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I have a new garage. The floor is nice and clean and smooth. I like a clean floor when I am done working out there.

The problem is, now that it is winter, when I walk on the floor with snow on my boots, it is slippery. Is this normal? Besides knocking the snow off my boots, anything I can do to fix this?
 
There is a few epoxy coatings on the market that can make it slip resistant. I chose a product from home depot (cant remember the name though) but they still sell it I used on my front porch worked great it comes in many colors just ask them for slip resistant concrete floor paint.
 
The first one you either add to the paint, or sprinkle it on while wet. The second I believe you add it to the paint. When I epoxied my garage floor, I added their recommended silica sand to the paint AND sprinkled it on the wet paint.

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There are also restrictions on application over solvent based products.
 
wipe your feet,,, sounds as if you've got a 'burned' (burnished) floor instead of just a broom or troweled finish,,, cheer up - in order to correctly apply ANY non-slip finish, you'll 1st have to 'break' the existing glaze,,, lots cheaper to clean off your shoes imn-s-hfo
ps - IF you wind up painting your floor OR laying down a wtr-based epoxy, you'll be patching it later on as neither are resistant to hot tire pickup
pps - the 'grip' materials posted are ground polycarbonate aka 'shark's grip' at sher-wms
 
For this winter I would just get a bag of sandbox sand and put some in an empty parmesan cheese container and sprinkle a little now and then. Ya it might get tracked in or swept up but much better than being laid up from a fall.
 
did an epoxy garage floor yesterday (diamond grind & epoxy base coat w/flakes),,, rolled on urethane topcoat today,,, temps aren't an issue UNLESS 1 hasn't done this work previously - 1 can't learn experience
 
stadry said:
did an epoxy garage floor yesterday (diamond grind & epoxy base coat w/flakes),,, rolled on urethane topcoat today,,, temps aren't an issue UNLESS 1 hasn't done this work previously - 1 can't learn experience
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Well considering it is dropping down to -22F/-30C tonight, I don't think much is flowing at that cold.
 
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