If your floor has a tractor on it, this is the page for you. Also works for a plain 2-car garage in town.
Free In-Home EstimateThe typical Battle Ground job is not a garage. It is a 30 by 40 shop out past Meadow Glade or up toward Heisson, poured by the owner or a small crew, thick and broom-finished and a little wavy in spots. Trucks, a tractor, a quad, and an RV all live on it. Bare concrete under that kind of use dusts constantly and stains the first time hydraulic fluid drips. A flake floor stops both.
We are about 25 minutes northeast on SR-503 from our shop, which is close enough that we treat Battle Ground like home ground. Subdivision garages in town and around Lewisville are ordinary 2-car slabs from the 70s through the 2000s. Those take two days on site, sometimes a third for a big three-car. The acreage shops take longer because there is simply more floor to grind, and grinding is what makes the coating stay put.
Battle Ground gets more frost mornings than Vancouver, and most of the acreage properties have gravel driveways. Every vehicle that pulls into the shop brings mud and grit with it. On raw concrete that turns into a permanent gray film and a floor you cannot really clean. On a 100% solids epoxy base with full flake and a polyaspartic topcoat, the mud dries, you sweep it, and the floor looks like it did the day we finished.
Weight is the other question people ask about. A 30 to 40 mil flake floor is not a thin paint film; it is a bonded plastic layer that rides on concrete ground to a real profile. Tractor tires, jack stands, and the occasional dropped tool do not go through it. We fill the low spots and cold joints on a wavy owner-poured slab before the base coat so the finish is even. The whole thing carries our 5-year workmanship warranty, shops included.
Materials: 100% solids epoxy base, full flake broadcast, Flake Lock, polyaspartic topcoat
Thickness: 30-40 mils
Install time: 2-3 days
Walk on it: 1-2 days after
Park on it: about a week after
Warranty: 5 years on workmanship
Hot-tire pickup resistant. Chemical and impact rated.
Shops around Venersborg, Cedar Creek, and out toward Battle Ground Lake are often 6 inches thick and stronger than a house slab, but the finish is rough and uneven because it was floated by hand. We level ridges and fill dips so you do not see waves in the flake. Cold weather is the scheduling factor: a shop with the doors open on a 30-degree January morning will not cure on time, so we ask owners to close it up and run a little heat. Garages near downtown Battle Ground and Lewisville Park are standard slabs. Either way it is a 25-minute drive for us on SR-503.
Downtown Battle Ground, Meadow Glade, Venersborg, Cedar Creek, Lewisville, Heisson
Every slab is different, so we price each floor after a free in-person inspection. A typical thirty-by-forty shop is 1,200 square feet, and bigger bays with an RV door go up from there. Rough broom finish and heavy leveling push a shop toward the pricier side. Slab condition, old coatings, cracks, moisture and size are what move the price, and exact pricing comes after that inspection, with a written quote.
Inside the coating
Every floor starts with a properly prepared slab and is built up one layer at a time, each with a specific job.
For concrete floors
Almost always. Owner-poured slabs in Battle Ground are usually thick and strong; the issues are a rough finish and some waviness. We prep the whole floor by diamond grinding or dustless shot blasting, picked for the space, knock down ridges, fill dips and cold joints, and then the coating goes on evenly. If part of the slab is dusting or soft we will show you before we quote.
No. The floor is 30 to 40 mils of bonded epoxy and polyaspartic, and it takes point loads from jack stands and tire loads from a diesel without marking. What damages coatings is bad adhesion, not weight, which is why we grind rather than etch. Hot tires off a long drive are fine too.
Yes, if you can close the shop and hold it above about 50 degrees through the cure, which runs about a week before the tractor rolls back in. Most Battle Ground shops have a wood stove or a propane heater that will do it. Below that, cure slows down a lot and we would rather wait for a warmer week than deliver a soft floor.
This is one of the best reasons to coat a shop out here. Gravel-driveway grit on bare concrete grinds the surface into dust that never stops. On a flake floor it sits on the polyaspartic topcoat and sweeps or hoses off. The flake pattern also hides dirt between cleanings.
We coat right up to the lift base plates and around drains, keeping the slope so water still runs off. If the lift is not installed yet, coat first, then set the lift; the anchors go through the coating without an issue. Tell us the layout at the estimate.
Free on-site estimate for shops, RV bays, and garages.
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