Fifty minutes west across Portland, so we batch Hillsboro jobs and do them right when we are there.
Free In-Home EstimateHillsboro is the far west edge of where we work, roughly 50 minutes on Highway 26 once we clear Portland. That drive shapes how we schedule: we group Hillsboro estimates into one trip and, when we can, line up two installs in the same week so the crew is out there with everything on the trailer. Tell us your neighbors want their garage done too and it makes everyone's schedule easier.
The garages themselves come in three sizes. Subdivision homes in Jackson School, Reedville, and around Tanasbourne from the 1990s and 2000s have 2 and 3-car slabs with 15 to 30 years of wear. Orenco Station townhomes have tight single or tandem garages where the door threshold and the edges take a beating. Older 1950s to 70s houses near downtown Hillsboro have small slabs with paint and patches. Each gets a different day plan.
The valley floor sits in fog from November into February, and the clay underneath holds water against the bottom of every slab in town. That is a moisture problem before it is anything else. We put a calcium-chloride or RH test on the floor at the estimate and, where the reading is high, start the system with a moisture-mitigating primer. Coating a damp Hillsboro slab without that step is how a floor bubbles by its second winter.
On a slab that tests fine, the flake system goes straight on: diamond-ground or shot-blasted profile, 100% solids epoxy base, flake to the point where the floor will not take more, and a polyaspartic topcoat that will not lift under a warm tire and cleans up after an oil drip with a rag. Thirty to 40 mils total. In a tight Orenco garage we pay extra attention to the threshold and the wall edges, since that is where a small garage gets scraped.
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.
Orenco Station and AmberGlen townhome garages are narrow. The coating at the door threshold gets hit by tires every day. We build the edge and threshold up to full thickness and carry the flake all the way to the wall. Subdivision garages in Reedville and Jackson School have joint cracks and tire marks that a grind takes care of. Downtown Hillsboro's older slabs need paint removal and polyurea in the cracks. Everything sits on the same wet clay near Jackson Bottom Wetlands and the airport, so moisture testing is not optional here. Fifty minutes out, so we plan two full days per install.
Orenco Station, Tanasbourne, AmberGlen, Jackson School, Reedville, Downtown Hillsboro
Every slab is different, so we price each floor after a free in-person inspection. No extra charge for the drive. 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
No. The per-foot price is the same as in Vancouver. What we do differently is batch the trips: estimates grouped into one run, and installs lined up so the crew spends full days out here. If a neighbor in the same subdivision wants a floor, we can often do both in one week.
Yes, for two reasons. Small garages get more wear per square foot, because the same tires hit the same threshold every day. And a light flake color makes a narrow garage look bigger and easier to see in. The job is quick and the cost is low because there is not much floor.
Not if the slab is tested and prepped for its moisture level. Valley-floor clay keeps ground moisture high, so some Hillsboro slabs need a moisture-mitigating primer before the epoxy. We measure rather than guess. With the right primer and a ground profile, the floor stays down for the life of the warranty.
It all comes off. Diamond grinding pulls off the old coating, the rubber marks, and the surface skin of the concrete together, with dust collection. Anything left behind would be a weak layer under the new floor. The grind is most of day one.
Typically two to three weeks to get on the schedule, since we batch the west side. Then two days at the house: grinding plus base coat, and the topcoat the day after. In Hillsboro, light foot traffic starts within two days, and the car waits until the cure finishes, roughly one week after our last visit.
Batched west-side trips, same price as home.
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