Easy Garage Floor Coating and a Giveaway!
Hey guys!!! I’m super excited to show you what I’ve been working on to upgrade our shop and garage floors!
It’s super easy and an inexpensive way to make your garage and/or shop look like a million bucks!
Whit and I are forever fans of the Rust-Oleum Epoxy Shield floor coating. So much that – I applied it to my previous garage, Whit applied it to hers and now, I’m applying it to my shop and garage in our new home! You can check out the first time that I applied it HERE!
This is a super easy and inexpensive way to really give your garage and/or shop a nice upgrade! Here’s just how easy it is!
The first step is to wet the garage floor. You don’t want puddles so I spray my water hose all over and push the puddled water out the garage door with a squeegee.
Next, you just pour the etching salt (comes with the kit) into a watering can filled with 2 gallons of water. Let the salt dissolve and then pour it over a 4’x4′ area. Start at the back of the garage so you can work your way outside. You will hear a little fizz sound when the etching salt and water hit the concrete – it’s cleaning your floor 🙂 Just use an iron bristle brush and lightly scrub over the 4’x4′ area. Rinse with water and squeegee it out and move to the next 4’x4′ area and repeat until you do the entire floor. It’s a VERY EASY process!
Once the floor is completely dry (mine took about 45 minutes to dry) you can mix the epoxy! Your kit will have a part A and part B in separate gallons. *Note – I used 1 gallon of each for a 1 car garage and it was plenty. If you are doing a 2 car, use 2 kits and 3 for a 3 car garage. It’s easy to mix, just pour part B into a large bucket and then pour part A into part B. Mix it all together and let it sit for the designated time according to the instructions. I had to wait 30 minutes – it is based on the temperature in your area.
Once the time has passed, start by cutting in on all the edges in your garage. I used a 2″ angled brush for this part.
Finally, just using a roller brush, you will paint on a 4’x4′ area and then immediately sprinkle the paint chips over that area (paint chips are also included in the kit). In this picture, you can see that I finished an area to the right and worked my way to the left and I’m sprinkling the paint chips. You can use as many as you prefer, there is plenty to cover the flooring.
That was it! You will need to wait at least 24-hours before using the garage but make sure it is completely dry. Mine took about 18 hours before we could walk on it.
This is the perfect weekend project for spring!! Not only does it look nice, it’s so much easier to keep the floor clean! My husband LOVES this flooring too and can’t wait to apply it to our main garage!
So, who wants to win Rust-Oleum Epoxy Shield for their home? There’s lots of ways to enter below 🙂 Good luck!!!
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Thank you very much for the tip, I was just looking for a solution on what to do with my floor in the garage. I will do as well.
I like tihis article. Thank you so much..
Hi there! I know this tutorial is 2 years old, but I want to ask you how the floor has held up in that time? I’ve read some reviews of this product and there were reports that it tended to flake off after a couple of years and didn’t wear well, What’s your experience been? Do you keep a car in the garage? Is the floor used a lot? Thanks so much for the information!
Can you tell me what color Ashley used in the picture for the RockSolid? It looks like it has a blue tint to it…..
How is it once it gets wet ? Is it slick or does it have a bit of “grab ” to it ??
If you have a garage floor that already has epoxy applied to it and you want to re-do it, do you prep it the same as as floor that does not have epoxy?
I’m not exactly sure about that one. I have heard that you still need to prep over the epoxied floor but I would ask Rust-oleum on their facebook page!
Anybody ever try doing this to their basement floor?? Finishing it off this summer and would love to do this to the floor rather than put in carpeting.
this would be great to add to our garage…which is currently under construction. it looks great!
Oil leaks, paint spills, and stains from who knows what are not a place for children…
what does this have to do with anything?
I bought a new house and want to do this!
I wonder if this would work. We tried this when our house was first built but I think the concrete was too green and a couple of sections now are flaking off. I would love to try again now.
We JUST bought a new house and my husband can’t wait to epoxy the floor – I put it on the “6 Month” project list, but maybe if we win this, we can do it sooner!
The previous owner was incredibly sloppy and left stains all over the garage floor. Even after scraping and scrubbing, it still looks pretty rough. I’d love to make the garage look as cared after as the rest of the house.
We would love to make our gagrage in our new house beautiful! I have been wanting to do this but with a limited budget it seems out of reach! Thank you for the how to and an oppurtunity to maybe win!:)
It really needs some love because we just moved here and the previous owners were cruel to the poor floor.
