Half the garages we look at in Salmon Creek already have a coating on them. It is peeling. We take it off and do it right.
Free In-Home EstimateSomebody painted your garage floor in 2006. Maybe the previous owner, maybe you, with a two-part kit from the hardware store. It looked fine for a year, then the tires pulled it up in patches and now it flakes off every time you sweep. This is the most common floor in Salmon Creek, Klineline, and Pleasant Valley, because the subdivisions went up fast in the 90s and 2000s and the kits went on soon after.
Removing a failed coating is not optional and it is not quick. We take the entire slab down to bare concrete by diamond grinding or dustless shot blasting, picked for the space, which takes off the old paint, the tire marks, and the top skin of the slab in one operation. Then the floor gets a 100% solids epoxy base, a full flake broadcast, and a polyaspartic topcoat. We are fifteen minutes away, so the schedule is flexible.
The slabs themselves are fine. A 25-year-old builder slab in a Salmon Creek two-story is structurally sound; what it has is cracking along the control joints, staining where the cars park, and whatever was rolled over it last time. Cracks get a polyurea fill and are ground level. Joints are typically left as joints so the slab can still move, but filled and coated so they do not collect dirt.
Why the kit peeled and ours will not: the kit was a thin water-based epoxy over acid-etched concrete, and it let go where hot tires softened it. Our base is solvent-free epoxy at 100% solids over diamond-ground or shot-blasted concrete. It goes on ten times thicker and bonds mechanically into the profile. The polyaspartic on top is what the tires actually touch, and it does not soften at tire temperature.
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.
Salmon Creek shares Vancouver's weather, but the wooded lots near the creek and the greenway stay shadier and damper into June. A garage on the north side of a house near Whipple Creek can read higher on the moisture meter than one in a sunny Mount Vista cul-de-sac, so we test each slab rather than assume. The concrete is nearly all 1990s and 2000s builder grade with a vapor barrier. Around WSU Vancouver and the hospital there is newer infill that gets the curing-compound check. The drive is about 15 minutes up I-5.
Salmon Creek, Klineline, Pleasant Valley, Mount Vista, Felida
Every slab is different, so we price each floor after a free in-person inspection. Grinding off a failed kit is more work than prepping bare concrete, and that shows up in the price. 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. Where it is peeling is just where it has failed so far; the rest is bonded to acid-etched concrete and will let go later, taking our coating with it. We take all of it off by diamond grinding or dustless shot blasting, picked for the space. It is the slowest part of a Salmon Creek job and the most important.
Fill them with a polyurea repair compound and grind them flush before the base coat. Control joints are meant to crack, so we keep the joint line but seal it. Once the flake goes over, the joints read as faint lines in the pattern rather than dirt-collecting grooves.
A Salmon Creek two-car usually means two days of our crew in the garage, three for a bigger one: grinding and the flake base first, then the Flake Lock coat and topcoat, with foot traffic allowed within a couple of days of the last coat. The cars stay in the driveway for about a week while the floor fully cures. Most families in Klineline stage everything in the driveway under a tarp.
It can be, which is why we meter it before committing. A slab that reads high gets a moisture-mitigating primer under the epoxy. Most Salmon Creek slabs have a vapor barrier and read fine, but the shaded creekside lots are where we see the exceptions.
About 15 minutes north on I-5. It is one of the shortest drives we make, so we can swing by for a moisture reading before install without it being a production.
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