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.
Bare concrete is porous. It drinks up everything that drips off a car through winter, and it pays for that in spring.
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Most Sudbury garage floors fail the same way and it is worth understanding why.
The city stays below freezing for months at a stretch. Salt-laden meltwater goes into the slab and stays there, frozen, instead of drying out between thaws.
When spring finally arrives it all releases at once. The top few millimetres of concrete come away as flakes and grey powder, worst near the door where the most brine lands.
Once that starts it accelerates. Each spring takes a little more. Sealing the slab stops the cycle before it begins, and coating a floor that has already started flaking arrests it.
Warm tires pulling into a cold garage grip a coating hard as they cool. A weak coating comes up with them, leaving bare patches exactly where you park.
This is the standard failure of retail garage floor kits. They rely on acid etching rather than diamond grinding, so the bond is chemical and shallow rather than mechanical and deep.
They are also thin. A kit floor is a fraction of the build of a professional system, which leaves nothing to lose when grit gets under a tire.
We grind, we build proper thickness, and we finish with a top coat chosen to resist abrasion. That combination is what survives hot tires and winter sand together.
Sudbury has a lot of detached garages, and most of them are unheated. That changes the specification.
A slab that spends half the year below freezing is not a candidate for standard epoxy in winter. Polyaspartic keeps curing in temperatures that stop epoxy dead, so it does the structural work as well as the finishing.
We measure the slab temperature at the quote and again on the day. Where heat is needed we bring it.
Unheated floors also see more condensation in shoulder seasons, which is another reason we take a moisture reading rather than assuming.
Diamond grinding of the full slab, wall to wall and into the corners.
Crack chasing and filling, patching of spalled areas and levelling where the pour is uneven.
A pigmented base coat with vinyl flake broadcast to the coverage you chose.
A clear polyaspartic top coat, with aggregate added where you want extra grip.
Written cure times, so you know exactly when to walk on it and when to park on it.
A standard two-car garage is normally two days on site, sometimes three if the slab needs significant repair.
You empty the garage completely before we arrive, down to bare concrete. Wall shelving can stay.
Foot traffic is generally fine after about a day. Vehicles go back on after one to two days depending on the system and the temperature.
We hand you the cure times in writing rather than leaving you to guess.
Free written estimates across Greater Sudbury, from Chelmsford to Coniston and everywhere between.
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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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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.
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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.
