Epoxy Floors

Your garage is, well, a garage. It’s fine. Would you rather have a space that looks good, a space you want to use? Yes. That’s why TerraFirma has epoxy floors for you.

What are epoxy floors?

The Simple Answer: It’s a multi-layer system of durable material that is applied to your concrete floor. It also looks good.
The complex answer? Keep reading.

How do epoxy floors work?

Understanding the process of how we install epoxy floors will help you understand how they work. When we get to your home, we:

Prepare the Floor

We start by filling in chips, cracks, and removing anything that would prevent adhesion. This makes it a relatively level surface.

Grind It

We remove the top 1/16” of the concrete by grinding it down. This provides a great surface for our products to adhere to.

The Basecoat

We use a polyaspartic, a two-component, rapid-cure basecoat. It adheres well to the roughed-up concrete.

Broadcast Chips

We literally cast broadly, handfuls of the decorative vinyl chips till we’ve completely covered the floor. We do this while the basecoat is still tacky so the chips will adhere.

Scrape Excess

Then we scrape off the excess decorative flake to ensure even spread of color and texture.

Apply Finish

We use a polyaspartic, two-component, rapid-cure floor coating that seals the whole application and dries fast. It’s super durable, stain resistant, has a glossy sheen, and is perfect for indoor or covered spaces.

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What do epoxy floors look like?

The main one we install uses vinyl paint chip flakes, and this is what they look like:

They look great. They have the advantage of being able to hide cracks, discoloration, etc. You’d have to look pretty close to see imperfections through floors we install. Even big cracks that we’ve filled can disappear into the random field of chips.

How long do they take to install?

It usually takes one day to install 400 square feet of epoxy flooring. At around 36 hours you can walk on the floor and it’s about four days till you can park your car on it.

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Recommended uses for epoxy floors.

There are many places you could install epoxy floors:

Garages
Covered Patios
Home Workshops
Restaurants, Bars & Cafeterias
Public Spaces in Stadiums & Malls
Kennels & Labs
Lobbies and Restrooms
Any place you want a hard & tough floor.

Why get TerraFirma’s epoxy floors?

There are a lot of options for floor coatings. Some are cheap DIY projects from Home Depot that will last a year or two, but this isn’t just some paint and chips. TerraFirma provides high quality products & services and epoxy floors are no exception. We install a highly durable system you can feel confident in.

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Epoxy Floors Process

Epoxy Floor Prep

  1. Prepare for TerraFirma Crew – Empty the space of vehicles, storage, and anything touching floors.
  2. Moisture – Water limits basecoat adhesion, so we check for any sources of excess moisture affecting the floor and seal them.
  3. Lifting & Leveling – If the cement is uneven, we can use our Polylevel® system to lift it and fill voids underneath the concrete. I on.
  4. Cracks – There are two main solutions we have for this:
    • Hairline Cracks: We use an epoxy crack filler to fill these in. This is a two-component epoxy that can be used on vertical and horizontal surfaces.
    • Large Cracks: We have a polyurea crack-filler that is a highly durable structural repair material and a good long-term fix – this even fills in large concrete cracks.
  5. Seams – When the cement slabs are poured, engineers include expansion gaps and seams. They allow for the slab to expand and handle a small amount of movement without cracking. We like to preserve these joints, so you will see the lines on the finished floor.
  6. Chips & Holes – That same polyurea crack-filler for large cracks can be used to fill in chips and holes in concrete. We can even use it to replace missing chunks in things like steps. The finished job will look straight, level, and clean.
  7. Grinding – Once we’ve fixed all the problems with the floor we bring out the big grinder. It tears up the top concrete which provides the best surface for our basecoat. It removes about 1/16 of an inch, but the epoxy floor will more than make up for that. We use industrial vacuums with filters to minimize dust.

Epoxy Floor Basecoat

Now that the floor is prepped, we put down the basecoat. It’s a two-component polyaspartic basecoat. We mix the two parts which activate the chemical reactions that will adhere to the concrete as well as the decorative chips later. We cover the entire floor with the basecoat using large metal spatulas. The basecoat is rapid-cure so we don’t have to wait a hours or days. It has low odor and excellent adhesion.

Epoxy Walls?