I desperately need this for my garage floor.
I just bought my first house (this week!) and am eager to make the ugly old garage pretty! Looks like a fun project.
We’re buying our first house in a week and the garage floors are full of oil stains!
Would love to do this. Garage floor needs a make over.
Our garage floor is always dirty and covered in stains! This would make it look new again!
My husband accidently got spray pain on the floor and it needs to be covered up…plus it would actually make us clean out the garage and maybe we could fit both cars in there again!!
Oh we need this for our new town home!! The garage needs some work and this would be great!
Our floor really could use some Epoxy love. It is always dirty. Can’t wait to try this project.
Awesome! I’ve always wanted to do something with our ugly garage floor, but it always seemed like way more work. Now I can’t wait until we have a weekend with nice weather to give this a go!
We just bought our house in October and the previous owner had a puppy
mill in the garage 🙁 Needless to say the smell is horrible.
This would be so good for our garage floor. It’s a project that needs to be done and would really make an impact!
Just moved into our first home! This would be awesome!
I just love the look that is has so much! Is there a tool to spread the chips more evenly? Also, some of the bloggers that used this, also added a clear coat topper by Rustoleom. Will you be doing this too?
My old garage could really use this! Looks great!
This is awesome! Floor looks fabulous!
To make it look better and easier to clean!!!! 🙂
To make the garage prettier
We’re building a new house and we’d love to use the Epoxy Shield to keep it stain-free from the very start!!
We bought our house a few months ago and the garage floor is in desperate need of some TLC!
We need to cover some stains and cracks before we set up some small work benches and get organized!
Perfect timing! We are building a new garage and I’d love to put this on our floor!!
The people before us in the house left the garage a MESS! I have been wanting to do this!
Because it’s new and we want to protect it!
I am doing a garage renovation and organization for my friend and this would be perfect!
Our floor is a mess and would look awesome with this floor coating!
Love this! Looks great! My floor has paint on it from projects and this would make it look so much better!
I would love to surprise my husband with this to spruce up his workshop!
Colors are uneven and it just looks so messy!!! 🙁
My garage floors are in bad shape and could really use this.
Wow. This looks super easy and turned out great!
Wow. This looks super easy and turned out great!
Because it has oil stains and paint on it.
I really like this step by step and my wife has me hooked on yall projects now that we are nearly done building our house.
Need to do this but wondering how to get the old epoxy off first
Our garage is a dusty, non sealed mess. We bought our home a year ago, and this would be a great start to organizing and cleaning up the space! Especially so I could start doing some of your site’s bigger DIY projects!! 🙂
Thanks for the tutorial!
We just moved in this winter and our garage could use some serious help !
My garage floor could really use this! It’s in horrible shape!
I’ve been debating on if I want to go this route or with the paper bag route for our very old, nasty basement floor. If I won this, my mind would be made up. 🙂
We moved in four years ago and have finally been thinking on how to
make our garage as neat as our house! This would be amazing!!
I need this…very nice upgrade!
I have paint splattered all over from projects! This would make it look great!
Love this!
Our garage needs a makeover! The floor would be an awesome touch!
I just purchased my first home and the garage floor could use some love…excited to find a great solution!
We’re about to close on our first home and the laundry will be in the garage. This will make it much more appealing!
I would love to do this in our garage!
My garage floor is all stained….I need this so badly!
Ah I have been wanting to do this for so long! Thank you for the opportunity!
I would love this product because of how slippery our floor gets when it is wet…little kids struggle to keep footing when running in from playing in the sprinklers.
Our garage floor is SO SLIPPERY when it gets wet. So much of the year is wet here with rainy spring and summer and snowy winter. We’ve had more than one fall happen out there!
We had a big spill with blue paint in our garage recently. So it definitely needs some love!
OMG I’ve been telling my hubby to do this since I saw your post! I love love love your site!! It’s on my fav bar…lol
Love how easy you ladies make things look. I have been following you for awhile and yours is the best DIY blog out there. Thanx for all your help..
Our garage floor is a mess. Your concrete looks good from the start though. I’m wondering about prep for concrete that’s been painted before and has pits and/or cracks???
Would definitely brighten up my garage floor.
We are doing some major home projects and are going to tackle the garage next. This would be perfect!
