I disagree because at the end of the day epoxy is nothing special. It comes down to thickness, preparation, application, and waiting for it to cure. I looked at a bunch of tech articles on the different epoxy and while the numbers do vary, nothing jumped out to show the expensive stuff being worth 6x as much.
there is no rocket science here.
People will take more care and pay better attention when they pay more for a product. This is why people love Zaino wax… they half ass $5 off the shelf waxes, then go and buy Zaino and spend two weeks applying it with anal-retentive attention to detail, then they give all the credit to the over-priced wax.
I agree its all in the prep. I used 2 of the Epoxy kits from Sears to cover my 2.5 stall garage. The floor was brand new so there was no issue with prep and its going on 5 years now, no issues at all.
I really don’t care what people buy, I know youre not buying my product, but when someone thinks their $50 kit is as good as a $120 kit that’s dumb. I sell both types, I have PPG’s megaseal at $120 a kit and Insl-x at $70 a kit. The ppg lasts over twice as long under the same conditions, proven many times over. I do this for a living so I get to see what works and what doesn’t. But your online research def. will prove my 5+yrs of epoxy and coatings training and selling wrong.
Be sure to wear your cleats when you put the paint down.
That is more than just a stretch. There is a huge difference between quality paint and epoxy products. Sure, the reason most DIY people have failures in a year is because of user error. However the reality is that over the LONG TERM there is going to be a difference in durability, unless you plan on living in your house under 5 years, everything I’ve seen is that it is worth to also invest in some of the higher end materials. Am I implying that cost = better performance? No, I’m saying that there are higher performance products that will out perform the off the shelf products you find at Sears and Home Depot.
One would think comparing the durability of Subaru paint would be a more accurate comparison, I could drive my car half way across the parking lot and that stuff would have chipped.
that is what I’m becoming worried about with this product… it doesn’t mention anything about coating on top with urethane and I don’t really trust random people at sears to give me good info on this.
Two-Part “Cross-Link” bonding formula, the paint base and activator, when mixed and applied together, create a hard epoxy finish that is durable, easy to clean, and resists scuffing and marring.
* Easy to use, mix and apply with one coat coverage and soap and water cleanup
* Kit contains paint (base and activator), decorative chips, floor cleaner, stir stick and instructions
* Resists salt, grease, gasoline, and oil
* Resist Hot Tire pickup
* One coat application covers 300 - 350 square feet
I used a Rustoleum brand kit I got from Lowes this past summer and it looks great. It was a 2-part epoxy and so far the durability has been great. I just spread the flakes by hand after painting roughly a 5’x5’ square. The only caution I would give is that you probably won’t cover the square feet that the box says you will. I figure their number is based on a perfectly smooth floor and mine certainly isn’t perfectly smooth.
mine bubbled a bit when i first used my jack… im kind of pissed about it, considering i spent ~ 600 bux on the kit for a full blown industrial coating…
