Questions About Resin Floors

Two days on site for a standard build. Day one is preparation, which is grinding, crack repair and priming. Day two is the base coat, the flake broadcast and the clear coat. You walk on it the next day. Vehicles wait longer, and the exact date depends on the resin and the temperature in the building.

In Ontario a professional epoxy build is roughly $5 to $9 a square foot, flake around $6 to $10, polyaspartic around $6 to $12 and metallic around $8 to $12. A four hundred square foot double garage typically lands somewhere between about sixteen hundred and thirty two hundred dollars. Heavy preparation adds roughly one to three dollars a square foot. Those are market ranges. Yours depends on the concrete.

Because Chatham-Kent is a drained clay plain. The land is flat, the water table is managed by about four thousand kilometres of municipal drains, and the Brookston clay under your slab holds water against the concrete rather than letting it drain away. Concrete wicks that water upward. If it reaches the underside of a sealed coating, it pushes it off. Testing tells us which primer to use, and occasionally that a floor needs a drainage fix first.

Yes, with the right resin. Epoxy needs around ten degrees in the concrete and stalls under it. Polyaspartic keeps curing a long way below that. So in winter we read the concrete rather than the air, put heat in where the building needs it, and put polyaspartic on anything an epoxy build would be a bet on. We will tell you which one the conditions allow before you book.

The mildness is the reason. In January the average high in Chatham is around minus one and the average low around minus seven, and in February the average high is just above zero. So the slab crosses freezing and comes back day after day for three months. Water in the pores expands every time it does. A colder city freezes once and stays frozen, which is easier on concrete than cycling across zero all winter.

You can, and it will look good for a season. Two things go wrong. A kit goes on a fraction as thick as a proper build, so the tyres peel it off where they sit. And they tell you to etch rather than grind, which never opens the concrete up, so there was no bond to begin with. Most of our repair work is stripping kits back off.

Yes, and square to the track. The door line is where salt and meltwater collect, so a floor that stops a foot short fails there first. Steps, landings and service door thresholds get coated too.

No, it is normal in farm buildings, packing rooms and wash bays. The coating is taken into the drain surround and coved up the wall so there is no joint at floor level for water to sit in. We do check the falls first, because a coating follows the shape underneath it and will not fix a floor that does not drain.

Professionally installed polyaspartic is generally quoted at fifteen to twenty years, some systems at twenty to twenty five. Epoxy is quoted at twenty or more. Preparation is the variable, not the resin. The clear coat wears first, and when it dulls at the tyre tracks it can be abraded and recoated without disturbing the build underneath.

We work everywhere in Chatham-Kent, which is a large municipality. Wallaceburg, Blenheim, Tilbury, Dresden, Ridgetown, Thamesville, Wheatley, Bothwell, Merlin, Erieau, Pain Court and the farms between them. We do not go beyond the municipality, which is why we can turn up on the day we said.