Garage Floor Coatings in Dublin CA - a coating that stays put and grips wet tires

Most people call when the bare slab is stained and dusty, or an old coating is lifting where the tires sit. The price moves with the size of the garage, how much concrete grinding the slab needs, any old paint that has to come off, and the finish and topcoat you pick. The schedule turns on whether the concrete passes a dampness check and how long the coating needs before you park on it, and your own figure comes in a written estimate after I've seen the floor.

Before anything goes down, we talk about how you use the garage, because wet tires call for grit in the finish for footing and sun through an open door calls for the right topcoat. Then we check the slab for dampness, since damp concrete isn't ready to coat. Our crew grinds the concrete next, because smooth or poorly prepared concrete keeps the epoxy from soaking in and gripping, and that can end in peeling. Ask any crew you're comparing which concrete checks they run first, because one coating maker warns that skipping its checks can cause peeling, discoloration, blistering or the whole coating failing. After the grind we clear the dust, lay the base coat and finish with the topcoat, and every floor we coat is backed by our satisfaction guarantee.

The topcoat is where sun comes in. One maker's older guide says its epoxy system isn't recommended for areas exposed to sunlight, and another maker says its polyaspartic topcoat adds UV resistance against sun damage and holds up better to scratches and scuffs, so we often suggest polyaspartic floor coatings for garages that get sun. If you'd rather have a floor that looks like poured liquid metal, metallic epoxy flooring goes down over the same ground slab.

Permits in Dublin go through the city's Building & Safety Division, which oversees most construction and repair work. Its list of work that doesn't need a permit names painting and similar finish work, but it doesn't name garage floor coatings, so that list doesn't settle whether your job needs one. Permit rules depend on the city or county your address falls in, so we check with that office before work starts, and when a permit is needed we take care of the paperwork as part of the job. If you'd rather ask yourself, the division answers permit questions at 925-833-6620.

Prep day makes dirty water, and Dublin's municipal code and the federal Clean Water Act both bar anything but rainwater from going into a storm drain, so we keep our cleanup water out of the street drain. We see the same driveways running down to the gutter on jobs in San Ramon and Pleasanton, and we handle cleanup the same way there.