sheen... you don't need to buy an additional top gloss. The second coat made the garage floor look absolutely perfect since we did the first coat too thin. (Note: I had already sprinkled flakes lightly on the first coat because I didn't know we put it on too thin and I'd need a second coat. I was worried it wouldn't look good painted over the paint chips but because I did more chips on the second coat you really couldn't tell. Not ideal but just in case the same thing happens to you fyi you can paint over it!) I liked it better when I sprinkled more flakes compared to the other garage where we did less flakes. The single box I bought at home depot to do the second coat had a plastic pouch which made the job 1000 times less messy than the double kit which had cans. Its hard to mix the cans (part A and B) completely and I think it contributed to our first coat not looking the best. The pouch is SOOO easy and neat its a dream. They should make all kits this way and get rid of the cans! Make sure you etch the floor and rinse thoroughly and allow to dry for a few days before applying the paint and frog tape your edges. The prep work is the hardest part. If you plan to paint your upper walls do it before you do the floor. (Once you see the floor painted you may want to paint the walls too... that happened to us. It's way easier to paint the walls first so you don't have to tape, its ok if it drips, etc). By the time you get to painting the floor and sprinkling the paint chips its the rewarding (somewhat fun) part. You must sprinkle the floor chips immediately.... work in 4 foot by 4 foot sections and sprinkle right away. It's best to throw up in air in small handfuls. Dries quickly and they won't adhere well after about ten mins or so. Make sure you read the directions beforehand because there is a pot life (amount of time the paint is good for) depending on the temperature. Maximum is two hours so best to do with two people if possible and work fast. Also read about temperature requirements.. can't be colder than 55 degrees at night for two nights, etc. Def wait at least 3 full days to move stuff back in your garage. I'd wait longer if you can as it take a full three days for the paint to fully cure. I wouldn't drive on for a week. I did not add the grit... the flakes give it enough traction. All my paint kits (2 from amazon and one from home depot) were the same color and blended perfectly. Complete transformation and worth the effort... so much cleaner now. Highly recommend!! :)Update: Just did another small two car garage at a rental property that was previously painted and I only purchased a single garage pack because I thought I might be able to get away with that since it would not soak up as much pain as it would on a unpainted cement floor. I was right there was more than enough left over (I could have done a three car garage with a single pack) so if you are painting over an existing painted floor you don't need to purchase as much square footage also when I first wrote this review two years ago there were more than enough paint chips. I even threw some out. Although I was putting down slightly more chips on the floor I just painted we literally ran out when we had only completed a quarter of the garage . I'm not sure if they now don't give you as many chips as they used to but I would recommend buying an extra pack of the paint chips. You can always return them but it's a bummer when you're in the middle of your paint job to not have what you need because the pot life is so short you can't stop and run out and buy more.

Thanks so much to all for the instructions, especially Andrew Rickel! It took us a while to prepare for this with a lot of steps and tools we needed to get.We had two Painters and a Sprinkler; materials we used:*cement patch to cover some cracks (not the major divider lines, those need to stay to allow expansion/shrinking of cement floor)*cheapest 5 gal bucket*good large scrubber brush (for cleaning garage with degreaser/ etching)*water hose for rinsing garage (scrubber may help but we did well without it)*two quality roller naps + good roller base and long screw in handle for each*two cheap paint pans*several paint sticks (free at Home Depot paint counter)*FrogTape (for protecting walls around the the perimeter of the garage)*several wide brushes (for detailing side lip of the garage with epoxy)*clean parmesan cheese container for sprinkles*gloves and respiratory mask for everyone (most will hate to have this on, but epoxy is intense on the lungs!)*slippers/ratty clothes you don't care to ruin*cheap tarp to protect the floor in the house near garage door (we had to go in/out while prepping and managed to track some stuff in)*bring garage opener/ water with you*keep a trash bag outside (when you are done, you put all the used/disposable stuff in it right there)The kit contains two large metal containers with epoxy mix and two smaller containers with activator compound. We emptied out garage, cleaned the floor with degreaser and etcher, rinsed well, let dry, filled in random cracks. Covered the entire perimeter with paper tape at the wall-floor lip junction. On day X we used a 5 gal bucket to first mix both epoxy bases for an even color, then divided the uniform mix between the two containers. Since we had two Painters, we added the activator compound to each of the base, stirred, and waited a bit per instructions. Then three of us attacked the garage. First we went around the perimeter and covered the border with a brush. Then poured the epoxy in two paint pans, one person rolled per each side in small increments, starting from the far end of the garage, backing toward the garage door (cracked a bit for circulation); I sprinkled over the just painted areas. We worked fairly quickly. We worked our way out of the garage (brought garage opener), then once everything was covered, we put all the disposables in a large trash bag and put it in the dumpster, so we could walk in the house clean and be done.We used it for our smooth cement, fairly new garage floor in a 2,5 car garage. There was enough of mix, but just enough so. Someone here recommended to use a parmesan cheese container for sprinkling - great idea. Plenty of sprinkles created plenty of friction on the floor to prevent slipping. We live in Wilmington NC (high humidity), did our garage May 2017, and parked outside for about two weeks. Since then we have not had any issues with any damage to epoxy (no cracking, hot tire pick up, etc). The floor looks amazing!!!

Great product, I could read the instructions and do it myself. just had to read step by step. The garage looks great.

It took a bit of work, but the biggest part was just cleaning out the garage so we could get to the floor. 20 years of stuff, even though kept around the periphery, was still a lot of stuff. We just moved most of it out onto the driveway although we also filled up the garbage can and threw a lot away. Yea!It's hard to know how long it will last, but we did a pretty thorough job of cleaning, scrubbing and scraping the floor. A cleaner solution comes with it that contains citric acid and seemed to work well loosening up past paint, car droppings, and various dirty areas.It came with two gallons of gray paint which was more than enough and two bags of colored (blue, black and white) sprinkles which took a while to get use to sprinkling evenly. We divided the garage up into two halves and it's a bit obvious they were done at different times. The earlier part has thinner paint and more sprinkles. The later part is thicker paint with fewer sprinkles. The sprinkles do a great job of covering up floor imperfections.We were fortunate to have a week of great weather to do this project. Cleaning out the garage took a full day. We did the cleaning in an evening, painting and sprinkling in a day, and then let it dry for two days before putting stuff back over another day. The sprinkles sit on the top of the paint and do crunch when they're walked on which was a bit surprising. We've been parking the car on it for weeks now and it looks great! Not perfect, but I see the mistakes I made just like any DIY project I do. I wish there was some way not to do that.