Sudbury Epoxy Floors
Sudbury Epoxy Floors coats garage, basement, shop and commercial concrete across Greater Sudbury. We grind the slab, repair what needs repairing, and lay down a resin system that is meant to still be there in twenty years.
Most of our work is flake epoxy with a polyaspartic top coat. It suits this city. The floor takes sand, brine, hot tires and dropped tools without staining or dusting.
We quote in writing after we have measured the floor and tested the slab. The price we give you is the price you pay. Call +1 705-242-8237 and we will come and look at it.
Room, rough size, and what it gets used for. That is enough to get you booked in. Or call +1 705-242-8237.
We only work in Greater Sudbury. Not the whole north, not southern Ontario when it is quiet. This city, its neighbourhoods and its bedrock.
That matters more than it sounds. We already know what the slabs look like in the Flour Mill and the Donovan, what the newer pours in Val Caron and the South End behave like, and how a garage floor sitting on blasted rock differs from one on fill.
You deal with the person who does the work. The same installer measures the floor, writes the quote and runs the grinder. Nothing gets handed to a subcontractor.
Every job gets a written specification: system, thickness, colour, prep method and cure times. If we cannot do a floor properly we say so and tell you why.
Ten systems, each specified against what the floor actually has to survive.
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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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.
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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.
View Metallic Epoxy FlooringThe slab stops absorbing salt, brine and oil, which is the single thing that ends most Sudbury garage floors.
Concrete dust disappears. A bare slab sheds fine grey powder constantly, and a coated one does not.
Cleaning becomes a job for a push broom and a mop instead of a pressure washer.
Light bounces around a room that used to swallow it. A coated basement or garage reads noticeably brighter with no change to the fixtures.
Spills sit on the surface. Oil, brake fluid, antifreeze and battery acid can be wiped up rather than soaking in and staining.
The floor gets grip. Flake gives texture underfoot, and more aggregate can be added where a surface gets wet.
Cracks and pitting get filled and ground flat as part of the work, so the finished floor is level as well as sealed.
Tell us how the room gets used and we will tell you what belongs on it, including when the cheaper option is the right one.
Sudbury does not have a freeze-thaw winter the way southern Ontario does. From roughly November to March the city often stays below freezing all day. January averages about minus thirteen, and a few nights a year drop past minus thirty.
That changes the damage pattern. Instead of concrete cycling wet and frozen every week, a Sudbury slab holds salt-laden meltwater in its pores for months, then releases it all at once when spring arrives.
The result shows up in April. Surface flaking near the door line, powdery grey dust on everything, dark stains where the vehicle sat. That is the slab shedding its top layer after a winter of holding brine.
A sealed floor never absorbs the brine in the first place. Nothing soaks in, so nothing lifts off in spring.
Often yes, but the answer depends on the slab, not the calendar.
Standard epoxy needs warmth. Below roughly ten degrees it thickens, cures slowly and can stop curing properly altogether. An unheated Sudbury garage sits below that from October to April, so straight epoxy is not the right call in deep winter.
Polyaspartic tolerates far colder application and keeps building strength where epoxy stalls. That is why it is our default top coat here rather than a premium upsell.
For winter work we take the slab temperature, not the air temperature, and heat the space when the numbers call for it. If conditions will not let us install a floor that lasts, we book you for spring instead of taking the deposit.
Sudbury puts down a lot of winter sand. It comes home in the tire treads, drops off in the garage and sits there.
Salt is a chemical problem and a sealed floor solves it. Sand is a mechanical one. Grit under a tire acts like sandpaper every time the vehicle turns, and it wears a soft or thin coating through at the tire tracks long before anything else fails.
This is where cheap systems come apart in this city. A thin single-layer floor has almost nothing to give up.
We build thickness and finish with a hard, abrasion-resistant top coat, because in Sudbury the top coat is doing more work than the colour underneath it.
Nobody can price a floor properly by looking at a photo of it.
We check moisture first. Concrete sitting on rock or with no vapour barrier under it can drive moisture up through the slab, and a coating over a wet slab lifts. Where the reading is high we spec a moisture-tolerant primer or tell you not to coat it.
We look for old coatings. Failed kit epoxy, sealer or paint has to come off completely, and that is grinding time somebody has to pay for.
We check the cracks. A hairline is a filler job. A crack that has moved and left a lip is a structural question, and it gets answered before a quote goes out.
Then we measure. The written price covers the prep the slab actually needs, so there is no second conversation once the grinder is running.
Sudbury sits on the Sudbury Basin, and a lot of this city is built directly on rock. Basements get blasted out. Garage pads often sit on shallow fill over ledge.
Rock does not settle evenly, and it does not drain the way deep soil does. Two things follow from that.
Slabs crack in predictable places, usually where the pour crosses from rock to fill. Those cracks are worth filling properly rather than skimming over.
And moisture has to go somewhere. Where rock traps water against the underside of a slab, it comes up through the concrete. That is a moisture test question, and it is the reason we take a reading on every basement.
A garage takes flake epoxy with a polyaspartic top coat. It handles hot tires, sand, brine and dropped tools, and the flake hides the dirt a Sudbury garage collects.
A basement can run lighter. There are no vehicles, so the priority is sealing the slab, killing the dust and getting a floor that feels warm enough to use.
A shop or warehouse gets specified against what hits the floor: forklifts, hydraulic oil, wash-down, pallet traffic. Line marking goes into the coating rather than on top of it.
