Polyaspartic Floor Coatings in Dublin CA - a tough finish on a slab prepped right

Most people call us when a garage floor is dusting, stained with oil or peeling where an old coating let go, and if that old layer is still hanging on, it has to come off first through our floor stripping and removal work. The price moves with the size of the floor, how much grinding and crack repair the slab needs, whether a moisture problem calls for an extra step and whether you go with a full polyaspartic system or a blend. The schedule turns on that same prep plus how long the coating needs before you can park on it. I look at the floor in person and give you the estimate in writing, so you see your own number before you decide anything.

I walk the floor first and mark any cracks, old coating and spots that look damp. Our crew then grinds the bare slab by machine, because a coating only bonds well to clean, opened-up concrete, and we check it for moisture before anything goes on so a damp slab doesn't push the coating off later. Cracks and joints get filled and treated next, since a coating will crack wherever the concrete moves underneath it. Then we roll on the coats and clean up. When you're comparing quotes, I'll tell you straight whether ours is a full polyaspartic system or an epoxy and polyaspartic blend, so you're weighing the same thing. A blend costs less up front but may not perform as well, and on a garage floor that takes cars and sun, I'd rather put down the full system.

If you want a floor with depth and movement in it, we also do metallic epoxy flooring, and a polyaspartic top coat often goes over it. For a business floor that takes hot washdowns every day, urethane cement flooring is usually the better call, and I'll tell you so at the estimate.

Permit rules depend on the city or county your address falls in, so we check with that office before work starts. The state licensing board's flooring license exam guide covers mechanically preparing concrete, controlling and containing dust and applying synthetic finishes, which makes those fair things to ask any Dublin contractor about. Ask how they'll grind your slab and keep the dust out of your house. We run our grinders with dust collection hooked up for that reason.

Most of the floors we coat around here are garages on slabs poured right on the ground, which is why the moisture check matters on nearly every job. Patios and garages open to the afternoon sun take planning too, because one product's data sheet says to keep it out of direct sunlight and off hot surfaces, so we set the work time around that. We see the same kind of garages and slabs on jobs in Pleasanton and Livermore.