Garage Floor Coating in Myrtle Beach, SC

What a Grand Strand garage floor is up against

A garage floor at the coast works harder than one inland. Most garages here are slabs poured on sandy soil, often with the water table close underneath, so moisture is always trying to move up through the concrete. Summer air is heavy and humid, the sun pours in whenever the door is open, and sand gets tracked in from the beach and the golf cart every day.

That is why a cheap coating fails fast here. A thin coat over concrete that was only acid washed has nothing to hold onto, and moisture pushing up from below lifts it in blisters and flakes. A floor that lasts starts with real grinding, a base coat built to handle moisture, and a top coat that does not yellow in the sun. The full breakdown is in why garage floor coatings peel near the coast.

How Clean Floor Coatings installs a garage floor

Most garages take two days from start to finish. See how long a garage floor coating takes for what to expect.

1. 1Move everything out of the garage into branded 10x10 tents in your driveway. We move everything, you touch nothing.
2. 2Grind the whole slab with a diamond grinder so the coating has an open surface to grip. No muriatic acid and primer shortcut.
3. 3Test the concrete so the system is matched to your slab, not guessed at.
4. 4Fill cracks, chips and holes so they do not show through the finish.
5. 5Roll on a moisture vapor barrier epoxy base coat to hold back the moisture that rises through coastal slabs.
6. 6Broadcast color flake across the whole floor, then scrape and vacuum it smooth.
7. 7Seal it with a clear polyaspartic top coat that will not yellow in the sun.
8. 8Put everything back where it was.

Color, texture and grip

• Flake blends: Torginol blends like Gravel, Domino, Tidal Wave and Creekbed, plus marble style blends like Pumice and Basalt. Help picking one is in how to choose a flake color.
• Custom colors: blends matched to your car or your team.
• Grip: flake adds light texture, and Shark Bite non skid can go into the top coat on request. Worth it if your floor gets wet from rain, pool feet or a sweating slab, though any wet floor still calls for care.
• Sun: the polyaspartic top coat will not yellow, so a floor that faces the afternoon sun keeps its color. Compare the materials in epoxy vs polyaspartic.

Who you deal with

Phil Adikes owns Clean Floor Coatings, a veteran owned local family business serving Myrtle Beach homeowners since 2019. Phil runs the estimates himself, and a full time office manager answers the phone, so a person always picks up. More about Clean Floor Coatings.

Where we work

Clean Floor Coatings is based in Little River and works across the Grand Strand and north into North Carolina.

South Carolina: Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Longs, Conway, Aynor, Galivants Ferry, Surfside Beach, Garden City, Murrells Inlet, Pawleys Island and Georgetown.

North Carolina: Calabash, Sunset Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Shallotte, Bolivia, Oak Island, Southport, Leland, Wilmington, Burgaw and Whiteville.

Frequently asked questions