garage floor epoxy


NEW PRODUCTS

NO PREP INSTANT PRIMER & VCT TILE COATING

ArmorGarage has added some amazing new products to our product lineup. 

First up is our game changing epoxy primer that requires virtually no prep and can instantly be epoxy coated over. You simply need to remove any nonbondable contaminants such as surface dirt, oil, grease or rust etc. This works over dirty concrete you just need to remove any dust with a vac or leaf blower or any dirt buildups. Then simply use our Acetone resistant hand pump sprayer or one of your own and spray down the primer. Let sit for 15 minutes till it gets tacky. Then immediately apply any ArmorGarage epoxy floor coating. This primer is super high performance and cannot be separated from concrete once it cures. Apply all the epoxy within 90 minutes. You can do the floor in sections, this gives you 90 minutes for each section to ensure you apply the epoxy within the coating window. If you miss the coating window for any reason simply scuff the primer with 120 grit and reapply some primer. This amazing primer utilizes ArmorGarage epoxy technology combined with Primera Nano Technology to allow it to stick to almost anything. Great for concrete floors with exposed aggregate(small river stones at the surface) and other hard to bond to surfaces. Thus eliminating the need for shot blasting, diamond grinding or etching. Saving time and money. This is a great solution for jobs that have limited down time. See the product here: https://www.armorgarage.com/noprinpr.html or contact us for help from one of our Reps.

Next up is our revolutionary VCT & Vinyl Floor Coating. Putting a permanent clear coat on VCT Tile and Vinyl Flooring has been the Holy Grail of the epoxy coating business. There are plenty of coatings that can be applied but none that will permanently adhere till now. We have gotten thousands of calls from customers that are looking to get out of the constant stripping and waxing of their vinyl floors. Stripping and waxing is time consuming and costly and must be done continuously or the your floor will start to look very shabby very quickly. ArmorGarage’s epoxy technology once again combined with Primera Nano Technology allows our clear liquified epoxy quartz coating to be sprayed onto any type of vinyl floor or linoleum and totally bond to it. Dries to a beautiful clear gloss finish that is extremely durable and easily cleaned. Eliminates scrubbing, stripping and waxing. This is a fantastic product for institutional and commercial applications in large high traffic areas where cleanliness is critical.

For more information see here https://www.armorgarage.com/vcttilivishc.html or talk to one of our expert Reps today.


FULL BROADCAST EPOXY FLOOR

SHOULD YOU DO A FULL BROADCAST EPOXY FLOOR?

The short answer is no unless you’re a professional and have done it many times before. Many customers call us and state they would like to do a full broadcast color flake epoxy floor for their garage or shop. Then after speaking with us for a few minutes they change their minds.

Epoxy Flooring ChipsIt may seem like a good idea when you read about it but doing it is much harder than it sounds. First off you need a tremendous amount of flakes, 70-75lbs of flakes for a typical 2 ½ car garage. Trying to do it with less chips and your floor will come out blotchy! Then you have the problem of applying so many flakes without them piling up in uneven lumps. If you’re not experienced in applying the color flakes they will end up in uneven layers and piles. Other companies trying to sell you on this will tell you that you can scrape the chips down. Again easier said than done and even after scraping and even sanding, the floor won’t look right.

So in addition to having your brand new epoxy floor not looking right, you’ll have to spend additional money to purchase a lot more topcoat. When you do a full broadcast, all those chips piled on top of each other create lots of nook and crannies. Those nooks and crannies have to be filled with topcoat, so plan on spending a lot more money on topcoat and time applying it in at least two coats or maybe three.

How do we know this? We know this from the thousands of floors we’ve done with our own guys. They have to know what they’re doing and even they screw it up every now and then. Which means they have to grind the floor off and start over. That’s why over 90% of the floors we do are not full broadcast. ArmorGarage offers two color flake floor options. The Armor Chip Garage Epoxy Flooring kit which provides you with about 75% chip coverage. Our Armor Granite kits provide you with 90% coverage. Both of these floors use the base epoxy color as one of the background colors. They both provide a beautiful finish that looks like you had a Pro do it for you even though you did it yourself for a fraction of the price. In fact, most customers don’t use all the color flakes we provide in each kit. We provide you the most color chips of any company so that you can apply the color chips until you like the pattern without having to worry about running out.

