Garage Floor – Professional Epoxy Garage Flooring Makes Good Investment Sense
Turn your Garage into Livable Space!
These days, the garage no longer has to be a dark, dingy-looking place that is used to store accumulated junk along side the car. Now your garage can be a place where you entertain your friends, work on your hobby or set up a home office. And the first step in remodeling your garage is re-doing the garage floor with the magic of epoxy.
To do it right, you need to find a qualified epoxy garage floor specialist, because a beautiful garage will attract as much attention as the rest of the rooms in your home. Looking for an epoxy garage flooring contractor includes doing the proper research to find a qualified professional who has many satisfied customers. It’s easy to claim to be a professional epoxy flooring company, but a botched job can run up high costs in time and money.
So how do you tell who is a genuine professional?
Begin by having them examine your current garage floor. Ask them to describe how they plan to prepare the surface where the epoxy coating will be applied. Do they recommend chemical etching? Surface grinding? Shot blasting? The two methods used by the best epoxy floor contractors are surface grinding or shot blasting. Either of these are wholly effective, promote better adhesion, and create a surface that resists hot-tire pickup.
Everyone knows, a garage floor faces some hard use. It is always under pressure from the weight of vehicles, subject to spills, and often in contact with chemicals, oil, and salt. Dirt and stones are constantly being ground into the surface – your garage floor needs to be able to handle it all!
Next, find out the thickness of the coating that will be applied. A company that knows its product will be able to tell you how thick their cured coating is in “mils” (thousandths of an inch). A thicker coating will have a more durable finish, albeit a more expensive installation.
Third, ask how slip resistant the floor is. Beautiful epoxy floors can be very slippery. The person you are speaking with needs to be able to answer hard questions about slip resistance.
Epoxy garage floors give a handsome and elegant look to what may have been a neglected area of your house. Refinishing the basement or adding an addition to your home can’t compare in price to a professionally installed epoxy garage floor. It just may be the best “remodeling” investment available today.
At Cardinal Painting we work hard to help our clients create new living spaces from their basements and garages with beautiful epoxy floors.
Give us a call at (630) 281-2807, and one of our epoxy floor professionals will come out to your home for a free consultation and a guarantee of 100% satisfaction.
