“When the Rubber Meets the Floor” – The Twin Cities’ Garage Floor Outfitters Provide Better Parking Through Chemistry

It’s often a place of contrasts: half of the time, it’s a place of exhausted relief, of turned keys and exhaust fumes swirling into nothing at the end of a journey that’s long or just long-seeming. Half of the time, it’s a place of beginnings, tense or exciting or dread-filling. It’s the last thing a homeowner sees when leaving a home, and it’s the first thing a homeowner sees when returning home.

It’s the interior of the car park, the car hole, the auto stable, the spencer, the parkade, the Chevy levy, the Ford fjord, the Batcave, the place where dad sleeps when mom has had enough of his shenanigans — in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, it’s usually called “the garage,” and it’s most often treated like an afterthought by its owner … but more and more, Minnesotans are moving their garages to their forebrains, upgrading from the bottom up.

Savage, Minn.-based, Twin Cities-serving Garage Floor Outfitters, as their name suggests, might serve as a dependable partner in such endeavors.

“We install custom, high-quality solutions for garage floors,” declares Bob Davis, the company’s owner. “People want to re-do their garage floors and get organized.”

The most basic, most obvious, most elemental of such solutions is a coating of the space’s lowest horizons. In years past, epoxy and polyaspartic resin have been, despite their giant-movie-monster-sounding names, the most popular options for such treatments. In recent times, however, a new colossus has established its dominance.

“Polyaspartic is a UV-stable resin that looks like epoxy but has a chemical makeup that allows it to set much more quickly,” elucidates a website dedicated to the topic. “When it contains 100% aliphatic material, a polyaspartic garage coating prevents the fading or yellowing that occurs over time with epoxy coatings.”

Translated from Madscientistese, this new product forms pleasing chemical compounds whose invisible chains solidify faster and last longer than its predecessors. Garage Floor Outfitters’ own website elaborates: “Our polyaspartic garage floor coatings can be installed and fully dried in as little as one day. With quick installation and drying times, your floors will look exceptional while standing up to heavy use.”

The floors having achieved such a dark and pristine condition, keeping non-cars off of them might be advisable. Happily, Garage Floor Outfitters outfits more than just garage floors. As their website promises, “We offer tailored solutions for residential or commercial use to meet your unique needs.”

Those unique needs might be addressed, at least in part, with the installation of cabinets.

“We carry both the plywood Classic series and the metal Tech series by [top brand] Slide-Lok Garage Interiors & Closet System,” the company’s website explains. “Other cabinets made of particle board don’t last in garage environments where moisture can lead to their early demise.”

The purpose of the treatment is the opposite of an early demise. As the website further assures, “Using floor coating products such as Slide-Lok’s polyaspartic, patch repair, moisture barrier, and joint filler solutions, we can improve and preserve your floor for a lifetime of demanding use.”

The vertical surfaces themselves might lend to the storage efforts of the thoroughly Bob Vila-esque in the form of slat walls. Say Garage Floor Outfitters, “[Slat walls] are built only from strong and durable material, feature hooks that can up to one hundred pounds, and are available in custom sizes and configurations.”

And, of course, the floor’s distant parallel needn’t be left out of the act — ceiling racks are also an option.

“Strong Racks is the manufacturer of the world’s strongest and safest ceiling storage racks for your garage,” the company website boasts. “These garage overhead storage racks are capable of holding the highest weight capacities in the entire industry of overhead storage systems.”

Although owner Bob Davis has noticed that the general public has, in recent years, gained an appreciation of the house’s carpark, one improbable demographic has loomed over all the rest.

“You’d be surprised — single women in their 40s most often want their garages decked out,” owner Davis observes thoughtfully. Then he adds with a wry laugh, “They’re the ones with the money — women in their forties rule the world!”

Once the work is done, the cupboard-covered walls might resemble a metal or wooden chessboard intended for giant monsters with unpronounceable names and long attention spans. However it’s processed, the end result can be a unified concept that changes a house’s garage into more than just the end of a journey or the beginning of a journey — the end result can tell the ultimate story of the ultimate destination … it can tell the story of home.

Garage Floor Outfitters
12605 Creek View Ave.
Savage, MN 55378-2390
(952) 908-9888
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garageflooroutfitters.com