We're a Concord flooring crew, and we come over to Vallejo for garage floors, basements, pool decks and shop floors. I look at what the slab is doing before anything goes on it, because that's where most of the failed floors I've seen went wrong.
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Vallejo is a waterfront city on the outer edge of the Bay Area, across the water from Martinez, and the calls we get here look a lot like the ones closer to home. Most are for garages that double as workshops, basement slabs, pool decks and small shop floors, and plenty of them already have paint or an old sealer that someone rolled on years back. So on a Vallejo floor, the first thing I do is find out what's on the concrete and whether it's still holding, because that decides how much prep comes before we coat anything.
Call (925) 536-0504 or send the form, and tell us what you're planning for your Vallejo floor, permit questions included. We reply within one business day. Then I come out, look at the slab and give you a free written estimate with the reasons behind it, and there's no pressure to book.
(925) 536-0504In Vallejo we coat garages that take a beating from tools, cars and dropped parts, put down basement floors and pool deck surfaces, and polish or seal bare concrete in shops and commercial spaces. If you need your garage back in use quickly, I usually point people toward polyaspartic floor coatings because they cure faster than standard epoxy. When a slab is too rough to coat as it is, an overlay or a self-leveling layer goes down first.
Permit questions in Vallejo start with the city's Central Permit Center, which you can reach through the City of Vallejo website. Before we schedule, I check with the city about your address. If the work needs a permit, we take care of the application and plan the job around it, so the permit and any slab repairs are usually what move the start date. Price follows the slab more than the coating. It turns on the size of the floor, how much grinding and crack repair the concrete needs, whether old paint or sealer has to come off, and which system fits how you use the space, and my written estimate spells out each of those for your floor.
Vallejo is on the far side of our area from Concord, so we plan around the drive and load the truck with everything for prep and coating before we leave, the same way we run a job in Pleasant Hill. If your building is on Mare Island, where there's a historic district, I bring that up when I check with the city before we schedule.
I come out to every job myself, look at the slab, check what's on it and how it's holding up, and write the estimate. When the work starts I'm on site with our crew, so the person who priced your floor is the one making the calls.
Most failed floors I've looked at went wrong underneath, so we test for old coatings, oil and moisture and grind until the concrete is clean and open. If a smaller fix will do the job, like sealing instead of a full coating, I'll tell you that too.
We're licensed and insured, and your estimate is written down with the reasons we chose the system we did, so you can compare it with anyone else's. Your satisfaction, guaranteed. When you're ready, call (925) 536-0504 or use the form and I'll come take a look.
It depends mostly on your slab, and you get the figure in a written estimate after I've seen it. Two garages the same size can price very differently when one needs heavy grinding and crack repair and the other is clean concrete. The finish matters too, since a flake or metallic look costs differently from a plain color.
Start with the slab, not the color chart, because the condition of the concrete decides which system will last. On the first visit I check for moisture, oil and old coatings, then we pick the system together and book the prep and coating days once the permit question is settled. Clearing the garage before we arrive saves time on the first morning.
It depends on the system and on the coating maker's cure times, which we go by. Polyaspartic usually lets you walk and park on the floor sooner than a standard epoxy. I'll give you the times for your system before we start so you can plan around them.
Most of the time the problem is under the coating, not the coating itself. Moisture coming up through the concrete, oil soaked into it, an old sealer left in place or a surface that was only washed instead of ground will all keep a coating from bonding. That's why we test and grind before anything goes down.
Not as it is, because a new coating only holds as well as the old paint under it. We grind or strip the old layer down to bare concrete and then coat. Old coatings are often sound in some spots and failing in others, and I'll show you where when I look at the floor.
