A garage floor around here takes a beating that has very little to do with how carefully you park.
Salt comes off the vehicle in solution all winter and puddles at the door line and under the wheel arches, and bare concrete drinks it straight in. On top of that the slab crosses freezing and comes back day after day from December through March, and water sitting in the pores expands every single time. That cycle is what pits and flakes an uncoated garage floor. Then there is everything else a garage collects: dropped tools, jack stands, oil, fuel and grit ground in underfoot.
Coating it turns that open surface into a sealed one. Salt stays on top where it can be wiped off, water cannot get into the pores to freeze in them, and spills sit there until you deal with them.
Most garages here get a flake build: base coat, chip broadcast into it to refusal, then a clear polyaspartic over the top. The grip matters more than people expect, because a garage floor is wet for a good part of the year from melt off the vehicle alone, and a smooth gloss floor in a working garage is a hazard rather than a feature.
We take the coating right up to the door line and finish it square to the track. That is deliberate. The door line is exactly where salt and meltwater collect, and a floor that stops a foot short is a floor that starts failing there first. Steps, landings and service door thresholds get coated too.
The slab is ground with diamond tooling, never acid etched. Cracks get cut out and filled, spalled patches are rebuilt, and oil contamination is ground out or, where it has gone deep, cut out entirely. We vacuum continuously while grinding so the dust stays in the machine instead of drifting into the house.
We also take a moisture reading before pricing it. Garage slabs in Chatham-Kent sit on heavy clay that holds water against the underside of the concrete, and a slab that reads wet needs a different primer to one that reads dry.
Foot traffic is normally fine the next day. Vehicles wait longer, and in January that is a real variable rather than a formality, since we work to the temperature of the slab rather than the air. Whatever the date turns out to be, it is in writing before we start.
One bay or four. Call +1 226-457-4250 for a written quote setting out the build, the blend and the cure times.
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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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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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.
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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.