So why spend extra time and money and run the risk of having your floor not looking the way it should when you can get a gorgeous looking floor every time with our Armor Chip or Armor Granite Epoxy flooring kits.


Wait before you park on new epoxy floor

HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT BEFORE I PARK MY CAR ON MY NEW EPOXY FLOOR?

epoxy flooringThis is a common question that has a few different answers. It depends on what type of vehicle you will be parking on your new epoxy floor and what type of epoxy paint you used. You normally have to wait a few days before parking any vehicle on a newly coated floor. The reason being is that although the epoxy will be dry to the touch in about 8-10 hours the chemical curing process is still going on.

Technically speaking the molecular cross linking is still occurring and as time goes on the cross links get tighter which means the coating is getting stronger and harder.

Depending on temperature and humidity we recommend you keep standard size vehicles off your floor for at least 3 days. Larger vehicles and SUVs should stay off 4 days. Heavy commercial vehicles should stay off for 5 days.

If downtime is critical we do make our Ultra Fast Drying military grade epoxy flooring system that lets you paint and be back in service, the next day! Although this coating is costlier to purchase, it can save you considerable sums of money from not having to shut your operations down for more than 24 hours.

So depending on what your needs are, what kind of vehicle you have, what the temperature is and what kind of epoxy you’ve applied it will all play a factor in when you can start driving a vehicle over your newly epoxy painted floor. If you can wait an extra day, it’s better to be safe than sorry. You can also always contact us for our advice when it comes to questions about your floor.


Epoxy paint your floor in sections

HOW TO EPOXY PAINT YOUR FLOOR IN SECTIONS

Sometimes you have too much stuff on your floor to completely clear out or maybe you just can’t stop what you’re doing business wise on the whole floor at the same time. So you need to do the floor in sections so you can move your stuff around and or keep your business running while you redo your floor with an epoxy flooring coat.

Garage Floor EpoxyOnce the floor is properly prepared (see how to prepare your floor for epoxy coating) you would apply a good duct tape line to section off the floor. Do not use painters tape since our epoxy is too thick for that. Apply the first epoxy floor coat up to the tape line and let dry. Then apply the second coat but stay back 6-12” from the tape line. If doing a third coat as in the case of our Military Epoxy System, stay back 12” from the edge of the second coat. Thus creating a step effect with the floor epoxy.

Then carefully remove the tape, razor cutting the edge will most likely be needed. Before applying the first coat of the next section, lightly sand the first 6-12” strip of the first section to rough up. Then apply the epoxy to the second section and lightly overlap onto that sanded strip of the first section. For the second coat, you will lightly sand the strip of the second coat from the first section and lightly overlap the new section over that. Do the same if doing a third coat. The reason you need to sand those stripes is that after 24 hours the epoxy pores start closing and may affect the bonding of the overlapping epoxy.

Follow this method and the epoxies will all blend into one monolithic coating making your floor look like you did it all in one shot.


Use The Right Epoxy Floor Coating in Battery Charging Rooms

Epoxy Flooring for Charging Rooms

Garage Epoxy FlooringThere are quite a few places in which you can start using garage floor epoxy, but there are also quite a few places that you’ve never thought of. The garage is definitely a sure bet, and even a parking a garage will benefit from this placement. There are, however, several rooms that can definitely make use of this epoxy flooring type and today we’re going to talk about battery charging rooms. Before we get into that, however, let’s go over again very briefly the benefits of good quality garage floor type of epoxy and why you should consider it for virtually any hard floor surface.

What is Garage Epoxy Flooring?

