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Garage Floor Coatings are just one example of seamless floors and are chosen for the fact they are highly durable and used in a wide array of situations including as garage floor, office floors, manufacturing locations, gyms, clinics, auto showrooms, residential spaces, bars, restaurants, and the list goes on. While they were originally used for their durability in commercial settings they can also be very inviting and easy to maintain in residential settings thus are found in even basements, kitchens, and main living areas.

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Highly Durable

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Showroom-Quality Finishes

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Many Options of Designs, Colors & Quantities

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Epoxy Flooring Is Durable and Easy to Maintain

Epoxy flooring is an excellent choice for garages and commercial operations because it is durable, resists oil, gasoline, and grime. The epoxy coating spreads like a liquid, then hardens into a smooth, solid surface. There are no seams or grout lines for dirt to accumulate in.

Epoxy is clear, but you can add a variety of color tints to match the design and decor of the garage or commercial space. To add durability and a clean, shiny look, it is recommended to apply a clear topcoat so your new epoxy garage floor will last for many years.

Epoxy Floors are Slip-Resistant, Making Them Great for Garages

Shiny, slick floors look great but can be a fall hazard in your garage. You can choose from a wide variety of colors and patterns when you install epoxy flooring in your garage. Both our vinyl chips and colored quartz granules are fantastic ways to ensure a slip floor epoxy floor. Keeping a slip-free surface is incredibly important for home safety, particularly when you consider that the CDC recently shared guidelines showing that one in five falls result in a serious head injury or broken bones. Plus, these easy-care flooring choices come in a wide range of colors and styles. This allows you to easily match your preferred look — even including some swirled patterns with mix-in options if you’re so inclined.

Benefits of Epoxy Garage Floor Coatings

Contractor Source develops coatings and products for commercial contractors and flooring specialists. Our products undergo a rigorous design and testing process before being sold for commercial use. There are many reasons why epoxy garage floor contractors select our epoxy flooring materials.

Contractor-Grade Materials

We use only the best contractor-grade materials, so your projects look great and last for years. With our commitment to quality, you can be confident that you’re only offering the best and more durable materials to your clients.

Highly Durable Epoxy Flooring

Contractor Source epoxy flooring materials are highly durable and last for many years. We use only the best ingredients and test our products to ensure they work as advertised.

Consumers need to be aware of other retailers selling lower-quality products that don’t compare with epoxy coatings. Many businesses sell latex acrylic paint for garage floors. These less-expensive coatings do not have the durability of epoxy coatings and will need to be reapplied in a fraction of the time.

Epoxy coatings are two-part systems that react when mixed to provide a stronger chemical bond than a single-part paint or coating. This can reduce the possibility of flaking or peeling, which can happen with lower-quality materials or those that don’t have the same chemical properties of an epoxy floor.

Easy to Apply

It’s easy to buy our epoxy floor products using our Garage Floor Configurator, and it’s even easier to apply our Epoxy HP or low VOC Polyaspartic 85 floor coating products with our unique tools and applicators. All you need to know is the square footage of the job, the color of the tint, type of flakes, and we’ll step you through the whole process. Then, when you’re done selecting the materials and products, proceed to our online checkout and complete the order.

As an example, enter 300 square feet in the calculator, and you’ll receive these results:

2 gallons of base coat
2 containers of base coat coloring
2 bags of vinyl chips or 10 bags of quartz powder
1.7 gallons of the topcoat

Expert Application Guides

Applying garage floor epoxy coatings is easy for novices and flooring experts who use the Contractor Source application guides. These guides provide detailed product lists, floor preparation, application, and coating instructions as reference guides for flooring contractors and DIY enthusiasts.

Showroom Quality Finishes

Epoxy coatings brighten up even the dullest concrete floor. The clean-looking, smooth layers brighten up your garage or auto showroom. Mix in colors, vinyl chips or even quartz to spruce up the image and impress your visitors with a high-quality garage floor. Not only will epoxy coating enhance the appearance of your garage floor, but it will also enhance its durability and performance.

Epoxy Garage Floors Are Resistant to Stains and Chipping

The epoxy coating protects the underlying concrete floor from moisture, oil, and staining. The epoxy seals the concrete preventing moisture from damaging the floor and leaving water stains.

This coating is helpful in cold climates when the snow melts off the autos or snow melting chemicals can attack the concrete. In addition, the ultra-hard coating resists dents and chips if items fall on the floor. This heavy-duty coating can withstand even the most challenging conditions, saving you time and money in the long run as you won’t have to worry about replacements or fixes in the near future.

Highly Rated

The Contractor Source epoxy garage floor coatings are highly rated by commercial concrete and flooring contractors. The high-quality coatings are easy to apply and resist oil, grease, water and salt damage. Moreover, the products also dry quickly, often in less than one day. This can be a huge selling point for commercial applications, as the quick-drying epoxy ensures that downtime is limited for customers. Epoxy floors are an easy upgrade for spaces that won’t negatively impact your profits with a long drying time.

