Residential epoxy flooring come naturally equipped with a host of additional benefits designed to extend the life of your residential investment.
You can find more information on our web, so please take a look.
Whether it&#;s a matter of enhancing your home aesthetic or strengthening your commitment to safety for your family, a garage floor finished with flake epoxy is just the ticket.
And here are our top five reasons why.
No matter if it&#;s a high-end business showroom or your average, everyday concrete home garage, the need for durability
(a.k.a longevity) is high on the priority list.
To that point, residential garages are often seen as a safe haven between the indoor and outdoor worlds for families, amateur (and professional) mechanics, classic car collectors, and every other profession, activity, and hobby under the sun.
With so many hours of use coming their way, residential garages need proper attention to ensure they last through all events, and years, soon to follow.
Luckily, oftentimes the most rewarding answer is also the easiest.
Installing top-quality flake epoxy floor coatings in your garage beyond brushing a clear coat of epoxy onto your pre-existing concrete floor. In fact, in order to label a residential garage as having authentic epoxy flooring, the concrete flooring must possess at least two coats of resin that equates to a depth of roughly two millimeters.
This industry-standard only further accentuates how extremely durable floor coatings like epoxy resin are, especially compared to other less-reputable flooring solutions, when applied to concrete surfaces such as a residential garage.
Epoxy&#;s ability to withstand over 10,000 psi (pounds [of pressure] per square inch) makes it far superior to a concrete slab, for example, especially when comparing all aspects of durability (withstanding traffic, abrasion-resistant, stain-resistant, chemical-resistant, load-bearing, etc.)
&#;To flake or not to flake?&#;- that is the question.
If you&#;re looking for a specific &#;feel&#; for your home garage, while also on the hunt for a product that improves safety (we&#;ll get to that in a second) and aligns with your overall aesthetic preference, adding one of an endless stream of custom color combinations of flake to your epoxy is one of the simplest, most jaw-dropping ways to accomplish just that.
Epoxy flake enhances high-performance flooring by adding custom color and texture to complement any decorating style. With over 150 unique factory colors already created and in rotation, developing new and exciting color combinations for your new flooring is well within reach.
As an added incentive, epoxy flake floor systems are found everywhere in both renovations and new constructions. That means applying epoxy floor coating can be quickly inserted into your new construction process as well as revitalize an old, existing garage floor.
Because ensuring every client&#;s safety at Craftsman Concrete is one of our top values, advocating for flake epoxy floors comes naturally.
Big-box retail DIY garage floor paint kits are notorious for creating dangerously slippery floors due to their lack of texture. In our epoxy floor coating system, epoxy flakes create a gentle orange peel-like finish on your concrete surface, significantly increasing slip resistance and improving safety.
For this reason alone, flake floors are very common in multiple installation processes, such as your local fire station&#;s parking bay.
Epoxy flooring never needs maintenance.
Let&#;s break it down a little further and say that one more time.
If you&#;ve invested in epoxy flooring in your garage, you&#;ve invested in a durable floor that almost NEVER needs maintenance. That means never having to both apply floor wax or strip it.
So what might cleaning your residential epoxy floors look like?
Well, if you have soap and water handy, then you&#;re already well on your way to clean concrete floors that look and feel as good as new.
Since these epoxy systems are resistant to all types of vehicle fluids, they&#;ll never stain or fail, even when fluids stay on the floor for an extended period of time.
It&#;s no secrete Craftsman Concrete is committed to the health and care of our environment. In light of this, epoxy coating is a perfect conduit between style and function and caring for our ecosystem.
Unlike monolithic single-coat epoxy installations, if a solid epoxy flake floor begins to wear, it can be repaired and refreshed (read: sanded and treated) with a new topcoat relatively easily. In the unlikely event that the floor is heavily scratched, new flakes can be applied to the damaged area to provide a seamless repair.
Visit our epoxy garage floor page for articles, resources, and galleries to teach you about the products we install.
As always, give us a call for a risk-free consultation.
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This new polyaspartic floor coating turned out great in this auto shop!This new polyaspartic floor coating turned out great in this auto shop!
The floor coating is chemical resistant to most solvents and auto fluids - Perfect for an auto shop!The floor coating is chemical resistant to most solvents and auto fluids - Perfect for an auto shop!
High Solids Polyaspartic/Polyurea and Epoxy coatings are the best floor coatings.High Solids Polyaspartic/Polyurea and Epoxy coatings are the best floor coatings.
Here's a great example of a garage workshop floor, similar to an auto mechanic shop floor. The main shop floor was approximately 30'x40', representing over sq. ft. of floor space. Our team even coated the bathroom floor! Slide-Lok of the Eastern Shore completed this commercial floor install in Milford, Delaware. The commercial space is used as a vehicle wrap center to apply new colors and advertising to small cars, trailers and even semi trucks. The installers prepped the floor by filling and repairing all cracks using a polyurethane crack filler and then diamond grinding the concrete pad. Then 3 coats of polyaspartic, tuxedo vinyl chips, and non-slip gripping agent was applied. This job was completed in just 1 day thanks to our high performance polyaspartic coatings.
We are often asked "What is the best garage floor coating or garage floor epoxy for an auto mechanic shop?" There is no one Best product, because there are advantages and disadvantages among all floor coatings. Our two most popular floor coatings are our High Solids Polyaspartic / Polyurea and 100% Solids Epoxy. Polyaspartic and Epoxy can both be considered the best garage floor coatings when you carefully consider the pros and cons of each. When choosing the best floor coating you need to consider several factors:
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Obviously, the best garage floor coating is the one that best suits your needs. Epoxy and Polyaspartic are both considered to be great coatings, choosing one over the other depends on what you need in a floor and your time constraints.
If you want our recommendation. We recommend calling or e-mailing us to discuss your flooring needs. We could recommend one over the other or even a combination of both. Many flooring installers will actually recommend epoxy for the primer and mid coat and then to top coat with polyaspartic. That way you get the cost savings of epoxy in 2/3 of the floor and reap the benefits of the increased chemical resistance, abrasion resistance and UV resistance in the top coat from polyaspartic. This floor will resist all of the common chemicals found when working on cars, resist hot tire pickup, make for a great looking and easy to clean floor.
Regardless of the chemistry you choose, we always recommend flooring preparation be done properly using a diamond grinder or shot blasting machine to properly profile the concrete. Many of the flooring failures we've seen over the years appear due to improper flooring prep which results in poor adhesion of the coating. If you have any questions, Slide-Lok's team is knowledgable and has flooring experts standing by to assist you all across North America.
So what are you waiting for, get your FREE ESTIMATE today: Contact Slide-Lok Garage Interiors.
About The Author
Samuel Strayer is a trained chemist with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Arizona State University with an emphasis on material and polymer science. Samuel has been involved in developing and testing coating systems for over 10 years.
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