Painting or Coating the Floor of an RV Garage

sealevel ram wrote:
Has anybody painted or coated the floor of your RV garage, or your regular garage floor?

What did you use to clean and coat? Any suggestions, or things NOT to do or don't work?

Floor is about 3 years old and has normal amount of spills, battery acid, etc.

Thanks.

sealevel ram,
Well Sir, when we bought our present home in Lake Havasu City right at 3 years ago, it was brand spanking new. No one had occupied it. So, that meant that no one had even driven or parked on the driveway or, inside either the RV garage or, the 2.5 car garage. It was all brand new concrete. So, about 2 weeks before closing on the deal, we and the real estate person/builder, agreed to have the floors professionally EPOXY coated so that, by the time we arrived from where we were moving from, San Diego, they would be completely cured.

I drew out plans for "striping" it too for where the RV is to be aligned when backing it in. Even though the floor was brand new, the company still ground it to make sure the surface was the right porosity and, right texture, to receive the coatings. It was then coated with one coat of primer/prep. Then, two coats of top coat and the specks were applied while the second coat was wet.

Once that cured, it was time for the YELLOW parking stripes, one on each side, equal distance from the walls, to be used for guiding the RV into the EXACT right spot, each and every time when backing. When those were cured, it was time for two coats of Sherman Williams ultra clear coat epoxy. The floor cured for 8 days before we moved in. It's been flawless ever since, about 3 years. I had TWO yellow stripes painted because, if I ever DRIVE it in forward, I can look out the window and follow the one line, to place it dead center of the RV garage. That way, based on the width of the interior of the RV garage, I can open bay doors on both sides with plenty of clearance.

I'd do it again in a heartbeat. The RV garage is 16' wide x 53' long and the two and a half car is, heck I forgot but, BIG. The whole job cost me $3,700 and has a five year guaranty against chipping and peeling. So far, so good. Here's a couple of pics. One is before and the other two are after the coatings. Sorry for the mess, that was move in day. It's now like you see in garagejournal.com, nice and neat and absolutely NOTHING on the floor except cabinets, in specific spots. It gets mopped about once a week. It sure makes for nice working on and, slipping under the Jeep or the motor home for this or that.

Scott