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, low solids, polyureas or Cycloaliphatic type floor epoxy. 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 Armor Chip Garage Epoxy 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 left was shot the floor was about 8 yrs old. This NEW VIDEO 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 video as in the original video. The floor still looks great! In this second link ArmorGarage vs Big Box Epoxy you'll see 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.
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.
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 why Armor 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.