Epoxy Floor Coatings
Garage Flooring & Paint
Austin, TX
Greetings from Austin! We are designers and installers of
Epoxy Garage Flooring & Garage Floor Coatings throughout the
Austin, Texas area.
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 floors remain the most popular and versatile 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.
Epoxy Floor Stage 1: 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 Flooring Stage 2: 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 a logo design to an epoxy garage floor--with an obviously Texas-styled theme. You can see pictures of the final result in our
garage floor picture gallery.
Epoxy is a popular and effective
material for coating garage and commercial floors because of its
tremendous adhesive properties, and its durability.
Epoxy Floor: 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.
If you would like to learn more about having our craftsmen prepare a floor in
your home, please call 512-547-8522 and ask for Michael.
