Garage Epoxy Flooring

Garage Epoxy Flooring

Beautiful Garage Epoxy Flooring That's DIY Easy!

When applying garage floor epoxy there are three outcomes you can end up with.

   1. The epoxy you use will stay stuck to your floor and look good for a year or two and then start wearing off and looking very shabby.

2. The epoxy you use will start wearing off very quickly, looking very shabby and start to peel off especially under your hot tires.     

3. The epoxy you use will stay stuck to your floor and the high gloss finish will stay looking new for the next 15-20 years.                   

     

We think it's safe to say that option three is the outcome you want since, take it from us,  you only want to do you garage floor once.  We can't tell you how many calls we get from customers who want to redo their floors. The lucky ones are in the situation #1 and only require a light sanding and a coat of our Bonding Primer to make sure our epoxy sticks to whatever epoxy they used. The unforntuante ones are in situation #2 and have their floor turn ugly real quick and then have to diamond grind it off before redoing their floor.       

                                   

The key to avoiding being in situations 1 or 2 is using the right products and proper floor prep. Use the following guidelines to help you choose the right floor kit for your specific project:

                                  

For regular passenger vehicles, light pickup trucks and midsize SUVs you can use any of the four standard epoxy floor kits.

 

For large SUVs, sport cars with high performance tires and large pickups with off road tires you can use the commercial kit or the metallic kit as is. If selecting the Armor Chip or Armor Granite color flake epoxy kits choose the military grade topcoat option.

 

If you do work in your garage you need to choose the military grade topcoat for Armor Chip or Armor Granite. If you work with small parts we strongly suggest you use the commercial kit since finding small parts on a flake floor can be very frustrating!

 

If your garage is alao a workshop and or park large toys in it such as boat trailers, tractors, Bobcats or similar items you need to choose the primer option and the military topcoat if doing the Armor Chip or Armor Granite flake floors. The commercial kit is good as is.

                               

 Your Armor Garage Epoxy Floor With The Right Options Can Handle Anything You Put On It Or Do On It.

 

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ALL YOUR EPOXY KITS?

Armor Chip is our standard garage epoxy kit with 6 lbs of epoxy color flakes and two layers of clear heavy duty topcoa and is 20 mils thick.

 

Armor Garanite is our top of the line kit with extra thick epoxy 18 lbs of flkaes, 4 coats of clear and a beautiful granite like finish and is 27 mils thick.

 

ArmorGarage Small Format Commercial kit is a two layer system is a solid color finish and forklift rated topcoat and is 14 mils thick.

 

 Metallic Epoxy kit is a three layer swirling marble 3D finish with primer, metallic epoxy and our best in class military grade topcoat and is 30 mils thick.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

 Our all-inclusive garage floor epoxy kits include everything needed for the job. Our proprietary 100% military-grade epoxy, industrial-grade urethane-based epoxy clear topcoat (with a best in class Military Grade option available), 6-18 lbs of multi-color flakes, spike soles, etching powder, application squeegee, epoxy rated rollers, mixers, non-slip additive, easy-to-follow detailed instructions, unlimited phone and email support, and FREE SHIPPING!

                                                   

 WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMOR GARAGE EPOXY AND OTHER BRANDS?

 

First off we're not water-based, our 100% military grade epoxy is not a fake 100% solids which is when the epoxy is not 100% solids in both weight and volume and we are not a less than 100% solids thin build type epoxies. Although these types of epoxies are popular they should only be considered as primers and never as your primary floor coating!

 

Armor Chip,  Armor Granite, ArmorGarage II Small Format Commercial Epoxy(no color flakes) and ArmorGarage Metallic are military grade professional garage epoxy floor systems packaged with clear instructions that anyone can apply to achieve beautiful professional long-lasting results even if it's your first time doing an epoxy floor! 
 
If you prefer not to install it yourself, simply have your local painter or handyman do it for you! We work with customer installers every day and find that handymen and local painters often do the best job. A 5 minute conversation is all that's need to go over the Do's & Dont's since our epoxy is not like store bought off the shelf epoxies they might have worked with in the past.

 

All our epoxy kits are impervious to vehicle fluids, road salts, hot tires, mold, mildew, yellowing and are engineered to outlast and outshine the competition! With our Military Grade Topcoat option, Armor Chip & Armor Granite boast an industry-best 4 mg abrasion loss rating (this is a durability rating where the lower the number, the better). ArmorGarage Metallic is three layers of our highest quality epoxies and comes standard with the military grade topcoat. The commercial system has an 8 mg abrasion rating which means it can handle anything up to helicopter traffic.

 

WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN?

This means your floor is capable of withstanding vehicles and tires of any size and you can use floor jacks, jack stands, rolling 1000 lb tool chests and you can store road salt on your floor with no effect to the finish!

 

Compare this to the competition's durability ratings, if they even have one, and you'll see their numbers are much higher, meaning their coating will wear off much sooner than you ever thought. It's why our epoxy floors still look new after 15-20 yrs while competitor floors are stained, dull and worn out leaving their customers in situation #1 or #2 like John below.   

These are some of the results you can expect with our epoxy flooring kits. These were all done by customers who were first time users! Not only did they get beautiful floors they got an epoxy floor finish that will keep their floors looking new for the next 15-20 years. You won't get that with other brands!

 

Not sure what to use or if you can do it? Give us a call we'll help you get the same results from start to finish.

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A TALE OF TWO EPOXY COATINGS 

Getting an epoxy floor coating like those in our customer photos is one part of the job. Having it last and look good for 15-20 years is the other part. The image of John and Eric's floor above is proof positive!

