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Garage Flooring Epoxy for your Man Cave

Getting 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

The 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.

The 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 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.