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
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
Do you ever look at your garage and notice how much of a beating your concrete floor has taken over the years? Besides the ugly discolorations that motor oil and road debris have left, you can also see cracks and a few chips, too.
Topics: Residential Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings, Surface Preparation
The purpose of this blog is to deal with questions we get so often when it comes to epoxy floor coatings. Since these questions most often come from residential homeowners concerning their garage or basement floors, I’ll concentrate our answers to this audience. A fair amount of the information is applicable to the commercial environment as well.
Here in part 1 of this blog, I’m tackling some of the common questions concerning cracking of the concrete surface. Next week in part 2, I’ll get into the types of joints used in residential construction and how they impact the installation and performance of the coating system.
Topics: Residential Flooring, Concrete Repair, Garage Floor Coatings, Surface Preparation, Basement Floor Coatings
These are the top 5 myths I’ve heard over the past 10 years working in a garage floor coatings business. Some from customers, some from people in the industry. Here we debunk the top 5 most common garage flooring myths.
Well, if you call some of the shadier garage makeover businesses in our service area, you will get quoted a very expensive price. Some of our customers got quotes from our competitors who wanted to charge $8 - $12 per square foot to coat their garage floor. That’s almost criminal.
A professionally installed, epoxy/Polyaspartic decorative chip floor coating need not cost any more than $6 per square foot for a two car garage with good condition concrete. Our warrantied, easy to clean decorative chip floors are even less than that. I admit it’s not cheap. But neither was that SUV that will look better on a beautiful (well done) garage floor coating.
And, don’t get fooled by the # of layers some other companies talk up, the math doesn’t always add up (see Garage Coatings Math: When 3 is Greater Than 5).
Topics: Residential Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings, Surface Preparation
We all hear the jingle "You can do it, we can help." on TV and many get the urge to play with power tools. I'm no exception. But, before attempting a Do It Yourself project, I apply 5 criteria to determine if I'm setting myself up for trouble.
Topics: Residential Flooring, Garage Floor Coatings, Surface Preparation, Basement Floor Coatings, Metallic Epoxy