My garage is old. It has Stains everywhere! I spent a lot of time trying to get them up. If I could just do this to my garage floors all would be right!
My husband has tried to make me very happy and has helped with so many things IN the house and not worrying about his things OUT of the house. I would love to do something special for HIS domain.
Would be so much easier to keep it clean. Have wanted to do this for years
We’ve been thinking about doing something like this to our garage… thanks for the blog post!
We are moving very soon. Would love this for the new garage.
My basement floors need epoxy love!! <3
I have been wanting to do this for awhile now. I think my hubby would love this
We just moved into a new house and my garage could use this! It would give my husband something to do while I study. I would rather give him a honey do list rather than going to the movies without me.
My husband has been wanting to do it for three years. Mama is going to pull up her sleeves and get it done while he’s away on business. BOOM!
Our garage floor could definitely use this! Previous owners have marked candles and drawn all over the floor with permanent marker. Ugh
I need to do something like this. My garage floor is a mess!
our work shop floor needs to be re-done. we were just talking about it the other day!
What an incrediable difference! My garage def needs this! lol
This is something my husband has been putting off. This would make things look much cleaner. Thanks for the step by step instructions.
I’d love to make the garage a nicer place for my husband! This would be a great start!
This is the project my husband has been excited about since we put an offer on our house. I told him we have to get the house (interior) painted first. 🙂
This looks awesome! Pretty sure I need this in my garage!
our floors are starting to chip off or peel a little – plus it would be the perfect excuse for us to gut the garage and get rid of some stuff before reorganizing!
My husband has been wanting to do something like this for a while now!! He would love this!!!
Dirt and dark spots…this would really fix those problems and make for easy cleanup
We just moved to a new house the the garage floor is needing a lot of love! Would love to win this
Our floor is just ugly – paint, oil, etc.!
Very nice
For better traction and protection for the floor against spills!
That would be so much nicer than the bare concrete floor. Hope the owner wouldn’t mind if we painted the floor. Does this clean well or does it absorb stains, if you spilled oil or paint and cleaned immediately would it leave a stain?
This looks soooo good! Our garage desperately needs a major makeover.
Because I kind of mayyyybe got paint all over it and it’s driving my husband crazy? 😀
Lovin’ the look of this! I’ve been getting my workshop furnished and organized and this would really finish it off!
We moved into our very first house ever a year and a half ago. It’s an older home and we love it, but the garage floor looks like an older home garage floor. There are blobs of things we need to scrape off, a crack, and lots of stains. I’ve been really hoping to do this one day!
Would love to do this to my garage floor! my floor is go ugly looking! this will be perfect!
I’ve definitely been thinking about this project after this last winter and the mess the melting snow off the car leaves in the garage. This would definitely help with the clean up.
Quite a few stains on our carport floor!
we did that at old house and on my list for new house. we lived at old place for 5 yrs. such good surface. no chips or peeling. also want to find interior product to do basement.
Wait, what!?! This is amazing!!!!! What a fab transformation!
Always wanted to have an epoxy garage floor! Thanks for the chance to win!
This has been on the to-do for about 3 years! Love it!
Our garage floor is SO ugly! It has several different colors of paint on it. In fact, it’s so ugly that I would be happy with an AFTER picture in my garage that looks as good as your BEFORE picture!
I’m dying to pour this down in our garage too!
My husband would love this – has been wanting to do this forever!!!
We just moved into our first home and our garage needs some epoxy love. We’re always out there working and it would really make it nice.
I spilled a bunch of paint. I put the lawnmower on it to hide it from my husband. 🙂
Minnesota winters!
i hate my garage floor. this is the perfect pick me up it needs!
My husband would love this!
I need this product. My garage floor shows all the paint colors from years of projects.
Our garage floor has so many pock marks, that when we filled them, it looks pretty hideous! The epoxy would hide those areas!
My house is 70 years old so the garage has seen better days and needs this!
I want this in my garage. Great write up!
I would love to do this to our garage floor to give it a cleaner look!
Gonna use this in my unfinished basement that I’m using as a craft area.
We so need garage floor epoxy cover up! Too many spray-paint stains. 😀
Awesome! Would love this in my husband’s mud room!!
My garage need this because it is a mess after a very long cold winter.
Our garage floor is hideous! This looks like the perfect solution!
This would be perfect in my new house!
