Ellisville garage floors, coated in a day
A garage slab in Ellisville is usually one of two things. Either an older in-town pour carrying whatever the last few owners put on it, or a newer floor finished so tight that nothing wants to stick to it. Those two want different grinds, and a quote that does not say which one you have is a guess, so Kevin looks at the floor first.
There are two kinds of garage slab in Ellisville and they do not want the same grind.
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Why Ellisville garage slabs split into two different jobs
Nothing about an older Ellisville garage tells you its history from the driveway. These slabs have had decades of owners and most of them did something to the floor. The giveaway is never the open middle. It is the strip under the shelving and the corner behind the door that nobody has walked on, because that is where a coating somebody rolled on two owners back is still intact. Whatever is hiding under there sets how long the grind takes.
The newer builds out toward the college turn that expectation around. Those floors look like the easy job, flat and clean and barely used, and they are the ones where a coating is most likely to let go. A power trowel leaves the surface burnished shut, so there is nothing for resin to bite into, and a smooth gray slab gives a homeowner no reason to suspect it. Grinding is what gives the primer somewhere to go.
Humidity is the constant either way. It moves cure times, it changes how the resin flows out, and through the summer it means starting early rather than pushing into the afternoon. We plan the day around it instead of pretending it is not a factor, which is most of the reason a one day install stays a one day install.
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How a garage day actually goes
The garage has to be empty
Everything comes out before we start, and that is the part people never plan for. Shelving, the freezer, whatever has been stacked along the wall since you moved in. If moving it is a real problem, say so when you call and we will work out what the crew can shift.
The grind is most of the job
The grinder and the extraction come off the trailer before anything else. This is the stretch where the garage looks worse than when we arrived, and the one everything after it depends on: whatever is on the slab comes off, and the concrete gets opened back up to take primer. Expect noise, and expect to find out what is under your floor.
Nothing that happens after the grind fixes a floor that was rushed through it.
Cracks and edges get chased
Cracks get cut out, filled and ground flat before any coating goes down, because a crack left under a coating telegraphs straight back through it. Edges and the door threshold get cut in by hand, which takes longer than it sounds and is exactly where a cheap job looks cheap.
Base, flake, topcoat
The base coat goes down, the flake is broadcast into it to refusal, and once that has cured we scrape and vacuum the surface back flat before the topcoat. Walk on it at 12 hours, move heavy things back in at 24, park on it at 48.
What we find when a garage floor has already failed once
A lot of the garage calls we take around Ellisville are not first coatings. They are the second attempt.
Paint rolled onto a troweled slab
Hardware store garage paint on an unground slab is the most common thing we scrape off. It holds for a season, then it comes up wherever the car sits and wherever water gets tracked in. There is nothing wrong with the paint. It was never given a surface to bond to.
Acid etched instead of ground
Etching gets sold as the no-machine shortcut. Pour it on, rinse it off, skip the dust. What it leaves is a profile that varies from one square foot to the next depending on how long the acid sat and which way it ran, so the coating takes in some places and not in others. The floor only tells you which once it starts lifting in patches.
Hot tire pickup
A thin single coat system lifts where the tires sit, because a warm tire softens a cheap film and then peels it on the way out. A properly built flake system with a real topcoat does not do this, and that is one of the reasons we specify the build thickness from how the garage gets used.
One coat and no build
A floor sold as epoxy that went down in a single thin pass has no wear layer to give up. It looks right the week it is finished and it has nothing left in reserve after that. What you are paying for in a system is the build, not the gloss on day one.
Choosing the blend before the day starts
The blend gets decided before the day, not during it. Flake is ordered ahead and broadcast wet, so there is no stopping halfway across a garage to try the other one. That is the part people are not expecting, because every other finish decision in a house can be undone later. This one is made once, in advance, and the floor is then that color for as long as it is down.
Darker blends hide tire marks and dust better. Lighter blends make a garage feel like a room rather than a store cupboard, and they show everything you drag in off the driveway. Neither is the right answer. It depends on whether the garage is a workshop, a parking space or the room the kids come through, and that is worth two minutes of conversation before anything gets ordered.
The four of us do the work. Kevin, Aaron, Kyler and Averie, no subcontractors, which means the person who decided the spec is the person holding the squeegee. On a garage that matters because every call about profile or build thickness gets made by someone standing on the slab rather than relayed from an office.
Where Ellisville sits for us
Ten minutes from the shop, so a garage here is not queued behind the far edge of the map the way a job down on the coast has to be.
The rest of what we coat in Ellisville
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
Questions we get asked
Can a garage really be done in one day?
Most residential garages, yes. We grind, prep, prime, broadcast and topcoat in a single day. You walk on it at 12 hours, put heavy items back at 24 and park on it at 48. A slab with heavy repairs or an old coating to remove can run longer.
Do I need to move everything out?
Yes, the floor has to be completely clear before we start. Shelving, freezers and anything stacked against the wall all have to come out. Tell us when you call if that is going to be difficult and we will sort out what the crew can move.
What if my slab has cracks in it?
Cracks get cut out, filled and ground flat as part of the prep rather than coated over. A crack left underneath a coating comes back through it. A slab with a lot of movement is a conversation we have on site before quoting anything.
Will it peel like the paint did?
Not for the reason the paint did. Paint failed because it sat on a closed, troweled surface with nothing to key into. We grind that surface open mechanically and build a full system on it, which is a different thing from a film rolled onto bare concrete.
How do I look after it?
A dust mop twice a week and a neutral cleaner when it needs it. No wax, no resealing, no annual reapplication. If somebody tells you a coated garage floor needs yearly maintenance, they are describing their own product failing rather than how these systems work.
How far is Ellisville for you?
Ten minutes. We are based in Laurel, so Ellisville is everyday work rather than a trip out of the way, and a call in the morning usually gets looked at the same week rather than weeks out.
Come look at the slab with us
Tell Kevin what the garage is doing and what you want out of it. We will look at the floor, tell you what the grind is going to involve and bring the chip deck.
Send over the details and look through finished floors while you decide.