What went wrong? You followed all of the instructions in the DIY epoxy floor coating kit. Why are you now experiencing hot tire pick-up, bubbles in the floor coating, or poor coverage on your Orlando garage floor? Let’s examine the most common causes of a subpar garage epoxy coating.

• Moisture under your Orlando garage floor: If there is too much moisture trying to ascend through the concrete, the pressure of this movement will cause the floor coating to lift off the concrete or pull apart near the surface of the concrete. Before installing any home owner’s garage floor coating, Garage Design Works checks for areas where moisture may be residing. Downspouts that are trickling water under your garage floor, an improper garage floor construction resulting from a poor stone base under the concrete slab, or landscaping that is not graded properly may be the culprit.

• Faulty garage floor preparation: Most of the DIY kits recommend acid etching to prepare your Orlando garage floor for its epoxy floor-coating application. Acid etching does not adequately lay the groundwork for applying epoxy to your garage floor. The floor’s surface needs to be porous and needs a bit of a rough texture to enable the epoxy to adhere. You actually need to grind the floor to achieve this. Homeowners don’t have access to the industrial-grade grinding machine Garage Design Works uses.

• Poor-quality epoxy: Your DIY garage epoxy floor coating does not contain high levels of epoxy.  It is watered down or contains more solvents. This diminishes its bonding strength. Our product is a high-solids epoxy which have to be mixed at the proper ratios and amount of time. If this is not done adequately, the floor coating will not cure properly.

• Excessive Humidity: Our Garage Design Works’ professionals will apply your epoxy floor coating when temperature, dew point, and humidity levels are right. We want your epoxy floor coating to cure properly and not look cloudy.

• Inadequate Wet-Out: Some garage epoxy floor coating installers use a one day coating process. It takes time for the epoxy to wet-out or soak into all of the pores and imperfections in your cement Orlando garage floor. Epoxy that sets up too quickly is too thick to properly permeate these areas and does not cure properly.

Before you head out to one of the big box home-improvement stores for your DIY epoxy floor-coating kit or hire a company who will epoxy your Orlando garage floor in one day, contact the experts of epoxy floor coatings in Orange County, Garage Design Works. Call us today at 407-447-8890 for your free in-home consultation. Get the job done right the first time.