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EPOXY GARAGE FLOOR PAINT BASICS.

There are three articles the introduce you to epoxy floors. Is your floor suitable for an epoxy coating? There are different kinds of epoxies, which is right for you? Your floor could be a 1 - 7 coat system, figure out what you want. If colored chips in the floor appeals to you, there are lots of other decisions to be made. Chip floors are usually multi coat systems and there are 2 or 3 methods for applying them. They are also usually a blend of epoxy layers and urethane layers. These three articles overlap each other quite a bit, but we'll list them from the most simple article to the more advanced article.  BEGINFLOORU4.HTML , FLOORCOATINGS.HTML.

EPOXY GARAGE FLOORS CONCRETE  TWO PART PAINT.

The article about painting your concrete slab gives reason why and problem with applying an epoxy to your concrete/cement slab. Like any of the other articles here, it covers basic information you should know before using any commercial grade epoxy concrete floor coating.   SLAB.HTML.

EPOXY FLOORS (GARAGE) SURFACE PREPARATION - ACID ETCH - ACID ETCHING.

Good things seem to come in threes. Yet another set of three articles worth your time dealing with preparing your concrete floor / slab / garage / for epoxy paint. The problem with surface preparation is that you never know if you've done it well enough, or enough of it, until after the fact. In some cases no amount of surface preparation is enough. Coating failure can result from issues outside of your control. Suitable and correct surface preparation is what makes or breaks a professional / commercial epoxy floor contractor. His income and reputation is on the line. He has to call the surface preparation right or he is in big trouble. The good epoxy contractors know when to just walk away from a job rather than bidding on it. Correct surface preparation can make his high fees all worth while. Industrial epoxy surface preparation also has access to 'shot blast' equipment that most homeowners and DIY folks don't have. Article one covers surface preparation in general, not just concrete floors. Article two talks about the options for home owners and article three is strictly about the acid etching method of floor preparation.   PREP.HTML, HOME4U.HTML and finally  ACID.HTML.

ONCRETE MOISTURE CONTROL.

Water and moisture inside your concrete can keep coatings from sticking as well as producing a dank, musty smell. One product (not an epoxy) that will reduce the the moisture/moisture movement in the concrete is called Bio Vee Seal (tm). Basically if soaks into the exposed concrete then forms crystals in the tiny void spaces. Simply put, it 'clogs up the cement/concrete' thus reducing moisture flow. Read more.  VEE4U.HTML

NON SLIP - ANTI SLIP PAINT / ADDITIVES.

Lots and lots of options here! Grits come in different sizes and have different textures depending upon how thick the coating it is being used with. Also, different kinds of grits, as well as different methods of grit application resulting in different textures. How much grit do you want, 10% coverage or 100% coverage? Also at least two coatings with grit already in them. You could spend an entire winter developing the 'grit' system for your project. Two articles address this topic.  GRIT.HTML and NONSLIP.HTML.

SAND QUARTZ FLOORS / QUARTZ EPOXY FLOOR - SERIOUS COMMERCIAL EPOXY FLOOR SYSTEM.

An epoxy floor is really just a semi-hard plastic floor. It wears and scratches, especially if running forklifts over it and dragging things across it. The serious commercial epoxy floor involves a rolled down layer of floor epoxy paint completely covered / saturated with sand. Then a sealing topcoat of more epoxy to 'glue down' the top 'layer' of sand. The result is sort of a sand/quartz floor held in place with epoxy rather than just an epoxy painted surface. Commercial / Industrial floor areas use the same pigmented epoxy for the base and topcoat and ordinary hardware store play sand for the sand additive. Fancy applications use blends of color sands and clear coats. The big drawback for this sort colored sand quartz floor is the high shipping costs of the heavy colored sand (need about 1 pound per square foot). QUARTZ4U.HTML

TWO PART EPOXY GARAGE FLOOR PROBLEMS - WHAT CAN GO WRONG.

You will not see these kind of articles from most floor epoxy vendors! - Out gassing bubbles, adhesion issues, etc. can be real problems that catch you unexpected. Know what can go wrong by reading these two articles.  PROBLEM.HTML and the PINHOLE4U.HTML

WATER BASED TWO PART GARAGE EPOXY PAINT.

About the only place water-based epoxy paints are used is on floors because they need lots of exposure to air for the water to evaporate away. These coatings are very user friendly to apply, but the result is a very thin coating, more like a coat of enamel than epoxy. (AQUAROCK.HTML)
EPOXY - LATEX - ACRYLIC FLOOR SYSTEM.

With a little imagination you can combine different kind of paint systems for a really unique floor.  LATEXFLOOR.HTML

GARAGE EPOXY PAINT - EPOXY GARAGE PAINT.

Painting your garage floor? Issues like tire pick-up, oil, damaged concrete etc. can be real issues. Learn about seamless garage floor epoxy systems with our first article, then read an actual garage floor case study.  GARAGE4U.HTML  FLOORCS.HTML

In the last five years or so there has a massive increase in the number of web sites selling epoxy floor paints to home owners and small businesses.

These sites contract sharply with the older traditional sites (including ours) that sell quality epoxies to professional coating contractors and other industry professionals.

We suggest you proceed carefully when surfing internet epoxy floor paint sites. The sites are always slick and obviously designed by the marketing department and not the technical staff. They offer prices that range from super cheap to way too high. They tend to be full of promises, pictures and claims, but very weak on actual technical product information about the product itself. The often fail to mention that all epoxies yellow in UV and sunlight, that surface preparation and surface conditions, which are outside the control of the epoxy vendor, can often be a real problem that can make or break a project. Potlife and mixing issues are also downplayed.

I often see claims that if true would be breakthrough advancements in the coating industry, but never mentioned in coating industry trade magazines/journals or used/mentioned by the major epoxy/paint/chemical companies. Experienced epoxy users know these claims are too good to be true, but they make good promotional copy for selling to non-industry buyers.

Problems and issues associated with 2 part chemical products (epoxies) purchased online buy inexperienced users can be difficult or impossible to resolve. Who is at fault when the problem is due to user inexperience, an unsuitable surface or conditions, poor surface preparation, purchasing the wrong product, or damage in shipping?



Professional sites also make easily available technical product data sheets and MSDS (required Material Data Safety Sheets - which includes a chemical ingredients list, necessary for comparing different products and different products from different vendors). I find these are often missing in many of the flashy DIY sites. It is a Red Flag and usually means they are hiding product chemical information which can give an educated viewer a good idea of the quality and potential performance of the epoxy.
 

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"Paul, you have outstanding products. Every product has out performed the highly advertised units I purchased  elsewhere for past projects. Thank you." (Dick - email 11/10/13 to Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc. -- epoxyproducts.com -- attn: Paul Oman)