You'll get lots of answers but if you want to read till you're blue in the face go over to the garage journal web site. You will see more on floor stuff than you thought possible.
I used to lay ceramic tile as a side job but when people would ask, particularly about doing a shower I would direct them to www.johnbridge.com which is all about tile. The forum there has tons of information about everything concerning tile. Even about using it on your shop floor. LOL
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I used the two part home kit epoxy (UCoat it), it held up pretty well. One thing to make sure of is to tape a trash bag down on the floor sealed up with tape at all four corners for 48 hrs. If you pull the bag off and there is moisture your going to have problems with getting the epoxy to seal up. If I was to do it again I would either have it stained or I would use some the tiles (like RaceDeck)
I used the kit from Lowes as well and bought extra flakes for the paint. It turned out decent and has held up to all of the traffic. The slicks haven't left marks, yet. The only thing I would've done different would be clear coating after the epoxy was setup. The clear coating looks real nice.
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There was a company that advertised that they had coated Jay Leno's garage floor. Lo and behold it didn't last and he ended up putting the plastic tiles on it.
I'm just going to leave mine concrete. Probably should have put a sealer on it but I'm just too lazy to mess with it now.
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