garage floor topcoat seal
hi all. been working on my garage. 1969 house. a real project for me to make it look better to redo the walls and floors i plan on replacing lights and wainscoting the ceiling.
i just power washed and used a cement detergent degreaser and rinsed throughly and dried. i applied Rust-Oleum Concrete & Garage Floor Paint + Primer — 1-Part Epoxy, Armor Gray, Satin
yesterday.
i want to be honest. big box stores in my area had little available product choices. so i found this at ace hardware and used it. i also mistakenly relied on chatgpt to validate whether would be a good choice.
20 years ago i finished my first houses garage. it was thick enamel oil based alkyd. it was awesome. i was thinking this rustoleum product was like that. boy did i learn a hard lesson.
this stuff is acrylic. thin. barely 1mm coat if i were to guess and im not a scientist. it's thin. the floor is still rough porous. the prior enamel paint would have leveled a little bit of the micro pours of the cement floor.
anyways. i don't believe this product will give me what i was after.
i just want to be able to drive my car in. use the garage. my wife gardens and there's a lot of dirt and debris. gets very dirty easily bc it's so porous. up here in wny we get winter salt and sand stone mix. so the floor will have a bit of punishment from the dripping melting off the car during winters. the floor is already pitted after tenty years.
i didn't want to spend a lot of money. i'm doing this on a very very tight budget.
so what my question is is this: what topcoat can i put over it which will help it rise and wash easier.
i understand now i cannot use many epoxy two part solutions. that was never my desire. i was honestly just looking for a can of that oil aklyd enamel like i used to
this rustoleum product LOOKs ok. but its almost transparent. i cant imagine its going to last a season or two.
i was hoping for some urethane clearcoat or something common off the shelf.
help!! the garage floor half is ready for the final topcoat and i don't know what to put on it.