by TopEpoxyFlooring | Jan 30, 2024 | Epoxy Flooring Guides
VOCs — volatile organic compounds — are the solvent chemicals that evaporate out of a coating while it cures, and low-VOC epoxy flooring is simply epoxy formulated so that little or none of that happens. The number to look for is grams per liter on the product data...
by TopEpoxyFlooring | Oct 13, 2023 | Epoxy Flooring Guides
Paint chip epoxy flooring — also sold as chip flooring, flake flooring, or color chip epoxy — is a coating system in which small vinyl chips are scattered into a wet epoxy basecoat and then sealed under a clear topcoat. The “paint chips” aren’t paint...
by TopEpoxyFlooring | Sep 9, 2023 | Epoxy Flooring Guides
Sand goes into an epoxy floor for two reasons: grip and build. Broadcast into the wet coating, graded silica sand turns a glassy surface into a slip-resistant one; mixed through the resin, it thickens the system into a harder, higher-build wear layer that shrugs off...
by TopEpoxyFlooring | Aug 21, 2023 | Epoxy Flooring Guides
Installing epoxy on a garage floor follows the standard coating sequence — grind, repair, basecoat, broadcast, topcoat — but the garage adds four traps that no other room has: hot tires that peel weak coatings, oil that has soaked in for years, expansion joints that...
by TopEpoxyFlooring | Jun 21, 2023 | Epoxy Flooring Guides
Installing an epoxy floor takes tools from four distinct jobs: preparing the concrete (a diamond grinder and dust-shrouded vacuum), mixing the material (a low-speed drill with a paddle and calibrated buckets), applying it (squeegees, rollers and brushes), and working...
by TopEpoxyFlooring | Jun 6, 2023 | Epoxy Flooring Guides
For a garage you plan to keep, epoxy beats tile on almost every count that matters in that room: it bonds permanently to the slab, leaves nowhere for oil and water to hide, and carries jack stands and hot tires without shifting or staining. Tile earns its place in two...
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