Many Options of Epoxy Designs, Colors and Quantities

Tru Tint RZ is garage floor coating colorant mixed directly into the mixture after both parts are combined. You have a choice of several colors. Vinyl chips and quartz are added to the epoxy to create additional designs and patterns to the colored epoxy. Tints are available in 6-oz packages and are designed to tint a standard 3-gallon epoxy kit to a solid color. With this range of design and pattern options at your fingertips, it's easier than ever to choose your perfect epoxy coating. Metallic epoxy pigments, called Tru Lustre, are another way to introduce interest and customize an epoxy floor.

Vinyl Chips

Vinyl chips are decorative and provide a non-skid surface to provide added safety in the garage or commercial location. These chips add color and interesting designs to bare floors. There are 20 different color combinations of vinyl chips. Once chips are broadcast onto the epoxy, Contractor Source sells scrapers to create a smooth surface. Once trimmed, a topcoat is applied to seal the epoxy and vinyl chips.

Quartz Epoxy System

If you want your floor to have a superior texture, consider using our Quartz epoxy floor system. The finely milled quartz granules create a smooth or textured surface embedded within the hardened epoxy coating. First, the floor is prepped and primed before applying the clear or tinted epoxy coating. Then, the granules are broadcast by hand until the entire surface is covered. Once hardened, a topcoat will lock the quartz in place and provide a smooth surface. The result is a top-quality garage floor your customers will be proud of for many years to come.

Resin Pigment

Want to boost the appeal of your flooring or add a pop of color to your space? You can quickly achieve a wide variety of looks by adding a clear epoxy coating and using resin pigment powder. Available in a wide range of colors, the pigment, packaged in 6-ounce containers, is enough to colorize 3 gallons of epoxy garage floor coating. The opaque or metallic pigments are mixed into the epoxy prior to spreading over the concrete floor.

Metallic

If you want your garage or restaurant floor to have a truly unique look, then you need to try Tru Lucent metallic pigment systems. These special effect pigments give floors a 3-D, translucent look resembling a metallic floor. The metallic effects reflect light creating dramatic and creative effects. Even a garage floor can look impressive when you add in this type of metallic element!

Expert 1-on-1 Support

Contractor Source provides different forms of expert support via our website tutorials, and customer service teams. Discover our application guides and installation videos for expert instruction. We have put together detailed application guides for our epoxy flake floor system, quartz epoxy floor system and epoxy coatings for concrete.

Installing Epoxy Flooring Is Quick and Affordable

Flooring contractors and homeowners can install epoxy flooring in a few quick and affordable steps. The first step is to use the Garage Floor Configurator to calculate how much epoxy and topcoat you need to cover the concrete floor. Our custom-made application tools spread the epoxy coating across the floor, filling cracks to create a clear, smooth surface. It’s quick and easy to calculate the amount of epoxy needed for your flooring project. Our tools and installation guides ensure that you’ll have an error-free application and a great-looking floor in no time!

Calculate the Epoxy Garage Floor Cost with the Garage Floor Configurator

Contractor Source makes it easy to calculate how much material you need to complete your garage epoxy floor project. All you need to know is the square footage of the area, floor color, and if you are going to use vinyl chips, quartz or metallic pigments. We make it nearly impossible to make a mistake in ordering your epoxy flooring elements.

Steps for Ordering the Epoxy Garage Floor Kit

Go to the Garage Floor Configurator
Enter the square footage of the space that you want to cover with epoxy flooring
Choose the base coat — choose between TI Epoxy HP and Polyaspartic 85 - Polyaspartic coating
Choose the epoxy and base resin pigment for coloring epoxy
Select vinyl chips or quartz powder
Select the topcoat Polyaspartic 85 - Polyaspartic coating
Pick out your application tools: rollers, roller covers, trimming knife, scrapers, squeegees, smoothers, helix mixer and spiked sandals

Basic Steps for Installing an Epoxy Garage Floor

This outline is a basic overview of the epoxy garage floor installation process. Visit our installation guide to see a detailed description with how-to videos as well as tips and tricks for easy application of this unique flooring design.

Keep in mind that epoxy is a chemical compound, and you’ll need to protect your skin appropriately. That means wearing protective gloves and durable clothing to reduce the chance that the epoxy or colorants get on your bare skin.

Prepare the Concrete Floor

The underlying concrete floor should be free of cracks and be level. Fill and grind joints, then grind the floor until it is the consistency of rough sandpaper. Be sure to vacuum and clean all dust from the floor. Leaving any dust on the floor could cause the epoxy to bubble and not apply cleanly, so it’s vital that you get the floor as clean as possible as a starting point. It’s also important that concrete is moisture free. Any moisture will cause the coatings to fail. New concrete should cure a minimum of 30 days.

This also includes ensuring you have a plastic tarp or other covering to protect the area where you’re mixing your epoxy.

In a clean space, create a setup area where you can mix in any tints and store your tools. Since epoxy can harden quickly, you’ll want to be sure everything is ready before you get started.

