Beautify and Protect Cement with Epoxy Garage Floors

What’s one of the hottest home improvement trends in Orange County? It’s extending your decorating style into the garage. Epoxy floors in Orange County garages not only look great, but they do double duty protecting the cement floor.

Why Settle for Ugly Garage Floors?

Why Do Orange County Garage Floors Crack?

Poured cement forms the foundation for Orange County garage floors. Over time, several forces exert influence on your cement garage floor, resulting in cracks.

Erosion

When it rains, the soil under your garage floor absorbs water. Because the soil is water-filled, it expands. The expansion exerts upward pressure on your concrete. Once the soil dries out and the moisture is gone, the soil shrinks back to its previous state. In the process, some of the soil may go away.

This cycle of swelling, shrinking, and runoff causes your garage floor to shift. Because concrete isn’t pliable, when it moves too much, it cracks.

Settling

Your house isn’t light. Even small houses are heavy. The weight of your house can shift and this causes the foundation to shift. When that happens, your garage floor shifts along with it.

Too much shifting and the cement will crack. That’s because all areas of your home don’t shift at the same time and at the same rate.

Earthquake

Small amounts of seismic activity over a long period of time add up. It can cause the soil under your home to shift. This creates cracks in the garage floor.

after epoxy garage floors coating is applied showing smooth surface

After repairing cracks and applying an epoxy coating

Epoxy Garage Floors Beautify and Protect

Before Crank Waterproofing applies an epoxy coating to Orange County garage floors, they make sure the surface is clean and smooth.

This requires patching cracks. So, not only do epoxy garage floors look better, they are better. Crank Waterproofing transforms cracked and stained cement floors into smooth, brilliant surfaces that repel most stains.

Where oil, gas, brake fluid, and transmission fluid ruin cement by creating ugly stains, garage floors protected with an epoxy coating just shrug fluids off.

And because they provide protection against fluids, epoxy garage floors aren’t as prone to cracking as untreated cement floors.

Benefits of Epoxy Garage Floors

Aside from looking good and protecting the cement from automotive fluids, epoxy garage floor coatings offer other benefits.

Slip-resistant – most epoxy coatings are less resistant to slipping than untreated cement when wet. Crank Waterproofing applies Dex-O-Tex coatings, which offer additional slip resistance.
Durable – once Crank Waterproofing prepares the surface and applies the epoxy coating system (resin and hardener) your garage floor will look good for years. Epoxy coatings last decades when applied properly.
Beautiful – Why settle for paint when it won’t last and doesn’t provide the options you find with epoxy garage floor coatings?