Costco has several garage floor tiles. Do something different.

I LOVE my epoxy-coated garage floor. The process literally stinks like nail polish...awful. But it goes away. Shop around for a tradesman who knows what they are doing. Look into improving the walls too with storage. Also good lightning. Consider more than just the floor while you are at it, is what I am saying. A storage wall system, cabinets, drop-down ceiling storage... We have no basement and went all out.

We had our 30 year old garage floor epoxy coated professionally. It does look great, clean up is easy. My husband does all maintenance on both our vehicles and he enjoys the floor. I doubt it will affect your homes resale value if your floor is not epoxied.

If your are having it epoxied, have it done by a professional, do not buy the Rustoleum or similar kits. They will detract value as they do not hold up and look poor in fairly short order.

Skip the epoxy coating. Find an installer that uses an "polyaspartic" coating. Ours came with a 15 year warranty. A typical size 2 car garage should be under $3K.

The leveling, patching, crack fill and application is a one day process - full cure in 24 hours!

If you're in the Minneapolis area, I can recommend an installer.

Welllllll, WHAT is the climate? Is there salt, slush, snow? Or it's Florida and a non issue? If no nasty weather, I sure as heck would not bother, until I had everything inside the town house, exactly as I wanted: ) or had some money to burn.

Congratulations on your new home. We have epoxy floors in the garages of one of our rental properties (was there when we bought it). It is very nice looking and easier to keep clean. It depends on what else you want to do with your home. I view it as a “nice to have” but not necessary. Agree with Jan that there may be other places to spend your money that will make you happier. If it were my place, finishing the garage walls would come first. Start a list of things you think you may want to do around the house and prioritize them. For many people, garage floors are not that important, but for others they are.

It would be WAY down on the list of things to do. Nice to have, after everything else that needs doing is done. Start with plumbing and electrical upgrades. They are the most expensive and invasive. Work your way outside the walls to the decorative finishes. That assumes that the roof, foundation, and HVAC are part of the condo's care agreement.

Totally worth it for a townhome. Easy to clean, looks sharp, and buyers notice it.

Just make sure whoever does it grinds the concrete first — that's the step most contractors skip and why floors peel. Ask about it before you hire anyone.

garagefloorsrsm.com has a good list of questions to ask contractors if you want to go in prepared.

Costco uses a penetrating silicate densifier that reacts with the minerals in concrete to form their high gloss heavy duty warehouse floors. Pentra-Sil (H). The surface is diamond ground first and progressively diamond polished after. Nothing on the surface to peal. The tiny lithium particles penetrate deeply and chemically harden and seal the concrete for life. 244 version is better where winter ice and snow are involved. Pentra Finish goes on top.

Sodium and potassium silicate are two other varieties that are cheaper but require more effort to work in and require rinsing to avoid milky residue.

If you are moving into a new home there are many things to do. For me the epoxy floor in the garage would be low on the list. I keep my garage clean with a leaf blower. It takes about 10 minutes to do, does a better job that a broom as it gets the dust out of the garage, and cost a lot less that the epoxy.

Would make sense that if you sell and potential buyers get a glimpse of your neighbors expoxied floors they might wonder why your's isn't. If you plan on staying there for a while it might be worth having it done prior to selling so that the finish will be shiny and new. That might attact potential buyers.

I see the original post was 2 years ago, so I suspect the original poster has made their decision and moved on with life. Ha ha. However I'm responding anyway, because why not. ;-)

We had our garage floors done with the polyaspartic approach mentioned above. I am shocked how much of a difference it makes in the appearance of the garage. We had ours finished with painted drywall, and tried to make it look nice with some cabinets on the wall, etc., - but we had the standard concrete floor for years, until the polyaspartic was done a year or so ago. It looks SO MUCH NICER, and cleans up so much easier too.

The question of "worth it" is always going to be wildly subjective. It's mostly cosmetic, so I evaluated it in that context. I held off getting it done until most of the cosmetic things I wanted done inside the house were completed, but yes, for me in the end it was absolutely worth it. It's only a year or so old now but it's held up beautifully thus far.