Slush From Winter Roads Breaks Down Bare Garage Concrete
Garage concrete lasts longer under a sealed coating, because road slush can no longer sink in. Moncton storms often bring snow mixed with rain or freezing rain, and January thaws are normal. Every trip home drops more salty meltwater on the slab.
Bare concrete drinks that water. A hard frost then pops chips off the top. Our garage floor coating gives the meltwater nowhere to go but out the door, and a sprinkle of anti-slip aggregate in the clear coat keeps tires and boots steady.
Damp Slabs Cause Most Basement Coating Failures
A basement slab gets a moisture reading from us before any epoxy flooring is mixed. Vapour rising through the concrete is the usual reason a basement coating bubbles or lifts. The reading tells us whether a damp-tolerant primer belongs in the system.
New Brunswick also has a radon story. Health Canada's survey found roughly 21 percent of homes in the province above its guideline. A coating does not count as radon mitigation, so a radon test comes first. Details are on our basement epoxy flooring page.
Forklift Traffic Grinds Bare Warehouse Concrete To Dust
Hard-wearing epoxy flooring stops forklift wheels from wearing a warehouse slab into powder. Greater Moncton ships goods across Atlantic Canada, and large grocery and retail distribution centres operate in Caledonia and the other industrial parks.
Our warehouse floor coating toughens the slab and closes the joints. Painted lanes from our warehouse floor marking service can follow on the same visit, so drivers have clear routes on day one.
Salt And Slush Make Shop Entrances Hard To Keep Clean
Commercial epoxy flooring gives a store, clinic or office a front entrance that a mop can handle all winter. Snow and salt come through Moncton doors from November into April.
Commercial epoxy flooring work can run after closing or across a weekend. Your customers can still come in while a section is being coated.
Kitchens And Food Plants Need Floors Made For Hot Water
Restaurant kitchens and food plants need a floor that tolerates scalding water, grease and strong cleaners. Standard epoxy flooring can soften under very hot washdown, so those rooms often get urethane cement instead.
Our commercial kitchen flooring slopes to every drain and turns up the wall in a coved base. Brewhouses and packaging lines get industrial epoxy flooring poured thicker for carts and steel wheels.
Most Epoxy Takes Days Before A Car Can Park On It
A polyaspartic clear coat can have a garage back in service in about a day. Standard epoxy flooring usually needs several days before a car can roll onto it. Polyaspartic also keeps its colour in direct sun.
Spring and fall floor work in Moncton has short windows between cold snaps. Our polyaspartic floor coating page lays out where it beats epoxy and where it does not.
Plain Grey Concrete Looks Unfinished In A Living Space
Metallic epoxy flooring puts a poured, glossy floor with real movement into a rec room or showroom. Each one is worked by hand while wet, so every pattern is unique.
Basements, home gyms, salons and car showrooms suit it well. Our metallic epoxy flooring page covers colour choices and day-to-day care.
Open Cracks And Broken Joints Show Through New Coatings
Cracks, spalls and broken joints are repaired before epoxy flooring goes down, because every flaw below telegraphs through to the surface.
Concrete floor repair covers crack filling, joint rebuilding, patching frost damage and removing old paint. It can also be booked as a job on its own.
Home Workshops Take A Beating From Tools And Fluids
Epoxy flooring gives a home workshop a surface that shrugs off dropped wrenches, brake fluid and sawdust. Plenty of properties in Irishtown, Lakeville and out toward Lutes Mountain have a detached shop or a big double garage that doubles as one.
Oil and solvents stain bare concrete for good. On a coated shop floor they wipe up with a rag, and a light colour makes small parts easier to find. A thicker build under a workbench or a hoist adds extra protection where the heavy work happens.
New Apartment Parkades Need Protection From Day One
Epoxy flooring and traffic coatings protect the parking levels under new apartment buildings, which have gone up quickly as Greater Moncton has grown. Every car that pulls in during winter drips salty slush onto the deck.
Starting with a sealed surface is far cheaper than repairing salt damage ten years later. Coated drive lanes, painted stalls and clear walkways also help the building look well cared for between tenants.
Seasonal Homes Near Shediac Need Floors That Shrug Off Sand
Epoxy flooring in a cottage porch, mudroom or garage near Shediac handles beach sand, wet towels and long empty stretches over the winter. Sand works like sandpaper on bare concrete and on soft finishes.
A flake floor hides sand between sweeps and dries quickly after a wet day at the beach. The sealed surface also stands up to the damp air of a closed-up cottage, as long as the slab passes its moisture reading first.
Older Houses And New Subdivisions Need Different Prep
House age changes how much grinding a slab needs before epoxy flooring. Homes in Sunny Brae, Lewisville and the Old West End often have hairline cracks, oil stains and several coats of old floor paint.
New builds in North Moncton, Fox Creek and Riverview East have young concrete. It needs about four weeks to cure, and builders often spray on a curing sealer that the grinder has to remove.
Hardware Store Kits Usually Lift Within A Year Or Two
Professionally built epoxy flooring is several layers deep, while a retail kit is a single thin coat. Kits also tend to go over a slab that was only washed or acid etched.
Warm tires grab that thin film and pull it up, and brine creeps under the edges. A ground surface and a layered build keep our coatings locked to the concrete.
What Epoxy Flooring Costs In Moncton
Epoxy flooring across Canada usually lands between $5 and $12 per square foot, and your written quote sets the actual figure. Flake garage systems tend to run $6 to $10. Metallic pours run $8 to $12, and heavy warehouse builds can reach $15.
Room size, repair work and the system you pick move the number. Most projects carry a minimum near $2,500. The estimator on this page gives a ballpark, and a phone call gets you a firm price.