Garage concrete sealer

[jcountry]

I am trying to put some concrete sealer on a garage floor.

Concrete is about 3 months old, so it is cured.

The concrete guy says to get a water based sealant.

But I am reading that they aren’t great for garage floors, since they don’t really prevent oil stains.

I’m wondering what kinds of sealers you guys would recommend.

Just a standard garage.

 

[JSoko]

rustoleum rock solid

 

[GATimberdoodle]

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[jpm2953]

I did the rustoleam professional epoxy kit on mine 9 years ago and it’s still holding up great. It’s all stained and dirty from when I was doing woodworking but it’s not flaking any

 

[Jambo]

I've got the Rustoleum two part epoxy stuff on my garage floor, and I'm happy with it.

It was a new house, and it's been there for about 22 years. It's held up to hot tires, gasoline, oil, transmission fluid, ethylene glycol, brake fluid, and brake cleaner. Smaller tools (wrenches, ratchets) dropped on it don't cause it to chip. An 88 lb floor jack, when dropped, will chip it and the concrete underneath.

It is slippery as heck when it's wet. I added about half the required number of rubber flakes, and I wish I had added twice the recommended number, although I'm not sure it would have made that big of a difference.

Scrub the concrete with Simple Green, etch it with the acid in the kit, let the concrete dry, paint it on. In my case I was able to wait a month before putting a car on it.

 

[medium187mph]

Years ago I worked in the self storage industry and would have a lot of clients store vehicles and landscape equipment inside units. When people would move out, we usually had an oily/stained mess on the raw concrete.

I snagged a kit from Home Depot that was described like J Jambo mentioned. We sprayed down the concrete floor with simple green and scrubbed the stains, rinsed/mopped with several buckets of clean water, etched the following day, painted the following day and spread out a paint chips that came in like a 10lb bag. It looked amazing and I had those units marked up for a premium.

I also have used a battleship colored latex paint on a cart room garage floor and that worked very well but would randomly peel and need to be painted about once a year. This task was an easy 30 min job and I’m pretty sure it was peeling in areas that had some prior grease stains that didn’t clean up well prior to painting.

 

[basstracker89]

We always used the Thompson Water seal on new homes. Personally I wouldn't use a sealer. Floor is dangerous when wet. Will it help keep your floor clean, yes. I don't use sealer on my floors. I sweep them pretty regularly

 

[jcountry]

Thanks for the ideas!!