This is where we live and where most of our floors are. The truck is 10 to 20 minutes from any garage in town.
Free In-Home EstimateVancouver has the widest spread of garage slabs in the county, and we have ground most types of them. A 1948 bungalow in Hough has a detached one-car with a thin, cracked floor and no vapor barrier under it. A 1997 two-story in Fisher's Landing has a solid slab carrying 25 years of oil and tire marks. A townhome at the Waterfront has concrete so new it still reads wet. Each one gets a different prep plan before any flake goes down.
Vancouver is home base. Tim brings the sample boards to your driveway, checks the slab with a moisture meter, and tells you what it will take. Nobody drives out from Portland to bid your job. We are already here, between Minnehaha and Cascade Park, most days of the week.
Rain from November into May means water vapor pushing up through concrete for half the year. That is what kills coatings in this town, not frost. Our base coat is 100% solids epoxy that soaks into a diamond-ground or shot-blasted profile, so vapor has nowhere to lift it. Where a slab in Fruit Valley or Bagley Downs tests high, we add a moisture-mitigating primer first. Skip that step and the flakes bubble up by March.
The topcoat matters just as much on the east side. Fisher's Landing and Cascade Park garages face west and get hot afternoon sun on the driveway, which means hot tires rolling onto the floor every evening in July. A polyaspartic topcoat over the flake broadcast holds up to that where a box-store kit peels in strips. Full thickness lands between 30 and 40 mils. The finished floor is under our 5-year workmanship warranty.
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.
West of the freeway, around Hough and Uptown Village, expect thin 1940s and 50s concrete with hairline cracks and sometimes a layer of gray porch paint. We grind that off and fill the cracks with polyurea before the base coat. Central 1970s ranches near Burnt Bridge Creek usually have sound floors with 50 years of oil in the pores. Newer slabs in Felida and near Esther Short Park are clean but fresh, and fresh concrete near Vancouver Lake often needs a calcium-chloride test before we commit to a schedule. Since the whole city sits 10 to 20 minutes from our shop, a moisture check the day before install is easy.
Felida, Cascade Park, Fisher's Landing, Hough, Uptown Village, Minnehaha
Every slab is different, so we price each floor after a free in-person inspection. A 2-car garage in Cascade Park or Ellsworth is usually 400 to 500 square feet. Old west-side slabs with paint and cracks land on the pricier side because the prep takes longer. 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
Usually, yes. Those slabs are thin and cracked but still bond fine once ground. We fill the cracks with polyurea, grind the whole floor to a fresh profile, and run a moisture test since there is no vapor barrier underneath. If the slab is crumbling rather than cracked, we will say so and talk about options.
Close. We are 10 to 20 minutes from anywhere in Vancouver. Fisher's Landing slabs from the 90s are some of the easiest we do: sound concrete, moderate oil, a day of prep and coating, then a second short day for the topcoat.
Not always. Fresh concrete holds a lot of water for the first year or two, and builders sometimes leave a curing compound on the surface. We meter the slab and grind off anything sitting on top. If moisture is high we use a mitigating primer under the epoxy so the floor does not lift later.
Not ours. Hot-tire pickup happens when a thin water-based coating softens under a warm tire and sticks to the rubber. A 100% solids epoxy base with a polyaspartic topcoat does not soften that way. It is one of the main reasons we do not install cheap kits.
Socks and shoes are fine on it one to two days after our trailer leaves, and the Vancouver commuter car goes back in roughly seven days later, at full cure. A wet Vancouver winter can stretch that a little longer. We will tell you the exact time when we finish the topcoat, and it is fine to leave the door up for airflow in the meantime.
Free in-home visit with sample boards.
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