Austin Garage Floor Paint, Epoxy, Coatings - Floors & Flooring
Austin/San Antonio: 512-535-2492
San Diego: 858-603-3573
Las Vegas: 702-340-7365
Greetings from Austin! We are designers and installers of
Epoxy Garage Flooring & Garage Floor coatings throughout the
Austin, Texas area.
We also have branch locations in San Diego and Las Vegas.
While we are specialists in high-end showroom garages and multi-layered
logo designs, we happily bring our expertise to more down-to-earth
projects. Epoxy remains the most popular choice for residential garage
flooring due to its durability, resistance to elements, and color and
texture flexibility. The days of the dull gray garage floor are long
gone--our epoxy floors are available in thousands of color schemes and
offer tremendous opportunities to explore texture.
You can view pictures of
garage floors, cabinets, and garage racks that we have done,
or read on to learn more about our epoxy garage floor applications.
Concrete Preparation
We
begin with the most important step in the epoxy garage floor process:
preparation. Concrete must be properly prepared in order to accept
adhesion from any floor coating, whether epoxy, urethane, or polyurea.
Regardless of the coating we apply, we always prepare all concrete
surfaces with a heavy-duty diamond-head grinding machine. This machine
roughens the concrete and ensures dead-on adhesion. Beware of outfits
that recommend acid-etching before the application of coatings. Acid
etching presents three significant disadvantages: First, it does not
adequately prepare concrete; it simply isn't tough enough. Second, it
leaves an acidic slime behind that can inhibit adhesion. Finally, it
makes concrete wet, which can further inhibit adhesion.
Epoxy Base Coat and Flakes/Chips
Epoxy garage flooring can be applied as a solid color, but it is more
common and popular to broadcast colored vinyl chips into the epoxy base
coat after it is applied. The picture at left shows our installer
applying an epoxy garage floor. Epoxy is a popular and effective
material for coating garage and commercial floors because of its
tremendous adhesive properties, and its durability.
Final Stages
Final
Stages Following the base coat and chip application, we apply two coats
of clear gloss. Typically, we apply a two-part epoxy clearcoat, and
thereafter, we apply a two-part UV-protected urethane. The clear epoxy
builds up the coating, and urethane prevents sunlight from damaging the
coatings beneath, and is also tremendously resistant to abrasion.
Want to Learn More? Give
us a call:
Austin/San Antonio: 512-535-2492
San Diego: 858-603-3573
Las Vegas: 702-340-7365
