WHY ARMORGARAGE IS THE BEST EPOXY
Differences Between Epoxy Floor Coatings
The most frequent question we get is what makes your epoxy floor coatings better than other garage floor coatings. The short and simple answer is in the two images below. Our product quality far surpasses that of other epoxy paints on the market! On the left side of each image is our epoxy coating and on the right is a typical store bought water based, lower solids or non military grade solids type floor epoxy. There now epoxy coatings touting 100% solids when they are not 100% solids by weight & volume which means they're not truly 100% solids and they certainly are not military grade. These are facts that make a difference and facts you would never know about unless you do your research as you are now.These typical types of epoxy coatings will require you to purchase multiples of their kits to even come close to covering your floor properly because they should mostly only be used as primers. Just take one look at the cinder block, the left side is our Military Grade Epoxy Flooring and on the right is a top name brand epoxy. The difference in finishes with one coat is startling. Which means you'll be spending a lot more TIME & MONEY to get the same level of finish as our garage floor coatings and the worst part is you'll still end up with a lower quality epoxy that won't last.
If you are going to epoxy paint your floor you need to read this whole page, then the How To Prep & Paint Your Floor page. These are must reads if you plan on doing your floor only once.
Here are some important facts you need to know and may want to keep in mind as you shop for epoxy flooring! Buying an epoxy paint for your floor is much more complicated than buying paint for your walls or ceilings. There are tremendous destructive forces produced by your twisting turning hot tires and the grit that is on them. If you don't know what you're buying you'll end up just wasting a lot of time and money. So spending 5 minutes to read this page will save you many hours or even days of heartache in the future.
When the video on the right was shot the floor was about 8 yrs old. This link is the a new video of the same floor when it was 16 yrs old! You'll see the same Blue Arrows and drain plate in this NEW VIDEO. The floor still looks great! The second link is the same floor area compared to the other areas of the building done with the type of epoxies we try to caution you about. You'll see there's no comparison to appearance or durability and this is why ArmorGarage epoxy floor coatings are the best in the business. ArmorGarage vs Big Box Epoxy
Be wary of clear versions of standard epoxy being sold as the final topcoat. Epoxy Paints and Topcoats are not the same! When purchasing an epoxy coating the lower the Abrasion loss rating the better. It means it's much more durable. Most companies don't know their abrasion rating or won't publish one its so bad! The blue arrows again tell the story the best what happens with poor or no topcoats.
We offer many different epoxy floor kits because there are many different applications and surface requirements. Most other companies offer one or maybe two epoxies and try to make your application fit their product, that simply cannot and should not be done. No epoxy is the perfect fit for every application, that's why we offer so much information and many different systems. You need to buy what fits your application needs best. Beware of one coat do all epoxies or epoxies that are supposedly good enough. That is a huge mistake using that logic, there is no such thing as overkill when it comes to applying epoxy flooring. You always want your epoxy floor coating to be rated higher than the wear load on it and never just close enough or even worse lower than the wear load.
From selling millions of square feet of DIY epoxy systems and epoxy flooring systems to military, industrial, commercial and residential users we know that there's lot's of ways to cheaply epoxy paint your floors and very few ways to do it right so that you'll never have to repaint your floor ever again. The main selling feature of most types of epoxies is their lower price. There's a reason for their low price and it's not because they have some sort of magic formula. It's because they're not long term durable coatings!
Any Abrasion rating above 20 is not considered heavy duty, any abrasion rating above 40 is not even worth putting on your floor. Any epoxy with an abrasion rating above 30 is no better then regular enamel floor paint.
When you do your research and find out what or should we say what you're not getting with competing products you'll know exactly whyArmor Garage Epoxy Floors are the best. Not only are our floor coatings the best, ArmorGarage is the best website that teaches everything you need to know about epoxy floors and how to apply them properly. We also teach you what you don't need to know and what's just marketing hype, see Epoxy Facts & Fiction to learn how to ignore marketing hype.
Do some research before buying, see the specification ratings.
Know the facts before you buy any epoxy coating, even ours.
Our years of experience dealing with customers who have purchased all sorts of epoxy floor coatings they thought were heavy duty because they were 100% solids when in fact they weren't and or were made with the low grade materials all experience the same results. We get calls from these unhappy customers everyday that want to redo their floors.
All our epoxy flooring systems are professional high quality Military Grade 100% Solids (by weight & volume)Aliphatic Epoxies. If you want a floor that's easy to install, easy to clean, is resistant to chemicals spills from vehicles or work place activities, then you need an ArmorGarage Epoxy Floor System. We do not sell any water based epoxies, low solids, fake solids or cycloaliphatic epoxies with low grade substitute materials so as to advertise a low selling price. If saving a few dollars is your main concern, you're making a big mistake when dealing with epoxy floor paints. The mess you wind up with is no way worth the money you save.
Did you know that with most epoxies your hot tires can reactivate the curing process, meaning that the epoxy softens and will discolor, bubble, peel and even stick to your tires so that the next time you move your vehicle part of your epoxy floor will be coming along for the ride on your tires. This is called Hot Tire Lifting. And that your hot tires are extremely abrasive and can wear the high gloss finish off most epoxies in no time! Armor Garage epoxies are specifically designed and engineered to be Hot Tire proof.
First, know that all solids based epoxies will Yellow form sun exposure without a polyurethane topcoat, that is an indisputable epoxy fact.
So if a kit you are considering doesn't provide you with a true polyurethane topcoat you should stop right there! Second, if a kit you are considering needs a wait time after mixing better known as induction time before applying it to your floor, that is a sure sign of a low quality epoxy coating, all high quality epoxies have a short pot life and require being applied to the floor immediately after mixing, if the kit is water based that's another sign of a low quality epoxy. So if you are thinking of buying any epoxy that is under 10 Mils thick, that doesn't require etching of the floor, that doesn't have a real anti wear polyurethane topcoat or is the topcoat is just a clear version of the epoxy with some additives, needs a wait time after mixing or is water based. Then you are better off buying an inexpensive conventional enamel floor paint and recoating over it every year or so!
Simply slapping on any of the above mentioned type of coatings to your floor is a guaranteed waste of your time and money! This is especially true when using color flakes in the epoxy, it's just common sense if you don't seal in and protect the decorative chips with an anti wear topcoat how can exposed plastic chips withstand tire abrasion? When the chips and finish are literally grinded off your new floor in a lot shorter time then you ever imagined. Please watch the video on the Home Page to see how much destructive grinding force your twisting turning tires can put on your coating. When your tires pulverize your bargain epoxy floor coating you'll not only be unhappy about the poor appearance of your floor, you'll be real unhappy when you find out you're not covered for that under the guarantee not even by those so called "lifetime guarantees" and that you have to redo your floor at your time and expense!
