Questions we get every week
If the answer you need is not here, call and ask. We would rather explain it properly than have you guess from a website.
How long does an install take?
Most residential floors go down in a single day. Walk on it in 12 hours, move heavy things at 24, park on it at 48.
When can I park on it?
Twelve hours to walk on, twenty four for heavy items, forty eight before a vehicle goes back on. Those are cure numbers, not guesses.
Why does prep matter so much?
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.
Will it peel like my old garage paint?
Garage paint sits on top of sealed concrete. A ground and primed resin system keys into it. That is the whole difference.
What about hot tire pickup?
Hot tire 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.
How do I clean it?
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.
Can you coat a damp slab?
Gulf Coast concrete carries moisture. Slabs poured on sand without a vapor barrier wick water up through the mix continuously, and that vapor pressure is what lifts a coating months after it looked perfect. We test for it before quoting, because the honest answer sometimes is a moisture-tolerant system rather than standard epoxy.
Do you do commercial work?
Yes, most of the roster is commercial. Kitchens, warehouses, clinics, kennels and shops.
What if the slab is cracked?
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.
Is polished concrete cheaper over time?
Polished concrete uses a densifier that reacts chemically with the slab, hardening it rather than coating it. There is nothing to peel because there is no film.
Can it be repaired later?
A coated floor can be repaired in place. Damage gets ground back locally, rebuilt and blended, which is not possible with tile or with polished concrete.
How far do you travel?
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.
Still deciding?
Look at finished floors, or the chip deck if it is color you are stuck on. Then call 601-319-9619.
Call and we will walk the space with you.
Family run since 2021, and the same four people who quote your floor are the ones who install it. Covering Laurel and south Mississippi, the Gulf Coast, coastal Alabama and St. Tammany Parish. Send us the details or see finished floors.