While we don’t do entire walls of epoxy flooring, we can go up the sidewalls a bit. Often garages will have the foundation stem-wall exposed between the drywall and floor. We can coat this for a nice, finished look. The surface will be rougher than the floor and we include the square footage in the cost.

Epoxy Floor Decorative Chips

This is the star of the show, the part you see. The chips are made from UV stable vinyl which means they are resistant to fading, discoloration, and degradation of the vinyl. It’s good quality stuff and we’re not stingy with it. We throw out enough to cover every inch of floor and then some. It’s about 80 pounds of chips per 400 square feet.

Polyaspartic Coating

The final coating that seals it all is polyaspartic. It’s easy to clean, has a glossy finish, resists abrasion or scratches, has chemical resistance, high solids, low odor, and is LEED compliant. It takes 36 hours before you can walk on it and four before you can park your car on it. The surface, though glossy, will not be smooth because of the decorative chips.

This is where we have to say polyaspartic is not epoxy. Though polyaspartic and epoxy are both resin-based, polyaspartic is not the same thing as epoxy. It’s lumped in with epoxy and other products in the durable floor coating space. And since everyone searches for epoxy floors when looking for polyaspartic, we all call it epoxy.

Polyaspartic cures faster, is a little more UV resistant, and is more durable than epoxy. It’s a better product all the way around. It’s harder to handle and install so that’s why you want a professional like TerraFirma to install it.

UV Resistance: Though there is some UV resistance in the product, it is not meant to sit in the sun all day, every day. Polyaspartic does yellow in the sun over time which is why we recommend it for indoor areas and covered outdoor areas that remain in the shade. There is another UV coating we can put on top that would significantly mitigate yellowing, but that is an additional cost.

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Epoxy Floor Options

We have other options for floor finishes, but they are mostly for special cases.
Talk to one of our System Design Specialists to learn more.

Decorative Chip Colors

Here’s a selection of what we offer, but these can change. Please check with your System Design Specialist.

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Because of settling, the concrete porch was pulling away from my house. The TerraFirma sales rep who came out did a great job of explaining the Polyfil procedure. The crew was extremely polite and respectful, did a great job and the area was completely clean when they left. I would have no hesitation using TerraFirma again.
Terra Firma was nothing short of AMAZING!!! We showed up on a Friday with a question about some subsidence at our location in Roseburg -- and a very tight timeline to take care of it! After the weekend, Morgan Flury was on our doorstep Monday morning. Before he left, we had options and prices and were able to sign a contract on the spot to get things rolling. By Friday morning before the Memorial Day weekend, Jeremie Sherman was out front and ready to work. The job was complete by lunchtime; the subsidence had been ameliorated and the concrete walkway and other concrete area were no longer a tripping or aesthetic problem. Everyone at Terra Firma was polite, helpful, efficient, and professional. If we ever have issues again, we definitely will make the call to Terra Firma.
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Communication prior to work was great. Project manager explained how the work would go. The day the crew showed up the foreman went over the work plan and asked if I had any concerns, which I did and he was able to explain and accommodate without any problems. The crew put down plastic to minimize any mess or marks on my concrete and cleaned up post project work. I’m very satisfied with the work and complement the crew.
We hired Terra Firma to repair and apply a polyaspartic covering to our 100 year-old garage floor. The work included stabilizing and leveling the cracked concrete, filling the cracks, grinding everything smooth, and applying the coating. The whole job took two days and it turned out beautifully. The team of Luis, Jorge, Juan and Christian were professional, skilled, and extremely courteous. They cheerfully answered my many questions throughout the whole process and left the site as clean as a whistle. I’m very pleased with the results.
Terra Firma seismically reinforced my home to resist earthquake forces that could cause its wood frame to slide off its concrete foundation. Within about 5 hours, a Terra Firma crew of three bolted steel plates to the perimeter of my home, connected the perimeter stud walls to the concrete foundation walls. The installation was performed professionally, primarily on the exterior, with only only 6 of the 37 plates installed in an interior space where the of the foundation wall was several feet below grade, making exterior installation difficult, if not impossible. Terra Firma's plumber also installed a vibration activated gas supply shut off valve to my gas meter. I'm very pleased with the work and am hopeful that my home will remain habitable after an earthquake.
from the time they gave us a bid until the job was done the company did a marvelous job. They gave me an estimate if I was to tear all the driveway out and replace the concrete, vs their technology. We are happy with the work and the cost savings.
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