Picking a garage floor coating in Airdrie
Most Airdrie garages end up with full-broadcast flake under a polyaspartic clear coat. Below is the reasoning, plus the cases where another finish makes more sense.
Match it to the garage
The everyday garage
Flake. Salt, gravel and tire marks disappear into it between cleanings. Boots grip it, and hot tires don’t bother it. Starts at $7 a square foot.
Workbench and hard use
Quartz. Coloured sand is broadcast into the coating. It’s the hardest-wearing, grippiest floor we put down.
The car you wax on Sundays
Metallic. Poured by hand, with real depth. Dust shows on it more than on flake, so it’s for the garage that stays tidy.
Rental or a tight budget
Solid colour. One colour under a tough clear coat. Clean and bright, nothing fancy.
A shop floor that only needs sealing
Clear seal. We leave the concrete looking like concrete. It gets ground, then sealed, and after that oil and salt wipe away.
Why we usually say flake
Salt, slush, chinook melt and gravel off the highway all end up on an Airdrie garage floor. Flake deals with that mix better than anything else we install.
The chips cover every inch of the base, and that broken-up pattern hides dirt that would jump out on a smooth single colour. They also give wet boots a bit of bite. And with a full bed of chips under the clear, the whole build is thicker, which helps when a wrench hits the floor.
Still, prep beats product. A ground slab with a polyaspartic topcoat is what holds any of these finishes down through an Airdrie winter.
Get a number for your garage
We measure, test the slab for moisture and leave a written price. Free, and usually within the week.