Okay, one of the biggest mistakes that people make when they are selecting something like garage epoxy flooring is believing that it is actually just paint. Yes, you can paint your garage floor but there is a strong chance that it isn’t going to turn out nearly as good as it would with high end epoxy flooring, and with good reason. First of all, it’s highly durable and it definitely stands the test of time. If you really need proof of this, all you need to do is take a look at our website and you will see a few side by side demonstrations, including one from a parking garage in which the coating form a competitor wore down very quickly compared to our epoxy which still looks brand new.

It has been proven time and again that the right epoxy can benefit you in ways that you never even realized. Not only does it last for a long time, it looks really good and let’s be honest, that’s really what counts. Now that we’ve covered that, let’s talk a bit about battery charging rooms.

Battery Charging Rooms and Garage Epoxy Flooring

There are a few things that can happen in a battery charging room, but we’re going to go over the most obvious:

LeaksThis is something that is most definitely going to happen in any scenario where battery charging is involved. A leaky battery isn’t on anyone’s list of things to have, most certainly, but it happens more than you would think. Leaks in a battery room can be particularly detrimental to the floor as you can be dealing with far more than water. Many batteries bring with them corrosive substances, and they are definitely not something that you would want on a typical concrete floor. Leaking acid will eat through your concrete floor fairly aggressively! Then it will cost you much more to repair your floor than a good epoxy floor coating would.

DropsDepending on the type of batteries you’re dealing with; they can be pretty heavy. Epoxy flooring can withstand small impacts without taking serious damage, and with that being the case, they are often perfect for battery charging rooms. While epoxy flooring is not invincible by any means, it can certainly be very helpful in these situations.

IlluminationJust as with any other work environment, having a nice, well lit room is absolutely essential, and garage epoxy flooring will brighten any room, especially with a high gloss topcoat. It looks great, it feels great, and it saves energy – what more could you possible want?

CleanupYes, you will need to clean your floors eventually, even in a room that is only used for charging batteries. The thing to remember here is that epoxy flooring is incredibly easy to clean and maintain. You don’t need to use abrasive chemicals and you don’t need to spend hours on your knees trying to scrub an impossible stain. Epoxy is stain resistant and will go right back to the way it was before you know it – that alone is a great reason to use it.

Battery charging rooms can be found in many different types of facilities such as golf clubs, warehouses, factories and even homes that have golf carts. With so many different electronic devices in play today, you can almost be rest assured that you’ll need one. Retail stores often use battery charging rooms for their PDA devices, and colleges often use them for the charging of laptop batteries. There are plenty of other great applications, but when it comes right down to it, you’re going to want to protect the floor from being damaged. It’s a job for an epoxy and you know it can handle the best. You can be rest assured that the garage floor epoxy cost is well worth it when you consider the results.

 


Garage Floor Epoxy for Storage Units

If you are the proud owner of a storage comapny for example keepsafe storage units, you’ll agree that whether it is indoor or outdoor you know one very important fact: storage units see a LOT of action. There seem to be two different types of renters when it comes to storage units. There is the first type, which tends to organize everything and makes sure that everything is placed inside the unit in an orderly fashion. They may even stop to alphabetize everything, you never know. The second type is the kind that every storage unit owner dreads: the type that simply drops everything into the storage unit and shoves it against the wall as hard as they can, hoping that the door actually closes. That’s on top of keeping everything like the units managed and organized and ensure that those renters keep up with their payments. There are, luckily, storage management software to help owners keep up with all of this, if you are an owner of a storage unit and you want to check out a storage management software, you might want to View Site here for more information. These are the types of people that usually end up with the entire content of their unit up for auction at some point, but we digress.

No matter which type of renter you have, if you’re renting from somewhere like Lock Up Garages, there are a few things that you can be certain of. The first thing is that scratches happen, especially when furniture or other heavy items are being dragged against the concrete floor. The second, is the inevitable spill. You never know what people are going to be putting inside their storage units and there is a good chance that you never actually ask. You can have a specific set of guidelines, but in the end, you can’t just go through every single box that people pull off the back of their truck.

