Is GARAGE EPOXY Floor Coating Slippery?

• Metallic Epoxy Finishes
  Floors done in Metallic epoxy are generally very smooth and have a scratch resistance coating protecting them, these are great for indoor environments but can be very slippery in wet conditions
• Solid Colour Epoxy Coating
  The 100% Solids Epoxies have self level properties and tend to be more slippery than lower solid products that are applied using a roller. The downside to products with lesser solids content which are available in hardware stores such as Bunnings and paint shops is that quality is much lower and some of them can have up to 55% water or solvent in them to make them easier to apply and we would suggest staying away from any EPOXY product with less than 80% Solids content.

These types of finishes are achieved by adding coarse sand or Aluminium oxide and these types of floors are good for food processing areas, commercial kitchens, and areas that are constantly wet and are oily and we don’t recommend this for garage floors as dirt will get stock in between the anti-slip media and you wont be able to get it out

at Sydney Epoxy Floors, we don’t recommend or carry out half or partial flake jobs and contractors tend to love this type of finish for the reason that much less material is used to produce partial flake floors and profit margins are higher

A Typical Garage Coating is made of the following stages

• Diamond grinding
• Priming
• BaseCoat which can be a high solids epoxy coating or Polyaspartic
• Broadcast flake until the point of rejection
• Cleaning and vacuuming the flake
• Applying 1 or multiple clear coats which can be made of Clear epoxy topcoat, Polyurethane Coating or Polyaspartic topcoat

Floors finished in Polyurethane are rougher and dirt will get stuck in between the flake particles and will be harder to keep the floor clean and therefore we don’t recommend them for garage floors

The gentle texture of SEF Premium Seamless Flake floor, top-coated with Elite Crete’s VR1 will provide the ultimate protection for your garage floor and it is safe to walk on, oil, fuel, and hot tyre pick-up resistance, and easy to keep clean and maintain. Our SEF Flake system has been engineered to tick all the boxes and you can read more about it on our garage epoxy coating.