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ml450r
10-06-2008, 04:47 PM
I took this weekend off to finish my garage project. I put the epoxy coating on the floor with the colored chips and painted the walls. I think it came out pretty clean....:cool:
greenblood01
10-06-2008, 04:52 PM
Did you race at the Missouri State fair this year? You're quad looks really familiar.
Wired
10-06-2008, 05:29 PM
Few questions bout the floor.

Was it easy to do and does it get those tire marks when you leave something sit for awhile?

Been thinking about doing this to my garage floor as well.
Rip_Tear
10-06-2008, 05:32 PM
It looks really good, let us know how it holds up (the floor that is).
ml450r
10-06-2008, 05:39 PM
Yes I raced at the state fair.

The floor hasn't been done long enough to know if it leaves tire marks on it. I will update later on that.

It was pretty easy to do. It says one gallon does 250 sq ft, I got closer to 300 ft per gallon. It is a 2 part epoxy so you have to apply it with in 1.5 hours of mixing. I have a 3 car garage and I trimmed the edges and rolled it by myself and finished with in 2 hours. I had to mix 3 seperate gallons. Moving everything out and back in is the hard part...
greenblood01
10-06-2008, 06:31 PM
I thought that name sounded familiar. You probably saw me get landed on by the yellow LTR in C class and break my arm.

Garage looks awesome by the way.
ml450r
10-06-2008, 06:55 PM
Did the crash your talking about happen in the back double?
10-06-2008, 07:38 PM
my garage never in its lifetime of my family living here has ever looked that clean. If you saw it now it looks pretty bad, oil and sweep away everywhere, quads and motors everywhere, 2 lawnmowers 1 taken apart, a weight set, a golfcart collectiing dust...
ml450r
10-06-2008, 07:43 PM
Originally posted by FoxHondaRider
oil and sweep away everywhere, quads and motors everywhere,

perfect description of how mine did look:)
zephead400ex
10-06-2008, 09:11 PM
What brand of epoxy did you use? What kind/where did you get the paint chips? Any recommendation on the type of rollers to use?
Moto49X
10-06-2008, 09:38 PM
Nice setup, get some more pics up.
Water Boy
10-07-2008, 04:34 AM
Looks good man. I have heard with some of those epoxy floor coatings you will get tire marks if the tires are hot when you pull in. That is just hear say though. You shouldn't have a problem with the quad though.
beaker1214
10-07-2008, 06:40 AM
I used to work at a chevy garage and when they built their new shop we put that stuff down, then put a few coats of wax over it and has held up great with as much traffic as u can imagine that goes through a dealership garage. Then once a week we would hose it all off, dump some purple power on it, scrub it with a push broom, then squeegee it off. After about 3 years still looks good....just some random, scrapes from stuff being dragged but other then that still looks awesome... I would def get a squeegee though that helps keep it looking really good.
greenblood01
10-07-2008, 06:40 AM
Originally posted by ml450r
Did the crash your talking about happen in the back double?

Yes, the second big double on the back side.
ml450r
10-07-2008, 07:00 AM
It was the rustoleum brand. I just used a normal paint roller with a 1/2" nap.

It took forever to get that pic to work. My camera takes the pics really big and I don't have a way to resize them. The pic started out at 350kb and I email to myself to aol mail to resize it for me. That got it to 175kb. Then I did something else(not sure how it happened) and it got down to where it is now.
Moto49X
10-07-2008, 04:44 PM
Originally posted by ml450r
It was the rustoleum brand. I just used a normal paint roller with a 1/2" nap.

It took forever to get that pic to work. My camera takes the pics really big and I don't have a way to resize them. The pic started out at 350kb and I email to myself to aol mail to resize it for me. That got it to 175kb. Then I did something else(not sure how it happened) and it got down to where it is now.

you can use paintshop on your computer. Open the file then go to Image. Click on resize/skew then adjust it and save the photo.
FHKracingZ
10-07-2008, 04:46 PM
dirk you wanna buy my honda? $5200
Moto49X
10-07-2008, 04:53 PM
Originally posted by FHKracingZ
dirk you wanna buy my honda? $5200

I was going to call you the other day and then I blew the tranny on one of the diesel trucks :( :( Thats costing me a pretty penny right now.
ml450r
10-07-2008, 04:56 PM
I don't think my computer has paintshop.
FHKracingZ
10-07-2008, 05:07 PM
every computer does.

Click start, then click run..

type mspaint

hit enter,

walaalaa
ml450r
10-07-2008, 07:30 PM
OK, cool, I found that, how do I resize it.
DortonRacing
10-07-2008, 08:31 PM
looks good merrill, so you back to the mx? how is that going
ml450r
10-07-2008, 10:13 PM
not bad, I am just a part timer..;)
Are you going to the farm saturday?
Moto49X
10-07-2008, 10:18 PM
Originally posted by ml450r
OK, cool, I found that, how do I resize it.

You can use paintshop on your computer. Open the file in paintshop. Then go to Image. Click on resize/skew. Where it says resize just put a 50 in the 'horizontal' box and a 50% in the 'vertical' box(larger or smaller depanding on the original file size). Once you find it, it is pretty self explainitory.
ml450r
10-08-2008, 06:35 AM
testing
ml450r
10-08-2008, 06:37 AM
Thanks. It says stretch/skew, I wanted to shrink so I didn't even look into it. I got it now though.
DortonRacing
10-08-2008, 12:37 PM
no im just going to the xc race on sunday
Chino886
10-08-2008, 01:36 PM
Looks good Merrill, you can do my garage when you are ready! ;)