After last week’s break in the picture-posting action, let’s get back to some garages.
Here’s a garage floor we recently completed with our crushed granite desert coating.
The installer did a heavy duty paint removal before beginning – a fully day process right there, which included applying a subfloor coating. On the second day, he applied the crushed granite basecoat with a full broadcast of desert colored media. Day three saw the application of a clear topcoat.
Unfortunately, I have no “before” images on this one, but additional pictures of the completed job can be found on our Facebook Page.v NExt – back to more random Google searches!
If you lean toward the religious, surely you’ll find something inspirational in this photo from a recent job.
This is a 12-step staircase leading down to a 3-car garage.
Stairways can be a challenge, but they’re not impossible, and we do them quite often. The big obstacle in this location was actually the white baseboard that outlines each step – it makes for a large number of cut-ins and corners to maneuver around.
This job is a great reason to be sure to hire professionals. No matter how inspired you might be by the white light shining from the top of these stairs, you’re probably better off leaving this type of work to us.
The material is our Crushed Granite – you can see the complete set of pictures over on our Facebook Page.
(Click the pictures to enlarge.)
This job was an interesting one, both because of the custom red color, and even more because that custom color was needed almost immediately.
As they say in some industries, “you can get it fast, or you can get it right, but you can’t have both.”
Well, everyone at Floorguard laughs at that statement, and set out to get this client taken care of.
This was for a builder that needed PLatinum Quarry flooring for the basement, Platinum Slate in one garage, and this red epoxy flooring in the other garage. The first two were no problem, and the installers got on right away.
We manufacture our base materials, but not the flakes, so we had to call that one in and put a massive rush request on it, hoping it would get shipped and out to the job site over one weekend, so that the installers could get it laid down asap.
As you can see, everything worked out great. This is not a before/after set of pics, by the way – the lighting/angles account for the color variation you’re seeing in these two photos.
The concept of Floorguard doing basement flooring is actually brand new to me personally, although I suppose it makes perfect sense.
Below is a fairly worn-in basement that needed some rehab. Obviously the walls aren’t finished yet – we both take no responsibility for that, and also recommend paint and other finishing touches take place after our work.
The top pic is before; the bottom is our crushed granite alloy floor – that’s light gray in color, with gray, black, and white flakes.
By the way, welcome to the all-new blog, with a streamlined, fast-loading design and a steady stream of pictorial content…!
More pictures! I am a happy blogger, to be sure.
This is a Platinum Sandstone floor that was installed just this past week.
What you’re seeing in the top portion is after the basecoat is applied to the floor. You might note it’s not all that shiny, and not even. (Frankly, comparing this to most garages I see, it’s a beauty as is.)
More after you take a look at this:
Yep, with the topcoat it really is that much better – perfect, even.
The Platinum Sandstone System is a hard one to install correctly, because the color is light and there are no flakes to take the eye away from possible imperfections.
You can see the job our installers did here, though – it really is a skilled masterpiece in garage flooring systems.
As a car dealer, your showroom is going to inform your customers – at least subconsciously – about the quality of your automobiles for sale.
Same as you wouldn’t eat at a filthy restaurant, you might be less likely to buy a car (or have your car fixed) at a dealer that looked uncared for.
Years of wear and tear left a recent client of ours in just such a state:
As you can see, our installers did their usual amazing job, installing our Hyper RES UV with a custom color mix, in order to correctly match their new showroom flooring to the factory colors.
We post a lot of content on our recent jobs, so be sure to tune into our Facebook and Twitter to get updates.
(And yes, it looks like pictures will be flowing consistently from here on, which makes things much better for everyone over here. Thanks for your patience!)
I enjoyed my old post about a garage floor in need of repair, so decided to do some searching on horrible garage stories.
Searching around, I found myself in this message board thread, wherein a woman discloses the following problem.
My husband charges his golf cart in the garage. In doing so, the battery acid has spilled onto the floor of the garage. I’ve put those drip pans underneath, but of course, it eats thru them as well. Bottom line, we are down to the dirt, literally.
First of all, the casual nature by which she mentioned her husband’s golf cart made me laugh. She said it like owning a golf cart was a common thing, and the oddity was that he chose to charge it in the garage, as opposed to outside (or elsewhere).
Maybe this isn’t as funny if you live on a golf course – I don’t, so I wouldn’t know.
In any case, the real question I have: how do you let this go on long enough that you get all the way down to dirt? Don’t you go to your golf cart dealership at some point and say, “hey, this battery leaks”? Or check on the “acid eating away the floor” thing a little earlier?
I dunno – I thought this was interesting, and still have no new pics from the people upstairs, so this is the post.
Speaking of them, I emailed someone here at Floorguard to see if epoxy flooring would take care of that problem.
(btw there’s a whole blog about batteries – who knew?)
(My niece colored this for me.)
It’s post number one of 2011 on the garage flooring blog, and already I’m searching for topics.
Not only that, but we’re yet again waiting for before/after pictures from the higher powers of the company.
I supposed it’s a bit of a misnomer to say “we” – I’m just me, and a subcontractor at that. Without input from inside, I have nothing to write about when it comes to garage storage systems and epoxy flooring.
(How do you like those SEO tricks, i.e. the two links with keywords attached?)
As such, I instant messaged my friend CM and asked her what to write about. She has a full name – I just thought initials would protect her.
me: Hey do you have a garage
CM: lol yes doesn’t everyone
me I don’t know, some people just have parking spots or whatever, right?
CM: why are you asking me this
me: I’m blogging for this co in chicago that does epoxy garage flooring and etc
me: looking for what to write about
me: can I just make this the blog post; i will link that epoxy thing to power the SEO like a tricky guy
CM: sure go ahead
CM: you are an odd one lol
Well, that wasn’t so hard. Now, the question is – why does she think everyone has a garage? What’s wrong with her – has she never lived in a apartment or dorm or anything but a house in her entire life?
After last week’s break in the picture-posting action, let’s get back to some garages.
