When it comes to flooring for your garage, you’re sure to want a practical, beautiful, and especially durable floor. This is why many people choose to install epoxy floors in their garages. But perhaps you’re wondering what exactly is epoxy flooring and what makes it so special.
Epoxy Floor Basics
An epoxy floor is a concrete floor sealed and layered with an epoxy coating. The epoxy is a two-part system, combining polymer resins with hardeners which, when mixed, create a strong chemical bond with each other and the substrate underneath. This process is used for both epoxy flooring and epoxy coating. The primary difference between the two is that an epoxy floor is at a minimum 2mm thick.
Types of Epoxy Floors
There are many different types and styles of epoxy floors to choose from.
- Self-leveling Epoxy Floors: This can be poured over old, cracked, and damaged floors, filling in any imperfections and creating a smooth, level surface.
- Filled Epoxy Floors: the epoxy used for your garage floor can be mixed and filled with different materials such as quartz gravel or colorful flakes, adding more visual texture and traction.
- Anti-Static Epoxy Floors: just like a standard epoxy floor, but with an added compound that holds static electricity and safely dissipates any charges.
Benefits of Epoxy Flooring in Your Garage
Epoxy garage flooring is beneficial primarily because of its durability, as it is much more resistant to scratching and impacts than concrete. It also reduces the dust caused by flaking concrete floors. Epoxy floors, too, are more visually pleasing and versatile, with many different styles and colors to choose from.
Epoxy floors are a fantastic and smart choice for any garage. If you’re interested in installing an epoxy floor in your garage, don’t hesitate to contact us at Artisan Garage Floors today.
