Mobile floor coatings, done in a day
Industrial and port work alongside residential. Older housing stock in midtown with slabs that have seen several coatings. One visit, one day, then 48 hours before the car goes back on.
Mobile County, AL
Floors we coat around Mobile
Industrial and port work alongside residential. Older housing stock in midtown with slabs that have seen several coatings.
A slab that has been acid etched instead of ground has an inconsistent profile. Some areas take the coating and some do not, and you cannot tell which until it fails. We grind regardless of what was done before.
What a Mobile job usually involves
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.
Residential floors are usually a one day job start to finish.
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.
Most of what we do in a town like this is residential garages, and the pattern repeats: a slab poured with the house, sealed once by a previous owner, and now dusting badly and stained where the car parks. The fix is mechanical. Grind the sealer off, open the concrete, patch what needs patching and build the system back up properly.
The slab decides the spec.
Before we quote anything
Exterior concrete has UV and thermal cycling on top of everything else. Materials that are fine indoors amber and chalk outside, so exterior work gets a UV-stable topcoat as standard.
Clear topcoats are not all clear. Some amber noticeably within a year indoors under LED light. We use ones that do not.
Living with it afterwards
Furniture and jack stands want pads under them. Point loads with sharp edges are the realistic way a residential floor gets damaged.
Warehouse floors want a scrubber with the right pad, not the most aggressive one available.
Most asked for here
Everything else is on the services page.
Commercial work around Mobile
Sheds and outbuildings on slab are worth coating if they are being used for anything beyond storage. Unsealed concrete in an outbuilding is the dustiest floor most people own.
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 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
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.
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.
Clear topcoats are not all clear. Some amber noticeably within a year indoors under LED light. We use ones that do not.
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.
Mobile sits in Mobile County. See the other towns we cover on the Mobile 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.
Four names, one crew. Kevin Garner built the company in 2021 to pass it on. 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.
Mobile questions
Do you cover Mobile?
Yes. We are based in Laurel and Mobile is inside our normal working radius.
How long does a garage take?
One day install, 12 hours to walk, 48 to drive.
What is the slab likely to need?
Industrial and port work alongside residential. Older housing stock in midtown with slabs that have seen several coatings.
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 Mobile 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 us before you commit to anyone.
Kevin founded ICM Coating Masters in 2021 and still runs jobs himself. Covering Laurel and south Mississippi, the Gulf Coast, coastal Alabama and St. Tammany Parish. Send us the details or see finished floors.