Brandon storage corridors that stop shedding dust
Bare concrete in a storage hallway never stops making dust. Every dolly wheel and every dragged dresser grinds a little more off the top, and it settles on the boxes renters are paying to keep clean. Coating the corridors ends that, and Kevin will tell you how much of your building actually needs it.
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Unsealed concrete wears from the top down, and in a storage building that wear turns into dust that drifts under every door.
Kevin Garner started the company in 2021 as a family business, and storage halls are coated by the same four people as every other floor we do.
What a bare corridor does to everything stored along it
A storage hallway takes an odd kind of traffic. Foot traffic is light by store standards. Nearly all of it pushes something with small hard wheels, and a fair share of it drags a sofa or a dresser the last few feet. Each pass loosens a fine layer of cement paste. Sweeping lifts it into the air, it settles back down inside the units, and a renter rolls up a door to find a gray film on the stack of boxes they left clean.
Brandon is building fast, and new buildings come with new slabs. Fresh concrete is still full of water from the pour, and that water has to leave through the top. Lock it in under a coating too early and it lifts the film in blisters along the run. If the slab is young, we test it and wait, because a later start beats a hallway we have to grind up and redo.
Humidity is the other thing we plan around. Damp air slows the cure and shortens how long the resin stays easy to work, so in the warm months we start early and keep the doors shut on the section being coated. A long corridor goes down in runs, each one finished and closed off before the next begins, so the air moving through the building never crosses wet resin.
The self storage epoxy page covers the work itself. For this one, send over the details or call 601-319-9619.
Coating a storage building while it stays open
Corridors are the scope
A unit interior gets a few boxes moved in and almost no traffic after that. The corridors take every trip in and out of the building, so that is where a coating earns its keep. Most owners coat the halls and leave the units as bare concrete, which keeps the job sensible on a big footprint. If your building is an exception, we will tell you why.
One run at a time
We split the building into runs and close one while the rest stay open. Renters on the closed run get notice ahead of the day, and the hall reopens to foot traffic once the coating has cured enough to walk on. Carts and dollies wait a little longer. We plan the runs with you so no renter is cut off from their unit longer than one section takes.
Coat the halls everyone walks, and leave the units for later.
Grinding the whole hall, edges too
A floor grinder handles the open width, and the strip along the walls and door tracks gets a hand grinder so the coating bonds right to the edge. That strip is where a cheap job starts peeling first, because it is where the shortcut gets taken. Dust extraction runs the whole time, which matters in a building full of other people’s belongings.
A blend that hides wheel marks
Solid colors show every black tire scuff and every dragged scrape. A broadcast flake blend breaks those marks up so the hall looks clean between sweepings. We bring the chip deck so you can pick a mix with enough gray in it to hide wear, while still keeping the hall bright enough that it feels safe to walk down on a dark evening.
How storage hallway floors give out
Most storage floors we get asked to look at were done cheaply over a large area, and the shortcut always shows up in the traffic lanes first.
Floor paint on a working hallway
Paint is the tempting answer for a long run because it covers a lot of floor quickly. It sits on the surface without any real bond, and the first heavy dolly with a stuck wheel peels a strip of it. After that it flakes in patches, and the bare spots dust worse than the plain slab ever did.
A build stretched too thin
Covering a big building on a tight budget leads some crews to roll the material thinner than the system calls for. The floor looks right on the day it is finished. Within a few seasons the lane down the middle of the hall has worn back to bare concrete while the edges along the doors still look new.
Joints coated straight across
A long hall has control joints, and the slab moves a little at each one. Coat over a joint as if it were not there and the coating cracks along it, then chips out at the crack under every cart. Joints get opened up and filled with something that flexes before the coating ever goes down.
Rolled onto a slab that was only swept
A broom and a mop leave cement dust packed into the pores, and a coating laid on that bonds to the dust instead of the concrete. It lets go in sheets under the first loaded hand truck. Grinding opens the surface properly, and the vacuum on the grinder carries the dust away with it.
Deciding how much of the building to coat
Start with where people actually walk and roll things. The main corridors from the office and the loading doors get coated first, because they carry every trip. Side halls that serve a handful of units can wait, or take the same system later. Keep a record of the blend you chose, so an extension matches the halls already done instead of reading as a patch.
Drive-up units are a separate call. Their aprons sit outside in sun and rain, so anything put down there needs a topcoat that holds up to UV, and on some buildings a good sealer is the more sensible spend than a full coating. We look at those areas on their own and tell you which way we would go, and why.
There is a renting side to this too. Someone touring the building sees the hallway before they ever see a unit, and a bright, clean coated floor tells them the place is looked after. A dusty gray slab with tire streaks tells them the opposite. A hall that helps you fill units is work the family is glad to put its name on.
Where Brandon sits for us
Brandon sits in Rankin County east of Jackson, inside the normal radius we work from Laurel, so a storage building there is well within reach for the crew.
The rest of what we coat in Brandon
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Questions we get asked
Do you coat inside the units as well?
We can, but most owners do not need to. A unit floor holds a few boxes and sees almost nobody, while the corridor takes every cart that comes through the building. Coating the halls fixes the dust and the look. If you want the units done too, we price them separately.
Can renters get to their units while you work?
Yes. We coat the building in runs and close one at a time, with notice to the renters on that run ahead of the day. Everyone else uses the building as normal. Tell us which halls carry the most traffic and we will schedule those for the quietest days you have.
Will a coating stop the dust for good?
On the coated floor, yes. The dust comes from the concrete surface wearing under wheels, and once that surface is ground and sealed under resin there is nothing left to shed. Dust can still blow in through the doors, but a coated hall sweeps clean in a fraction of the time.
What happens if a hand truck gouges the new floor?
We fix the spot without redoing the hallway. The damaged area gets ground back, the layers rebuilt and the flake broadcast to match, so the repair blends into the floor around it. Keep a note of the blend you chose, and matching it later is a much simpler job.
What about the office and the loading area by the doors?
They usually take the most traffic in the building, so they are worth a look. The office floor can match the halls, and the area inside the main doors often wants a heavier build because every cart crosses it. Drive-up aprons outside are a separate question, and sealing often covers those.
How do we clean a coated hallway day to day?
A dust mop for the daily pass and a neutral cleaner when it needs washing. If you run a scrubber, fit a soft pad, since an aggressive one wears the topcoat off the middle of the hall over time. Skip strong degreasers. That is the whole routine.
Walk the halls with Kevin
Call Kevin with the size of the building, how the corridors run and which halls carry the most carts. He will come and walk them with you, look at the slab and tell you what is worth coating now and what can wait.
Write down what the room is and we will come look at it. Finished floors are in the gallery.