You could have anything from oil spills to soda, and every single thing in between. You probably also know that when they do this, they never stick around to clean it up. Not only is this a hassle for you to clean, you have probably also found that it can cause damage to your units, considering concrete is very easy to stain or crack. One of the best solutions is to use a garage floor epoxy, which is an outstanding way to bring new life to an old floor.

Why Garage Floor Epoxy is the Best Solution for your Storage Unit

Armor GarageAs we said in the previous paragraph you’re going to end up experiencing a number of different problems with renters and the first one we are going to address is spills. Let’s take sticky substances for our first example. You never know how long a renter is going to hold onto a storage unit, but if something spills in there, you also never know if they’re going to clean it up. It could literally be sitting on the floor for days, for weeks, or even for years; you never know honestly. All you know is that when they leave, they’re not going to be cleaning it up. Now you have a problem. If it’s a standard concrete floor, you’re going to be on your hands and knees trying to scrub it up, and there is a good chance that it will never actually come up. It will probably even soak into the floor! If you have an epoxy flooring however, a good mopping and perhaps even some pressure washing will take care of the problem – it’s really nothing you need to worry about.

Along with being easy to clean, epoxy tends to be much more resistant to absorption simply because garage floor epoxy actually seals the floor, making it completely impervious. In addition to that you have to protect your floor from the wear and tear from dollies, pallet jacks and hand trucks rolling in and out all day, everyday. ArmorGarage epoxy systems are forklift rated. It’s hard to imagine anything much better than that. Of course, the durability factor will be much better if you use our military grade topcoat, it will protect the epoxy itself and keep your floor looking new for a lot longer. Then once the clear topcoat begins to wear you simply roll on a new clear topcoat and the whole floor comes right back to new without ever having to redo the epoxy paint itself. The products from Armor Garage are resilient, and much more durable than the big box items that you would normally purchase from a store – don’t miss out on making your storage units virtually invincible.

Get Your Floor in Gear

Garage epoxy flooring has many different uses, as you have undoubtedly already discovered. From the garage, to the storage unit, and even the workshop; don’t make the mistake of going with a lesser brand, go with the product offered by Armor Garage and get your floor in gear.


Garage Flooring – Perfect for Any Man Cave

Garage Flooring Epoxy for your Man Cave

epoxy-flooringGetting ready to build the perfect man cave can be a bit of a challenge, but in case you’re not familiar with the term, what is a man cave exactly? How should it look? Will you have games consoles and gaming chairs in there for you and your boys? What alcohol will you get? What should the building of it entail? The first thing you need to know is that the man cave is intended to be a completely masculine space. Furthermore, despite the feminine name, many granny flat designs make the perfect space for a man cave. Additionally, most granny flat interiors can be personalised to feel more masculine depending on how you decorate. You might outfit it with wood-paneled walls, or you might want to consider hanging a moose head up at the front of the room or an indoor basketball area to hang out with friends. Then again maybe you would like to set up a massive television and a bar. Before you build it all the way up, however, let’s start at the lowest point: the floor. When it comes to making sure you choose the right floor for your man cave you definitely have plenty of choices.

Some people are going to go with carpet while others will favor hard wood floor. If you are like many men however, you would love a more industrial look, especially if your man cave is separate from the rest of the house. With that being the case, there is a good chance that you have chosen to make use of concrete floors, and that’s an outstanding idea. There’s a good chance you’ll be doing some drinking in here, probably a lot of drinking, and spills are going to be a fact of life. That being said, while concrete is a great choice, you’re going to want to make sure that it is protected. We’re speaking of course about garage flooring, or epoxy – a great way to keep your floor safe from whatever life might throw at it.

Garage Flooring Epoxy is the Way for your Man Cave

Concrete is a great start, but epoxy paint is going to make it even better. To start, you can make it any color you wish, and if you want to add a little bit of texture to your floor then you might consider a light chip broadcast. In our opinion, garage flooring epoxy is a great way to give your man cave a sort of ‘garage-like’ feel, even if you haven’t parked a car inside.

