How To Achieve Precision and Beauty with Epoxy Floors
Nowadays, people all around the world are using epoxy to cover their surfaces, like home floors. Some big name companies also use epoxy as a way to make their floors look cleaner and sleek.
Now you might be wondering what is epoxy? Well, epoxy is a type of strong adhesive that is used for covering surfaces and to stick things together.
There are main different uses for epoxy, which makes it so popular. For example, the most popular use of epoxy would be for garage and home floors, which makes them epoxy floors. Garage and home floors tend to get dirtied easily, which is why epoxy is used to cover and protect the natural floors so that dirt can no longer stain them.
Here is some more information on epoxy and what is can do to protect and refurbish your floors.
As said before, epoxy is a strong adhesive that is mainly used to refurbish and protect floors. Now, this does not mean that epoxy cannot be used for other things; it’s just that most people use them for floors since those are the type of surfaces that get dirty and stained fast.
Epoxy can also be used for joining metals and plastics, replacing old and fragile china. Epoxy is also used for some very tough and important jobs, like creating or fixing aircraft components and fixing military materials. Epoxy is mixed with two components and if they are not mixed correctly, things could go very bad and become extremely dangerous.
As said before, epoxy is mainly used for floors, like garage and home floors. In order to protect and refurbish your floors, simply go to your nearest hardware or rugged appliance store and pick up an epoxy kit.
Follow the instructions and carefully mix the two components together to make your epoxy adhesive and set it aside. Before you paint to epoxy onto your floor, you want to make sure it is clean by sweeping it or mopping it.
If you choose to mop it, let the floor dry before you paint it. If you are doing your garage floor, you can use a concrete primer to get a smooth base coat for the epoxy, however, no base coat is available for house floors.
After you’ve cleaned the floor, pour the epoxy down and distribute it with a squeegee and then use a long-handled paint roller to smooth the floor. Wait over night for the epoxy to dry and then apply a clear topcoat to add some shine. If you are doing this process to your garage, wait at least seven days before you drive over the surface.
Epoxy is becoming extremely popular all around the world because of its many benefits. For example, epoxied garage floors resist oil stains, which is great for those who have cars that are always leaking on their floors. Epoxy floors also wipe off like a kitchen counter! Epoxy is known to make things easier and cleaner. By simply following the process above, you can achieve epoxy floors too!
Testimonials
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- Nathan
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- Jenny P.
Covering our old, gray garage floor was a great aesthetic and functional improvement. This project requires 2 days: first day preparing the surface (major job requiring right equipment), putting down first coating and sprinkling the flakes. This requires about 4 hours. After this dries, they come back next day and apply the topcoat. They notified us when they would start the work and arrived as promised. They worked diligently, completed the work efficiently, left the work areas and our driveway clean. The owner Steve is a great guy to deal with.
- Bob H.
It was a pleasure dealing with the company’s owner Steve Chaloult. When we called him to give us an estimate, he arranged to come within a few days. We have a very large two car garage. His estimate was a bit more than the first company we called but he seemed very well prepared in showing us samples and very knowledgeable about his product and we just liked him. For personal reasons , we had to delay installation for about a month and he could not be more accommodating. we finally we able to have it done this past week and it was worth the wait. The garage floor is just beautiful and I never would have thought I would say that about a garage floor! We also had the lower walls around the floor done and very glad we did. At one time we were thinking we could do this ourselves using a kit. WHAT were we thinking? This is a job for a professional and we are so glad we used Steve.
- Moira J.
The owner Steve Chaloult was easy to work with and he’s very good at what he does. I highly recommend Floorguard as your contractor if you’re wanting to have a garage floor finished with a durable epoxy like colored finish. Floorguard came when they said they would and cleaned up after they were finished. Floorguard also installs garage storage cabinets.
- Andrew A.
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