Store-bought kit or a hired crew
A kit can look good for a year. Put it in an Airdrie garage with salt and hot tires, and it often lets go within a few winters. Here’s what’s going on.
Where the two part ways
Surface prep
Kits come with an acid etch. We diamond-grind and vacuum the dust, which opens the concrete up so the coating soaks in and grips.
Film thickness
Kit coatings are usually thin and often water-based. A pro system goes on in layers: base coat, full flake, clear topcoat.
The last coat
Most kits finish with epoxy, which yellows in sun and softens under hot tires. We finish with polyaspartic, which is UV-stable.
Crack repair
Cracks and salt pits have to be filled and ground level. Leave them and they print through the coating and let water get under it.
Your weekends
Plan on one or two for a kit. We do most garages in a day.
Fair uses for a kit
A storage room, a garden shed, a floor that never sees a tire or a grain of salt.
When nothing heavy, hot or salty lands on it, a kit is a reasonable way to freshen up a floor. Parking in it all winter changes things. Then the floor lives or dies on the bond, and the bond comes from grinding.
Get a number for your garage
We measure, test the slab for moisture and leave a written price. Free, and usually within the week.