Concrete Sealing done in a day
Unsealed concrete drinks in oil and road salt and never comes clean. Single day install is standard here. The waiting afterwards is just cure time.
The budget option that still buys real protection.
What we actually install
Penetrating or film-forming sealer chosen by exposure, not by what is cheapest.
What goes wrong with coatings almost always goes wrong underneath them. Cuts dusting and makes spills wipeable.
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How the day runs
Grind
Penetrating or film-forming sealer chosen by exposure, not by what is cheapest.
Build
Cuts dusting and makes spills wipeable.
Cure
We grind, coat and topcoat in one visit on most residential jobs.
What the install actually looks like
Prep is most of the work and all of the reason coatings last.
We open up the surface and see what we are actually dealing with. We turn up with the grinder and the extraction first, and the first hour is dust and noise rather than anything that looks like progress. Penetrating or film-forming sealer chosen by exposure, not by what is cheapest.
Once the slab is open and clean we chase any cracks, fill them, and grind those flat. Then the primer goes down, and from that point the day is a sequence with cure windows in it rather than a job you can rush. Most of our residential installs are complete within a single working day.
Kevin Garner founded ICM in 2021 wanting work he could hand down. Aaron, Kyler and Averie make that possible. That matters on a concrete sealing job because the person who decided the spec is the person holding the squeegee, so nothing gets lost between the quote and the floor.
Choosing somebody to do our Floors was a hard decision but I am so happy we picked ICM coating masters. The results are beautiful and The time and effort put into the work was amazing.Verified review
Other systems floors we coat
The slab decides the spec.
What we find under a concrete sealing job
Older residential slabs in Jones County often have a soft top layer from being finished too wet. It looks solid and crumbles under a grinder. If we find that, the fix is grinding past it to sound concrete rather than coating over a layer that is already failing.
Control joints and cracks are not the same thing and get treated differently. A control joint is doing a job and needs to stay flexible. A crack is failure and gets chased out, filled with a rigid polyurea and ground flat before anything goes over it.
The system we specify
Thickness is specified from the load, not from a brochure. A residential garage and a forklift aisle both get epoxy, and they are not the same floor.
Full flake broadcast means chip thrown to refusal, so the floor is a continuous layer of vinyl rather than a base coat with decoration on it. That is what gives the texture its grip and what stops the colour wearing through.
Specified from the load, not a brochure.
Why the system matters more than the colour
A resin floor is four products stacked in order, and each one has a job. The primer wets into the open concrete and grips. The base coat builds thickness and carries the pigment. The broadcast layer, whether that is vinyl flake or graded quartz, gives the floor its texture and most of its wear resistance. The topcoat takes the abrasion and the UV so the layers underneath never see either.
Skip a layer and the floor still looks right on day one. It fails in month eight, usually along the door line where the sun hits or in the wheel tracks where the load concentrates. That is the difference between a coating and a system, and it is not visible in a photograph.
The whole system goes down in one visit on most homes.
What we check before quoting
Unsealed concrete drinks in oil and road salt and never comes clean.
What this floor has to put up with
Cuts dusting and makes spills wipeable. Penetrating or film-forming sealer chosen by exposure, not by what is cheapest. That combination is what we specify against, and it is why a concrete sealing job is quoted from the room rather than from a rate card.
The budget option that still buys real protection. The whole system goes down in one visit on most homes.
Living with the floor afterwards
Furniture and jack stands want pads under them. Point loads with sharp edges are the realistic way a residential floor gets damaged.
Hot tyre pickup is a failure mode of cheap coatings, not of a properly installed flake and polyaspartic build. You can park on it hot without lifting the finish.
We work out of Laurel and cover roughly a hundred miles in every direction. That takes in Jones County, Rankin, Simpson and Lamar to the north and west, the whole Mississippi coast from Bay St. Louis through Biloxi to Pascagoula, across into Baldwin and Mobile County in Alabama, and west to St. Tammany Parish. See the areas we cover.
Questions we get asked
How many days do you need on site?
Single day install is standard here. The waiting afterwards is just cure time.
What is the prep work here?
Penetrating or film-forming sealer chosen by exposure, not by what is cheapest. We open up the surface and see what we are actually dealing with.
How does it handle heavy use?
Cuts dusting and makes spills wipeable. We specify the build thickness against the actual use, not a standard sheet.
How far do you travel for this?
Yes. We cover south Mississippi, the coast, coastal Alabama and St. Tammany Parish, roughly a hundred miles out from Laurel.
Who actually does the work?
We are not a franchise. Kevin, Aaron, Kyler and Averie are the company.
Can I see the colour before deciding?
Yes. We bring the chip deck out and you pick the blend against your own light and your own walls. Colours read differently under LED, under a skylight and under a garage door that is half open, so choosing off a photograph is how people end up disappointed.
What if the concrete is in bad shape?
Concrete that has been under carpet or tile carries adhesive, and old adhesives vary from water soluble to essentially permanent. Identifying which one is on the floor decides whether it is a grinding job or a full removal.
How do I clean it?
The honest maintenance answer is that there is almost none, and that is most of why people choose it.
Why does this outlast a cheap coating?
Polyaspartic topcoats cure faster and hold colour better under UV than standard epoxy clears. They also go down in a wider temperature window, which matters when you are working through a Mississippi summer.
Call and we will walk the space with you.
Kevin started it in 2021. Five years on it is still the same four people. Serving Laurel and south Mississippi, the Gulf Coast, coastal Alabama and St. Tammany Parish. See finished floors or get in touch.