​Why Go With Professional Concrete Floor Sealant and Installation?

You know it and we know it: there is garage floor epoxy paint at Wal-Mart. And we also both know that the best floor paint you’ll find there isn’t anywhere near as good as what you’ll find from a professional garage floor sealant supplier like Floorguard.

Still, it can be difficult to convince the average homeowner to go with the highest-quality concrete floor epoxy available, as well as professional installation. Today we’re going to discuss some of the most common reasons to go with professional installation. These are reasons that every consumer should consider, and if you’re an installer then these are some of the ways you can convince a consumer that they should go with the best instead of something they pick up at the local hardware store.

The Best Floor Paint Is Still Just Paint

Sometimes garage floor epoxy, urethane, and polyaspartic floor coatings are called paint (we admit to doing it ourselves sometimes in these blogs) even when they’re clearly not paint at all. What we sell are floor coatings, meaning that they are resins which are created to go on soft and cure in order to become hard. They don’t dry like paints, and they’re not going to flake away like paints.

Of course, so much of what you’ll find at a hardware store is just paint, or epoxy of a lower quality that might only contain 50% solids. These coatings might only be as thin as 3 millimeters thick, meaning they’re certainly not going to hold up like professional garage floor coatings will. Professionally-applied garage floor coatings will usually be around 10 millimeters thick, thanks in part to the multiple layers that are applied. A home or business owner is simply getting a better-quality product when they go with what the pros use.

Beware the Separation

Bargain garage floor sealants are much more likely to delaminate than those of a higher quality. This means that the lowest level will become separated from the concrete, making it look uneven and, for lack of a better word, bad.

Delamination can also occur in commercial epoxy flooring if there’s too much moisture coming from the concrete or if it’s applied incorrectly, and both of these can be addressed by a professional. But when it comes to lower-quality epoxy for garage floors, there’s not much that can be done other than lament the fact that you went with an inferior product and have it redone. Buy it nice or buy it twice!

Tire Grip

Let’s say a consumer decides to go ahead and take care of their own concrete floor epoxy by using something cheap from a hardware store. They put it down and it looks great! No obvious separation, no bubbles...they let it cure (or dry, depending on what the quality of the epoxy is) and start using it.

But because it’s thin, they will most likely experience problems with their vehicle’s tires. Tires get hot as they’re used, and when someone goes out driving and then parks on their cheap epoxy floor, that heat can soften the epoxy. As the tires cool, they contract. And since there’s so much weight pressing down as they contract, they end up pulling the epoxy flooring with them! It’s not a pretty site, and it’s one that could have been avoided by simply choosing high-quality garage epoxy floor coating in the first place.

Of course, those aren’t the only reasons to go with the best floor coatings you can find, but they should be enough to convince someone that using something better will avoid those big problems in the first place. Check out our high-quality Floorguard Products right here.