Epoxy Floor Coatings

Epoxy peels for one reason nearly every time: it was put over concrete that was not opened up first. If the slab is sealed, dusty, oily or still holding moisture, the coating has nothing to grip and it lets go in sheets a year or two later. We grind every floor mechanically before a drop of product goes down. That step is most of the cost and all of the reason it lasts.

We would rather not, and usually we will not. Coating over a failing coating buys you the same failure with a new color on it. Removal is a service in its own right for us — we do it for other contractors as well as on our own jobs — so taking the old system off is straightforward work rather than a reason to walk away.

A residential garage is typically a couple of days including the grind and the cure between coats. Commercial floors depend on square footage and how much old material has to come off first. Dave gives you real dates on the estimate, and our own crew works them — nothing is handed to a subcontractor whose schedule we do not control.

Not always, and this is worth saying plainly. Standard epoxy ambers and chalks under direct UV. For exterior slabs and anything with sun on it all day we will usually steer you to a different system — a stain, a textured coating or a UV-stable topcoat. Fifty years in inland California has made that a fairly quick conversation.