I love working in my garage. I spend a lot of time working on my car and I really enjoy doing that. However , my garage floor looks dirty. I tried at first to clean the concrete every time I was done working, but it took too much time and was hard work. So I left it that way and now it looks very bad . The concrete also started to deteriorate and I started to do a research, what I can do to get rid of these problems. I was amazed to find out that a single thing is the key to all problems I have with the garage floor. The “thing” is called garage floor coating.

I was thrilled after I saw how it works. The type of coating I applied was epoxy. It is the most common one and it is also known to be the best at its cost. You can pick other types of coatings too, but generally they are all the same . Only the quality and the lifetime will differ between the types. Anyway, all of them will protect your concrete, they will make your garage look much better and the best is that, they will make it very simple to clean any stains like oil, gas and types of chemicals.

What you should be aware of is that for the most types of coatings you need to prepare the concrete or else you might have problems, especially for an epoxy coating. The first thing you should do is to look for moisture, because it will shorten the life of the coating. There are more ways and also products to get rid of it, if you have this situation. Then, you should check the concrete for cracks. In case of any, you should make sure that the concrete will be properly repaired. If you had any of these problems, you should let the concrete a few days before installing the coating.

In some cases you might need to apply 2 coatings. That means you need to let the primary coating at least 4 hours before installing the second one. So if you want to finish in one day you should start early. Another thing, which is very important, is that you shouldn't let anyone to set foot in your garage for a few days. The car should also stay out for a while until you are sure that the coating is stable . If you carefully watch out for these things then your coating will last a long time!


John Sheppard knows that installing garage floor coating is a step forward for your garage. Learn more about Quickrete garage floor coatings and do it yourself garage floor coating installation.