If you have an enclosed garage in Coastal Carolina, you will want an epoxy floor. Epoxy floors are durable. They are easy to clean. They keep their color and smooth finish even when they are exposed to chemicals, bleach, and degreasers.
If your garage doubles as your home gym, you will find that epoxy won’t be dented, chipped, or scratched when you drop a free weight or move an exercise machine around. Epoxy also won’t be damaged by tools or jacks you drop when you are working on your car.
Why Not Put Latex on Your Garage Floor?
In Coastal Carolina, many homeowners protect their garage floors by slapping on a couple of coats of latex paint. In this climate, latex does not work very well. Latex dries when the humidity is 40 to 50 percent. You might get a day or two in April when the humidity is that low, but most of the year, latex will take several days to dry.
Epoxy won’t be marred by gasoline, diesel, oil, or grease spills. Latex will. Painting your garage floor with latex will cost $1 to $4 a square foot, while professional epoxy installation will cost $4 to $10 a square foot.
But epoxy will last 10 to 20 years, while you will need to do touch up work on latex as soon as six months after you apply it. And any leftover latex paint will have gone bad by the time you need to use it for touch ups six months later.
Epoxy Keeps Your Garage Healthier
If you live in Coastal Carolina, you know that it rains a lot. When you park your car after driving in the rain, water rolls off onto your garage floor.
Rainwater can soak into unpainted concrete, or under cracks and fissures in latex paint. It can take several days to dry out, and that assumes that you don’t bring in more rainwater.
Wet concrete and wet pain become a breeding ground for mold and yeast. They can give your garage and even your car a musty odor. Epoxy flooring in Coastal Carolina sheds water. Water can’t soak into an epoxy floor. You will get some puddles near your tires, but it won’t be anything you can’t remove with a quick mopping.
Let an Expert Provide You With a Beautiful Epoxy Garage Floor
Ready to Google for an epoxy garage floor near me? Here is something important you need to know.
The easy-application do-it-yourself “epoxy” garage floor kits you can find in the big-box home improvement stores aren’t really selling you epoxy. They contain latex with a small amount of epoxy chips mixed in.
They won’t give you the beauty, durability, and safety that you get with an epoxy garage floor installed by a professional. Epoxy comes in chips ranging from 1/32” to 1” in diameter. Small chips help you choose precise shades to match woodwork and drywall, while larger chips give you big, bold colors.
But to make your garage floor non-slip, you will need something in between. A professional installer will help you achieve the combination of designer colors in a metallic, terrazzo, quartz, stone, or granite finish that achieves maximum slip-free safety for you and your family.
Professional installation saves you hours of prep work. An epoxy garage floor specialist will make sure you get a beautiful floor that can last you almost as long as you keep your home, for lower long-term cost than any other garage flooring material.
