Horse property, five acres, a shop next to the house. That is most of Brush Prairie, and it is most of what we coat out here.
Free In-Home EstimateNearly every property between the SR-503 corridor and the Bells Mountain foothills has two floors we could coat: the attached garage on the house, and the separate shop or barn where the real work happens. Owners usually call about the shop first. Those slabs are often 6 inches thick, broom-finished, poured with a floor drain in the middle, and worn where the tractor turns. Bare concrete under that use dusts and stains. Flake epoxy stops it.
Brush Prairie is about 20 minutes northeast of our shop up SR-503, so we can do an estimate and a moisture test on one trip. That test matters more out here than in town. There is more tree cover, more moss, and slower winter drying, and a shop slab that sits shaded under firs on a Hockinson lot can hold moisture into May. We meter it and pick the primer accordingly.
The tractor is the test. A garage-floor paint gets scuffed off by a tractor tire in a season. A 100% solids epoxy base, ground into the concrete, with flake broadcast to refusal and a polyaspartic topcoat, is 30 to 40 mils of bonded material that takes tractor tires, dropped tools, and hydraulic fluid without marking. Diesel, gear oil, and horse-stall runoff wipe up instead of soaking in.
Well water is the other thing people do not think about. Most Brush Prairie properties are on a well and septic, and hard well water leaves mineral deposits when you hose a floor. On raw concrete those deposits build into a white crust. On a polyaspartic surface they wipe off. We also keep the fall to the floor drain intact, so washing down the shop still works after coating.
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.
The shop floors around Glenwood, Manor, and up the SR-503 corridor are heavy pours, which is good for load and bad for moisture: a 6-inch slab on a wooded lot dries slowly and can read high on a calcium-chloride test well into spring. When it does, a moisture-mitigating primer goes under the base coat. The broom finish gets ground to a uniform profile. The attached garages on the 1980s to 2010s custom homes are standard slabs on the same well-and-septic ground, so mineral spotting shows up there too. About 20 minutes from our shop, short enough for a two-day install with a return trip for the topcoat.
Brush Prairie, Hockinson, Glenwood, Manor, the SR-503 corridor
Every slab is different, so we price each floor after a free in-person inspection. Shops out here vary a lot in size. Coating the garage and the shop in one visit saves on setup. 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
Yes. We coat right to the drain grate and keep the slope so wash water still runs. The polyaspartic topcoat is not slippery when wet at the texture we broadcast, but if you wash the floor a lot we can broadcast a coarser texture around the drain. The drain area gets the same 30 to 40 mils as the rest.
It can leave mineral spots like it does on a car, but they wipe off a polyaspartic surface. On bare concrete those minerals bond into the pores and build a white crust you cannot remove. This is a real advantage of coating a shop on a well property.
Usually, with a moisture-mitigating primer. Brush Prairie has more shade and slower drying than Vancouver, so damp slabs are common. We test with calcium chloride or an RH probe. If the number is high but the slab is not actually wet on the surface, the primer handles it. If water is coming in from outside, that has to be fixed first.
Tractors are fine. The floor is a bonded epoxy and polyaspartic layer ground into a thick slab, not a paint film. Ag tires, skid steers, and trailers do not mark it. What we ask is that the tractor and trailers stay off for about a week, until the coating is fully cured, and longer if the shop is cold.
No. It is about 20 minutes up SR-503 from our shop. We come out for the estimate and moisture test, then a day for grinding and base coat, then a shorter day for the topcoat. No trip charge.
Shops, barns, garages. Free on-site visit.
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