One of the defining factors in professionally applied garage floor coatings is the surface preparation. While DIY kits are often applied after just broom cleaning or acid etching the concrete, professional coatings are generally applied after mechanically diamond grinding or shot blasting the concrete floor surface. So which surface preparation process do we use and why?
Topics: Commercial Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings, Surface Preparation
After talking with a few booth visitors today about garage floor coatings, I walked around the 2017 Pennsylvania Home Show today. I am always curious to see what new companies are presenting. Today, I found something new some of our customers would probably enjoy – temporary storage via a steel shipping container.
Topics: Commercial Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings, Garage Organization
Before anyone sends me flaming responses about how the whole numbers 4 and 5 are greater than 3, be sure that I know my discrete mathematics. I actually have a Science degree that includes a minor in Mathematics. While I dont remember my abstract ring theory from my senior year of undergraduate work, I've not forgotten what I learned in elementary school.
Topics: Residential Flooring, Commercial Flooring, Industrial Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings, Basement Floor Coatings
Every year we interact with homeowners in many states who do not realize we can apply garage floor coatings year round. Everyone assumes we suffer from the same restrictions as shared by common paint and Do-It-Yourself garage epoxy kits. This always leads to several questions:
Topics: Residential Flooring, Commercial Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings, Surface Preparation
I was recently asked why we have so many Home Improvement Contractor numbers on our paperwork. I explained that our two locations of Stronghold Floors (Baltimore, MD and Mechanicsburg, PA) allow us to easily service areas of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. As such, we must hold active licenses or registrations in each state.
Topics: Residential Flooring, Commercial Flooring
I have had my garage coated since 2004. While some of our experiments have done minor damage to my decorative chip coatings, 99% of my floors almost 900 square feet still look like new. For the record, we would never encourage our customers to repeat some of the tests we conducted (acid splashes, burnouts, epoxy and paint drips, gasoline spills and tire chains on a Cub Cadet tractor).
Topics: Residential Flooring, Commercial Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings
On November 14th, we (Dave, Kim and I) attended the Grand Opening ceremony for the Environmental Center & Classroom at the Havre de Grace Maritime Museum. We were honored to be invited to this ribbon cutting ceremony - as our Baltimore crews had coated the floors in the Environmental Center and classroom earlier this year.
Topics: Commercial Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings
