Beautiful Garage Floor Epoxy That's DIY Easy And Made To Last!
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 starts wearing out and looking shabby.
2. The epoxy you use starts wearing off very quickly, dulling and staining then starts 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 when doing an epoxy floor project. Take it from us, you only want to do your garage floor once! We can't tell you how many calls we get from customers who need to redo their floors. The lucky ones are in situation #1 and only require a light sanding and a coat of our Bonding Primer to make sure one of our garage epoxy kits sticks to whatever epoxy they used. The unforntunate ones are in situation #2 and have their floor turn ugly real quick similar to what happened to John's floor you'll read about below. They have to do a full diamond grind before completely 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 and read the "How To Prep & Paint Page" in the "Need To Know Section". There's a lot of information on this page you need to read. If you're in a hurry it's not a good idea to be doing an epoxy floor project. It always leads to either poor product selection or poor product application or both.
For regular passenger vehicles, light pickup trucks and midsize SUVs you can use any of the four standard epoxy floor kits. It's a matter of your personal taste as to which one you like better.
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. Primer is not required since our floor epoxies are self priming but a primer is always a good idea.
f 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! Again using a primer is a good idea.
If your garage is also 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.
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 topcoat 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 that is a solid color finish with 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 needed 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.
A Beautiful Transformation
BEFORE
AFTER
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.
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.
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. 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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Garage Epoxy Flooring
Beautiful Garage Floor Epoxy That's DIY Easy And Made To Last!
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 starts wearing out and looking shabby.
2. The epoxy you use starts wearing off very quickly, dulling and staining then starts 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 when doing an epoxy floor project. Take it from us, you only want to do your garage floor once! We can't tell you how many calls we get from customers who need to redo their floors. The lucky ones are in situation #1 and only require a light sanding and a coat of our Bonding Primer to make sure one of our garage epoxy kits sticks to whatever epoxy they used. The unforntunate ones are in situation #2 and have their floor turn ugly real quick similar to what happened to John's floor you'll read about below. They have to do a full diamond grind before completely 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 and read the "How To Prep & Paint Page" in the "Need To Know Section". There's a lot of information on this page you need to read. If you're in a hurry it's not a good idea to be doing an epoxy floor project. It always leads to either poor product selection or poor product application or both.
For regular passenger vehicles, light pickup trucks and midsize SUVs you can use any of the four standard epoxy floor kits.
It's a matter of your personal taste as to which one you like better.
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.
Primer is not required since our floor epoxies are self priming but a primer is always a good idea.
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! Again using a primer is a good idea.
If your garage is also 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 Can Handle Anything You Put On It Or Do On It.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ALL YOUR EPOXY KITS?
WE HAVE FOUR GARAGE FLOOR EPOXY KITS TO PROVIDE ANY LOOK AND LEVEL OF PROTECTION YOU DESIRE
Armor Chip is our standard garage epoxy kit with 6 lbs of epoxy color flakes and two layers of clear heavy duty topcoat 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 that is a solid color finish with 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 needed 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.
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 Floorpage 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
.
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. 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 ourArmor Granite Kitwith close to 90-95% coverage and always comes out perfect with a real granite floor look.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, in fact you need to etch it twice to make sure you burn out all the curing residues and then neutralize with the provided neutralizing powder. It's very important to follow this procedure to get permanent adhesion. You can diamond grind the floor with the Floor Prep Machine you can rent from Home depot which eliminates the need to acid etch. Just be sure all the dust is off the floor before you begin coating. We recommend getting the Vac attachment to make cleanup easier.
It means they are water based. It means that up to 50% or more of the product you are paying for is water. Water based epoxies are much thinner since 50% or more of the product you roll onto the floor evaporates away as it dries. Which is the root cause of all sorts of problems with your floor in a short amount of time. Our epoxy doesn't air dry it cures by a thermal chemical process and thus you get 100% of whatever you apply to your floor. So when you see a low price it's usually due to being water based or just high solids that are lower in quality.
Yes, it's very easy to do you floor in sections if you can't move all your stuff out at once. Put down a good duct tape line for the first section. If using a primer apply primer up to tape line if not priming apply epoxy up to tape line. If applying epoxy over primer end epoxy about 12 inches before tape line and end color flakes 12 inches before edge of epoxy. Apply topcoat up to 12 inches before edge of epoxy. When ready to do the second section remove tape. Lightly sand the 12" inch strips of the primer(if using), epoxy and topcoat to rough up. Then lightly overlap each layer of sanded coating with the new section of coating. It will all blend in as if you did it in one shot.
While normally not required we always recommend using a primer. Our primer is actually a high performance epoxy that we call a primer only because it goes down first. It outperforms 95% of all other actual epoxy coatings. Using a primer will provide extra adhesion, strengthen older concrete and extend the coverage of the epoxy coating layer by up to 25% which can come in handy if your floor size is close to or slightly over the stated kit coverage. Use a primer in lieu of purchasing the Add On Half Kit, it makes for a better job. Also see are latest primer addition, our No Prep instant Primer. This remarkable primer applies to any surface without prep and allows you to coat over it with any ArmorGarage epoxy coating product instantly. Saves prep time, dry time and money by not having to grind or etch. Now you can prime and epoxy in one day by using this game changing product.
Yes it is not only 100% solids by weight and volume which some companies advertise their epoxy as 100% solids when it's only by weight and not volume. This is not a true 100% solids epoxy. It's also not a Military Grade solids epoxy like ArmorGarage epoxy. Our Military Grade 100% solids epoxy means it's manufactured from the best solids materials made. There's a huge difference between standard solids epoxy and military grade epoxy. That's why our epoxy floors last the longest and stay looking brand new the longest!
Not hard at all in fact the hardest part of the job is cleaning out all your stuff. The best time to do your garage floor in a new house is right before you move in! All our kits are designed and geared so that first time users can apply the epoxy coatings and get professional looking results every time. All the images on our website our from customers who never applied an epoxy floor coating of any kind.
We have 12 preselected epoxy and flake color combinations to make it easy for to make your choice. However many times customers like to match certain color schemes. In this case the first step is to decide what the base color of the floor should be. This way you can select any of the standard kits with that base color. Then open the Chip Color Chart located on the Color Chart Tab and click on the link for the Chip Color Chart. Select up to five colors and list them in the custom order note box on the product page. You can also leave us a note in the comment box on the checkout page to keep them separate. This way you can play and experiment with each color and the ratios of each color. Plus if you're not happy with you color selections ArmorGarage has a color satisfaction guarantee and we'll replace your color flakes with a new selection of your choice at no charge! You can also call us and one of our expert reps can guide you on what colors go together and which don't. We've done every color scheme you can imagine so we know what will make you happy or not.
ArmorGarage is the only company that has a 5 year across the board guarantee including against wear! No other company guarantees their product against wear or dulling. Our garage epoxy floors routinely last 15-20 years or more before needed a simple recoat of the clear topcoat. Please note there is no such thing as a lifetime coating and therefore any such guarantee is not a real guarantee!
After applying the topcoat allow it to dry 5-8 hrs depending on temperature and humidity. Once the topcoat is dry and hard to the touch and leaves no fingerprints in it, you can walk on it and put all your stuff back inside the garage. We would leave the car off it for 2-3 days.
Yes, if it's raining lightly and water will not splash inside the garage onto the wet epoxy. We recommend that if there's a chance of heavier rain not to start your project, very high humidity can affect the curing of your epoxy and topcoat as would water splashing onto your floor.
All our epoxy floor kits come with nonslip additive that is mixed into the final clear coat to provide a slip resistant finish.
Yes you can but we don't recommend it unless your floor is at least 5 years or older. If you fill them in too soon you run the risk of having a crack show up in your brand new high gloss epoxy floor. We always leave the control joints unfilled once you've epoxied the floor the control joints add dimension to the floor making them look like giant slabs of porcelain or granite if you use color flakes.
For franchise company and contractor installed floors the average costs are between $4.50-7.00 per square foot. For DIY floors you can get it done for $1.09 - $1.90 per square foot and using a better quality product. It pays to do it yourself, it's very easy and straight forward to do. You can get epoxy floor kits for about .25 cents per sf but that would be for a product that will last only a couple of years. If you're not planning on using the floor long term than that would be they way to go. Otherwise you're better off doing nothing and leaving the floor bare rather than using a water based or only a high solid epoxy that will make the floor look worse in a few years.
ArmorGarage garage floor epoxy is not water based, they are 100% pure military grade epoxies made with 100% made in America materials. The reason your floor will keep you smiling for the next 20 years is because they are 10 times thicker and have a much harder finish. Our military grade topcoat has an industry low abrasion loss rating of only 4mgs(the lower the number the better) as opposed to other typical epoxy coating systems that have ratings of 30 mgs and higher. That's a tremendous difference. Our coatings are hot tire proof, mold & mildew proof, road salt proof, waterproof and chemical and acid proof. In short there is no comparison to our epoxy coatings with any other brand.
The actual amount of labor hours is about 6-8 hours total. In total time from start to finish is 2 or 3 days due to dry times in between coats and letting the floor dry if you acid etch it. Grinding will save you a day or two in drying time. Once you apply the final topcoat you can put all your stuff back on the floor in about 5-6 hours and park your car on it in 2-3 days.
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