Specific Concrete Solutions for Garages
GARAGE FLOOR TREATMENTS
In a time not too long ago, garages were all the same: outbuildings that were storage areas for parked cars, with boring gray concrete floors. Today garages have taken a more prominent place in the design of homes, often built to house three vehicles, and more often than not attached to the home. Garages have graduated from simple storage areas, becoming organized shops or showrooms. Today every bit of attention that a homeowner pays to the decorating of the home is paid to the garage as well, right down to what goes on the concrete floors.Garage floor coverings have the versatility to go with any style of décor. Looks can range from simple gray concrete with a sealer to a more complex coloured base with multicolor flecks in it, offering a design similar to granite or terrazzo.
Garage floors are now taking on colour and texture to reflect their owners. Colourmix concrete and integral colours are often selected in the construction phase of a building. Staining is also becoming popular as a garage floor stained and sealed is achievable by the home handy man or a professional can apply stains do the owners requirements.
Integral Colour Solutions
Choosing the design for your garage floor system can be as simple as matching the color of your house or as involved as hiding any imperfections or flaws in the existing floor. Coating the existing concrete with only a sealer, any imperfections will show through. A colored base with the paint chips or quartz aggregate thrown down to refusal would cover any imperfections that may exist. If the floor has no aesthetic reasons to choose full coverage, a medium or light paint chip coverage may be chosen for additional design variations.
If the garage surface is in need of a leveling and treatment prior to a surface application
Contact a SCDCS technical representative.
Self Level Overlays
Thin Finish Overlays
Color flakes come in a wide range of colors and are made of acrylic paint chips. This system provides an excellent wear surface that can stand up under walking and driving on, but if impact resistance is what you're looking for, decorative quartz is the way to go. Quartz floors are multicolored aggregates thrown to refusal into 100% solids epoxy and have the impact resistance not normally found with the acrylic paint chips.
Epoxy Flooring - Flake
A similar alternative is also being used by project home builders and general building companies and that is the use of water based epoxies that are friendly to the environment and are simple and safe to use.
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Epoxy Flooring – M50
Epoxy Flooring – Water Based