Mix Tint & Apply the Base Coat

Mix the two-part epoxy base coat using a helix mixer, then add the tint powder into the epoxy mixture to apply the colorant. Some of the tools that you can use to mix the tint include a 5-gallon bucket to reduce the possibility of splatter and a metal mixer attached to a power drill. Using the power tools to mix helps evenly distribute the base color throughout the epoxy. You’ll want to mix in small batches and ensure that your measurements are precise to create a uniform look for your floors.

Next, roll out the coating evenly across the floor. Work quickly to ensure that your flooring epoxy and any add-ins stay evenly mixed. If there’s a delay in getting the epoxy on the floor, do not be afraid to re-mix as needed to maintain an even consistency. Having a smooth and even base coat will provide the best possible start to your flooring project and allow any add-ins such as quartz or vinyl chips to be distributed properly.

Spread the Vinyl Chips or Quartz

Broadcast the vinyl chips or quartz granules evenly into the coated floor. Be sure to cover the entire surface. Use a metal scraper to remove excess and smooth flakes or granules and vacuum up the excess when finished. Your floor should have an even mix of color if the flakes are evenly mixed throughout the space. It’s good to have a few extra ounces of flakes on hand “just in case” to ensure a smooth and consistent application of color.

Apply the Topcoat

Allow the base coat to harden following the packaging instructions (typically 8-16 hours), then roll the topcoat on to protect the flakes and seal the epoxy coating. The topcoat should be applied evenly, with a thin covering that creates the final seal for your new flooring.

If you do get epoxy on your skin during the application process, the good news is that it can be easily removed by wiping it off with a cloth or paper towel that has been dampened with paint thinner. Keep in mind; it’s best to get the epoxy off your skin or clothing quickly as it can be more challenging to remove once it has had time to dry fully.

Garage Epoxy Flooring Is Beautiful and Functional

Concrete floor contractors rave about the beauty and functionality of the garage floor epoxy coating system. The clear, smooth flooring transforms dull garages into auto showrooms. But unlike lower-priced water-based acrylic coatings, epoxy floors last for years and resist water stains, oil, grease and chemicals. Non-skid vinyl chips, quartz granules, and color pigments add to the aesthetics and improve the functionality for high-traffic commercial facilities. Plus, even the small amount of grip added from the mix-in options for these epoxy floors can help reduce the possibility of slipping and falling — something that is particularly important for commercial applications and water prone garages.

Choose Contractor Source for Outstanding Epoxy Flooring

With durable epoxy floors, you can be confident that you’re creating a lasting impression for your home or commercial application. Fortunately, this good-looking flooring solution can be applied on top of existing concrete floors with proper preparation and maintenance. If you have questions about the type of epoxy needed, getting started with application, or how to measure your floors to get the appropriate amount of product, we are here to support you! Visit the Contractor Source website at www.walttools.com, call us at (888) 364-4803 or visit our showroom if you are visiting Morris, Illinois.

After a lot of years in the coatings industry, I’ve had the opportunity to work with and use a large volume of different products from many manufacturers.

This has given me a unique perspective to truly understand the differences between these brands, and what it is I am looking for from a professional install perspective.

Having had the opportunity to use Walttools HP Epoxy, I can say that it has the professional qualities that I look for in a brand. American made, this product has virtually no smell factor, laid down with zero outgassing bubbles, and the flow rate for creation was top notch. Another factor I appreciate was cure time, as every project I used it for cured completely by the following morning, so we could continue our next steps to completion. I give this brand and product high mark’s, and I will be recommending it to all of my associates in this industry!

Thanks Walttools for a top notch product!

- Daryl Bates, Excalibur Flooring

As a first timer I was pretty worried about trying this on my own. They told me that the biggest hurdle was making sure the floor was prepared properly. My neighbor has a concrete grinder and lended a hand in freshening up the top surface. It almost looked new at that point!

First I applied a full 3 gallon kit of epoxy that I mixed beige color into and spread it using the squeegee I purchased with everything else. That took about 40 minutes. We both spread out the chips just as they described. Tossing them up in the air and letting them scatter. Once the floor looked like it had the right amount of chip splatter we left it along until the next morning. We used the scraper tool they recommended to knock off anything that was sticking out yet. It left us a little pile of broken chips that we vacuumed up.

We mixed up the polyaspartic material in smaller batches(3 quarts at a time) and rolled it out evenly. We did not quite use all three gallons but it was close. All in all it was a great learning experience and we love our new garage floor.

- Gerry George, Diy

We called and talked to an informative person at this place to give us an overview for doing our garage floor. We had a friend with a grinder to clean up the top and then we were on our own. This review involves a few products. The Essential Primer, the Epoxy HP, Gray tint RZ and the Acrithane. The good news, it all worked great. The bad news, we have neighbors who want it now. It really was an easy process if you don’t panic. All the products did what we expected after we talked to them in detail. The Acrithane dried faster than we expected so it left lines. We just did another coat and it took care of it. Just be sure you have a few days in a row to do this type of project because it needs to be done in consecutive stages/days to work properly.

- Lori Lane, Diy

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