Article in Garage Floor Coating

What do you see, when you pull out of your garage in the morning, or back in after a long hard day at work? Does your garage reflect your sophistication and style, or do you see a simple slab of concrete; cold, dull and gray? An inexpensive and exciting way to transform an otherwise uninviting garage into a comfortable workshop is concrete resurfacing in the form of a garage floor coating. With the innovating garage floor coating process, your garage can be given a second chance with a style that is sophisticated and personalized, and that welcomes you home.

Garage floor coatings have the right amount of versatility to make them work with any imaginable style of décor. The looks that are available to you can range from simple concrete in gray tones with sealants, to more complex colored bases, with multi-colored flecks or other textures added, which offers a design similar to what you might find in a Terrazzo or Granite. The color flakes that you can add to the garage floor coating are available in a large array of colors, and are actually chips of acrylic paint. This mixture creates a surface with excellent wear, which can easy stand being walked and driven on. If you are looking for a product with serious impact resistance, you should consider decorative quartz, multi-colored aggregates which are thrown to refusal into 100-percent solids epoxy, and that have an impact resistance which is not normally found with the acrylic paint chip method.

Choosing the design that you will go with for the flooring coating system in your garage can be as simple or as involved as you like, depending on if you simply want to match the color of your home, or if you want to also hide any existing flaws or imperfections in the current concrete garage floor. Coating the existing concrete with only a sealer will drastically change the look and feel of your garage, but will not hide the already-existing imperfections in the flooring. You can cover any existing imperfections by using a colored base with paint chips or quartz aggregates thrown down to refusal. If there are no aesthetic reasons to choose full coverage for the floor, you can use medium or light paint chip coverage for different design possibilities.

Caring for your coated garage floor -- It is important to take pride in your beautiful new garage floor coating, and that should begin with proper care and maintenance. Proper care involves following the four following steps in order to ensure that your new garage floor continues to be as beautiful as the day that it was originally installed.

• Make sure to sweep and blow out all debris and dust that are loose.
• Mix two ounces of vinegar and a gallon of warm or cold water in a large bucket.
• Apply the vinegar and water solution to the garage floor coating surface with a traditional mop.
• There is no need to rinse the floor, just make sure that it is allowed to dry before you allow foot or vehicle traffic.