Garage floors built for hot tires and oil drips
Your garage takes hot tires, oil drips and whatever the wind blows under the door. We grind the slab and put down a flake floor that shrugs all of that off.
What it is
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A garage floor epoxy coating is a full system bonded to the slab: diamond grind, epoxy base coat, a full broadcast of flake chips, and a clear top coat over everything. Done right, it handles what a garage actually deals with. Hot tires pulling in after a drive down the 14. Oil and coolant drips. Dropped wrenches. Sand tracked in every single day. We got into this trade because of a garage floor quote that didn’t add up, so garages are personal around here.
The flake epoxy page covers flake in shops, patios and commercial spaces, and the epoxy flooring installation page walks through every system we offer.
The thing that usually wrecks a garage coating is hot tire pickup. A tire fresh off a hot road softens a weak coating, and when the car backs out, the tire pulls the coating right off the slab. That happens with thin kits rolled onto unground concrete. Ours goes on ground concrete, with a top coat made to take hot tires. In Porter Ranch we did a 2-car and a 1-car garage in gray flake, ran a flake cove base up the walls so there’s no dirt line where the floor meets the drywall, and carried the flake up the steps into the house.
This page is about garages specifically. If you’d rather have metallic or solid color in the garage, we can do that too, but flake is what we’d point most people toward because it hides dust and gives tires grip. Flake floors, garage or not, carry our 1-year workmanship warranty.
Where it belongs
Family garages
Daily drivers in and out, bikes, a freezer in the corner. Flake hides the scuffs and cleans up with a mop.
Car and bike collectors
A brighter, cleaner floor under the stuff you care about, with a top coat that won’t lift under hot tires.
Garage gyms
Put mats where the weights drop; the flake floor handles the rest and wipes clean after a workout.
Workshop garages
Oil, solvents and dropped tools are part of the deal. A thick top coat takes the abuse and wipes clean.
What goes in it
- Diamond grind across the whole slab, edges included.
- Crack and divot repair, filled and ground flush.
- Pigmented epoxy base coat, matched to the flake color.
- Full broadcast of vinyl flake chips, thrown until the base coat disappears.
- Flake cove base a few inches up the wall, if you want it.
- Clear UV-stable top coat over the flake and the cove.
We won’t sell you a one-day thin coat on an unground garage slab, because that’s the floor that peels the first summer you park a hot car on it.
How we install it
- 1
Clear the garage
You empty it out; we check the slab for cracks, old paint and anything soaking up from below.
- 2
Grind the slab
Diamond grinders take off the top skin and old sealer, and we hand-grind the edges the big machine can’t reach.
- 3
Patch and cove
Cracks and divots get filled, and if you’re doing a cove base, we build it along the walls now.
- 4
Base and flake
The base coat goes down and we throw flake by hand until it’s fully covered, then scrape and vacuum the loose chips.
- 5
Top coat
A clear top coat seals it all in. We tell you when you can walk on it and when to bring the car back.
Built for desert conditions
Heat, sun, wind and sand, as they hit this kind of floor.
Schedule a site visitAntelope Valley garages bake in summer. A closed garage in Palmdale or Lancaster can sit over 100 degrees in the afternoon, and the car you park in it just came off a hot road. That’s exactly the setup for hot tire pickup, which is why we won’t do a garage without a full grind and a top coat built to take heat.
Then there’s the sand. Every time the door opens, wind pushes a little more of the desert in, and grit under tires slowly dulls a top coat the same way sandpaper would. Flake hides that dust better than any solid color, and a quick sweep keeps the top coat from wearing. If the garage gets afternoon sun through the open door, the UV-stable top coat keeps the floor from yellowing.
Living with it
Sweep or blow out the sand once a week. Mop with warm water and mild soap, or hose it down if you want; the floor won’t mind. Clean up oil and brake fluid when you see it. Use a mat or a puck under motorcycle kickstands and jack stands.
Related services
Decorative Epoxy Flooring
Custom blends, borders, stripes and logos built into an epoxy floor, for garages, showrooms and shops that need a look.
Self-Leveling Epoxy Flooring
A pourable epoxy that flows out flat and glossy on a level slab, for showrooms, modern homes and clean back rooms.
High-Build Epoxy Floor Coatings
Thick, multi-coat solid epoxy for shops, warehouses and repair bays where carts, jacks and dropped parts would wear a thin coat.
Anti-Slip Epoxy Flooring
Grit built into the top coat of any epoxy floor, for kitchens, garage aprons, wash bays and rooms that get wet.
From Palmdale we cover the Antelope Valley and beyond, including Quartz Hill, Acton, Lancaster, Littlerock. See finished floors in the gallery.
Questions about garage floor epoxy coatings
Will hot tires lift the coating?
Not on a floor that’s been ground and top coated properly. Hot tire pickup happens when a thin coating sits on smooth, unground concrete and the heat softens it. We grind every garage and finish with a top coat made to take heat.
How long before I can park in the garage again?
You can usually walk on it the next day, but cars need longer. Cure time depends on temperature, so a July floor and a January floor run on different clocks. We’ll give you the exact day before we leave.
What is a cove base, and do I need one?
A cove base carries the flake a few inches up the wall, so the floor and wall meet in one curve instead of a dirt-catching seam. It’s optional, but it makes the garage much easier to hose out. We ran one on the Porter Ranch garages, along with flake on the steps.
Can you coat a garage floor with cracks?
Yes. Cracks get ground open, filled and ground flush before the base coat goes down. A crack that’s still moving can show up again over time, and we’ll tell you honestly if we see one like that.
What flake colors can I pick from?
Plenty of blends, from grays and tans to black and white domino. Gray is a popular garage pick because it hides tire marks and desert dust. We can go through options when we come out to look at the garage.
Is there a warranty on a garage floor?
Flake floors come with our 1-year workmanship warranty. If something we did fails in that first year, we come back and make it right. That’s the warranty, and we’d rather tell you that straight than promise something vague.
Start with a
site visit.
Send a few photos of the floor and the room. we will tell you whether garage floor epoxy coatings is the right system for it.
What to send and what happens next. Want proof first? See the floors.