Six failures cover almost everything we get asked about on epoxy floors in Reno, Sparks and the rest of Washoe County. Three of them come from the coating, three come from the slab underneath it, and from standing height they look similar enough that homeowners regularly pay for the wrong repair. Each page below takes one failure: what it looks like, what actually causes it in a high-desert market, how a professional confirms the cause with a test rather than a guess, and what putting it right involves. The cost bands on these pages are installer figures, not kit figures.
Peeling and lifting
Peeling and lifting is the most visible epoxy failure and the least specific. A film that curls at the edges and comes up in sheet
Hot-tire and white spots
Hot-tire pickup and white spotting look like dirt, and they are not. They are evidence that the wear layer of your floor softened
Cracking and delamination
Two failures get called cracking, and they need different money spent on them. A crack that is in the concrete and shows through t
Moisture and blistering
Blisters under an epoxy film are almost always vapour that came out of the slab and could not get through the coating. That makes
Chemical and oil staining
Most staining on a garage or shop floor is one of three things, and they cost different money. A mark that sits on top of an intac
Failed DIY floors
A DIY kit that failed did so for one of two reasons, and the difference decides whether a rebuild is even possible. Either the fil
If you are not sure which failure you are looking at, start with moisture. A slab that is holding water under the film can produce a peeling floor, a blistering floor and a delaminating floor out of the same system, and each one gets blamed on the material.