San Diego Garage Floor Paint, Epoxy, Coatings - Floors & Flooring
San Diego: 858-603-3573
Greetings from Las Vegas! We are designers and installers of Garage
Floor Paint (Epoxy and other Coatings) throughout the San Diego area.
We also have a location in Las Vegas.
While we are specialists in high-end showroom garages and multi-layered
logo designs, we happily bring our expertise to more down-to-earth projects.
Epoxy remains the most popular choice for residential garage flooring
due to its durability, resistance to elements, and color and texture
flexibility. The days of the dull gray garage floor are long gone--our
epoxy floors are available in thousands of color schemes and offer tremendous
opportunities to explore texture.
You can view pictures of garage floors, cabinets,
and garage racks that we have done, or read on to learn more about
our epoxy garage floor applications.
Concrete Preparation
We
begin with the most important step in the epoxy garage floor process:
preparation. Concrete must be properly prepared in order to accept adhesion
from any floor coating, whether epoxy, urethane, or polyurea. Regardless
of the coating we apply, we always prepare all concrete surfaces with
a heavy-duty diamond-head grinding machine. This machine roughens the
concrete and ensures dead-on adhesion. Beware of outfits that recommend
acid-etching before the application of coatings. Acid etching presents
three significant disadvantages: First, it does not adequately prepare
concrete; it simply isn't tough enough. Second, it leaves an acidic
slime behind that can inhibit adhesion. Finally, it makes concrete wet,
which can further inhibit adhesion.
Epoxy Base Coat and Flakes/Chips
Epoxy garage flooring can be applied as a solid color, but it is more
common and popular to broadcast colored vinyl chips into the epoxy base
coat after it is applied. The picture at left shows our installer applying
an epoxy garage floor. Epoxy is a popular and effective material for
coating garage and commercial floors because of its tremendous adhesive
properties, and its durability.
Final Stages
Following
the base coat and chip application, we apply two coats of clear gloss.
Typically, we apply a two-part epoxy clearcoat, and thereafter, we apply
a two-part UV-protected urethane. The clear epoxy builds up the coating,
and urethane prevents sunlight from damaging the coatings beneath, and
is also tremendously resistant to abrasion.
Want to Learn More? Give us a call:
San Diego: 858-603-3573
