Doing it Right The First Time is The Most  Affordable

When people think about the polyaspartic garage flooring cost, they usually think that it is unaffordable due to its higher quality. However that is no longer the case as polyaspartic coatings have become more and more affordable over recent years. So how much does it cost to coat a garage floor in Houston? The answer varies depending on a few factors, such as the size of your garage and the amount of chips you put in the floor. Most companies push partial chip floors (which means the chips do not completely cover the floors surface) they are just lightly sprinkled on top thus affording them a higher profit margin; these partially chipped floors are often decietfully named Heavy Chip Floors but there is nothing heavy about a chip floor that does not completely cover the surface with chips. These parital chip floors include about 10 pounds of chips for every two car garage and has a price tag of about $4-$5 per square foot. The next type of Heavy Chip Floor only covers the top of the coating enough to give the appearance that the floor is completely saturated with chips without actually doing it. These floors offer more protection than partially chipped floors because they have a layer of chips on the surface that weigh about 25 pounds for each two car garage. These Heavy Chip Floors run about $5-$6 per square foot installed. The best type of Heavy Chip Floors are actually completely saturated with chips. The process involves throwing 100+ pounds of chips (20 gallons of chips) for each two car garage into the wet coating until the chips sink down deep and then more chips are put on top until the floor can no longer hold any more chips (until rejection). These floors are superior for many reasons. First, they provide 4x the amount of chips as the preceeding method which means the floor will last 4x longer because the more product you have between your feet and the concrete the longer the floor will last. Additionally, when you wear thru the top layer of chips on the completely saturated floor you will expose more chips below the surface so that you won't be able to tell that the top layer has been worn thru opposed to the preceeding version which will reveal a solid color grey, tan or black coating. If you only have chips on the surface then once you wear past those chips you will expose the solid color coating below and you will see spots all over the floor where you walk the most. If you had just spent a little bit more money you would have had a floor that lasted 4x and looks the same as you wear thru it to the bottom. The partially chipped floor and the heavy chip floors with chips only on the surface has a service life of about 10-20% of the service life of our fully saturated floors.