 

"Hey Jim, Eric Pfieffer here from Miami. Thought you would find this picture interesting! You sold me the Armor Chip garage flooring kit (floor on the right) with the standard topcoat and my friend John did his floor with an epoxy kit from the local big box store to save some money (oil stained floor on the left). Both floors looked similar, but that didn't last more than a year, and the difference now is amazing! My floor still looks good and cleans up real easy, but it's getting to the point where it could use a freshening. I'm going to use the Military Topcoat to give it that new look again after a light sanding to rough it up. John was told he needs to do a complete diamond grind on his spot! I'm figuring the military topcoat will give me a finish I'll never have to redo, judging by how long the standard topcoat lasted, which is now going on over 10 years. Speak to you soon (so will John!) and thanks for a fantastic product and your great customer service!"

 

We're not sure what better proof you could ask for than the picture and testimonial above from Eric in Miami that ArmorGarage epoxy floors are the better choice. Our epoxy paint and flakes remain unscathed while our standard clear topcoat shows some cosmetic signs of wear from twisting turning hot tires in a tight parking space after 10 years.

 

As Eric states, all he needs to do to bring his floor back to brand new is a light sanding and roll on a coat of the military grade clear topcoat for another 15-20 years of service. While John who ended up in situation #2 had severe buyer's remorse has to do a complete diamond grind plus difficult oil stain removals after having to live with an ugly and a completely failed floor after barely a year.

 

If this happens in your home garage the worst thing besides the extra cost of reding the floor is having to take out all your stuff AGAIN!

SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON WITH THE COMPETITION

Low priced epoxy kits are usually thin water-based, fake 100% solids or  lower solids based epoxies with either an inferior topcoat or none at all. They never yield their advertised coverage and require multiple kit purchases to properly hide the concrete, and last only a fraction as long as an ArmorGarage floor. Are you really saving money if the bargain epoxy you bought doesn't fully hide the concrete and requires you to buy more material and do additional coats? 

 

Watch this video to see a side by side comparison between an ArmorGarage epoxy floor and the competition. Its not even close.

 

Even the worst looking floors come out looking like a showroom finish as you can see in the before & after images below by Alan in Denver.  His floor was a mess with with years of road salt damage and oil stains but even though he never did anything like this before, his floor turned out as if he paid a professional to do it for thousands.

 

He left the control joints unfilled as we always recommend, they add a sort of dimension to the floor and makes it look like large slabs of granite. He used medium gray with military topcoat with black, white and primary blue flake. 

A BEAUTIFUL TRANSFORMATION

PREPERATION & PRIMERS

Before you buy any garage epoxy floor coating, be sure to read our How To Epoxy Paint Your Floor page on what and what not to do so you end up with a beautiful floor that lasts! We recommend using a primer even though it's not required it's a very good idea to prime your floor as you would if you were painting your house, car or other porous surfaces. This ensures the highest level of adhesion, increases coverage of the epoxy by up to 25%, and increases the thickness of your floor to a whopping 25-30 mils thick. So if your floor is 600-700 sf order one 600 sf epoxy kit and the 900 sf primer option and the appropriate topcoat size if doing the military grade option. This way you get the benefit of an extra epoxy layer and not have to buy two epoxy kits(600sf + 300 sf).

 

Remember the best prepped floor is of no value if an inferior epoxy paint coating is applied to it, and the best epoxy paint coating is of no value if applied to a poorly prepped floor!

Important Things To Know About Garage Flooring Epoxy Coatings

It's important to know are that you have to have an epoxy finish that has a polyurethane topcoat with a maximum of a 20mg abrasion loss rating or lower(the lower the number the better). Our heavy duty topcoat that comes standard with each garage floor kit is for your average garage owner that pulls their cars in and out and has the standard items you find in most garages. 

 

TOPCOAT GUIDE

For garages that have vehicles with nonstandard tires such as off road tires, racing tires, golf carts, tractors or trailers then you need a topcoat with 10mg or lower abrasion rating. Same goes for garages that are used as workshops with items such as floor jacks, tool chests or equipment

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We offer a military grade topcoat option that has a best in class 4mg loss rating. this offers you a super hard finish that can handle anything you put in your garage or anything you do on your garage floor. Coatings with ratings higher than 20mgs offer very little wear protection.

Every time you drive your car on it, every time you walk on it, every time you roll something on it abrasion occurs. This abrasion can wear through low quality epoxies and topcoats very very quickly! So even though your epoxy is still stuck to your floor, you're stuck with a poor looking floor that is not covered under any guarantee!

 

AVOIDING BUYER'S REMORSE

When you read about complaints or dissatisfaction with epoxy floors on social media platforms it's almost always due to improper floor preparation and or the use of a low-quality epoxy coating.

 

There's a reason why we provide all the information we do, it's to help you avoid becoming dissatisfied with your floor.

 

FLOOR PREP ADVICE

If you're not diamond grinding or renting the Floor Prep Machine from Home Depot you must acid etch the floor. In fact if your floor is very dirty or is new concrete and or was power troweled you need to do two etchings. A power washing is also recommended.

See the Application Instruction Tab for full details, please read, this is not like store bought epoxy.


ABOUT FULL BROADCAST

We get asked about doing full coverage of color flakes. This is not a good idea if you're not a professional. It's very difficult to get that amount of flakes to lay evenly and uniformly. More often then not the floor will look lumpy and unbalanced color wise requiring you to do extensive amounts of scraping and sanding. You need to have an extra thick epoxy to handle 75- 100lbs of chips otherwise you will have delamination issues in the future.

 

We know, we've seen it happen many times from customers who were not aware how difficult it was to do and did not use the right epoxy. Plus you need double the topcoat to fill in all the nooks and crannies.

 

If you like the heavy flake look use our Armor Granite Kit with close to 90-95% coverage and always comes out perfect with a real granite floor look.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

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