March / April 2016
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ADVERTISING
From Neglect to Respect
YOUR GARAGE FLOOR
By Greg Slicker
YOUR GARAGE IS CALLING….and
it is tired of its appearance and how it has
been neglected over the years! As a space
that represents up to 20% of your home's
total size, the Garage is often overlooked
as a home improvement candidate. Yet, the
Garage is used and visited or used by home-
owners nearly every day, houses some of
your most valuable contents (like beautiful
Porsche machines!) and often serves as the
primary entry point for visitors entering the
home. For this reason, many discriminat-
ing Homeowners are looking for solutions
to "Upgrade their Garage".
With home values continuing to appreci-
ate, many homeowners are looking for other
areas of their home to improve that will be
a solid investment. One area of the home
that continues to gain popularity is improv-
ing the garage space and more specifically
– the garage flooring. Most people are only
aware of the concrete paints, stains and wa-
ter-based epoxy kits that are typically avail-
able at local paint stores or home improve-
ment centers. These products are typically
water based products that cannot handle the
abuse that a professionally installed, 100%
solids epoxy-based product provides.
It is the belief of Greg Slicker, owner of
the Prairie Village-based Granite Garage
Floors, that if today's homeowners were
aware of an alternative to the normal de-
teriorated concrete, oil-stained surface, or
peeling gray paint – that they would jump
on the opportunity to upgrade their garage
floor surface. "If you think about it, there
isn't another surface inside or outside of
the house that takes the abuse of a garage
