After wanting an epoxied garage floor I finally broke down and had it done.

They started with a super heavy duty floor grinder to open all the pores and remove the old sealer. The grinder was connected to a huge industrial vacuum system.

They even ground the edge walls and the small entry way into the house by hand.

They then swept up the extra concrete particles and then blew the garage out with power blowers, followed by a wet mopping.

Then they mixed up some quick set concrete patch and fixed all the small pits and imperfections.

Next they mixed up the colored 2 part epoxy and hand bushed it on the edge walls and then threw the colored flake into it. Swept up the extra and then poured and rolled the floor while one man worked out front of the epoxy, the other wore special spiked shoes.

Then came the hand casted flakes. Of course Sharon did a great job matching the wall color with one of her favorite drinks “Cappuccino”. They used about 3 five gallon containers of the flakes.

Then they took a 45 minute lunch break to allow the epoxy to dry. When they came back they scraped the floor with a large scrapper that kind of looks like a flat snow shovel. Then then used the power blowers to collect up all the loose flakes and ended up picking up close to 4 gallons of flakes.

Then the final coat of a high gloss clear epoxy. It could be walked on after 4 hours, and driven on after a 24 hour cure time.

I could not be any happier with the end results. Even though I think it was all part of Miss Sharon’s master plan to get me to clean the garage! Ha!

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After

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I would and will highly recommend Garage Flooring Pros to do your garage floor!

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Life is good and I am blessed!

Smoky Mountain June 2026 Trip

Posted on June 26, 2026 by Kent Jarrett

Had a great trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP). We spent 10 days camping along the bank of the Little Pigeon River at Riverbend Campground. Very well kept, quiet and peaceful with the cascading water right behind our campsite.

Always a good time when you you get to visit with family. Since Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg gets crazy busy on the weekends, we made a long day trip over to see my sister and brother in law, and my niece and nephew in law. Even got to see Mindy’s and Jeff’s new construction that is underway.

my routine was pretty much much Cade’s Cove in the mornings for bears, while Sharon slept in with the dogs. Then we hiked in the mountains after lunch, or I made sure Sharon got plenty of retail therapy. Hikes included Spruce Flat Falls, and Cataract Falls.

Wednesday Cade’s Cove is Auto free day. Meaning bikes and walkers only. I had always wanted to bike Cade’s Cove. So, I rented us a pair of E-Bikes from Vee Hollow Bike Shop in Townsend. Sharon and I did one lap in the morning. Car parking is an issue. The parking fills up before 6:30 AM. Volunteers and rangers stop all traffic, and use radios to direct incoming cars to the open parking spots. We go it line about 10, hoping the rush would be over, as Sharon clearly stated no way in Heck, she was getting up at 5:00 AM on vacations. We got lucky and the sent us to park at the camp store within 8-10 minutes. She did Excellent and had a blast. So much so we ordered a pair of E-bikes for trails at home and to take camping! After one loop and a couple bear jams, I took her back to the camper and her and the dogs took a nap. I threw my bike on the charger in the back of the truck. 2.5 hours later it was back to 100% charge. I headed back to the cove to photograph bears. This time I was loaded for bear. My 600 on my shoulder and my 100-500 in the saddle pouch. Saw 18 different bears. Photographed a few but nothing great. Too hard to focus on riding the bike and road to be able to search for bears. No real bear jams to speak of. Finally on my 3^rd loop, I got some full frame clear cub shots finally! Everything had been way out in the fields so I had the 1.4 teleconverter on my 600mm prime. The momma bear bought her 2 cubs right across the road, 30-40 years in front of me. I had too much lens, and no time to dig my second camera with the 100-500 lens out of the saddle bags. All in all, great relaxing trip with lots of time in nature and a few “keeper” photos! Here are a few of my favorites.