Phoenix, AZ (PRUnderground) December 18th, 2025
GarageFloorCoating.com, the pioneer of the residential garage floor coating industry and a national leader in industrial-grade polymer systems, is issuing a formal warning to homeowners across North America: Most garage floor coating warranties are engineered to fail you the moment you need them.
Companies aggressively advertise”15 year”, “20-year”, or “limited lifetime”, yet bury the real truth beneath pages of exclusions and technical escape clauses. These warranties may sound impressive, but nearly all of them collapse the moment moisture enters the picture, which happens to be the #1 cause of coating failure in North America.
The result?
Consumers believe they’re protected, when in reality, they’re signing paperwork designed to protect the installer.
GarageFloorCoating.com offers a true industry-leading warranty that fully covers ALL moisture-related issues nationwide, including the high hydrostatic pressures that routinely destroy one-day coatings, thin-mil polyaspartics, and untested DIY systems.
The Moisture Scam: How Competitors Engineer Warranty Escape Clauses
One of the most misleading tactics in this industry is the use of arbitrary moisture thresholds, for example: “3 lbs MVER,” “6 lbs MVER,” or 5.0+ readings on a Tramex meter. These values are marketed as technical benchmarks, but they are anything but. They exist solely as built-in warranty escape mechanisms, giving competitors a convenient way out the moment moisture shows up and a coating fails.
Homeowners:
- Don’t own $700+ Tramex moisture meters
- Don’t understand MVER readings
- Have zero control over how, where, or when tests are performed
- And are never shown documented moisture tests prior to installation
So when a floor fails because moisture drove the coating right off the concrete, installers quickly take a reading, get an off-the-charts number (because vapor pressure spikes during failure), and then declare the warranty void.
This isn’t science. It’s manipulation.
These thresholds are meaningless, unrealistic, and intentionally weaponized against the customer.
“Moisture is the leading cause of coating failure, and the industry has known it for decades, yet most warranties go out of their way to avoid covering it,” said Robert Hanson, President & CEO of GarageFloorCoating.com and Eco-CorFlex Industrial Polymers. “If a coating system can’t survive normal moisture levels in a concrete slab, companies should be upfront about that limitation instead of hiding behind technical jargon. These thresholds aren’t protection for the homeowner, they’re excuses. Moisture coverage is a yes-or-no commitment, and most of the industry chooses ‘no’ because their systems simply can’t handle it. We engineered systems that can, and we stand behind them with our industry-leading warranty.”