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Carolina Flooring Specialists coats garage floors in Charleston, SC: diamond-ground preparation, decorative flake epoxy and a UV-resistant polyaspartic clear coat, backed by a written lifetime warranty.
The garage floor takes more punishment than any other slab in the house, and it is usually the only one left bare. Coating it turns dusting, staining concrete into a sealed garage floor that cleans up and looks finished. We have installed more than 14,000 garage floors since 1999.
The system most Charleston garages get is 100% solids epoxy with decorative flake broadcast into it, sealed under a UV-resistant polyaspartic clear coat.
The result is seamless, slip resistant, and carries a written lifetime warranty against peeling or debonding.
Garages get a specific kind of abuse. Hot tires sit on the surface and pull at any coating that is not properly bonded. Oil, brake fluid and antifreeze come in on the car and sit there.
Summer on the coast is long and humid, and a bare garage slab sweats in it. Uncoated concrete absorbs what lands on it, dusts constantly and stains permanently. A bonded garage floor coating is non-porous, so fluids stay on top and wipe off.
The polyaspartic clear coat is UV resistant, which matters for the strip of garage floor inside an open door that takes direct sun.
Epoxy flooring in CharlestonDecorative flake is what most Charleston homeowners choose for a garage floor. Acrylic flake is broadcast at 50 pounds per 500 square feet and sealed under the clear coat. It hides slab imperfections, gives grip underfoot, and does not show every mark.
Solid color is the plainer garage floor finish: one even color, hard-wearing, and a good fit where the garage doubles as a workshop or storage. Metallic epoxy runs pigment through the resin for a floor with depth, which suits a garage kept as display space.
Flake blends and colors can be seen and handled at our Taylors showroom.
Cleaning is the first difference people notice. The garage floor is seamless, with no joints or pores for dirt to work into, so a mop or a hose does what a scrub used to. Pollen season alone makes that worth having.
It takes the mechanical side too. Rolling jacks, dragged toolboxes and steady foot traffic wear the clear coat rather than the color beneath, and the clear coat can be refreshed later without redoing the floor.
Maintenance is low: keep grit swept off, because grit under a tire is what abrades a garage floor coating, and sand travels indoors on a coast.
Preparation decides whether a garage floor lasts, and it is where roll-on kits fail. We do a full mechanical prep by diamond grinding so the epoxy keys into the slab rather than sitting on top of it. The grinders run under vacuum extraction to keep dust down in an attached garage.
Cracks, pitting and divots are repaired before coating, and a damp slab starts with a moisture-tolerant penetrating primer. Then the garage floor goes down in sequence: primer, base coat, flake broadcast, polyaspartic clear coat. The install runs over two consecutive days.
Charleston sits on the harbor where the Ashley, Cooper and Wando rivers meet, and those tidal rivers are the mark of a drowned coastline. The water table is close to the surface and rain falls in every month of the year, so a garage slab at grade can carry more moisture than it looks like it does. We plan for that with a moisture-tolerant penetrating primer rather than assume it away.
The other variable is the age of the concrete. The incorporated city was still four to five square miles as late as the First World War and now takes in about 115 square miles of land, so the garages vary widely. A downtown floor may well have been patched or coated before, and that gets dealt with first. A slab poured in the last twenty years in West Ashley or on James Island is usually sound, and the work is finish-led. We look at the slab before quoting.
We are privately owned, started in 1999, and still locally owned and operated. Across more than 21,000 projects and over 4 million square feet of floor coatings, garage floors are the biggest part of what we do, at more than 14,000 of them.
Every garage floor carries a written lifetime warranty against peeling or debonding, which is a warranty on the bond and therefore on the preparation.
The showroom at 141 Highland Way in Taylors has the flake blends out on display.
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Tell us the size of the garage and how you use it. We will check the slab, go through flake blends and colors, and give you a price.
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