I am meeting with these guys on Friday. Anyone have experience with them?

Garage Flooring, Flooring Garage System, Garage Floor Tile and

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If you plan on staying in the house long term than do the porcelain tile. They are best suited for cold temps and long lasting. Use T metal at concrete joints to avoid cracks. Epoxy has to be redone every few years. Prep work is most important for epoxy. If prep is not done properly, it will be short lived.

I used Epoxy (3 coats) me and my bro DIY 3 yrs ago, not a single peel to date. The key is the prep needs to be done right and let it cook for a week.

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Forget the term epoxy, but did you use Epoxy Grout ?

Porcelin tile rocks......I've seen myself 10lb things fall from around 7 feet high....and not a crack in the porcelain tile. This is with a concrete floor as a base.

wouldn't the tiles be harder to sweep with the grout lines?

I guess there are pros and cons to all options. How do the rollout vinyl sheets compare?

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there are probably hard to sweep than a fully flat floor but the look and feel IMO beats polished concrete, racedeck, etc. My only issue would be staining on the grout lines and while epoxy grout lines minimize/mitigate this....it's not 100% stainproof

Pricewise I have never explored epoxy...but between materials and a *quality tilesetter*.....it may be up there in costs as well.
quality contractors are hard to find, and the good ones IMO is worth their weight in gold

Tile finish beats all.

There are tile grout sealers at Home Depot etc. which avoid any staining. I have tried and they do work.

again i agree with tiles as probably the best material for your garage floor as long as you use the correct tiles and do proper preparation .
standard grout is all you require and should finish almost flush with the tile surface.
epoxy grout is very expensive material and application will take considerably longer than cement based grout .
epoxy grout has specific applications , areas where hygiene is imperative or chemicals not compatible with standard grout .
as Le Mans X5 says , sealant can be applied .
as for good tilers being worth their wieght in gold , i have a buddy earning £2000 a day such is the quality of his work , he is one of the elite,a true craftsman .

amacman.....

are you a ~tradesman~by chance.

Just a quick question...as the last time I worked with Epoxy was a good while ago. Does it still slightly yellow over time ?

Has the working time gotten better as ~technology/time~ improves. It was literrally a 25 minute window from the time you mixed the stuff , to the time you packed it into the joints, to the time you had to scrub it off the tiles...
All and all, it was like a Olympic Marathon working with this stuff.

I agree sealers do exist on the market, and there are good and bad ones (I still prefer the solvent time), but it was my impression that epoxy was considerably less resistant to absorption/staining than traditional grout. I am talking about the inevitable oils dripsand such, for one who would work on cars and there was tile enough.