The garage floor is drab and stained. The Rust-Oleum Epoxy Shield will make it look like new!
I would love this because I have too many project paint and stain marks on my floor from the ideas on this site. =)
We need some garage floor love to protect our floors, but to make the place a more enjoyable one to be in/do projects in!
Our garage is ancient and a new floor finish would make it so much nicer.
My husband and I have been trying to find a way to redo our garage floor. This is a great idea for a makeover!
Im excited to try this
So want to do this! Wondering how it wears? My laundry is in my garage and we closed it in to make a room–hate that my laundry room has ugly garage floor!
This would be perfect! Moving in the new house soon!
Love the finished product…thanks!
My husband has been taking about doing this forever! We’re about to move into our new house so this would be the perfect project for us to take on!
Cannot wait to try this!
With all the crafting, painting, and everything else done at Crafty Echo, my floor could really use some love too!
want to do this!
We been toying between an epoxy garage floor or a black and white garage floor tile. Half of garage is hubby’s motor head shop and 1/2 is my wood working and painting shop. This epoxy floor would look bitchin’!!!
Oh man… my garage floor is a disastrous mess. I saw Bill Klein (the little couple) do this on his garage and I’ve been wanting it ever since. Sure would make a place you hustle in and out of a lot nicer, especially after a NE winter.
I have been wanting to do this to our house! We just purged and organized the garage so its the perfect time!
Wow, this looks great! And pretty easy! This would be a great way to update our garage floors. Thanks for sharing!
We just bought an older home and the garage floor is so icky! And we want to become DIYers! So I’d love to have a nice dry place to work when it rains or (should I even say the word?) snows 🙂
Wow, this looks so good, and so easy!
I want to use this on our new garage floors.
I have paint stains all over my floor by my workbench. I would love this floor!!
We could use this for our garage floor to make it look nicer and protect it.
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Would love to try this on my screen in porch floor!!
My Husband would love this.
Yep. This is just what we need. Many a DIY project has been done in our garage, and it really shows. 😉
I’d love to do this for my hubby for Father’s Day!
We just moved into a new house and would love it! My husband is a garage guy and is a bit obsessed with keeping it clean, this would make is so much nicer!
we have a carpeted garage right now and I would love to rip it up and do this! looks super easy
like garages everywhere, mine is a hot mess! Been considering doing this for several years but haven’t taken the plunge yet!
I’ve been using my garage floor as a giant drop cloth for all of my furniture refinishing. It would be nice to clean it up and hide all of the paint spills!
Love this stuff! Been wanting to do it to my current garage…
Can’t wait to do try this in our new home!
This looks Awesome and wuld love to try this product out for myself! Thanks for this opportunity. =)
Those floors look great. Looking to epoxy our garage in order to help with sawdust clean up from all my furniture building.
I did this a few years ago, but it hasn’t held up that well. Can’t remember which brand we used. Would love to do it over again!
Usually I don’t enter the giveaways, but I REALLY WANT THIS! We just bought a house and I am going to do this before I even move in, but since we are on a budget ….
Love the look! Would give the garage a more finished appearance!
I am all about treating the garage as a valuable enough part of the home to finish it nicely!
Our garage floor is in need of a little TLC. I would love to win this giveaway!
Looks great and easy Could use on garage and basement. Is it easy to clean and longlasting?
My best friend did this with her garage and I would love to be able to do it with mine! Your tutorial was so easy to understand!!
Does it make it not slippery as well? like a non-slip texture?
I have been waiting for the warm weather to do our basement floor. This would be great!
Oh how I’d love to try this product on our garage! What if the floor has previously been painted but is mostly chipped off?
It would make everything look so finished and clean!!
My husband would LOVE to do this!
I would love to have a nice looking garage floor
I would love to use this product on my floor. I have friends who have used it and every one is thrilled with the result!
I had this in my last home and loved the way it made the garage look finished. I used the tan color which matched the walls. My new house definitely needs some Epoxy Shield Love since I spend so much time out there building stuff.
Awesome I would love this for our garage!! I have a three car garage though so that will definitely take a while:)
Awesome I would love this for our garage!! I have a three car garage though so that will definitely take a while:)
I’d love to do this to have a finished garage. It looks so nice and makes the space more usable.
I’d love to do this to have a finished garage. It looks so nice and makes the space more usable.
