How many years a coated garage floor gets
Put down professionally on a ground slab, it lasts many years. When one peels early, the cause is nearly always the prep, not age.
What shortens its life
Weak bond
The top reason floors fail. On etched or unground concrete, brine works its way under the coating and it comes up in sheets. Every slab we do gets ground.
Warm tires
A hot tire on a thin coating can lift it. A thicker build with a polyaspartic topcoat holds up.
Sun through the door
Lots of epoxies go yellow where the light lands. A UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat doesn’t.
Sand underfoot
Grit under tires slowly dulls the topcoat. Sweeping, and pushing slush out, keeps the shine.
A damp slab
Moisture rising from below can push a coating off. We test for it and use a primer built for it when needed.
Keeping it going
Install day does most of the work. After that, it’s a few minutes a month.
In winter, squeegee the slush out every week or two. Come spring, rinse it out and wash it with a pH-neutral cleaner. Kickstands and jack stands go on a pad. Keep vinegar, citrus and strong solvents off it.
Eventually the topcoat dulls. That doesn’t mean starting over: we scuff it and recoat it for a fraction of a new floor.
Get a number for your garage
We measure, test the slab for moisture and leave a written price. Free, and usually within the week.