Mendenhall floor coatings, done in a day
Small-town residential and agricultural work north of Laurel. We grind, coat and topcoat in one visit on most residential jobs.
Simpson County, MS
Floors we coat around Mendenhall
Small-town residential and agricultural work north of Laurel.
A slab poured in sections often has slight height differences at the seams. Those get ground flat rather than coated over, because a coating follows the shape it is laid on.
What a Mendenhall job usually involves
Storage rooms, laundry rooms and utility spaces come up often enough to mention. Small floors, quick installs, and usually the same system as a garage at a smaller scale.
We grind, coat and topcoat in one visit on most residential jobs.
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.
Garages here tend to be attached, which changes two things. The dust has somewhere to go, so containment matters more, and the slab usually shares a pour with the house foundation, so movement is less of a problem than on a detached shop.
The slab decides the spec.
Before we quote anything
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.
Epoxy is the body of the system and polyaspartic is the armour. The epoxy bonds and builds thickness, the topcoat takes the abrasion and the UV. Using one without the other is where most cheap floors go wrong.
Living with it afterwards
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.
In a commercial kitchen the cleaning routine is the maintenance plan, and the floor is specified around the chemistry you already use.
Most asked for here
Everything else is on the services page.
Commercial work around Mendenhall
Pool surrounds are seasonal work here. The concrete gets hot underfoot and slick when wet, and a textured coating with a cooler pigment fixes both.
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.
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
Moisture, contamination and surface profile are the three things that decide whether a floor lasts. Colour is the easy part and the only part most people ask about.
Gulf Coast concrete carries moisture. Slabs poured on sand without a vapour barrier wick water up through the mix continuously, and that vapour 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.
Everything we install is a system that has been tested as a system. That is the practical value of working to a manufacturer spec instead of improvising.
Grinding is most of the job.
Getting to you
Laurel is home, and from here we reach Hattiesburg, Jackson, the Gulf Coast, coastal Alabama and the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain comfortably. Coast jobs and Baldwin County work are a normal week for us.
Mendenhall sits in Simpson County. See the other towns we cover on the Simpson County page or the full service areas list.
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How the day runs
Preparation is the part customers never see and always pay for twice if it is skipped. 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. We are in and out in a day on most garages, then the floor cures.
One crew, four names, and the founder on site. That is the whole company. Nothing gets lost between the quote and the floor because it is the same people doing both.
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. If you want to see blends first, the chip deck comes to you, and there are finished floors on the gallery page.
Mendenhall questions
Do you cover Mendenhall?
Yes. We are based in Laurel and Mendenhall is inside our normal working radius.
How long does a garage take?
A day on site is the normal answer for a residential floor.
What is the slab likely to need?
Small-town residential and agricultural work north of Laurel. 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.
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 Simpson 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.
Call and we will give you the real answer.
Aaron, Kyler and Averie work with Kevin on every install. That is by design. Covering Laurel and south Mississippi, the Gulf Coast, coastal Alabama and St. Tammany Parish. Send us the details or see finished floors.