Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

Only 9 hole......pah.

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An update on mine:
my floor was starting to look a little scabby after a couple of years of struggling with 'normal' floor paint (i didn't leave the concrete long enough before applying the first layer, back in the day - my own fault)


so i bit the bullet, emptied it all out and got a commercial flooring company in to pour a 2 pack epoxy floor. they had to use a special rotary grinding tool to scrape off all the crappy old flaky paint, followed by 2 coats of epoxy sealer to stabilise the substrate

the next day, he went over the whole garage with epoxy filler to fill in any little low spots and gave it a light grind with a different machine to take any remaining high spots off and applied the first coat of colour

he did the same again the following day (it was getting pretty flat now)

before putting the finishing coat on

in real life, it looks awesome, is really shiny and smooth (it is that hard and flat that it almost feels soft to touch, weird!!) the surface has a working life of 10 years in an industrial capacity (to include forklifts etc) so i expect to get a REALLY long life out of it in my lightly used garage, to say i was pleased is an understatement! The only problem being, it made the walls look scruffy, so i got painting, i decided on gulf colours to give it some sort of a motoring vibe


you will notice that i have even installed coving on the floor to hide the scruffy edges (since painted light blue to match the wall), only tidying up of the pinstripe to go now (pinstriping blocks is not easy!!!)

Very nice job Greg, do you mind me asking approx. what the floor cost?

a grand for the floor and about £250 for paint and consumables. I consider the floor an absolute bargain because it was about £200 a time (roughly annually) to paint it and it always ended up deteriorating/peeling after a couple of months of traffic so was forever looking different shades of crap.

Looks good! the problem with mine was that i didn't let the concrete go off sufficiently after i had the garage built before adding my first coat, so as the floor contracted fractionally all the paint started peeling, i then scraped off all the loose and repainted, for it to happen again eventually.

The bottom line is i was chasing my tail so had to get the whole lot off before starting again properly. If your floor was properly seasoned (ie several years bare) before paint was applied, i'm not surprised that you are getting much better wear out of normal paint.

because it is epoxy (essentially a plastic) covering, it is impervious, so any spills have to be got off manually, nothing soaks into it, a dot or oil just stays there until you wipe it up. it also gets a little bit slippy if you don't clean up properly. I nearly went over on a bit of coolant the other day (am assisting a mate in rebuilding his engine - so yes, this garage does get used properly )

Good to see some PHers garages on here again, mine is getting there - just needs a bit more painting, my workbench assembled and the electrics finishing and phase 1 will be complete and I'll get some photos on here. Phase 2 will be sorting out the floor, insulating & boarding the ceiling and fitting more lighting, but that will be next year.

Greg - The refresh looks really good! Is that an electric car charger I spy between the doors?

Rich - are those posters framed? I've got posters from the times I've been to Le Mans, but not sure on the best way to hang them onto brick, I'm guessing blu-tack won't cut it!

It is, i've got a BMW i3 for the commute.

Glass & Clip (well Plastic & Clip to be precise) from eBay very cheap. There's 4 more on the other wall now...

Hanging off a couple of screws in the brickwork