Big three-car garages up on the hill, old detached ones downtown. Twenty minutes east on SR-14 and we can see either.
Free In-Home EstimateHomeowners in Camas compare bids. That is fine with us, because the differences show up in the prep, and prep is where we spend most of the job. A 700-square-foot garage on Prune Hill takes a full day of diamond grinding before a drop of epoxy goes down. The other bids you get may plan to acid etch that floor in an hour. Ask them. The answer tells you how long the coating will last.
Camas garages from 1995 to 2015 are mostly flat and well poured, which is good news for flake. The problems are on top of the concrete, not in it: 10 to 25 years of hot-tire pickup from the previous coating, road salt tracked in on the few ice days each winter, and oil spots where the same car has parked for two decades. Grinding takes all of that off in one pass.
The hills and the lake make Camas a little cooler and damper than Vancouver. That changes two things. Cure times run longer between October and April, so we schedule the topcoat with that in mind rather than rushing it. And moisture readings on slabs near Lacamas Lake and Round Lake matter more than they would in a flat, dry subdivision. We check every floor with a meter before quoting a system.
Once the slab is right, the system is a 100% solids epoxy base, a heavy broadcast of flake all the way to refusal, and a polyaspartic topcoat that stands up to hot tires, road salt, and the oil that drips under a Prune Hill commuter car. Total build is 30 to 40 mils, about ten times a coat of floor paint. Camas owners tend to want the garage to match the rest of the house, and Leggari colors like Midnight or Dark Mocha do that.
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.
There are really two kinds of garage floor in Camas. Up on Prune Hill, in Lacamas Heights, and around Grass Valley, the slabs are large, flat, and structurally fine, so the work is surface removal: old coating, salt residue, tire rubber, oil. Downtown near Crown Park and the paper mill, the 1920s to 1960s houses have detached garages with uneven concrete and at least one layer of old paint that has to be ground completely off. Either way, the drive is about 20 minutes from our shop along SR-14, short enough that we come back the same day if a moisture reading needs a second look.
Prune Hill, Lacamas Lake, Grass Valley, Downtown Camas, Crown Park, Lacamas Heights
Every slab is different, so we price each floor after a free in-person inspection. Three-car garages in Camas are typically 600 to 750 square feet. Downtown detached garages are smaller, often 300 to 400 square feet, but the paint removal pushes the price up. 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
A little. Camas runs a few degrees cooler than Vancouver, so a winter job can need a bit more than the usual week before the floor takes a car. We plan the topcoat for the warmest part of the day and keep the door closed once it is down. Walking on it is still fine a day or two after we leave.
Only if it stays there. Salt left on a slab wicks moisture and can push a coating loose. Diamond grinding removes it along with the top layer of concrete. After the floor is coated, salt just sits on the polyaspartic surface and rinses off, which is one reason people in Lacamas Heights choose this over bare concrete.
Usually. We bring Leggari boards like Thunder, Gravel, Moon Rock, and Dark Forest plus the Desert Polymer blended chips to the estimate, and you hold them against the siding and trim. Most Camas owners land on a darker blend that hides dust from the hill roads.
Yes, every bit. Epoxy stuck to paint is only as strong as the paint, and old porch paint on a 1950s slab is not strong. We take it to bare concrete by diamond grinding or dustless shot blasting, picked for the space, which takes longer on a detached garage than on a modern slab, and that is reflected in the price.
Look at three things on each bid: how the slab is prepped, what the base coat is, and what the topcoat is. We diamond grind or shot blast, we use 100% solids epoxy, and we top with polyaspartic. If a bid says etch, water-based, and urethane, it is a different product at a different price, and it will not carry our 5-year workmanship warranty.
We bring the sample boards to your garage.
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