Epoxy Flooring in Alden, NY

Much of the epoxy flooring we do in Alden goes into buildings that are not attached to the house. Alden covers 34.5 square miles in the northeast corner of Erie County, and the 2020 census counted 9,706 people. That works out to under 300 people per square mile. With that much room, many properties here have a pole building, a detached shop or a big garage set back from the road.

What a working floor goes through

A shop floor in the country takes a different kind of abuse than a suburban garage. Tractors, mowers, trailers and trucks track in mud, gravel and salt. Hydraulic fluid and fuel drip. Steel jack stands and dropped tools gouge the surface. Bare concrete soaks all of it up, and after a few years the floor never looks clean. A coated floor gives you a sealed surface that you can squeegee, hose down and sweep.

Systems we recommend for Alden shops

• Commercial and shop floor epoxy with a thicker build for heavy equipment and rolling loads
• Epoxy flake floors for added grip when the floor is wet with snowmelt or wash water
• Polyaspartic floor coating as a topcoat that holds its color in a shop with big doors open to the sun
• Concrete crack and floor repair for slabs that were poured without many control joints and have cracked on their own

Slabs poured for a barn, now used as a shop

A lot of outbuilding floors were poured fast and finished rough, because they were meant for storage. Now they hold a workbench, a lift or a home gym. Those slabs often have low spots, wide cracks and edges that have broken off at the door. We grind the whole floor, fill cracks and spalls, and level small dips before we coat. If a slab has settled so much that a section moves, we tell you that a coating is not the right fix.

Getting to you

U.S. Route 20 crosses the south part of town and State Route 33 crosses the north. The town takes in the village of Alden along with hamlets such as Alden Center, Crittenden, Millgrove, Town Line and Wende. We work across all of them. Ellicott Creek flows through the north-central part of town and Cayuga Creek through the south, so we also check basement slabs for moisture before we quote any basement floor epoxy.

The house garage counts too

Shops get the attention, but we also do plenty of attached garages and basements here. Average household size in Alden is 2.69, so many garages hold two cars, bikes and everything else a family uses. A garage floor coating with flake makes that space easier to keep clean through a winter of slush.

Heated or unheated?

Many outbuildings in Alden are not heated through the winter. Epoxy and polyaspartic products each have a minimum temperature for application and curing, and a cold slab can also hold condensation. For unheated buildings we schedule from late spring into early fall. If your shop has a heater, we can talk about doing it in a colder month, as long as the slab stays warm enough through the full cure.

Call (716) 576-3587 and tell us the size of the building and what you use it for. We will come out, measure, and give you a written quote.