Garage Floors (Epoxy & Coatings)
Transform your garage into a clean, professional space with durable epoxy floor coatings that resist stains and damage.
Why Your Garage Floor Deserves Better
Your garage floor takes a beating. Oil drips from your car, antifreeze spills during maintenance, road salt tracks in during winter, and hot tires from summer driving all damage bare concrete. Over time, your floor gets stained, pitted, and dusty. That is where professional epoxy garage floor coatings make a huge difference.
Bare concrete is porous, which means it absorbs everything that spills on it. Once oil soaks into concrete, it is nearly impossible to remove. The concrete also breaks down over time, creating dust that gets tracked into your house and coats everything in your garage.
An epoxy coating seals your concrete completely. Spills sit on top of the coating instead of soaking in, so you can wipe them up easily. The coating is also much harder than bare concrete, so it resists impacts from dropped tools, scratches from moving items, and the constant wear of tires turning on the surface.
The visual transformation is dramatic. A coated floor looks like a showroom instead of a dingy storage space. Many of our San Luis Obispo customers tell us that after coating their garage floor, they actually want to spend time in their garage working on projects or organizing their space.
Types of Garage Floor Coatings
Not all garage floor coatings are the same. You have several options, each with different benefits and price points.
True epoxy coatings are the gold standard. These are two-part systems that chemically bond to your concrete. They are incredibly durable and can last 20 years or more with proper care. Epoxy provides the best chemical resistance and can handle hot tires without softening.
Coating Options and Features
- •Solid color epoxy for a clean, uniform appearance
- •Decorative flake systems with color chips for texture and style
- •Metallic epoxy for a high-end, marbled appearance
- •Polyaspartic topcoats for maximum UV and chemical resistance
- •Anti-slip additives for better traction in wet conditions
- •Custom color options to match your home or personal style
Polyurea and polyaspartic coatings are newer products that cure faster than epoxy. You can often drive on them within 24 hours. They are slightly more expensive but work well if you need a quick turnaround. They also handle UV exposure better than epoxy, so they are a good choice if your garage gets direct sunlight.
Avoid cheap DIY epoxy kits from big-box stores. These are usually watered-down versions that do not bond properly and peel within a year or two. Professional coatings use industrial-grade materials and proper surface preparation, which is why they last decades instead of months.
How We Install Epoxy Garage Floors
Surface preparation is 90 percent of a successful epoxy installation. The coating will only be as good as the prep work underneath it. This is where professional installation makes the biggest difference.
We start by grinding the concrete floor to remove any existing sealers, oils, or contaminants. This also opens up the pores of the concrete so the epoxy can bond properly. Skipping this step is why DIY kits fail. They tell you to acid etch, but acid etching does not work on sealed or contaminated concrete.
Next, we repair any cracks or damage in your concrete. Epoxy will not hide these problems. If there is a crack, it will telegraph through the coating. We fill cracks with epoxy filler and level any low spots.
After prep, we apply a primer coat if needed. This helps the epoxy bond on very smooth or dense concrete. Then we mix and apply the epoxy base coat. For flake systems, we broadcast the color chips into the wet epoxy. After the epoxy cures, we apply a clear topcoat that protects the epoxy and provides the glossy finish.
The entire process takes 2 to 3 days for most garages. You cannot park on the floor during this time, so plan accordingly. Once cured, your new floor will be ready for full use and will stay looking great with just occasional sweeping and mopping.
If you are building new construction or need a new concrete garage floor, we can pour the slab and install the coating as one complete project.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to Upgrade Your Garage Floor?
Get a free estimate on epoxy garage floor coating in San Luis Obispo. We will show you samples and help you choose the right system.
Call (805) 269-8770