After a week or so of work, we’re getting a lot closer to being finished with the big jobs in the garage. The floor is looking pretty good; we still have the last section to do but that should only take a day. Lisa will be the first to get to park on the new floor this afternoon when she gets home from work.
The epoxy paint seems pretty tough! I slid the deep freeze across the floor to get it back where it belongs. It’s usually a pretty big PITA to move around, because there are no slides or even feet on the bottom – just bumps in the sheet metal on the bottom. It left a trail of light gray that just wiped -ff — I think it was just concrete dust from previous moves, maybe with a little appliance paint. No damage to the floor, other than knocking off a few of the decorative flakes. After a quick swipe with a damp rag, you can’t tell where the drag marks were. I don’t know if I mentioned it in my previous posts, but after MUCH research I decided to just go with the Rust-Oleum epoxy garage floor paint. It was readily available (Home Depot had it on the shelf) and not as expensive as the other options I was looking at — which means, if it starts coming up in a few years I haven’t spent $2500 on the floor like one of my neighbors. Yes, his does look better and he had other people do the work… but hey, I’ll spend some time and effort to move a decimal point! I figure I have spent well under $400 on this, including the grinder rental and painting supplies.
I wanted to have a utility sink installed, but the quote from the plumber to do just the bare minimum work so I could do all of the actual installation and drywall work… well, it was simply insane. I guess we’ll run a hose from the laundry room when we need water out there.