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The Ryan Resin Story
From a Home Depot kit to a six-person team, a Southwest Florida supply store, and a reputation for giving floors away — the Fort Myers artisan whose turning point was his mother’s fight.
Ryan Resin
- Website RyanResin.com
- Area served Southwest Florida (Fort Myers, FL)
- Team 6 members
- Fleet Box truck
- Social 15 million+ views
- Store Brick-and-mortar epoxy supply
- Interview youtu.be/gu6HBviqqaU
In Southwest Florida, the work travels under the name RyanResin.com — Ryan Resin, a Fort Myers epoxy company serving Southwest Florida, whose floors and store now reach across the region. The man behind it is Ryan Garchar.
The origin story is modest, and it starts with a kit. Six years ago, a friend named Joe showed him a Home Depot Rust-Oleum kit. He was hooked. He studied the chemistry and stayed with the work, turning a first curiosity into a trade. That early fascination — with how a coating goes down, how it cures, how it can change a room — is the through-line of everything that came later. He did not arrive in the trade as a second-generation installer. He arrived as someone who had been shown a kit, liked what he saw, and decided to learn it properly.
Then came the day that changed the scale of his ambition. On September 9, 2022, his mother was paralyzed from the neck down during a simple back operation. That was the spark. He went solo, all in — to make her proud, and to earn enough to help her move to Florida with his dad and have everything she needed. It is the hinge in the story: a family medical crisis, a decision to stop hedging, and a goal that was never only about growing a company. It was about making his mother proud and about having the means to bring his parents to Florida and provide what she would need once they arrived.
Today the shop is a different size than that first kit. Ryan Resin now has six team members, a box truck, more than 15 million views across social media, and epoxy supply. What began as one person with a kit is now a six-person crew. The team of epoxy artisans is known both locally and nationally. That scale shows in the work itself: a crew in black uniforms with the box truck on a paver driveway under a Southwest Florida sky; a showroom poured in a high-gloss metallic, with vehicles standing on a floor that throws back the lights; a blue-and-silver garage still open to the palms, the crew at work just beyond the doors; and the supply store, racks and pallets of coating material under a warehouse roof.
The path to that store runs through Detroit. Ryan was born and raised there. He is a former collegiate golfer who studied cybersecurity at the University of Michigan. Before the chemistry of coatings, there was another kind of work ethic. He hustled cutting lawns and shining shoes at a private golf club. “I was raised with the Detroit Hustle in me and a passion for helping others.” He is a man of God who loves nature and animals.
That instinct is visible in the floors the team has given away. They provided a free epoxy floor and a free 70-inch 4K television for a very kind young family who deserved it. They also installed a floor for the Fisher Foundation Charity, which renovated a home in historic Fort Myers as a safe house for young women who struggle, and included a gift basket with the work. One gift was for a household; the other was for a house meant to keep young women safe. Both are part of how Ryan Resin shows up in Fort Myers, not a side note to the commercial work.
Readers who want to hear him talk, in his own words, through the messy middle of building a business can find an earlier conversation, “Taking Action and Learning from Failures: Ryan Garchar’s Entrepreneurial Journey,” on YouTube at youtu.be/gu6HBviqqaU. It is a useful companion to this story: a longer look at action after a hard turn, and at what the work taught him along the way.
From a kit on a store shelf to a crew, a truck, a supply house, and a reason that started at home, the story of Ryan Resin is still being written on Southwest Florida floors — one pour at a time, and always with someone in mind, whether a client in the region, a very kind young family, or a house meant to keep young women safe.