Garage Floor Coatings

Most garages on this coast fall into one of two categories. Bare builder concrete that has been slowly staining and pitting since the day the house closed, or a thin DIY kit that looked good for a season and now has bald patches where the tires sit. Both end the same way: a floor that makes the whole garage feel like a storage unit instead of part of the house.

Our system starts with diamond grinding, never acid etching, because coastal slabs carry moisture and a coating is only as good as its bond. We repair cracks and spalls, lay the basecoat that anchors into the open concrete, broadcast flake to full rejection in the blend you choose (see our color options), and seal it under a UV stable polyaspartic topcoat. Light foot traffic the same day. Park on it in 24 to 48 hours.

We install three one day flake systems for garage floors. One uses a 100 percent solids epoxy basecoat, one uses polyurea, one uses polyaspartic. All three take the same vinyl flake broadcast, all three are sealed under the same polyaspartic topcoat, and all three finish at over fifty mils. Their published test numbers are identical: same adhesion, same tensile strength, same abrasion resistance, same gloss retention under accelerated UV.

Most garages here sit on a slab on grade, so the epoxy basecoat and its higher moisture tolerance is often the one we spec. If your concrete is dry and you want to park on it sooner, polyurea sets faster.

The price is the same whichever one your floor calls for, so the choice is a technical one rather than a budget one. See the full system comparison, or read why we test your slab first.