Tight alley garages, fifty-year-old golf-course garages, and brand-new ones, all in one town at the south end of our route.
Free In-Home EstimateWilsonville is about as far south as we go, 45 minutes down I-5, and it has three kinds of garage that could not be more different. Villebois has alley-loaded garages so tight that the door threshold and the side edges get hit by a bumper or a tire every single day. Charbonneau, across the river, has 1970s golf-course homes with slabs that are 50 years old and usually painted. Frog Pond and Canyon Creek have new subdivision concrete still drying out.
The threshold is the detail most installers miss in Villebois. Cars come in at an angle from a narrow alley, and the coating at the door edge takes the scrape. We build that edge to full thickness, carry the flake right to the lip, and finish it with the same polyaspartic topcoat as the field so there is no weak seam where the tires cross. Small garage, careful work.
Under all three garages the system is identical: 100% solids epoxy on a diamond-ground or shot-blasted slab, a flake broadcast to refusal, polyaspartic on top, 30 to 40 mils, warranted for 5 years on workmanship. The prep is what shifts. Villebois gets attention at the edges and threshold. Charbonneau gets the old paint ground off and the cracks filled with polyurea, plus a moisture test since a 1970s slab may have no vapor barrier. Frog Pond gets the curing compound removed and a moisture reading that often calls for a mitigating primer.
Wilsonville's weather helps in one direction. Summers at this end of the valley are warm and dry, which keeps cure on schedule from June through September; parking still waits about a week. Winter is foggy on the flat river valley, and cold weeks can stretch that a little longer. Either way the topcoat shrugs off the warm tires that a sunny Wilsonville driveway sends into the garage and wipes clean of oil drips.
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.
Villebois garages are the smallest we coat in Oregon, often around 240 square feet, and they get parked in tight, so the edges wear before the middle. Charbonneau, on the far side of the Willamette near Boones Ferry, has 1970s concrete with paint, cracks, and 50 years of oil, on river-valley ground that stays foggy and damp in winter, so the moisture meter comes out. Frog Pond and Canyon Creek are 2000s to 2020s builds where the issues are builder compound and fresh-slab moisture. Old Town Wilsonville and Town Center are in between. The 45-minute drive means two dedicated days on site and estimates grouped with other south-metro visits.
Villebois, Charbonneau, Boones Ferry, Old Town Wilsonville, Frog Pond, Canyon Creek
Every slab is different, so we price each floor after a free in-person inspection. 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. Small garages are quicker, not harder. We grind and coat with the door open and the car in the alley, and the whole floor takes a few hours per day. The part that matters in a garage this tight is the threshold and edges, which we build to full thickness so daily scrapes do not wear through.
Only until we grind it. Every bit of paint has to go, since a coating over paint fails the moment the paint does. On a 1970s Charbonneau slab we grind to bare concrete, fill cracks with polyurea, and test moisture since there may be no vapor barrier. Then it is a normal install.
Not necessarily. We meter the slab; if moisture is under the limit the standard system goes on, and if it is over we add a mitigating primer that tolerates the vapor. Either way the builder's curing compound gets ground off first, because nothing sticks to it.
Only a little. Dry heat at the south end of the valley helps the topcoat set, but even a July Villebois install sits close to seven days before a car rolls in. It also means hot tires in the garage every evening, which is exactly what the polyaspartic topcoat is there to handle.
It is the south edge, about 45 minutes on I-5. We still come, at the same price. We group estimates with other trips to the south metro and book installs as two full days so the crew is not making half-day drives.
Villebois, Charbonneau, or Frog Pond.
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