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.
Almost every failure we get called to comes down to one of two things: acid where a grinder should have been, or water in the slab that nobody bothered to measure.
Both are fixable. Neither is fixable by putting more resin on top.
Bubbles and blisters, or a coating that lifts off in one clean sheet, almost always mean moisture from below. On Sarnia clay that is the most common failure we see.
Flaking that starts at the edges and works inward usually means the slab was etched rather than ground, so the resin never keyed in.
Chalking, dulling and colour loss on a floor near a window or door means clear epoxy has been hit by ultraviolet light. It has yellowed and gone soft.
Coating pulling up in the shape of a tyre is hot tyre pickup, and it means the top coat was too soft for a parked vehicle.
Wear through to grey at the traffic lanes, with the rest sound, is simply an old floor that has done its job. That one is good news.
The old system is ground off. There is no shortcut here and anyone offering one is selling you the same failure again.
The exposed slab is tested for moisture, properly, in the slab.
Concrete is repaired: cracks cut and filled, spalling rebuilt, pitting ground flat.
A primer is chosen against the reading, not against habit.
The replacement build is chosen specifically to beat whatever killed the first one.
None of that applies if the floor is still stuck down and it is only the wear layer that has gone.
We abrade the surface, clean it and apply a fresh top coat. It takes a day and costs a fraction of a full rebuild.
Telling the two apart is the useful part, and a photograph usually does it.
Take a picture of the worst area and one of the whole floor. Call +1 226-406-4401 or send them over and we will tell you honestly whether you are looking at a recoat or a rebuild.
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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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.
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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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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.
