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.
Your garage takes more punishment than any other floor on the property. A vehicle comes in wet, loaded with salt off the 402 and Modeland Road, and drips it onto bare concrete for six months of the year.
The slab absorbs it. Then it freezes, thaws, and freezes again, and the top surface starts breaking up near the door.
Sealing the concrete removes the mechanism. Nothing gets in, so nothing lifts off.
The door line goes first. That strip takes the most water and the most temperature swing, and it is usually where the pitting starts.
Then come the tyre tracks. Warm tyres sitting on a soft or thin coating pull it up when you drive off, which is why the build thickness and the top coat matter more than the colour.
Then the dust. A breaking-up surface throws off fine grey powder that settles on whatever is stored out there and walks into the house on your shoes.
Finally the stains. Oil, brake fluid and antifreeze soak into open concrete and never come out.
Everything comes out and the walls get masked.
The slab is diamond ground, not acid etched. Grinding is what gives the resin something to hold onto.
Cracks and spalled edges are cut out and repaired with a compound that takes coating.
We take a moisture reading and choose the primer from it.
Base coat goes down and chip is thrown into it until the surface will take no more, which is what keeps the colour consistent corner to corner.
Once it has gone off, the loose chip is scraped and vacuumed away and the polyaspartic goes on with aggregate through it for grip.
Single and double bays generally run over two days: preparation and base coat first, wear layer the following day.
You can usually walk on it after about twenty-four hours and park on it after around five days. We give you the actual numbers for your floor and the weather, not a general rule.
Winter installs are normal here. We read the concrete and bring heat in where the number falls short.
Give us the bay count and how the garage gets used, or ring +1 226-406-4401. We will come out, take the dimensions, read the concrete and price it on paper.
Houses, shops and plants right across the county, from Point Edward down the river to Courtright.
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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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.
