Problems with Stone & Epoxy Flooring

Problems with Stone and Epoxy Flooring

Installing stone and epoxy garage floors is a common budget solution among Ohio homeowners. Unfortunately, there are various problems with stone and epoxy flooring that are overlooked. Most homeowners who choose to install epoxy stone and epoxy flooring are looking for a low-cost solution.

Stone floor garage companies will advertise exceptional durability and low-maintenance advantage for their services. Many even offer prices as low as 99 cents per square foot. However, poured stone flooring requires frequent, costly maintenance and is susceptible to many forms of wear and tear. As a result, these floor surfaces will cost you far more in the long run.

Stone garage floors also present a myriad of other disadvantages:

Prep and installation significantly increase costs per square foot.

Prior to stone and epoxy installation, the substrate requires proper preparation and leveling. This prep work is an involved process, which results in the cost of stone garage floors rising to an average of $9 to $14 per square foot. Many homeowners are left feeling they have been the victim of a bait-and-switch after stone and epoxy flooring installation. This also applies to stone basement flooring cost.

Stone and Epoxy concrete texture results in more work and maintenance costs.

The texture of the flooring consists of many individual stones mixed with epoxy material. This means you receive a more porous flooring overall. As a result, your flooring is more susceptible to corrosive materials, dirt buildup, and various other costly issues. This also makes cleaning more time-consuming and difficult.

Dirt, grime, and liquid spills can more easily settle into the surface of the stone. For example, if you were to drop and spill a gallon of wine on the flooring, you will have an incredibly difficult time removing the liquid and glass shards from the grooves of the flooring. Stone and Epoxy flooring is also more vulnerable to oils, anti-freeze, fuels, and other corrosive chemicals. Overall, maintaining stone and epoxy is uniquely troublesome and expensive.

Stone and Epoxy flooring is susceptible to mold and mildew.

Many stone and epoxy flooring companies claim that their flooring is a solution to basement mold and mildew buildup. However, the texture of the flooring allows water to seep into the cracks between the stones. As a result, the water settles at the bottom of the structure and begins forming mold and mildew. Furthermore, the flooring will be more likely to crack and the damages can often result in a full replacement of your flooring.

Low weather resistance results in more frequent repairs.

Ohio weather is particularly harsh on garage flooring, especially stone and epoxy. Among the many problems with stone and epoxy flooring, low weather resistance is the most likely to increase repair costs.

Hot summer and frigid winters expose stone and epoxy to humidity, extreme temperatures, thaw cycles, road salt, hot tire pickup, and more. This causes flooring is more likely to expand, shrink, crack, and degrade. As a result, you will be spending more on repairs to maintain presentable, clean flooring.

OGI offers superior flooring solutions

With Ohio Garage Interiors, you can avoid the problems with stone and epoxy flooring and install high-strength polyaspartic epoxy with exceptional protective properties. We offer precision installation services and epoxy that contains polyaspartic polyurea. So, your flooring will resist extreme weather, corrosive chemicals, abrasions, mold, mildew, and more! You can also customize your flooring with a variety of solid and metallic finishes or make your own decorative flake flooring system.

Not convinced? Just ask our customers! Many of our clients had a bad experience with stone and epoxy flooring and switched to OGI to get the flooring solutions they needed.

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