Epoxy does an outstanding job of sealing up the floor so that you won’t have to worry about spills, and you certainly won’t have to worry about stains. You can easily clean anything that spills on a garage floor epoxy, and you can trust us when we say that in a man cave, there are going to be spills.

There are many other benefits of course, the most important of these being that the floor can be designed to be non-slip. It isn’t this way initially, of course, but if you mix an additive with the epoxy mix you can get the non-slip feature and stay far safer in your man cave than you might have otherwise.

Getting the Right Floor Epoxy

Armor GarageThe garage floor epoxy price from our company might seem a little bit high, but you have to consider the benefits of getting it from a reputable source rather than going straight to the big box store. Our website holds a pretty good example of what happens when you rely on the big box brands – it begins to break down after a year, and that’s probably not what you’ll be happy about. You want something that is going to last for many years, and we can definitely accommodate you. Take a good long look at the products we have to offer when you’re trying to outfit your man cave with the best epoxy floor. It will be well worth it, and consider using the military grade top coat while you are at it. Not only will it be prettier to look at, it will actually last quite a bit longer. With our military grade garage floor epoxy system you can have friends and family over and never have to worry about the floor getting ruined from too much activity on it.


Show Off your Classic Car Collection the Right Way with Garage Floor Epoxy

Show off with Garage Flooring Epoxy

Classic cars. Everyone loves them, everyone wants them, and not everyone can have them. It’s too expensive for most people and even those who can afford to have these cars compare car insurance here to see if they can find the cheapest possible policy to help them save money! If you’re lucky enough (or rich enough) to have a collection then you want to show it off. You want to show it off in grand style and you don’t want to skimp on the details. You want all of your cars front and center whether you’re showing off an old Model T from the dawn of the modern car, or a classic 1956 Chevy with its sleek painted exterior. The choices are limitless and they vary from collector to collector. Often, though, collectors turn to sellers, and we see people taking out motor trade insurance so that they can sell their cars to the next batch of collectors. However, we feel that a quality garage with a great collection will deter people from selling off their prize possessions. You may also choose to opt for a steel structure to house your collection, in part due to the impressive metal building life expectancy and the fact that it will provide you with a vast amount of protected space to utilize however you choose.

With your car collection aside for a moment however, you might want to start thinking about how you want to finish your garage floor. Maybe you’ve already set your cars up and have decided that you can do better with the floor, or maybe you’re just starting out and know you need to take your floor to the next level. No matter which it is, you know that garage flooring epoxy is the way to go, and with good reason. Let’s spend a few minutes talking about just why garage floor epoxy is the way to go and how it can help you show off your classic car collection in best possible way.

Garage Floor Epoxy – The Perfect Way to Make your Cars Shine

Your cars shine by themselves but let’s be honest, there’s something cool about having them sitting on a high gloss epoxy floor. It’s shiny, it’s bright, and you can even broadcast chips over it to make a terrazzo or granite look. So you can a solid color floor or a floor with color flakes that can blend with or accent colors in your garage. The choice is yours and you can customize any of our epoxy flooring kits anyway you like.

Easy CleanupWe’re not going to mince words here, if you’re moving classic cars in and out of the area there is a good chance that you’re going to end up with scuff marks, tire marks or oil leaks on the floor. You’ll need to be able to clean them and if you have a naked concrete floor it’s going to be not so easy. With an epoxy floor, on the other hand, you’re going to find that cleaning up anything on the floor is as easy as getting a mop and wiping it up.

Liquid CleanupYou know what the really cool thing about epoxy is? You can spill pretty much anything you want on it and it’s just going to pool at the top rather than soaking into the concrete if its uncoated. This is going to be especially helpful when you find yourself dealing with vehicle fluids – the last thing you want in your showroom is oil stains or corroded concrete. Our epoxies are impervious to all vehicle fluids.

A Garage Flooring Epoxy for A Better Display Overall

Your garage floor epoxy coating is definitely going to make for a better display. The floor will be shiny, and it will be better at reflecting light than a bare or conventionally painted concrete floor. It’s going to add to the aesthetic of your cars, and it’s going to make the room a much more fun place to be – that’s definitely an improvement over the norm.

