If your garage floor is peeling, bubbling, lifting at the tire tracks or coming away in sheets, it can almost always be fixed. It usually cannot be fixed by coating over it.
We strip failed coatings, repair the concrete underneath and install a system that will hold. A lot of our work is second attempts at floors somebody else did, or that came out of a box.
Call +1 705-242-8237 and send us a photo to start.
Four causes account for nearly everything we are called to.
Preparation. Acid etching instead of diamond grinding leaves the concrete closed, so the bond is shallow. This is what retail kits instruct you to do.
Moisture. A slab pushing water from below will lift any coating laid over it, regardless of the resin used, if nobody measured it first.
Thickness. Kit floors are a fraction of the build of a professional system, so grit in the tire path wears straight through.
Contamination. Coating over old paint, sealer or oil means the new floor is bonded to something that was already letting go.
Peeling at the door line, where brine and meltwater concentrate.
Circular patches lifting where you park, which is hot tire pickup pulling a weak coating off as the tires cool.
Bubbles and blisters across the field, usually moisture from below or resin applied over a damp slab.
Chalky, powdery wear in the traffic lanes, which is abrasion rather than bond failure and is often recoatable without stripping.
Yellowing of a clear coat near a window or door, which is UV damage to an epoxy that should have been polyaspartic.
Not every tired floor needs taking back to concrete, and we will tell you which yours is.
If the existing coating is sound and only the top coat has worn, the floor can be scuffed, repaired locally and recoated. That is much cheaper and much faster.
If the bond has failed, the whole coating comes off by grinding. There is no partial answer, because new resin over a failing layer fails with it.
Mixed cases happen. Sometimes half a garage is sound and half has lifted. We grind what has to go, feather the transition and rebuild.
Full mechanical removal of whatever is failing, by diamond grinding rather than chemical stripper.
Moisture testing of the exposed slab, because on a failed floor this is often the reason it failed.
Concrete repair: crack chasing and filling, patching of spalled and pitted areas, levelling.
Then the new system, specified against why the last one failed rather than repeating it.
Rework costs more per square foot than a first-time installation on clean concrete, because removal is labour.
A recoat over a sound existing floor costs considerably less than a new installation.
Which of the two you are looking at is decided by the slab, and that is what the site visit determines. We will give you the honest answer even when it is the more expensive one.
A clear photo of the affected area and a rough size is usually enough for us to tell you what is likely going on before we visit.
Call +1 705-242-8237 anywhere in Greater Sudbury.
Sudbury Epoxy Floors installs these systems for homes and businesses across Greater Sudbury.
Flake epoxy flooring is the system most Sudbury garages and basements end up with. An epoxy base coat is rolled onto ground concrete, coloured vinyl chips are broadcast into it while it is wet, and a clear top coat locks everything down.
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A garage floor coating seals your slab so the salt, brine and sand that come off a Sudbury vehicle never reach the concrete. That is the whole point of it in this city.
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Polyaspartic floor coating is a fast-curing resin that goes down in far colder conditions than epoxy and does not yellow in sunlight. In a city with a long deep winter, that is not a luxury feature.
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Coating a basement slab takes a cold, dusty floor and makes it part of the house. The concrete gets sealed, the grey powder stops, and the surface will carry furniture, gym equipment and daily traffic.
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Concrete floor coating covers everything a bare slab can become: garage, basement, workshop, porch, mechanical room, shop floor or storage bay. Same principle every time, different system depending on what the floor has to survive.
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Commercial epoxy flooring has to take traffic, cleaning and inspection, and it has to go in without closing a business for a week.
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Sudbury runs on heavy industry, and heavy industry runs on concrete that takes a beating. Forklifts, pallet jacks, steel stock, hydraulic oil and wash-down all land on the same floor.
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An outdoor concrete coating seals a porch, patio, walkway or enclosed sunroom against the weather and gives it grip, colour and a finished edge.
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Metallic epoxy flooring is a poured decorative finish. Metallic pigments are moved through a clear resin while it is wet, producing depth, movement and a marbled effect that no two floors repeat.
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Give us the room, a rough size and how it gets used. We will book a visit and put a number in writing. Rather talk it through? Call +1 705-242-8237. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 705-242-8237.
