National-Brand and Big-Box Garage Floor Coatings: Are They Worth It?
Search around for a garage floor coating and you’ll end up comparing brands. The big-box kit on the shelf, the national name with the glossy truck wrap, the franchise that shows up in every zip code. Each one has a pitch, and each one wants you to believe the name on the bucket is what […]
Garage Floor Tiles vs. Epoxy Coating: Which Lasts in New England
If you’ve been shopping for a garage floor upgrade, you’ve probably run into the same fork in the road everyone does. On one side, tiles and mats you snap together yourself over a weekend. On the other, a bonded coating that a crew grinds in and installs. Both look great in the photos. So which […]
How Long Does an Epoxy Garage Floor Really Last?
Short answer: a properly installed epoxy floor, sealed with a polyaspartic top coat, should give you 15-plus years of low-maintenance life. We’ve been coating garages around Boston since 1974, and that’s the number we stand behind on the floors we install. But you didn’t come here for a number you could’ve found in a sentence. […]
Moisture, Vapor, and Your Concrete: Getting a Garage Floor Ready to Coat
Most coating failures we get called out to fix have nothing to do with the coating. The product was fine. The color was fine. The floor peeled anyway, and when you flip a lifted edge over, the back of it tells the story. Moisture pushed it off from underneath. Here’s the honest version, and it’s […]
Polyaspartic vs. Epoxy Garage Floors: The Honest Difference
Search “polyaspartic vs epoxy” and you’ll find a hundred pages trying to crown a winner, usually the one the writer happens to sell. Here’s the thing we’ve learned in 40-plus years of coating floors around Boston: that whole framing is wrong. Polyaspartic and epoxy aren’t really rivals fighting for the same job. On a floor […]