Yes, epoxy can make garage floors slippery when wet, but using anti-slip additives and proper maintenance can significantly improve their safety. Understanding how to mitigate the slipperiness through various methods is crucial for ensuring a safe environment. With the right approach, epoxy floors can combine both aesthetic appeal and functional safety. Understanding the Slip Resistance of Epoxy Coating on Garage …
What floors can you put epoxy on?
Epoxy can be applied to concrete floors as a protective coating. These versatile coatings transform ordinary floors into durable, aesthetically pleasing surfaces suitable for residential, commercial, and industrial settings. Whether you are looking to enhance your garage, basement, or any other space, epoxy flooring systems provide an excellent solution that combines functionality with visual appeal. Introduction to Epoxy Flooring Systems …
How Do I Pick the Right Epoxy Coating for My Floor?
To select the ideal epoxy coating for your floor, it's crucial to evaluate your space's specific needs, like resistance to heavy wear, potential exposure to chemicals, and aesthetic preferences. Consider aspects such as the typical usage of the area, exposure to sunlight, and the desired longevity of the floor. A well-chosen epoxy coating not only enhances the look of your ...
Anti Skid Epoxy: Slip-Resistance
Epoxy coatings are a step up from engineered wood, tile, laminate or vinyl. This is especially true in commercial and retail spaces like coffee shops, restaurants and hospitals. Epoxy is just cleaner and more durable. However, some folks worry that epoxy coatings can be slippery, especially when wet. Thankfully the solution is simple. Anti skid epoxy coatings. Slip-Resistant Aggregates Professional …
The Right Equipment for Coatings
If you’re a professional contractor that specializes in the installation of epoxy, polyurethane or polyaspartic floor coatings, then you know the importance of concrete preparation. Using the right equipment for coatings during this step is critical to installing high quality floor coatings. Concrete Surface Profile (CSP) For epoxy coating products to properly “bond”, the concrete needs to be rough. That …
Ease of Maintenance: Epoxy Flooring
There are lots of reasons to want an epoxy floor installed in your home, commercial facility or retail space. An epoxy coating is unique because it provides a trifecta of aesthetics, durability and moisture mitigation not provided with other flooring options. Vinyl, tile, engineered wood or carpet, won’t provide all these benefits. But what I love the most about epoxy …
More than Experience and Know-how
GarageFloorCoating.com (www.garagefloorcoating.com) has been in business for over 23 years. During this time, we’ve developed, tested and continuously improved our private-labelled epoxy, polyurethane, polyurea-polyaspartic products. And we’ve also learned tricks-of-the-trade…like which equipment and in-field techniques produce the best results. With our products, experience and know-how, and together with our GFC dealers and franchisees, we’ve installed over 60 million square feet …
Selecting an Epoxy Coating
If you’re reading this, you already know that epoxy coatings provide the most durable flooring. In areas of heavy traffic, high impact, sunlight or chemical exposure…carpet, tile, wood and vinyl flooring won’t do. So if you’re looking to coat your garage, walkway, driveway or basement, the only real decision is which epoxy coating system you get? In this blog, I’ll …
Fixing DIY Epoxy Applications
Being “wet behind the ears” is an idiom that refers to someone’s inexperience or naivete. In the business of epoxy coatings, this is not a good thing. As floor coating company with over 23 years experience, GarageFloorCoating.com has come across many well-intentioned DIYers. A lot of our business involves fixing DIY epoxy applications. Removals and Re-Coats In a vastly overcrowded …
Proper Concrete Preparation
If you’re a professional contractor that specializes in the installation of epoxy floor coatings, then you know the importance of proper concrete preparation. This step is critical to installing high quality floor coatings. An improperly prepared concrete floor will cause issues over time even if you’ve used the highest-grade coating products around! Concrete Surface Profile It’s all about concrete surface …