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RESURFACING YOUR GARAGE FLOOR

Drive Staff . October 12, 2022 . All Feature Vehicles
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Going country with vortex

Everyone is familiar with spray-on liner for a truck bed, but you can get products from companies like Vortex Sprayliners, Inc. that can make your garage floor look brand new.

Of course, if all you want is to paint over the oil stains and what have you, you could do that easily. If you want more protection, however, and a way to raise the aesthetics for where you park your pride and joy, then you might want an option like this. This is not your average epoxy floor coating.

(After) Shown below are the steps necessary to create a unique look to an otherwise typical, cold and dirty concrete floor. Courtesy of Vortex.
(Before)

Vortex has expanded its line of coatings to more than just truck beds throughout the years, and according to its President John M. Kott, the whole industry has been looking to expand into different fields while relying on just truck bed liners as their sole source of service to their customers. After asking their customers which other surfaces needed to be protected, repaired, restored or renewed, Vortex developed a high-impact, polyurea and aliphatic-based urethane coating that is applied with a patented baked on flooring system known as Granitex. Now you can restore, renew and beautify worn, old garage floors or other surfaces and get as artistic with it as you want. —Drive! Staff

The end result is a simple but impressive country garage. A surrounding frame of a darker color called Coconut with an interior lighter tan color called Biscuit Beige highlights the custom stallion logo that was created with a black and white chip. This baked-on floor finish cures in just one day, and you can park your car on it the next day. That’s incredible!

1. After the floor is surveyed to determine which cleaners and repair materials are needed and grease spots are removed, chips are repaired and cracks are filled, a thorough cleaning is necessary. Use an industrial-based degreaser called K7 Degreaser combined with a Ph balancer known as J3 Deactivaitng Powder.
2. Expansion joints are blown free of debris and water. Then a coat of the Vortex Super Seal is applied (not pictured).  This seals off natural moisture that comes through the concrete and prevents it from pushing off the coating.  There’s no toxic acid etching or extensive, messy grinding of the surface.
3. The perimeter around the footing of the garage is going to be done in a different color of blended polyacetate chips to give the floor a faux granite look. A coat of the polyphatic glaze is applied to the surface and the chips are placed on top of the wet coating by hand.
4. Next, a coat of the Granitex polyphatic glaze is applied with the Granitex baked on flooring machine. This system does several things: it heats up the material to create an even viscosity of the product and ensure a positive bond to the Super Seal that was applied earlier. It also meters the two-part urethane, and then mixes it literally thousands of times before dispensing it through a perforated roller for non-stop application.
5. The second, lighter color of blended chips are broadcast over the wet polyphatic glaze, bonding them to the surface.
6. The glaze dries rapidly and then the excess chips are vacuumed up and then profiled with a floor scraper.  This removes any excess jagged edges from the chips and levels the surface to a more uniform flat platform.
7. Once again the Granitex baked on flooring system is used but this time to apply a pure polyphatic clear industrial strength coating on top of the chips. This makes the floor easier to clean and chip and chemical resistant.
8. The clear is left ot cure for one hour. This customer ordered a custom logo appliqué, which is affixed to the surface with an easy-release adhesive. This appliqué is actually a reverse image sticker: only the background of the image is applied and used as a stencil. A thin coat of clear polyphatic glaze is applied to the exposed areas in the appliqué and accenting chips are dropped onto the coated exposed area inside the appliqué stencil.
9. The clear is left ot cure for one hour. This customer ordered a custom logo appliqué, which is affixed to the surface with an easy-release adhesive. This appliqué is actually a reverse image sticker: only the background of the image is applied and used as a stencil. A thin coat of clear polyphatic glaze is applied to the exposed areas in the appliqué and accenting chips are dropped onto the coated exposed area inside the appliqué stencil.
10. The chips are pressed down into the glaze, and then the outside stencil is removed leaving the accented area behind.

Visit Vortexsprayliners.com for more information.


 

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