I am buying a house in the next month and knowing my propensity for working on my car, I need to seal the garage floor to prevent too much staining, etc.

I've done some research so far and have found that Quikrete and Rustoleum are the only two real consumer competitors out there.

I've also found that Rustoleum only has 2 colors, gray and tan: neither of which appeal to me.

Quikrete on the other hand some some banging color/flake combinations but I just can't decide on which one.

So, TWW please help me choose.

This house in a light green color:


Color choices:

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)


There will also be a high gloss coat applied over top of this coat as well.

Here is what #1 looks like in action:


And here is #2:


Please help me choose TWW.

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8/20/2011 12:35:47 AM

Both 1 and 2 look great to me. I don't care for the other colors, mostly because brown looks "dirty" to me. 4 isn't bad, but I'm just not a green person... Looks like a faded/dirty grey to me.

8/20/2011 1:08:07 AM

Gray or green is what I like. Choose something which is going to work to hide the dirt generated by your activities (i.e. don't get red when you have black auto grease).

8/20/2011 1:24:50 AM

go with gray

it might seem fun to have green in a green house, but it'll strike you like '60s avocado in no time

blue might be interesting

8/20/2011 2:59:05 AM

Just so you are aware, you have to prep the concrete EXTREMELY well with the Quickrete stuff for it to stick. We put that stuff (tan) in our shop kitchen, and it has flaked off ever since.

8/20/2011 11:06:45 AM

I have the flaked grey in my garage. LOVE it.

8/21/2011 2:05:18 PM

I like #1

8/21/2011 2:30:12 PM

I'd probably go with the grey just to keep it generic for resale. I could see some folks not being thrilled by the blue (although I think both look good).

8/21/2011 7:41:08 PM

I'd stay away from that gray unless it dries darker than the sample pic shows. We had the industrial version (or hell it could have been the same stuff you have shown that our contractor put down) of this in one of our machine shops a year ago and one thing to note, rubber tires leave extremely visible marks on our light gray floor with the black/dark gray flakes. We've basically banned the forklift operators from coming through that shop unless absolutely necessary because it ends up looking like a couple of 4 wheelers were doing burnouts around the machines. The gloss coat just loves to pull that rubber and dirt off the wheels. I think the blue or green would be ideal but the darker the better. One other thing to note that you should ask about: our floor is not completely smooth, it's slightly textured from the flakes which doesn't exactly let us slide things around easily.

8/21/2011 8:11:19 PM