A New Epoxy Garage Floor That Shines
Pulling onto your own garage floor is like driving onto a auto showroom floor if you lay down a shiny, durable epoxy garage floor. All of the magic of seeing your own car in the reflection on the floor...whether you own an old '76 Buick that's seen better days or a brand new car that tries to outshine the floor. To many, an epoxy garage floor coating is seen as the ultimate in garage flooring, and for good reason. Although extremely time consuming and somewhat difficult to install, epoxy garage floors last a very long time, often as long as the concrete itself. Sometimes a refreshing of the garage floor paint is in order, but generally the initial install is the most work that will need to be done. As opposed to other garage floor coverings, epoxy cannot move or crumple under car tires, and will stay put if you decide to spray it off.
Epoxy Garage Flooring: Like A Rock. A Painted Rock.
Extremely tough, epoxy is a very long-lasting coating that is painted onto concrete. Different than normal paint, epoxy will resist grease, oils, and many other things that ruin or plain out dissolve ordinary paints. Regular paint wouldn't be able to handle things like motor oils since they're mostly oil based themselves, which means you need a special type of paint, such as epoxy. This is because when two oil based substances mix, they naturally attempt to combine with each other. This effect causes motor oil and paint to basically be mutually self destructive. Parts cleaner, grease, fuel, power steering fluid, brake fluid...all are petroleum based, and all have the same effect on petroleum based paints. It's actually pretty interesting if you start thinking of just how petroleum based most of our lives' are. That's what's great about epoxy based paints, though. Since they're resin based, they're not susceptible to damage from oil and oil based substances.
Shiny Old Epoxy Garage Floors
Old garage floors like to shine, too! Just because the garage floor has some age on it doesn't mean it can't be pretty. I know, pretty and garage floor typically don't go together, but they do when there's an epoxy coating involved. Epoxy is able to last so long because it grips the concrete on a microscopic level and actually seeps down into the cracks, as opposed to other garage floor solutions that just kind of float on the top layer, be it dust, dirt, or concrete. Cleaning an epoxy coated garage floor is simple - generally just power wash it. This is because it doesn't absorb all those chemicals, and therefore doesn't stain. Most chemicals will simply float on top of the epoxy coating, making it just a matter of wiping them up or pushing them out. Be careful though that you don't accidentally poison the earth around your garage. You're probably used to picking up chemicals with some sort of absorbent and throwing them in the garbage. Just because the chemicals no longer hurt your garage floor doesn't mean they won't hurt the environment, especially groundwater.
Rainbow Of Garage Floor Coatings
Epoxy coatings usually come in gray. It's a very shiny, very attractive gray, but it's still very gray. Now just because it's gray doesn't mean you're not going to notice a marked improvement over your cement garage floor, because you certainly will. However, lots of people would rather add some sort of color, and it is possible. Unfortunately, many times your local hardware store won't have anything but gray epoxy coatings. In fact, it's not uncommon for these hardware stores to tell you there's no such thing as colored epoxy, that it's all gray, which is simply not true. Sometimes it does take some looking, but epoxy garage floor coating kits are in good supply on the web, and usually a lot cheaper than the hardware store. Odds are pretty good that, compared to other things, you'd have no reason to return a garage floor kit, and the ability to return things is my biggest worry when it comes to buying on the net.
The Great Concrete Garage Floor War: Will Epoxy Win?
As opposed to pretty much every other type of garage floor, epoxy does require quite a lot of preparation. In the end, some concrete just won't be able to take a solid epoxy coating. Even if the concrete is determined to be in good enough shape for coating, it has to be cleaned and etched which is usually very labor intensive and tedious. There really is no part of laying an epoxy garage floor that is for the faint of heart...or maybe I should say faint of back. Those of us who aren't in the best shape physically may want to opt for something less time sensitive, like garage floor tiles that you can finish whenever you feel like and not have to worry about them setting in the correct order, or garage floor mats that can be moved around to where they're needed. However, if bank account is up to paying someone to do the job, or if your body is up to doing it yourself, an epoxy garage floor coating is definitely the way to go. - 21393
Epoxy Garage Flooring: Like A Rock. A Painted Rock.
Extremely tough, epoxy is a very long-lasting coating that is painted onto concrete. Different than normal paint, epoxy will resist grease, oils, and many other things that ruin or plain out dissolve ordinary paints. Regular paint wouldn't be able to handle things like motor oils since they're mostly oil based themselves, which means you need a special type of paint, such as epoxy. This is because when two oil based substances mix, they naturally attempt to combine with each other. This effect causes motor oil and paint to basically be mutually self destructive. Parts cleaner, grease, fuel, power steering fluid, brake fluid...all are petroleum based, and all have the same effect on petroleum based paints. It's actually pretty interesting if you start thinking of just how petroleum based most of our lives' are. That's what's great about epoxy based paints, though. Since they're resin based, they're not susceptible to damage from oil and oil based substances.
Shiny Old Epoxy Garage Floors
Old garage floors like to shine, too! Just because the garage floor has some age on it doesn't mean it can't be pretty. I know, pretty and garage floor typically don't go together, but they do when there's an epoxy coating involved. Epoxy is able to last so long because it grips the concrete on a microscopic level and actually seeps down into the cracks, as opposed to other garage floor solutions that just kind of float on the top layer, be it dust, dirt, or concrete. Cleaning an epoxy coated garage floor is simple - generally just power wash it. This is because it doesn't absorb all those chemicals, and therefore doesn't stain. Most chemicals will simply float on top of the epoxy coating, making it just a matter of wiping them up or pushing them out. Be careful though that you don't accidentally poison the earth around your garage. You're probably used to picking up chemicals with some sort of absorbent and throwing them in the garbage. Just because the chemicals no longer hurt your garage floor doesn't mean they won't hurt the environment, especially groundwater.
Rainbow Of Garage Floor Coatings
Epoxy coatings usually come in gray. It's a very shiny, very attractive gray, but it's still very gray. Now just because it's gray doesn't mean you're not going to notice a marked improvement over your cement garage floor, because you certainly will. However, lots of people would rather add some sort of color, and it is possible. Unfortunately, many times your local hardware store won't have anything but gray epoxy coatings. In fact, it's not uncommon for these hardware stores to tell you there's no such thing as colored epoxy, that it's all gray, which is simply not true. Sometimes it does take some looking, but epoxy garage floor coating kits are in good supply on the web, and usually a lot cheaper than the hardware store. Odds are pretty good that, compared to other things, you'd have no reason to return a garage floor kit, and the ability to return things is my biggest worry when it comes to buying on the net.
The Great Concrete Garage Floor War: Will Epoxy Win?
As opposed to pretty much every other type of garage floor, epoxy does require quite a lot of preparation. In the end, some concrete just won't be able to take a solid epoxy coating. Even if the concrete is determined to be in good enough shape for coating, it has to be cleaned and etched which is usually very labor intensive and tedious. There really is no part of laying an epoxy garage floor that is for the faint of heart...or maybe I should say faint of back. Those of us who aren't in the best shape physically may want to opt for something less time sensitive, like garage floor tiles that you can finish whenever you feel like and not have to worry about them setting in the correct order, or garage floor mats that can be moved around to where they're needed. However, if bank account is up to paying someone to do the job, or if your body is up to doing it yourself, an epoxy garage floor coating is definitely the way to go. - 21393
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