If you’re going to install garage flooring epoxy in your classic car showroom, then we strongly suggest using a topcoat! You could apply just one layer of epoxy on your floor as some of our competitors suggest, but that would be a big mistake, You’re going to find that adding a topcoat can add many, many years of life to the epoxy finish. When the topcoat starts to break down after many years of service, all you need to do is add an additional coat of the topcoat and you’ll be good to go again. The base epoxy should stay unaffected. If that doesn’t sound good, then we don’t know what does.

ArmorGarage has many different products available, all of which are able to meet your flooring needs. Choose your color and coat your floor in the best floor epoxy on the market. It’s a quick solution that is undoubtedly going to last for many years!

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Use Garage Epoxy Flooring for your Parking Garages

Garage epoxy flooringThe list of uses for garage epoxy flooring continues to grow day by day and in this case we’re going to discuss the concept of using it for your parking garage. In this article, we focus on large scale parking lots but it can also be used in smaller residential garages too. Transform your garage and prolong it’s lifetime using epoxy flooring and other up and coming solutions like this garage door repair in Hoffman Estates, IL. Let’s be honest here: parking lots get a lot of traffic, and when we say that we’re not trying to make a pun, it’s the truth. One of the most interesting things about a parking lot is that you would be hard pressed to control the type of traffic that comes in and out. One day you could be dealing with small cars, the next, trucks, and the worst part is you can’t control the condition of the cars.

Your floors are eventually going to reap the ‘benefits’ of every single mechanical problem that your visiting cars have, and these problems aren’t few. Oil leaks, for example, are a common problem with any car and this can easily contribute to the not so gradual degradation of your concrete floor. As we have said many times before, concrete is a porous material, and the more liquid that seeps into it, the bigger the problems you will have. Something important to remember, is that while liquids like oil and antifreeze might not cause immediate structural problems other corrosive fluids from vehicles or run off from vehicles can cause severe pitting down to the rebar. Once this corrosion gets to your rebar, you have some serious issues to worry about.

Remember, concrete is not invincible, despite initial appearances. If you want to avoid these problems, we would strongly suggest taking a look at our epoxy coating systems.

What’s the Best Garage Epoxy Flooring for a Large Parking Garage?

If you take a look at the Home Page of our website you are going to find a video of a parking garage in which our epoxy flooring with a military topcoat was utilized while some directional blue arrows were done with a hybrid type all in one epoxy. The latter wore out the former still looks new after 9 years, which is to say that the former did not wear out at all. As we said, don’t let your floor get that bad in the first place.

Garage epoxy flooringGarage epoxy flooring isn’t invincible, but you will find that it’s a better solution than the big box brands, especially if you choose to utilize our military grade topcoat. A topcoat is a protective coating for your garage floor that will add many years of life to its lifespan, and it is great for covering the color chips if you choose to use them on your floor.

Take a look at your parking lot right now and ask yourself this very important question: could it be better? If the answer is yes, then you’ve got a decision to make to create a better environment and protect your facility structurally. Not only will the floor be much more durable, it will be easier to clean, and it will be quite a bit brighter. Any interior parking space can benefit from these features and we’re certain that it won’t be too long before you’re buying epoxy and coating the entirety of your parking lot. Don’t worry; it’s not incredibly expensive, nor is it incredibly hard to apply. You just need a bit of time, some determination, and a desire to see your parking space become better. Armor Garage will can supply the materials and information you need to get the job done right and at a price you can actually afford.

 


I LOVE YOUR PRODUCT! It looks great

Below is a ArmorGarage review from one of our customers that installed our garage floor epoxy and military grade top coat product.

“First of all, we used your product in our laundry room including the military top coat to cover VCT. I LOVE YOUR PRODUCT! It looks great and now we want to extend it to the hallway from garage to the elevators.”

Pauline Building Manager, Hanley Towers/DNIProperties