It’s a hard life being a garage floor. Not only do you need to be tough enough to cope with being driven on, but there’s also a very strong chance you’ll be subjected to all kinds of spills and leakages. After all, most of us use our garage as a combination of carport, storage and an extension of the home.

(Hands up who has a home gym in their garage? It’s way more common than many might think…)

Therefore, the choice of flooring should be a major consideration for any household garage.

The case for epoxy…

Epoxy flooring has advanced dramatically over recent years. Their popularity has exploded, and for good reason – they’re tough and they look fab.

If we first define the must-have attributes of a great garage floor, we can then look at why epoxy is the perfect fit.

A garage floor must be:

  • Tough, strong, durable and long-lasting: You’re going to drive on it, drop things on it, spill a variety of substances on it, walk on it, drag things across it… You get the picture. Therefore a garage floor must be able to withstand the hardest of use for a long, long time.
  • It must look great: Domestic garages are an extension of your home. Whether it’s attached to the building and accessed by an interior door or it’s a standalone unit, you’re sure to want it to represent the same quality as your inside living space.
  • Easy to clean and maintain: The last thing you want is a garage floor that needs scrubbing, polishing or chemicals to keep clean. Simple sweeping and/or vacuuming should be sufficient to keep the floor looking great.
  • Affordable: It should offer value for money and not break the bank to install. And talking about installation…
  • The flooring must be quick and easy to lay: Because the last thing you want is for your garage to be out of action for weeks on end.

The great thing about epoxy flooring is it scores full marks in all of these essential areas. Epoxy flooring is:

  • Incredibly tough and lasts a lifetime: The unique makeup of epoxy flooring (installed over concrete or another hard surface) means that it absorbs even the sharpest of heavy shocks, and won’t scratch, crack, chip or sustain damage. It’s also resilient to stains, including oil, petrol, diesel, antifreeze and any other gazillion kinds of spills that might happen in a garage environment. Oh, and because it’s poured into place and sets over a few hours, there are no joins where damp or liquid can seep beneath it. With minimal maintenance, an epoxy garage floor really can last for a lifetime.
  • It comes in a virtually infinite range of colours and patterns: Choose from a rainbow of colours and personalise it according to taste. Add texture with colour quartz granules, sparkling glitters, pearlescent liquid pigments and more to create your bespoke garage floor design.
  • Cleaning is a breeze: Quickly remove spills with warm water and a bit of mild soap, give it a sweep or run a vacuum over it every so often… That’s all that’s required to keep an epoxy garage floor in tip-top condition.
  • It’s affordable: Unlike other flooring options, epoxy really is one of the best value choices on the market. Plus it won’t need replacing in a few years, unlike many other alternative flooring materials.
  • Installation takes 24-48 hours: And that includes prepping the base (in the vast majority of cases). You’ll be walking on your new garage floor within a couple of days.

Epoxy resin is suitable for both domestic and commercial garage floors. You can also add bespoke demarcation to suit any needs. Colour block certain areas, add a walkway or even mark out some basketball court areas for you and the kids to shoot some hoops.

That’s the beauty of epoxy flooring – it’s easy and affordable to personalise it exactly to your requirements.

Shimicoat is a leading Australian manufacturer and supplier of the highest-quality epoxy floor products. Plus, decades in the business have led to the creation of some awesome complete kits, such as the one designed specifically for creating the perfect epoxy garage floor.

This is just one example of how Shimicoat has honed its catalogue of everything related to epoxy flooring. Over three decades of expertise means that whatever your epoxy flooring requirement, there’s likely to be a great value complete kit ready and waiting to make installation fast and easy.

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