Hattiesburg floor coatings, done in a day
A real mix. Student rentals, older in-town housing, newer subdivisions and a steady stream of small commercial work. One day on site for most homes. Full cure for vehicles is 48 hours.
Forrest County, MS
Floors we coat around Hattiesburg
A real mix. Student rentals, older in-town housing, newer subdivisions and a steady stream of small commercial work.
Where a floor has been patched repeatedly with different products, each patch behaves differently under a grinder and under resin. Sometimes the right call is removing the patches entirely.
What a Hattiesburg job usually involves
A lot of the calls we take start with somebody having tried a big-box garage floor kit. Those sit on top of sealed concrete and peel, and the removal is more work than the original job would have been.
One day down for most homes. Commercial work is phased to your hours.
Where a property has been rented out the slab has usually had a harder life than the owner realises. We would rather look at it than quote off a description.
Patios and porches are the other half of the residential work in this area. Exterior concrete goes grey, grows algae in the shade and turns slick when it rains, and a UV-stable textured coating solves all three at once.
The slab decides the spec.
Before we quote anything
Salt is the quiet problem on coast jobs. It comes in on tyres, soaks into unsealed concrete, and sits there pushing back out. Grinding removes the loaded surface layer so the new floor is not fighting it from day one.
Quartz systems are built in layers, broadcast and troweled rather than rolled. It is slower to install and it is the toughest, grippiest thing we lay.
Living with it afterwards
Expect the finish to look the same in five years if it is looked after. That is the point of specifying properly rather than cheaply.
If a crack appears in the slab years later, that is the concrete moving, not the coating failing. It can be chased and repaired without redoing the floor.
Most asked for here
Everything else is on the services page.
Commercial work around Hattiesburg
Where a garage has been used as a workshop there is usually oil worked deep into the pores in one or two spots. Surface cleaning does not reach it. We grind it out and prime over what is left.
Commercial work in a town this size is usually small and specific. One wet room, one kitchen, one shop floor that has to be closed for the shortest possible time. Those jobs get planned around opening hours from the first conversation.
The full roster runs to seventy five different rooms, from garages through to food plants and clean rooms. It is all on the services page.
Why the prep matters more than the colour
New pours need to cure before they are coated, and the wait is longer than most people expect. Coating green concrete traps water under the film. We would rather push the date than come back to a blistered floor.
Slabs around Laurel and down toward the coast are mostly 1970s to 1990s pours, and they were finished hard. A hard-troweled surface has almost no porosity left, which is why paint peels off it in sheets. Grinding opens that surface back up so resin can key into the concrete instead of sitting on top of it.
Dark floors show dust and light floors show tyre marks. There is no colour that hides everything, and we would rather say that than sell a finish that disappoints.
Grinding is most of the job.
Getting to you
From Laurel we cover south Mississippi, the coast, coastal Alabama and St. Tammany Parish. If you are inside about a hundred miles, we will come and look at the slab.
Hattiesburg sits in Forrest County. See the other towns we cover on the Forrest County page or the full service areas list.
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How the day runs
Moisture gets tested before resin gets opened. We arrive with the grinder and the dust extraction, and the first stretch is noise and containment rather than anything that looks like progress. Getting the slab open and clean is what the rest of the day depends on.
Cracks get chased out and filled, high spots come down, and any old coating comes off rather than getting buried. Then the primer goes on and the day becomes a sequence with cure windows in it. A typical garage is a one day install. You are walking on it that evening.
Kevin started it in 2021. Five years on it is still the same four people. Nothing gets lost between the quote and the floor because it is the same people doing both.
Maintenance is a dust mop and occasionally a neutral cleaner. No wax, no sealing, no annual reapplication. If someone tells you a coated floor needs yearly maintenance, they are describing their own product failing. If you want to see blends first, the chip deck comes to you, and there are finished floors on the gallery page.
Hattiesburg questions
Do you cover Hattiesburg?
Yes. We are based in Laurel and Hattiesburg is inside our normal working radius.
How long does a garage take?
We grind, coat and topcoat in one visit on most residential jobs.
What is the slab likely to need?
A real mix. Student rentals, older in-town housing, newer subdivisions and a steady stream of small commercial work.
Can you match a colour?
Yes. The chip deck comes to you so you choose against your own light.
Do you do commercial work here?
Yes. Shops, kitchens, clinics and warehouses across Forrest County.
How do I get a quote?
Call 601-319-9619 and describe the room, or send the details and we will come look at the slab.
Talk to Kevin about your floor.
Kevin started ICM in 2021. The team that keeps it going is Aaron Garner, Kyler Welch and Averie Garner. Covering Laurel and south Mississippi, the Gulf Coast, coastal Alabama and St. Tammany Parish. Send us the details or see finished floors.