This Old House host Kevin O’Connor helps epoxy-coating expert Doug Fasching create a good-looking, hardwearing, stain-resistant garage floor…
Shopping List for How To Epoxy-Coat a Garage Floor:
- Two-part garage-floor epoxy with color flakes
- Biodegradable degreaser (for cleaning oily stains from garage floor)
- Acid (used to acid-etch concrete floor surface)
- Chemical-resistant rubber boots
- Rubber gloves
- Eye goggles (required when acid-etching the floor)
Tools for How To Epoxy-Coat a Garage Floor:
- Garden hose (used to rinse floor clean during the surface-prep process)
- Plastic watering can (used to apply acid)
- Long-handled scrub brush (for cleaning floor)
- 3-inch paintbrush (used to cut in epoxy around the floor perimeter)
- Paint roller and extension pole (used to epoxy garage floor)
- Wet/dry vacuum
