We coat concrete floors in Chatham-Kent. That is the whole business.
The same person prices it, grinds it, lays the resin and answers the phone afterwards. There is no sales visit followed by a crew you have never met.
That is deliberate. Most of what goes wrong on a resin floor goes wrong because whoever priced it never saw the concrete and whoever laid it was working to somebody else's assumptions.
Chatham-Kent is big. Wallaceburg to Ridgetown is most of an hour, and the municipality covers well over two thousand square kilometres. That is enough ground for one outfit.
Working one area means we know what the slabs are like here. We know which subdivisions were poured when. We know that a shop floor out on a concession road is going to be a different job to a garage on Keil Drive, and roughly how.
It also means when we say we will be there Tuesday, we are not driving in from two hours away.
**We grind. We never acid etch.** Etching is faster and cheaper and it is why a great many floors in this area are peeling. Diamond grinding opens the concrete properly so the primer keys in mechanically.
**We test every slab for moisture before quoting.** This is drained clay country with a managed water table, and vapour coming up through a slab is the most common reason a coating fails here. The test costs nothing and it happens before there is a price on the table.
**We write the specification down.** Primer, base coat, broadcast rate, number of clear coats, cure times, colour, dates. If you are comparing quotes, you should be able to see exactly where two of them differ.
**We tell you when the answer is no.** Some slabs are too wet. Some are too far gone. Some floors would be better off with a cheaper build than the one you asked about. We would rather say so than take the deposit.
Flake systems, which is most garages and most basements.
Solid colour builds for shops and mechanical rooms.
Polyaspartic, on its own or as the wear layer over almost everything else.
Industrial builds with line marking for warehouses and plants.
Farm building floors: equipment shops, chemical stores, greenhouse headhouses.
Food-grade floors for packing rooms, coolers and kitchens, coved and falling to drain.
Outdoor work on covered patios, porches and three season rooms.
Repair and recoating, which is a bigger part of the work than you would think.
And metallic, where the room warrants it.
Roughly two thirds of the labour on a resin floor happens before any resin comes out.
Emptying the room. Grinding the whole slab back to an open profile. Cutting out and filling cracks. Rebuilding spalled patches. Grinding out oil. Vacuuming continuously so the dust ends up in the machine and not in your house. Reading the moisture. Choosing the primer against that reading.
A quote that is dramatically cheaper than the others is almost always cheaper because that is the part being skipped. It does not show on day one. It shows in year two.
Ring us, or send a picture. A photograph shows us far more than a description can on an older slab, and it often means we can quote without coming out.
We will come and measure, grind a small test patch, take a moisture reading and leave you with a written specification and a price. No charge and no follow-up calls.
+1 226-457-4250.
Twelve resin builds for homes, shops, farms and plants across Chatham-Kent.
A flake floor is three layers doing three different jobs. A pigmented resin base goes down first, coloured vinyl chip is thrown into it while it is still wet, and once that has hardened a clear wear coat is rolled over the whole thing.
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A garage floor around here takes a beating that has very little to do with how carefully you park.
View Garage Floor Coating
Polyaspartic is a different family of resin to epoxy, and it solves two problems epoxy has.
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A basement is the easiest room in the house to coat and the easiest one to get wrong, and in Chatham-Kent it is moisture that decides which of the two you end up with.
View Basement Floor Coating
Not every job is a garage. A good deal of what we coat is simply concrete that needs to stop being bare: a shop floor, a mechanical room, a storage building, a landing, a pad beside the lane.
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A working floor is specified against three things: what rolls across it, how it gets cleaned, and when the building can afford to be shut. Everything else follows from those answers, which is why a retail unit, a warehouse, an equipment shop and a packing room all end up with different builds even though they start from the same materials.
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An outdoor slab is not an indoor slab that happens to be outside. It has to handle daylight, standing water and a freeze-thaw cycle that runs all winter here, and it has a far shorter installation season. Use an indoor build outdoors and it will fail in the first spring.
View Patio and Outdoor Concrete Coating
Peeling. Bubbling. Patches lifting where the tyres sit. A clear coat gone yellow by the window, or a floor that has simply turned dull and chalky.
View Epoxy Floor Repair and Recoating
Metallic is the decorative end of what we do. Metallic pigment is dispersed through clear resin and then moved while it is still wet, so the finished floor ends up with depth and movement running through it and reads closer to polished stone than to a coating.
View Metallic Epoxy FlooringFill this in and we will come back to you with either a price or the couple of questions we need answered first. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 226-457-4250.
