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Patio and Outdoor Concrete Coating

Patio And Outdoor Concrete Coating In Sarnia, Ontario

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.

An outdoor slab crosses freezing more often than anything inside your house, and it does it while soaking wet.

That is why untreated patios in this city pit, spall and go crumbly at the edges far faster than people expect.

Patio and Outdoor Concrete Coating details

Why Clear Epoxy Does Not Belong Outdoors

Clear epoxy is not ultraviolet stable. Put it in sunlight and it turns amber within a season or two and then softens.

Polyaspartic does not do that, which is why every outdoor slab we coat gets a polyaspartic system rather than an epoxy one.

If you have been quoted epoxy for a patio, ask the question before you sign anything.

Grip, Drainage And Detail

Anti-slip aggregate is not optional outdoors. A wet, sloped, coated slab without it is dangerous, and around a pool it is worse.

We specify the aggregate grade by use. A pool surround gets more than a covered porch does.

The coating is carried over the edge of the slab and sealed there, because an unsealed edge lets water in behind the system and lifts it from the side.

We check where water runs and where it stands. Resin will not cure a slab that holds puddles, and if that is what you have we will say so before anything else.

The Season Is Shorter Out Here

Outdoor work needs both the slab and the forecast to cooperate, so the window in Lambton County runs roughly from spring through to autumn.

We need dry concrete going in and dry weather while it cures, which means we watch the forecast and sometimes move a date.

Booking early in the season is worth doing. Spring and early summer fill up first.

Get An Outdoor Slab Priced

Send us the size of the patio or porch and a photo of its condition. Call +1 226-406-4401 and we will assess it, check the drainage and put a price in writing.

What We Install

The Rest Of What We Install

Houses, shops and plants right across the county, from Point Edward down the river to Courtright.

Orange flake garage floor coating running the full depth of a three bay garage

Garage Floor Coating

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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Grey flake broadcast finished tight to the garage door track

Flake Epoxy Flooring

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 top coat holding its gloss under a parked vehicle

Polyaspartic Floor Coating

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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Blue resin being pulled across bare concrete that has just been opened up

Concrete Floor Coating

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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Coated lower level slab in an open finished basement

Basement Floor Coating

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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Grey coating across the open floor of a commercial unit

Commercial Epoxy Flooring

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 floor coating being pulled out across a warehouse slab

Industrial and Warehouse Flooring

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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New base coat going down over a slab that has been ground back

Epoxy Floor Repair and Recoating

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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Metallic floor worked into a greyscale marble, with the pigment still showing its drift

Metallic Epoxy Flooring

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.

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