DIY kit
$A homeowner kit, usually epoxy-based, with etching solution or a rented grinder, flake and a topcoat.
Best fit
- • Smaller or detached garages
- • Sound, dry slabs
- • People comfortable working to a clock
Potential advantages
- • Materially cheaper
- • You control the schedule
- • Very satisfying when it goes well
Tradeoffs
- • Preparation is the hardest and least fun part, and it is the part that decides everything
- • Mixed product has a working time that does not negotiate
- • Fixing a failure usually means grinding it all off