Polyaspartic vs. epoxy: why we only install one of them.

If you've been pricing garage floors, you've seen the word "epoxy" everywhere. So here's the question we get on almost every quote: do you guys do epoxy? Short answer: no. Here's the honest comparison, and why we picked a side.

What epoxy is, and where it struggles

Epoxy is the coating that made garage floors famous, and plenty of good floors have been done with it. But it has habits we don't want in an Indiana garage. Standard epoxy can yellow with UV exposure, so the floor by the door ages faster than the floor behind the car. It cures slowly and wants a warm slab, which turns winter installs into a gamble. And the bargain kits everyone has seen peeling in patches? That failure has a name, hot-tire pickup, and it's the reason so many people think all coatings fail.

What polyaspartic does differently

Polyaspartic is a newer coating built on polyurea technology. It's UV-stable, so it won't yellow in the sun. It stays slightly flexible instead of going brittle, which helps it ride out Indiana's freeze-and-thaw swings. It bonds tight to properly ground concrete, shrugs off road salt and chemicals, and it cures fast: most floors take foot traffic in about 12 hours. It also cures reliably across a wide temperature range, which is why we install year-round instead of parking the trailer all winter.

Why we made the call

We'd rather master one system than juggle two. Every Bedrock floor gets the same build: crack and chip repair, diamond grinding to open the concrete, a premium polyaspartic base coat, a full decorative flake broadcast, and a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat. No good-better-best menu where the cheap tier is designed to fail, and no surprise upgrade pitch on install day. One system, one price: $8 per square foot, all-inclusive.

One thing we'll say for fairness: the coating matters less than the prep. A well-prepped epoxy floor beats a badly prepped anything. We just happen to think the best prep deserves the better coating on top of it.