Choosing the Best Epoxy Floor Coating

Epoxy coating has been used as the standard for a tough, beautiful floor surface for many years. However, many people still confuse epoxy with paint. It is not surprising to hear someone make reference to “epoxy point”. In reality, epoxy and paint are totally different products with different chemical composition. Even if you could differentiate the two, choosing the best epoxy resin for your floor coating may still be hard. For this reason, below is some insight to help you choose the best epoxy coating for your garage floor.

For a tough, durable garage floor, two part epoxy coating that do not contain solvent (100 percent solids) are the best choice. This type of epoxy coating hardens through a chemical process leaving behind a thick, hard and appealing surface. It may be a little more expensive and a little more demanding to install than the options below, but 100 percent epoxy coating is certainly a DIY- friendly project. An example of this product is epoxy master.

The two-part solvent based epoxy resins are good but not utterly great. They are water based and are therefore easier to apply and clean up when compared to 100 percent solids epoxy coatings. The major draw-back is that these products provide a thinner coating which is not likely to last as long.  Quikrete, Rust-Oleum and Behr are the most popular epoxy coatings of this kind readily available at your home improvement store.

One-part Solvent-based epoxy coating is not a true epoxy coating.  A true epoxy coating comes in two parts: the resin and the hardener. However, one-part epoxy coating is pre-mixed. This may be convenient, but the product doesn’t perform much better than paint. You can only choose this if you are not going to use the garage frequently and/or is ready to do the floor 

Light gauge steel construction

Construction in LGS is quickly gaining popularity in Kenya owing to:
1. Faster speed of erection compared to the conventional construction materials like timber and heavy steel.
2 . Higher level of precision achieved through design software minimizes costs as wastage is greatly minimized. This has made LGS quite affordable.
3. The low weight of the LGS structure warrants it's on roofs and higher floors of multi storey buildings. For instance, hoisting an LGS truss is less cumbersome compared  timber or conventional steel truss of equal strength. The LGS has higher strength to weight ratio and since steel is priced depending on its weight, LGS construction is cheaper.
4. Other advantages of LGS include: environmental friendly method,  aesthetically appealing finish,  require small labour which cab either be semi-skilled or unskilled.
In Kenya, the the key players in this field include: TechnoConstruct, TrussTech, UltraSpan,  steelex, among others.