Hello everyone. Today I will compare two garage floor epoxy kits that I have used to epoxy.
Single car garage is going to get the Rust-Oleum Rock Solid epoxy and two car garage will get Leggari epoxy.
I found some of the old pictures before I did the epoxy.
I did not record all steps because you can find more How-to in-depth videos on YouTube.
As you can see, I already sealed expansion joints and concrete cracks with grey Rust-Oleum concrete patch.
You can find everything at Home Depot, Lowes or even amazon. Amazon is little bit more expensive.
Right now, I am using a rust oleum degreaser mixed with water. I used a push broom and gave a good scrub and sprayed it away with clean water.
After letting it dry for 3 days, The next step was to mix the epoxy in the bag and roll it with a roller.
After that I used spike shoes I purchased from Amazon for $18 to walk over the fresh epoxy and I spread the flakes.
It was a pretty easy to apply this type of epoxy. 24 hours later it was ready to walk on.
Because of the pandemic, everything was sold out I had a hard time finding Rust-oleum epoxy.
But when it came to purchasing Leggari epoxy, I was surprised how fast and easy it was to buy it on line. It was in stock and the shipping was super-fast.
I thought it would take a week or more but it was at my door steps within two or three days if not sooner.
All I had to do was go on line and put in the square footage of my garage, choose what color flakes I wanted and that was it.
I went a different route with the two car garage. I took the felt out that was between the concrete wall and floor.
I didn't want my two car garage to look the same as the single car garage with felt left in place
I wanted a nice smooth transition from wall down to the floor.
After removing the felt, I silicone the gap with self leveling rubber silicone.
I borrowed a disk grinder from a family friend and that alone saved me $200 or more.
I did reward him with gas money. Never leave people that helped you empty handed.
Every day after I got off from work, it took me 3 evenings to grind garage floor. It’s a slow process.
Make sure you use a cyclone bucket, if you don’t then your vacuum filter will clog up super fast.
Of course if i used a bigger grinder machine, it could have been done faster but it would have costed me over $240 to rent.
Like I said because of pandemic I could not find rust-oleum concrete patch to fill in the expansion joints and I used a different more expensive brand form Home Depot.
After I filled in the expansion joints, I flattened them out with a grinder.
Now, you can still buy the Leggari concrete repair patch on their website. They do sell it.
Now comes the fun part. Like previously said, I am not going to go over every step how to do it because
Leggari sends you a step-by-step video how to prep and apply epoxy and you can find a lot of videos from Leggari on YouTube channel.
I did most of the work in the evenings because this summer, during the day our California temperatures were over 105 degrees.
I did everything by myself and this product gives you plenty of time to work with.
I waited until temperatures dropped below 90 degrees F and kept dropping.
The first step is to use a roller and put down a two-part primer. It comes out as dark grey in color and when it’s ready it turns black and tacky.
Most videos on YouTube show using an 18 inch or bigger roller but I used regular size roller and it worked just fine.
Once the primer was sticky and ready for the next step I used a squeegee and a roller to spread out clear epoxy over the primer.
I used a bucket with flakes…and let me tell you, Leggari give you a ton of flakes. I threw the flakes on the wall nice and hard and the rest was like feeding chickens.
I let it dry over night and next day I scrapped everything twice, swept it, blew it with a blower and vacuumed it.
The next day I mixed up a second batch of clear epoxy and same as previously spread it with a squeegee and then rolled it. I gave it 24 hours and it was ready to drive on.
Now lets talk about Pro’s and con’s of each epoxy.
Rust-Oleum Rock Solid epoxy with concrete patch, degreaser liquid cost me $300.
That’s including paint brushes, paint roller, paint roller stick, gloves.
When you compare Rust Oleum epoxy with Leggari epoxy, it's very thin product.
Super thin compared to Leggari you have a primer, first coat of epoxy, then you have the flakes and second coat of epoxy.
Leggari is much thicker than Rust Oleum
If you don't count preparation days for the Rust Oleum epoxy
It's a one day deal, couple of hours, you roll it, put flakes on and you are done.
When it comes to Leggari, it's a minimum of two days process.
For me it was a little bit longer because I was working.
Preparation took me 3 days, then I had to wipe it down, let it dry.
Then the first day was the primer and first layer of epoxy, flakes
The next day I scraped everything, swept, blew it and vacuumed it.
And third day I put second coat of clear epoxy and that was it.
Now don't worry about running out of flakes, epoxy or the primer because Leggari sends you way way more than you need.
If I knew how much I would have left overs and if I Proportionately mixed the epoxy
I would have had enough to do the single car garage that I am in right now.
Because after scrapping the floor I ended up with a full box of flakes.
Leggari epoxy cost me $1,428 tax included
Self leveling silicone and high strength concrete crack repair tubes cost me $518
Squeegee was $20, brushes, rollers, gloves, drill mixer $35, spike shoes $18.
Like I mentioned before, the grinder was gifted to me by a family member, it was free but I still gave him gas money for the car.
What is my conclusion? If you have the money and time to do the higher end epoxy then go with Leggari.
If you don't then go with Rust Oleum. It's up to you and up to your budget.
But as a warning, I have been following Titan Garage Floors on Instagram.
They are from either South or North Carolina. I noticed a trend in their Instagram pages
They do a lot of repairs that were done by Rust Oleum epoxy
If I knew way back and met their Instagram page how many repairs they have made, I would have never went with Rust Oleum epoxy.
Like I said that's my opinion. So far it's working for me. I am in this garage and it's holding up pretty well.
Now I have not been driving on it so, that might be different if I did because
I talked to a couple of people that I work with and they did this Rust Oleum epoxy and because of the summer California heat
The tires are hot. So when they pull in, they let the car sit on it, epoxy become sticky.
It gets stuck to the tires, when they pull out it peals the epoxy.
I don't know how true it is, I didn't see it but that's what I have been told.
Make proper choice, choose properly what you want your garage to look like and how well you want them done.
As a disclaimer, I am not sponsored by any of these floor epoxies.
Thank you for watching.
As you can see I am sitting in my shop. Next video is going to be all about it, how I made it look the way it is.
Alright, Thank you! Goodbye!