How Garage Floor Coatings Can Benefit You

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What is a Garage Floor? A slab of concrete that can be used to store your junk and park your car? This sentiment may have been true in the old days, but garage floor coatings and materials today are high-tech and highly quality-driven.

Let's start with coatings. Polymers are coatings that lock themselves in place.

This is not just paint!

These high-tech coatings will not only improve the appearance of your garage, but they also resist oil and many other solvent and chemical spillages that can occur in a garage. These high-tech coatings are not like a cement garage floor and can withstand even the most harsh chemicals.

Garage floor coatings also have the benefit of being clean. Garages may look more like extensions of your home than they do as a separate entity. It is also easier to clean up after dirt and other debris buildup.

These coatings are not limited to dull gray garage floors. They come in many colors. Most garage floor coatings are two- or three-step processes. This includes a base coat, color flakes, and a top coat. This wonder of modern science makes parking your car easy once it has cured.

High density, oil-resistant mats are another option for garage floors. These mats are great if you are a mechanic who likes to spend time working on your car.

The garage is an integral part of your home's operation. It deserves a high-tech finish.

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A Better Garage Floor Coating

There are so many garage floor coatings out there. Each of them has its own benefits. Polyurea, Polyaspartic and urethanes, especially moisture cured urethanes have become all the rage in the garage flooring industry. Why? When you epoxy coat a garage floor, what do you do next? You protect it with urethane! We introduced a hybrid Polyura, Polyaspartic with the single component properties of moisture cured urethane! This means you get an incredibly durable and chemical resistant floor that comes with an installation process you can handle. Virtually unlimited pot-life. No roller marks and no guessing. Of course we still require some floor prep! Data Sheet and Product Info Download

Easy Prep

Untreated concrete floors can easily and safely be prepared without grinding or the use of muriatic acid by using our safer etching method for garage floors

Flake & Coating Colors

Simply select the flake and base coat colors to preview them

Price vs Thickness

Coatings are three dimensional. We tend to look at them like paint on a wall. How much do we need to cover an area? The best trick in the book is to give someone an inexpensive system by taking the same gallon of material and spreading it over 300 Sq. Ft. instead of 200 Sq. Ft. Our kits are based on a spread rate of 200 Sq. Ft. per gallon. Don’t just ‘cover’ your floor. You are building thickness. Even our two coat system is designed to be up 4.4 times thicker than inexpensive garage coatings and 20-30% thicker than similarly designed competitors. More coating on the floor means better color depth, better gloss better performance and it does a better job hiding our flaws.

Is This The Right Coating?

To be clear, there is no coating that is perfect for anyone. This is absolutely the coating we would suggest for the vast majority of our customers. We like to have a closer look if you have specific chemicals you know your floor will be exposed to. If you are going to be welding, you should call us. If you have a floor that was heavily damaged and has a lot of repairs there are times a 100% solids epoxy makes more sense. It is also important to understand that coatings are not a perfect fit to every situation and every customer. If you have questions, CALL US.

Important Tinting & Mixing

Tint always comes prepackaged for a 1-gallon container. For all colors EXCEPT White and Yellow: If you have a quart that needs tinted use 5 Fluid Ounces of tint. 10 Fluid Ounces for a half gallon. Etc. Always mix all tinted material together before applying to the floor. Our 100 Sq. Ft. add on kits are priced as inexpensively as possible. To do this you may need to split a gallon. For example, if you need 1/2 gallon of clear and 1/2 gallon of color, we are sending a gallon. You would separate it and tint half.

For the color White or Yellow use the entire content of the container for 1 gallon. If you have a quart that needs tinted use 7.5 Fluid Ounces of tint. 15 Fluid Ounces for a half gallon. Etc. Always mix all tinted material together before applying to the floor.

Installation & Customer Photos

We have additional installation instructionsand Several project profiles on our Blog.

The Perfect Match

We’ve built a kit for every floor. You want a simple 2 coat system with some flakes. We’ve got that. Do you want a clear that brings out the natural beauty of your concrete? Done! High end three coat flake systems… simplified! You want a full broadcast floor where you see nothing but flake and two coats of clear to make it feel nice under your creeper. We’ve got it. From 250 Sq. Ft. to 1,000 Sq. Ft. we have kits that will work in your garage! Need a little more? We have add on kits so you can get exactly what you need! Our Polyurea is also available individually if our kits do not meet your needs.

Three Floor Coating Options

Two Coat System: Our two coat system is two options in one. Your choice of a beautiful gray garage floor coating with a heavy broadcast of flakes OR a simple yet beautiful option of two coats of clear to bring out your concretes natural beauty. The flake system includes one color coat and one clear coat. The clear system is two coats of clear. This system is perfect for residential garages in relatively good physical condition. This is the basic system we have been selling for years. It performs incredibly well and for most of us, more coats are simply not required. We are using a lower spread rate so you end up with a considerably thicker system.

Three Coat System: This system was specifically designed for those looking for a color option. It does offer a thicker system so we do offer it in gray as well. We find that colors look better when they are applied in two coats. Let’s face it. None of us are coatings contractors. When you want a white floor, you want a white floor. You don’t want concrete showing through. Two coats of color give you incredibly high shine and increased durability. Finish it off with the included clear and you have an outstanding system that hides some flaws in the concrete underneath. This system is perfect for anyone who wants color, commercial applications and those of us who tend to beat our floors up a little — you know who you are!

Three Coat Full Broadcast System: In a full broadcast system, flakes are not just a decorative item. They are part of your floor. They create a fourth layer that makes for one of the most durable and beautiful coatings systems on the market. The system will hide most repairs and provide years of enjoyment. Our system in specific will also smooth out much of the texture. This system is perfect if you like to beat the heck out of your floor or if you just love the unmistakable look of a full broadcast system.

Need Extra?

We have built a little forgiveness into the amount of coatings we shipped (see exceptions below). 250 Sq. Ft. systems could effectively cover up to 300 Square feet. 500 Sq. Ft. Systems could effectively cover Up to 600 Square Feet. 750 Sq. Ft. Systems could effectively cover up to 900 Sq. Ft. and 1000 Sq. Ft. systems could effectively cover up to 1,200 Sq. Ft. You would be reducing your Mil thickness but would still be well within range. You may need additional flake on full broadcast systems. We also sell add on kits. You will need to split ad on kits to cover all coats before tinting. We do not suggest stretching 2 coat tan kits as the full Mil thickness may be necessary to prevent bleed through. Clear kits may be stretched even further or even doubled if you do a single coat of clear at 200 Sq. Ft. per gallon.