Many times we don’t think of our garages or pay much attention to their appearance. They are only a destination for a park the cars and store the extra boxes of Christmas decorations and such. However, like any room in your house your garage floor must be used care of. 
Due to the use it gets, along with water, gas and oil that may inevitable be spilled upon it, garage flooring can certainly become damaged and commence to break apart after a few years of use. Epoxy coating is one means to fix your garage flooring challenge. Epoxy coating applies a level of sealant and protectant to your concrete garage floor to greatly help it resist staining, moisture problems and helps it maintain its appearance.
Installing epoxy flooring requires a little up-front preparation before beginning. The most crucial step along the way is ensuring that the floor you will apply the epoxy coating onto is without any moisture, residual paint and does not have a concrete sealer or other finishing applied to it. 
To try for moisture, take a sheet of plastic and bring it to a 3-foot x 3-foot area using masking tape. Keep it there for approximately two days and then remove and check for almost any moisture collecting privately of the plastic facing the floor. If moisture occurs, than an epoxy flooring coating is not suitable as epoxy needs a dry surface to properly bond with the flooring. 
Next, we’ll test to ensure the flooring does not have a sealant already applied to it. This test will even check for the presence of oils in the cement as well. Take a cup of water and pour it directly onto the prevailing flooring. It should soak into the floor in a fair quantity of time. When it beads or simply sits on the top of flooring then a flooring has probably been already sealed or contains oil contaminants. Epoxy flooring is not suited to cement floors which have been already sealed or contain any type of oil residue since it won’t bond. 
Finally, if you should be willing to pay almost a year testing an area of one’s garage floor for suitability to installing epoxy flooring you are able to paint a small area with regular, oil-based enamel. If this test area lasts for almost a year then it is likely an epoxy coating lasts as well. However, if you decide to proceed with applying the epoxy coating you should remove this enamel coating that may require sanding.