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Thoughts On The Best Garage Floor Coating
Posted by GuestPoster in -Home Improvement
As far as contemplation goes you may not have thought about your garage floor very much. Most people drive onto it with their car and forget about it. Until there is a problem that is. Did you know that slips and falls in the garage are a major cause of accidents in the home? If you live anywhere that it rains or snows then you really should think about what would be the best garage floor coating to give you good traction.
The problem is concrete is very hard and when oil and water are present it works as a great bearing surface. The oil and water don’t mix so they repel each other. This sets up a situation where The hard concrete surface and your hard shoe have a material between them with a very low coefficient of friction. In layman’s terms, this means your feet slip on the floor and you go down.
As our population continues to age falling becomes a greater and great hazard. When you are young you can fall and just jump right back up. But as we age our bones get more brittle and can easily snap if we land wrong. Another interesting health aspect of slips is that they are a major cause of back problems in men. The guy slips and when you turns quickly to try to catch himself he can easily slip or rupture a disk. Once this happens your back is never the same again.
If you want to increase the safety of your garage, and as you can see this is an important thing to think about, then you are going to want to choose the best garage floor coating you can find. And the best is going to be an epoxy based material. It will bond very well to the concrete surface, it will last many years, and it is easy to add traction materials to the top so you don’t slip on the wet floor. Also, an epoxy is as easy to apply as rolling out paint with a paint roller.
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