3 Reasons Not To Use Epoxy Paint For Concrete Floors
It is cheap and easy to coat your concrete floors with an epoxy paint. It can even last a long time if your floor doesn’t get a lot of traffic or abuse. With so many options available like color paint chips or reflective metallic to blend into the epoxy paint your concrete floor is sure to be an eye-catcher!
Many business owners think that it is a long term solution. This upscale coffee and pastry café had a beautiful epoxy paint job done on their concrete floors. They had a beautiful dining room for a few months. But unfortunately for the floors, many people walked on the epoxy paint every day to come in and get their morning coffee and bagel.
Floor coatings need to be thick enough to absorb the shock of daily traffic. The impact needs to be transferred from the foot to the concrete, and if the floor has no body there is nothing to absorb the shock and transfer it to a wider area, instead it just goes straight through and starts wearing and stressing the thin epoxy coating.
