Your Garage Flooring Warranty Checklist

A clean, professional garage flooring install should come with more than a glossy finish—it should come with a rock-solid warranty. But in the humid, freeze-thaw climate of New Jersey, most warranties won’t cover the damage that actually happens.

Before you invest, walk through this checklist to make sure you’re truly protected.

The 5 Questions to Ask About Your Garage Flooring Warranty

✅ How “real” is the warranty?
Short-term and “limited lifetime” warranties are common, the latter is often paired with fast “1-day” install coating systems. But “limited lifetime” warranties often have “warranty exclusions” that fail to protect against the most common causes of coating system failures: moisture and staining from hot tires (aka plasticizer migration). If a company won’t fully stand behind their product for the long haul, that should be a red flag.

✅ Is moisture damage covered?
Moisture rising through the porous concrete slab is the No. 1 reason coatings fail. If your warranty doesn’t cover “moisture-related issues” (like moisture vapor transmission and high hydrostatic pressure), don’t be surprised if/when the peeling begins—and the repairs are on you.

✅ Does it cover hot-tire transfer?
Most warranties exclude this entirely, even though hot tires lifting or staining the topcoat is one of the most common issues homeowners face.

✅ What kind of base coat is used?
Here’s the truth: 1-day systems use a quick-curing polyurea or polyaspartic for their direct-to-concrete base coat. But these quick-cure coatings cure even quicker in the presence of concrete moisture. So quickly, that they fail to deeply penetrate and strongly bond with the concrete slab. This creates a thin, poorly-penetrating base coat susceptible to delamination. (The entire coating system is only as strong as its direct-to-concrete base coat).

✅ Is it a 1-day or 2-day system?
Speed comes at a cost. A 2-day install allows for the use of a slower-curing, moisture-mitigating epoxy base coat that acts as a thick moisture vapor barrier (protecting the coating system from future moisture vapor transmission and hydrostatic pressures). We save the polyaspartics for the clear top coats only. This approach creates a thick and durable coating system that will stand up to time and traffic.

How GFC New Jersey Checks Every Box

At Garage Floor Coating of New Jersey, we don’t cut corners—and we never rush the process. Our full-flake garage flooring systems come with a lifetime warranty that includes:

• Protection against moisture damage, thanks to our slow-curing, 100%-solids, moisture-mitigating epoxy base. The doubly thick coat provides deep, durable moisture mitigation
• Coverage for hot-tire transfer, made possible by our premium, 100%-solids polyaspartic topcoats; two separate coats, not just one!
• A proven 2-day process that ensures adhesion, performance, and a floor that lasts

We use the best materials in the right order—because that’s what makes a warranty worth something.