It’s already on my list in our new house. Like the day we close this is happening!
My wonderful husband finished the garage two
years ago for my Valentine’s Day present. He insulated, hung up sheet rock,
added light fixtures, and painted both the ceiling and walls. He also purchase
shelves to store everything. Prior to that, it was unfinished and depressing to
come home to this eye-sore. it’s so pretty that I teased him and said it needed
art since it was another room of the house, not just a garage. Lo and behold, I
picked up some large art pieces at yard sales. Now it’s a fully functional
welcome room (AKA garage) with plenty of space. It’s beautiful blue on the
walls – my fav color! It makes want to do the happy dance every time I come
home. Now if the floor could be as pretty as the walls…
I’ve done a lot of painting and staining projects and my floors show it!!
My old floor is hard to clean
I’ve been wanting to try this stuff for a long time! This spring we’re planning a massive yard sale/garage purge, and I’m hoping to do it afterwards. One question – our garage floor isn’t terribly level. Does it matter???
I would love to win! Your blog is my all-time favorite!
This would be great motivation to clean up and organize the garage!!
Need to do this!
Cant wait to do mine!
My husband would love me forever!! 🙂 (Well he better anyways!)
I would actually use this for my large concrete storm cellar. Tornado season is starting here in OK and we have a large cellar that needs a little love.
Been thinking about this project for a while. Thanks for the how-to!
We’ve had some paint spray over-spray that could look great covered up.
Our garage is neat and tidy but this would take it to the next level!!
I would love to have this for our garage. My husband does a lot of fixing in the garage, and he gets grease and oil stains all over the garage. The garage floor could definitely use a new floor look!! This would be awesome to give my husband as a gift. 🙂 He would be thrilled!! Thanks for this awesome giveaway, and your garage floor looks amazing!!!
I’ve been wanting to do this for so long!
We are moving into our first home next month and this would spruce up the garage instantly! I’d love to start this home off right with a good looking garage floor 🙂
This is a great way to spruce up the garage. I’m totally going to snazzy-up my garage floor this spring!!
We need this! Our garage floor is filthy!
My garage floor has cracks and discoloration…and since I’m an organizer I love to have a pretty, clean, seamless look…in any space. That includes the garage! I have been wanting to do this project for a LONG time and I didn’t know there was a way to DIY it!!!! Hope I win!!! 🙂
We just bought our first house in January and the garage floor is a bit stained. Our kiddos like to go play in the garage on rainy days, it would be nice for them to have a clean floor to run around on. Plus my hubby would love it! 😉
We just finished scrubbing down our garage floors over the weekend. This would be an awesome surprise for my husband!
Our poor garage floor is awful! Old oil stains all over. I’ve been wanting to do this for a year or so now! Sure hope I win!
I don’t have a garage, but my unfinished basement could definitely use some pizzazz.
Our family of 6 lives in a home that was built in 1980. The garage was never completely finished. Unpainted sheetrock on one wall and exposed raw wood on the other 2. Ugly nasty floors. Need to paint those walls and win this finish for the floors!
My husband has been wanting to do this for a while! Great tutorial 🙂
We just moved in and I want a nice looking garage floor that is easy to clean!
I love this! It looks great!
My husband would LOVE this in our garage! I’ve never won a raffle before…crossing my fingers for this one!
Perfect! This is on our spring cleaning to-do list!
Mine totally need it because they are gross looking! I love the sparkles and smoothness of this stuff!!
This would be great for our garage! We have oil stains, sawdust, and everything in-between. 🙂
This looks great!
Why does your garage floor need Epoxy Shield love?
We have had pets in our shed for years and I’m afraid that there are some stains I would like to cover up.
This would be perfect for our garage….I think I know what is up next on our ‘to do’ list!
Our garage floors are covered in paint! 😉 This would be perfect with our spring clean up! 🙂
This is amazing and just what we need! We’ve talked about something like this so I’ll have to show my husband! I feel a project coming on!
It has cracks and is discolored, stains, etc. We would love to use this!
I think this would be great for our unfinished basement! We just bought a new house and the basement floor is terrible. There are stains and splotches everywhere. We don’t plan on finishing this side of the basement, but I would still love for it to look presentable!
Our garage floors look so ugly and dark… this would lighten them up and make them easier to clean!
It looks so much better! I love it. My garage needs an upgrade for my building area!