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.
All of those are fixable. What none of them are is paintable-over, and that is the mistake we get called in behind more than any other. A new coating is only ever as well attached as whatever it is laid on, so rolling fresh resin over a system that is already letting go buys you a season and no more.
We start by working out what went wrong, because otherwise the same thing simply happens again.
Blisters and bubbles usually mean moisture coming up from below, which means a moisture test and in all likelihood a vapour-tolerant primer or a barrier build next time. Sheets lifting cleanly away with smooth concrete underneath usually means the slab was acid etched rather than ground, so the coating never keyed in at all. Wear showing up only at the wheel tracks usually means the system was too thin, and more often than not it was a kit. Yellowing means clear epoxy somewhere daylight reaches it, which a UV-stable top coat fixes outright. And a powdery, chalky surface generally means the coating has simply reached the end of its life and the wear layer is spent.
Everything loose comes off mechanically, with grinders and where necessary shot blasting. Sound coating is ground to a profile the new build can key into, or removed altogether if it is not sound enough to trust. The bare slab underneath is then tested for moisture exactly like any new floor, cracks and spalls and pitting are repaired, and a new system goes on specified against the reason the old one failed rather than against the old one's spec sheet.
Not every tired floor has to come off. Where the system beneath is still solid and it is only the top layer that has gone, we key the surface back and lay a fresh clear over it. That costs far less and puts the room out of action for a fraction of the time. Which of the two jobs you are looking at is usually clear from a close photograph and confirmed on site.
One good close-up of the worst patch, the rough age of the floor, and whether it was a kit or a contractor. Call +1 226-457-4250 and we will tell you which of the two jobs it is.
Farm shops, packing rooms, plants and patios, alongside the garage and basement work.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 FlooringWe grind a small patch, take a moisture reading off the slab and leave a written spec behind. The visit is free.
Fill 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.
