Garages often get a bad rap as the dingiest space in your home. With a new garage floor coating, you’ll transform your garage into a brighter, cleaner, more comfortable place. Garage coatings offer more than a pretty floor, with various types of sealants providing different benefits.
You can coat your garage’s concrete surfaces with the following:
- Epoxy Coating
- Concrete Sealer
- Urethane Coating
- Polyaspartic Coating
Many homeowners look forward to scheduling home improvements during the spring or summer, but professional installers can coat your floor in the winter. Winter installation offers benefits you won’t find during the warmer months. If you’re ready to install a garage floor coating system, learn why to schedule it during the colder months.
One: Coatings Easily Cure in the Cold
Garage floor coatings have minimum temperatures at which they can cure. Depending on which flooring you want, many winter days offer the right conditions to install your coating. Examples of minimum curing temperatures include:
- Epoxy floor coatings: 50 to 55 degrees Fahrenheit
- Urethane coatings: 40 degrees Fahrenheit
- Polyaspartic coatings: 30 degrees Fahrenheit
Some floor coatings have unique formulations allowing them to cure in temperatures as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
While nearly all floor coatings allow for low-temperature curing, you may experience extended cure times. You’ll need to wait at least 24 hours before walking on your new garage floor coating and keep vehicles away for up to 96 hours. Your contractor can help you determine the curing time for your new garage floor coating.
Two: All Weather Quality
Garage floor coatings perform the same way regardless of the weather. Besides making your floor more attractive, you’ll also enjoy benefits including:
- UV resistance preventing fading or color changes
- Abrasion and impact resistance
- Exceptional stain resistance
- Slip and fall resistance
- Hot tire resistance
- No flaking, peeling, or blistering
- Protection from harsh chemicals and fluids
These qualities last regardless of how hot or cold the weather gets, allowing you to have excellent year-round garage flooring.
Three: Off-Season Installations Happen Faster
Spring, summer, and fall quickly fill up with appointments because most home or business owners don’t realize that garage floor coating installation can happen during the winter. You’ll avoid regular seasonal traffic when installing your floor coating during the winter months.
New garage floor coating installation starts with an initial design consultation to determine which type of floor coating best works for your garage. After that step, we’ll schedule your installation date. Booking during the winter enables you to complete both steps faster and enjoy your new garage floor sooner than other season installations.
Four: Resistance to Winter Damage
Winter moisture and salted roads can cause irreversible damage to untreated concrete, like most garage floors. When you park in your garage, a mixture of road salt, rain, or melted snow drips into cracks or crevices in your floor, refreezing when the temperature drops. As your garage floor expands and contracts with temperature changes, the added moisture weakens your floor.
Many signs point to a weak or improperly sealed garage floor, including:
- Cracking
- Pitting
- Crumbling
Adding the durable protection of a garage floor coating keeps water and road salt from damaging your floor. Polyaspartic coatings also provide slip resistance, making entering and exiting your vehicle safer after driving through wet conditions.
Five: Happy Garage, Happy Home
Nothing ruins your home enjoyment like a dirty, dusty, damaged garage floor. Using your garage becomes more enjoyable when you indulge in a professionally installed garage floor coating. You’ll enjoy a cleaner garage, feel safer entering and exiting your garage, and relax knowing that your floor will last longer and require fewer repairs.
Many homeowners who install a garage floor coating during the winter discover that the benefits of their new floor roll over into the warmer months. As their neighbors battle it out to get placement for their own garage floor coating installation over the summer, you’ll already have your floor coating installed.
Upgrade Your Garage With a New Floor Coating Today
Installing new garage coatings offers many benefits, so don’t let the cold weather stop you from enjoying an upgraded garage. Contact your local concrete professionals at SLG Concrete Coatings for expert concrete technicians, experienced garage floor coating installation, and features including:
- Polyaspartic coatings to ensure a slip-proof environment
- Our 20-year warranty on residential projects
- Our 5-year warranty on commercial projects
Call SLG Concrete Coatings for a free estimate at their Santa Maria office at (805) 934-3881 or their Fresno office at (559) 724-3884.
