Most garages in North-Central West Virginia take a beating. Cars come in with road salt clinging to the undercarriage, melt it onto bare concrete, and over a few winters the surface starts to pit, scale, and spall. By year five or six in a Morgantown or Fairmont home, what was a clean grey slab is a flaking, oil-stained mess.
The fix is a coating system built for this climate — either polyaspartic (a fast-curing, UV-stable resin) or epoxy flake (a thicker, decorative epoxy with broadcast color chips and a clear topcoat). You get a floor that wipes clean, shrugs off salt and hot tires, and stops the slab from deteriorating underneath.
What Goes Into the Install
The coating is only as good as the prep, so that’s where most of the labor goes. The slab gets diamond-ground or shot-blasted to open the concrete profile, every crack and joint is chased and repaired, any old paint or failed coating comes off, and the floor is checked for moisture before a drop of resin goes down. Coatings that peel are coatings that never got a mechanical bond — that’s the whole story behind most failed garage floors around here.
Once prep is done, the coating itself is usually one or two days. Polyaspartic can go down in a day. Epoxy flake with a polyurethane or polyaspartic topcoat typically runs two.
What You Get in the Estimate
The estimate happens on-site: the garage gets measured, the concrete gets a hard look, and you get three things in writing — the prep method, the coating system that fits how you actually use the space, and the price. Free, no obligation.
Call for a free estimate, or check the basement floor coatings and driveway coatings pages if the garage isn’t the only slab on your list.