Spent $120 on a fancy garage floor coating and it peeled up in 2 months

I finally got around to coating my garage floor last spring in Pittsburgh. Saw all those Instagram videos of guys with the shiny epoxy flakes and thought yeah I can do that. Bought the whole kit from a big box store including the diamond grinder rental. Spent a whole weekend grinding and cleaning and applying two coats. Looked amazing for about 6 weeks. Then I parked my truck on it one hot afternoon and the coating just lifted right off where the tires sat. Now I got patchy peeling spots all over and it looks worse than before I started. The kit was $120 plus another $60 for the grinder rental. Anyone else have a garage floor coating fail on them like this? What actually works long term?

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brown.susan7d ago

Ugh man I feel your pain so hard. I did basically the same thing with a kit from Lowe's last summer and mine peeled up even faster than yours, like after three weeks. I mean I followed the instructions to the letter, even bought a moisture meter to check the concrete first. It still came up in big rubbery sheets right where my wife parks her SUV. The heat from the tires just cooks it I guess. I spent like two more weekends scraping all that junk off and now I'm just living with bare concrete.

logansullivan7d ago

Hear that @brown.susan, same thing happened to me with the tire spots. Was your concrete new or older? I'm wondering if the issue is that the floor has to cure for way longer than they tell you. Mine was about a year old when I did it but still seemed to have moisture coming up from underneath. What kind of prep did you do before you laid down the coating?