(I think this is the last pic in the series from that one job I went to go watch – I really went nuts with the photo filters/effects on this one.
I don’t remember taking it, so doubtful I could repeat it. Enjoy.)
You may get the sense reading this blog that I’m personally not exactly the Chicago expert in epoxy flooring and garage floor protection and such.
I’d say this is an accurate statement and often wonder about my place in the larger picture of the industry.
Will I ever be able to talk coherently with others, or am I destined to be shooed away from the proverbial cool table to go write my “silly internet stuff”?
Well, thanks to my new Twitter friend @VeeckAsInWreck, I believe my mission has been established.
@floorguard Thanks for the follow guardian of the floors! Gimme a shout if you ever want to head to a ball game!
about 1 hour ago via web
Guardian of the Floors has such a powerful ring to it, I instantly knew it was meant to be.
I have no idea what it means, though. I’m pretty sure if I go ask everyone at the cool table, I’ll get the same reaction I get now, i.e. the silly internet stuff, etc.
Alas, I’ve at least begun to establish my own little corner.
(By the way, you can follow me – via Floorguard – right here on Twitter.)
There’s probably been an unreasonable build-up to this picture of actual work being done, but here it is.
This is Mike, beginning to prep the old garage floor for its big moment.
I’m not going to pretend to understand what’s happening here, being that the keyboard I’m writing this post on is the closest I’ve come to an actual tool in many years.
A good assumption would be that this incision (or whatever) is going to keep that fresh epoxy floor treatment having a nice clean edge and border, i.e. most people don’t need an epoxy coated driveway.
(I need to find out if that’s even possible.)
Anyway, since I’ve been doing this work for Floorguard I’ve basically become obsessed with garages. I’m an avid runner, and as I go about my morning run through various neighborhoods, I make it a point to look at any open garages, searching out possible Floorguard beneficiaries.
This morning…I found one. Less than half a mile away, too.
The obvious question becomes, “is it out of line to take a picture of that garage floor?”
I have no idea – I’m hopeful someone will just be out there one day and I can strike up some casual conversation about their garage, and then pull out a camera and take a picture of it.
In any case, it was kind of a light gray with some specks of something. I was so excited to see it I didn’t totally slow down – in fact, I think I sped up for some reason. It’s on my route now, though.
The lesson here? Epoxy flooring can make you crazy.
Over on Twitter I do a lot of monitoring for various topics – whether it be people talking about Floorguard itself, or epoxy flooring, or a new garage, or basically anything to do with garages in general.
By far, the highest number of garage-related Tweets are people getting new garage doors or garage door openers.
A rough estimate is that 100% of these Tweets are sarcastic in nature. Yes, that’s all of them.
Some examples, with the identities of the Twitter folk hidden for their own protection.
[redacted] has a new garage door……oh the excitement!
ok so the ridiculous people installing the new garage door woke me up at half 7 today. im not happy
To be fair, that last one isn’t the garage door’s fault – that was the installers that inspired the sarcasm.
Still, definitely a trend, and one that I’ve yet to see infect the world of garage flooring and organizational type activities such as the ones we offer at Floorguard.
Carry on – included here of course is some more of my expert photography for your enjoyment. And yes, that’s actual work being done this time!
I know I might be bleeding this one trip out into the field a bit far, but these pictures are just too well done.
My photography is that raw and powerful.
I didn’t even set the phone to widescreen.
Still, I understand that everyone – including, but not limited to the boss – is asking for pictures of an actual garage floor getting worked on.
Otherwise people might think I just took the truck home, parked it in the driveway, and took a bunch of pictures of it.
(I’ve done that before, but those images are for me, not for the public.)
As such, what you see above is the garage that is getting worked on, if not the garage floor actually being worked on.
I think Matt is back there somewhere doing something – you can see him clearly back in those jet-black shadows.
Again, the sign of a good photographer is how deep the colors are in his or her images, and isn’t the point of this entire blog to validate my artistic self-worth?
By the way, the call is now out for you to leave a review over on Google should you be a former or current customer – we’d really appreciate it.
Don’t forget you can follow me on Twitter, also!
Last week I posted some of the finest photography you’ve probably ever seen of a Floorguard truck sitting in a driveway.
Going through the rest of the shots I took while I was there, it dawned on me I had an even better one, which you see here.
Not only is this framed against a classic red fire hydrant, but the background is all washed out. You can barely tell it’s the scene of some real, actual epoxy flooring work.
In fact, you can barely even see a garage or anything else going on.
As my boss here at Floorguard might say, “this seems completely useless”.
My response is simple, and eloquent, and slightly defensive, because I’d like to keep working on this stuff.
“This is art, sir.”
Follow me (as @Floorguard) on Twitter over here – I have more dramatic and moody shots yet to share, including one that even shows actual work being accomplished on the garage you can’t see in this picture.
I went out to watch a recent residential job getting done the other day as I noted in my last post.
It was a nice house in a suburban Chicago neighborhood. I was ready to move in, although I didn’t ask, since that might be awkward.
Some time was spent talking to Matt, one of our installers, and he explained the process to me.
Most of it was over my head, but it’s actually a three day procedure, which I didn’t know. It was also like 90 degrees out and I was sweating right through my shirt.
A bunch of pictures were taken, which I’ll share here in my upcoming posts. A lot of them are artsy pictures of the truck, like what you see here.
How cool would this truck look in your driveway for a few days? If nothing else, this seems like a good reason to have some garage floor coating put down, right?
I’ll even come out and take pictures of the truck in your driveway, which I can then use here to convince other people to have their garage worked on.
It’s like the circle of Chicago’s garage flooring life can start right in your driveway.
(In unrelated news, I’m really impressed with the picture quality here – this was taken on an 8 megapixel camera in my phone with an App called Vignette.
I don’t remember my eyes seeing the truck and sky as quite that colorful. If you click it you can see it full size.)
(I think this is the last pic in the series from that one job I went to go watch – I really went nuts with the photo filters/effects on this one. 