A porch or patio needs a top coat that will not yellow in sun and will not go slick when wet. That is polyaspartic with aggregate, not epoxy.
Flake blends are mixed to order. Greys and charcoals are the most common request here, followed by tans and blues, with brighter blends going into shops and gyms.
Coverage changes the look. A partial broadcast leaves base colour showing between the chips. A full broadcast covers it completely and gives a heavier texture, which is what most garages get.
Gloss is a choice. High gloss makes a room brighter and shows every crumb. Satin hides more and is easier to live with in a basement.
Solid colours without flake work well in commercial and mechanical spaces where the floor should read plain and clean.
A properly installed flake system with a polyaspartic top coat should give fifteen to twenty years in a residential garage, and often longer in a basement where there is no vehicle and no sand.
Professional epoxy systems are commonly quoted at twenty years and up. The variable is never really the resin. It is the preparation underneath it.
What shortens a floor here is grit wear in the tire paths and, occasionally, moisture pushing from below. Neither is a surprise if the slab was tested first.
A worn top coat can be scuffed and recoated without touching the base. That is a maintenance job, not a rebuild, and it resets the clock.
Professionally installed coating systems in Canada generally run somewhere in the range of seven to fifteen dollars a square foot all in, covering preparation, materials and labour. Epoxy sits lower in that band and polyaspartic higher.
Most installers also have a minimum job price, commonly around two thousand dollars, because grinding equipment, travel and setup cost the same whether the floor is small or large.
Slab condition moves the number more than square footage does. A sound newer pour in Hanmer prices differently from a nineteen-fifties garage in the West End that needs patching before anything else happens.
We measure, test and give you one fixed written price. Ask us what your floor costs and we will come and tell you.
Sweep the sand. That is most of it. Grit left sitting under a tire is the thing that wears a floor, so a broom once a week through winter does more good than any product.
Wash with warm water and a mild soap. Degreasers and acidic cleaners are unnecessary and will dull the top coat over time.
Wipe up brake fluid and antifreeze when you notice them. They will not soak in, but leaving them on the surface for weeks is not doing the finish any favours.
Put a mat where the vehicle drips through the melt. It is a small thing that keeps the same spot from taking all the abuse.
Almost every failed floor we are called out to comes down to preparation.
Acid etching instead of grinding. Etching cleans concrete but does not open it enough for a real mechanical bond, and it is what retail kits tell you to do.
Coating over moisture. If the slab is pushing water and nobody measured it, the floor lifts in sheets no matter how good the resin was.
Not enough thickness. Kit floors are a fraction of the build of a professional system, so there is no material to lose in the tire tracks.
Coating over an old failing layer. New resin bonded to peeling paint fails exactly where the paint fails.
All four are fixable. It means grinding the old floor off and starting properly, which we do regularly.
Day one is preparation. We clear the floor, then diamond grind the whole slab to open the concrete. Grinding is not optional and it is not the same as acid etching from a kit.
Repairs come next. Cracks get chased out and filled, pits and spalled areas get patched, and low spots get levelled. On older floors this is the longest part of the job.
Then the base coat goes down and vinyl flake is broadcast into it while it is still wet, worked to the coverage you picked.
Once it has set we scrape and vacuum the loose flake back off, which is what gives the floor its even texture.
The clear top coat goes on last. Foot traffic is usually fine within a day, vehicles in one to two days, with exact times written down and handed to you.
Garages, basements, patios and commercial floors finished in flake and polyaspartic systems.
We work across the whole amalgamated city. New Sudbury, Minnow Lake, the Donovan, the Flour Mill, Lockerby, the South End and the West End.
Out through Copper Cliff, Lively, Walden and Whitefish to the west. Garson, Coniston, Falconbridge and Skead to the east.
North through Val Caron, Hanmer, Val Thérèse and Blezard Valley up the Valley, and across to Chelmsford, Azilda, Dowling and Onaping.
If you are inside the City of Greater Sudbury, we cover you. Call +1 705-242-8237 for a free written estimate.
One site visit, one moisture reading, one fixed written price. Call +1 705-242-8237.
Usually, with the right system and some heat. We take the slab temperature rather than the air temperature, use a polyaspartic system that keeps curing in the cold, and warm the space when the numbers require it. If your garage cannot be brought into range we will tell you and book the work for spring rather than install a floor that will not bond.
Almost always. Surface flaking near the door line is the classic Sudbury pattern, caused by the slab holding brine through winter and shedding its top layer in spring. The loose material grinds off, the pitting gets patched, and the coating goes over sound concrete. Deep spalling adds patching time to the quote, which is why we look at it before pricing.
Flake gives the surface texture, so a flake floor is not slick the way a smooth sealed slab is. Where a floor gets consistently wet, or where somebody in the household is unsteady, we add aggregate to the top coat and increase the grip further. Tell us how the space is used and we will spec it accordingly.
All of it, down to the bare slab. Shelving on the walls can usually stay if it is not touching the floor, but everything standing on the concrete has to come out, including the vehicle. We will tell you what to move when we book the dates.
Yes, and moisture testing is the first step. A lot of Sudbury basements are blasted into rock, and rock can trap water against the slab. We take a reading before quoting. If the concrete is pushing moisture we either spec a primer built for it or advise against coating, rather than laying a floor that will lift in a year.
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.
