My garage epoxy floor took 3 weekends instead of 2 days

I thought I could prep, patch, and coat my garage floor in one weekend. Day one was just grinding the concrete with a rented grinder, which took 8 hours because the slab was way rougher than I expected. Then I had to wait 24 hours for the patching compound to cure, and the next day was rained out. I finished the epoxy coat on the third Saturday, but I had to wait another 5 days before parking on it. Has anyone else tripled their timeline on a simple home project like this?

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logan_thomas873mo ago

I thought I could prep, patch, and coat my garage floor in one weekend." That is where you went wrong. Epoxy floors are never a weekend job. I did mine a few years back and it was two full weekends plus waiting days for cure times. You rush the prep and the epoxy peels up in a year. Sounds like you actually did it right even if it took longer.

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kelly.parker3mo ago

Yeah, exactly. You said "you rush the prep and the epoxy peels up in a year" and that's SO true. But I gotta gently disagree with something you said, @logan_thomas87. You mentioned two full weekends, but honestly, if you're doing it right, you need to account for the cure time between coats too. Like, some epoxies need like 12 to 24 hours between the primer and the top coat, and then another full 72 hours before you can even park a car on it. So it's more like three weekends minimum if you work a regular job. But yeah, you're spot on that rushing it is a total waste of money.

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