A floor that takes everything, and still looks deliberate.

Usually, provided the slab is sound and dry, and “dry” is measured rather than judged by eye. A professional installer seals a hygrometer box to the slab and leaves it, often overnight or longer, to read the relative humidity inside the concrete itself; a reading above roughly 75 per cent means the slab needs a moisture-tolerant primer or a damp-proof membrane coat before any resin goes near it. The surface is then diamond-ground to expose fresh concrete, cracks are filled with a repair mortar, and any oil staining is dealt with, because resin bonds to concrete, not to whatever is sitting on top of it. Skipping any of those steps is how a floor comes up on the roller.

It depends on the system and, just as much, on the temperature, because epoxy cures by a chemical reaction that slows dramatically in a cold garage. As a rough shape of things, light foot traffic is often possible within one to two days, but full chemical cure, the point at which the floor will take a parked car’s hot tyres without marking, typically takes the better part of a week. The installer will give you a schedule for your system and your conditions, and it is worth planning around it honestly: driving on to a floor a day early is the most avoidable way to spoil a good install.

A smooth, high-gloss resin floor can be, which is why the enquiry asks about slip resistance up front. Where a floor will get wet, the installer broadcasts a fine aggregate, typically quartz sand or aluminium oxide, into one of the coats to give the surface texture. There is a genuine trade-off to discuss: more texture means more grip but slightly harder cleaning, so the right specification depends on how the space is actually used. Commercial wet areas can be specified to a tested slip rating where a client requires it.

Solid colour, decorative flake, quartz and metallic systems, in a range of gloss levels. For garages, flake systems are the most popular for a practical reason as well as an aesthetic one: the mottled surface hides dust, tyre marks and the odd scuff far better than a single flat colour, and a small repair blends in rather than showing as a patch. Metallic and full-gloss systems reward a perfectly prepared slab and suit showroom-style spaces. The installer will show you cured samples relevant to your space rather than asking you to choose from a screen.

Yes. Epoxy resin flooring is the one Kalvaro service that serves domestic and commercial owners equally, and we match accordingly. Commercial floors bring their own requirements, from chemical resistance and line marking to working around trading hours, so we route commercial enquiries to partners with demonstrated commercial capability rather than assuming a good garage installer is automatically the right fit for a workshop or retail unit.

Kalvaro handles significant projects rather than small repairs, and in practice a single garage is comfortably within scope because preparation and equipment, not area, drive most of the work. If your project is genuinely small, a patch repair or a single step, tell us the area anyway and we will be straight with you about whether an introduction makes sense or whether you would be better served going to an installer directly.

Consumer garage-floor kits fail for predictable reasons. They are usually water-based, applied thinly with a roller on to concrete that has only been swept, so there is no mechanical key for the coating to grip, and nobody has measured the moisture rising through the slab. The first hot tyre or damp winter lifts them. A professional system starts with diamond grinding, a measured moisture test and a primer matched to the slab, then builds the floor in multiple coats to several times the thickness of a kit. It is a different product installed by a different method; the peeling kit is not evidence that resin does not work on your floor, only that preparation was skipped.