Fall is here, which means winter is just around the corner. Given the many chores required to prepare your home for the winter, it doesn't hurt to get an early start. One important part of your home to winterize is your garage. Perhaps you're thinking about adding insulation to the garage doors. This will certainly reduce your home heating bills. Don't forget to add a vinyl garage door bottom. It will prevent cold air from entering under the door and will keep drifting snow and water out. In addition, installing weather-stripping to the door connecting your garage to the rest of your home will also help to keep out the cold.
However, as important as insulating against the cold is, there's another important winterizing task that often gets overlooked: the concrete floor of your garage.
How Winter Affects Your Concrete Garage Floor
Concrete has pores that absorb water and …show more content…
The coating is very tough and easily stands up to the salts and other chemicals that your car brings in from the street. Unlike porous concrete, the coating's smooth finish allows for quick and easy cleaning. It also protects the floor from grease, oil, and other fluids from your car and equipment stored in your garage.
The Problem with DIY Garage Floor Coating
Applying a garage floor coating that will last for years, requires work, attention to detail, the right tools, and following specific procedures. Writing down the methodology used by experienced professionals can't be summarized in a few simple steps. Yet simple is how the DIY garage floor coating kits sold in home improvement stores make the task seem.
Products requiring special tools, with exacting procedures don't sell. The floor coating kit manufacturers know this, and sell minimal kits with minimal and easy-to-follow steps. That's only good marketing. If it isn't easy and simple, you don't have a marketable
However, as important as insulating against the cold is, there's another important winterizing task that often gets overlooked: the concrete floor of your garage.
How Winter Affects Your Concrete Garage Floor
Concrete has pores that absorb water and …show more content…
The coating is very tough and easily stands up to the salts and other chemicals that your car brings in from the street. Unlike porous concrete, the coating's smooth finish allows for quick and easy cleaning. It also protects the floor from grease, oil, and other fluids from your car and equipment stored in your garage.
The Problem with DIY Garage Floor Coating
Applying a garage floor coating that will last for years, requires work, attention to detail, the right tools, and following specific procedures. Writing down the methodology used by experienced professionals can't be summarized in a few simple steps. Yet simple is how the DIY garage floor coating kits sold in home improvement stores make the task seem.
Products requiring special tools, with exacting procedures don't sell. The floor coating kit manufacturers know this, and sell minimal kits with minimal and easy-to-follow steps. That's only good marketing. If it isn't easy and simple, you don't have a marketable