Basement floor coating takes a cold, dusty slab and leaves you with a sealed surface you can mop and a room that is noticeably brighter. In Sarnia it is also the job where preparation matters most, because the clay under this city holds water against your basement slab and drives it upward as vapour. We test every basement before we quote, and the reading decides what we can install.
A basement slab is usually the thinnest and the wettest concrete in the building. It is also sitting directly on ground that does not drain.
That is not a reason to avoid coating it. It is a reason to test it.
A garage floor is above grade and it dries out. A basement slab is below grade with clay against it and it may never fully dry.
Water in that clay is pushed toward the slab by hydrostatic pressure, especially in March when the snow goes and the water table comes up. The concrete wicks it and passes it upward as vapour.
If there is a coating on top, that vapour has nowhere to go and it works on the bond until it lets go. You see it as bubbles, milky patches or sheets lifting cleanly off the slab.
Nothing about the resin caused that. The slab was never tested.
We take a relative humidity reading inside the slab, not a surface reading, because surface moisture tells you almost nothing.
A low reading means we can install a standard system.
A middling reading means a moisture-tolerant primer, which works well and adds modestly to the cost.
A high reading means no coating will stay attached, and we will tell you so and explain what to look at first, usually grading, downspouts, weeping tile or a sump.
We would rather lose the job than install a floor we know is going to lift.
A floor you can mop rather than one that sheds dust into the air handling.
A much brighter room, because a coated slab reflects light instead of swallowing it.
A surface that takes gym equipment, storage racking and washing machines without staining.
Somewhere spills stay on the surface long enough to wipe up.
The test is part of the quote and it costs nothing. Call +1 226-406-4401 and we will come and read your slab before either of us decides anything.
Houses, shops and plants right across the county, from Point Edward down the river to Courtright.
A garage floor coating shuts the concrete off from road salt, brine and meltwater. Letting those in is what finishes most garage floors in this city. The slab is opened up, made good, and given a chip system under a polyaspartic wear layer, built for concrete that gets driven on right through the winter.
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A flake system is a resin base with vinyl chip thrown into it wet, then locked under a clear polyaspartic wear layer. It is the system we install most often in Sarnia because the texture gives grip on a floor that spends half the year wet, and the chip pattern hides the dirt a garage actually collects.
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Polyaspartic is a resin that keeps hardening in cold that shuts epoxy down, reaches service strength in hours rather than days, and holds its colour under ultraviolet light. It is our standard top coat in Sarnia, and on some floors we build the whole system from it, because a slab in an unheated garage here sits below epoxy's working range for half the year.
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Concrete floor coating covers everything we install on a bare slab, whether it ends up as a flake floor, a solid colour or a plain sealed surface. The job is the same underneath: open the concrete, repair it, test it, and put a resin system on it that keeps water out. On Sarnia clay, keeping water out is the whole point.
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Commercial epoxy flooring gives a shop, clinic, kitchen or showroom a seamless floor with no grout lines to hold dirt, no tiles to lift and nothing for a mop to catch on. We phase the work around your opening hours so you keep trading, and we give you a cure schedule you can put in a calendar rather than a vague promise.
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Industrial and warehouse flooring is specified around what actually happens on the floor: forklift traffic, dropped steel, solvent and chemical spills, hot work and regular wash-down. Sarnia has three refineries and more than thirty chemical plants, plus the fabricators, machine shops and contractors that serve them, and those floors need a different build from a garage.
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Epoxy floor repair and recoating is for floors that have started peeling, bubbling, chalking or lifting off in sheets. The failed build comes off, we work out what killed it, the concrete gets repaired, and the replacement is chosen to beat whatever that was. In Sarnia the cause is usually one of two things, and neither of them is the colour you chose.
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Patio and outdoor concrete coating seals porches, walkways, pool surrounds and covered patios with a UV-stable polyaspartic and an anti-slip aggregate. Outdoor concrete in Sarnia takes the full freeze-thaw cycle with nothing above it to moderate the temperature, plus wind and driven rain off Lake Huron, so the specification is not the same as an indoor floor.
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Metallic floors are made by working reflective pigment through clear resin while it is still moving, so the result has depth and drift in it instead of one flat colour. No two are the same. It belongs indoors, in rooms that get looked at and spent time in, rather than in a garage that parks a salty vehicle every night.
View Metallic Epoxy FlooringHave us out to look at the concrete. You leave with a specification and a price, both on paper.
Room, rough dimensions, and what happens on the concrete. From that we can get a visit booked and put a real price together. If you would sooner just talk, +1 226-406-4401. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 226-406-4401.
