Floors that hold up to whatever you park, roll or drop on them
We grind the slab down to clean concrete, fix what is cracked, then lay a flake or metallic system that you can walk on the same evening. Most garage floors are done in one day. Family run since 2021, and the same four people who quote your job are the ones who show up to do it.
A coating is only as good as the concrete underneath it, so that is where the work actually happens.
Plenty of floors in this part of Mississippi were poured decades ago and have spent every summer since taking on humidity. Paint rolled straight onto that slab peels within a season, because nothing was done about the moisture or the glaze on the surface. That is the failure we get called out to fix more than any other.
So we start by grinding. Diamond tooling takes the top layer off until the pores are open and the slab will actually accept resin. Cracks get chased out and filled, pitting gets patched, and any spot that reads damp gets treated before a drop of coating goes down. Only then do we build the system up in layers: a base coat, the flake or metallic broadcast, and a clear topcoat that takes the abuse.
The result is a floor bonded into the concrete rather than sitting on top of it. You can drop a wrench on it, drag a jack across it, hose it down, and it stays put. If you want to see the blends in person before you decide, the chip colors are here, and there is more finished work on the gallery page.
What we coat
Garages and patios for homeowners, and the floors that keep a business running. Every one of these is a page of its own with the detail that matters for that kind of room.
Four people, one crew
Kevin Garner started ICM in 2021 with the idea of building something the family could keep. Aaron Garner, Kyler Welch and Averie Garner are the rest of it. That is the whole company, and it is deliberate: the person who looks at your slab is the person who grinds it, and nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
We are certified through Duraflex, which matters less as a badge than as a constraint. Their systems come with mix ratios, ambient temperature windows and recoat timings that are not suggestions, and following them is the difference between a floor that lasts fifteen years and one that clouds or delaminates. On a humid August afternoon in Jones County those windows get tight, so we will move a pour to early morning rather than push a topcoat into conditions it cannot cure in.
The reviews say the same thing in plainer language. Twenty four of them, all five stars, and the ones that mention a name usually mention Aaron. That is the crew you get.
Floors that have to pass an inspection
A commercial kitchen is a different problem from a garage. Grease, boiling water, dropped pans and a health inspector who wants to see coving where the floor meets the wall, with no seam for anything to collect in. We lay those as a single continuous surface with the edges coved up the wall base, so there is no grout line and nothing to scrub out.
Warehouses and shops care about different things again: forklift wheels, dropped tooling, hydraulic fluid and the occasional wash-down. Those get a thicker build and a topcoat chosen for chemical resistance rather than shine. Kennels and veterinary floors get something sealed tight enough to be disinfected daily without soaking into the slab.
Most of this work happens around your trading hours. If a floor cannot be out of service during the day, we will run it overnight or across a weekend and have you open again on the Monday.
Recent floors
How a job actually runs
We look at the slab
Kevin or Aaron comes out, looks at what you have, and tells you what it needs. Moisture, cracks, old coating, the lot. You get a number on it before anything starts.
We grind and repair
Diamond grinding opens the concrete, cracks get filled, damp spots get treated. This is the part cheap jobs skip, and it is the reason they peel.
We build the floor
Base coat, flake or metallic broadcast, clear topcoat. Walk on it in about twelve hours, move things back in around twenty four, park on it after two days.
Where we work
Laurel is home, and we run out from there about a hundred miles in every direction. That covers the Jackson metro up north, the whole Mississippi coast from Bay St. Louis through Pascagoula, over into Mobile and Baldwin County in Alabama, and across to St. Tammany Parish in Louisiana.
If you are on the coast, salt air and humidity change what makes sense on your slab, and we will tell you that up front rather than selling you the same system we would put in a dry garage inland. Full list of counties and towns is here.
Used a lot of flooring companies over the years on various jobs and lemme tell you you’re in good hands with these guys. From the quote to the finished job they were nothing short of professional.Verified review, ICM Coating Masters
Questions we get asked
How long does a garage floor take?
Most residential garages are a one day install. We grind in the morning, lay the base and broadcast the flake through the middle of the day, and put the topcoat down in the afternoon. You can walk on it in about twelve hours, move boxes and shelving back around twenty four, and park a vehicle on it after roughly forty eight.
Will it peel like the paint I put down before?
Rolled-on paint sits on the surface, so anything below it, moisture, a glazed slab, old sealer, pushes it back off. We grind the concrete open first so the resin keys into the slab rather than resting on it. That preparation is most of the labor on any job we do, and it is the difference between a floor that lasts and one that lifts in a year.
Does the Mississippi humidity cause problems?
It can, and it is the main thing we check before quoting. A slab sitting on damp ground pushes vapor up through the concrete, which will break the bond of the wrong system. Where we find that, we treat it first or specify a coating built to tolerate it. On the coast we also account for salt and stronger sun on anything outdoors.
Can you coat a patio or pool deck?
Yes, and they are treated differently from an indoor floor. Outdoor work gets a textured finish so it is not slick underfoot when wet, and a topcoat chosen to hold its color in direct sun. We have done a fair number of patios and covered porches around Laurel and down on the coast.
What does it cost?
It depends on square footage and, more than anything, on the condition of the slab. A clean newer garage is straightforward. One with cracks, old coating to remove and moisture to deal with takes more preparation. We look at it in person and put a number on it before any work starts, so there is nothing to discover halfway through.
Do you work with businesses as well as homes?
About half of what we do is commercial. Kitchens, warehouses, auto shops, retail floors, clinics and kennels each have their own requirements around hygiene, chemical exposure, grip and downtime. We schedule that work around your hours where we can, including nights and weekends for a floor that cannot be shut for a day.
Tell us what the floor is doing now
Send a photo of the slab or just describe it. We will tell you what it needs, what it does not need, and what it costs. No pressure from us either way.