Polyaspartic Floor Coatings in El Paso TX - A Coat That Stays Bonded for Years

Most people who call about polyaspartic have a garage floor that's peeling, dusty or stained, or a newer slab they want covered right the first time. The price moves with the floor's size and how much prep it needs, because cracks, chipped spots and an old coating that has to come off all add work before any coat goes down. The schedule turns on that same prep, plus whether the slab is old enough and dry enough to coat and how warm the concrete is running on the day. I come out, look at the floor and write the estimate, so you get a number for your slab instead of a guess.

Polyaspartic costs more up front, so I want it going where it earns its keep, and if your floor won't make use of it I'll say so and point you to something that costs less. On the job, our crew clears the floor and grinds the concrete with diamond tools instead of etching it with acid, because grinding opens up the surface and gives the coating something to grip. We fill cracks and chipped spots, vacuum the floor clean, and I check the prep before anything goes down. Then we time the coat around how warm the concrete is running, since the same product behaves differently on a cool slab than on a warm one, and we finish by pulling our tape and cleaning up.

Some floors call for a different system or a different look. If you want a poured, swirled finish with depth to it, metallic epoxy flooring can go down first with a tough topcoat over it. For a shop or kitchen floor that takes hot washdowns, harsh cleaners and heavy carts, urethane cement flooring is usually the better tool for the job, and I'll tell you on site which one fits.

The City of El Paso issues building permits to alter or build a home, and if you're acting as your own general contractor on the house you live in, you can apply yourself. Whether a floor coating falls under that depends on the job, so before we start we check with the office that covers your address, and if your job needs a permit we handle the paperwork or walk you through it when you're filing as the owner. The city also registers contractors for listed kinds of home work, such as alterations, and asks them for a general liability insurance certificate with the city named as holder, so it's a fair thing to ask any installer about.

Most garages we see around El Paso have oil drips where the car sits, hairline cracks and sometimes a kit coating lifting at the tire marks, so we plan the prep for all three. We see the same floors on jobs in Horizon City and Socorro, and the approach doesn't change from one city to the next.