Epoxy Flooring in Buffalo, NY

Epoxy flooring in Buffalo is mostly about older concrete. The city's building stock spans the 19th and 20th centuries, and many of the slabs we see are older than any house in the suburbs around it. Detached garages at the back of narrow lots, basements under century-old homes and ground floors of former industrial buildings all have their own quirks. We look at each floor before recommending anything.

January is the hard month

Buffalo averages 26.7 inches of snow in January alone, according to the climate table on Wikipedia drawn from the 1991 to 2020 normals. The average January high is about 32.1°F and the average low about 19.0°F. The record low for the month is -16°F. That means a garage slab can freeze and thaw over and over in a few weeks, with salty meltwater soaking into any open pore. We see the damage most in the first few feet inside the garage door, where brine pools under the car.

Big storms make it worse. Wikipedia notes the November 2014 storm, nicknamed Snowvember, dropped over 5½ feet of snow on the region. When that much snow melts, it ends up in garages and basements.

What city floors usually need

• Crack and surface repair first. Old slabs often have wide cracks, broken edges and spalled spots that need filling and grinding.
• Removal of old coatings. Paint, sealer and glue from past flooring get ground off completely.
• A system picked for the space. A detached garage gets a different plan than a finished basement or a ground-floor shop.

Services that fit Buffalo buildings

Garage floor coating and epoxy flake floors are the most common jobs. Flake hides tracked-in salt and gives some grip when the floor is wet. Polyaspartic floor coating helps when a garage cannot be out of service long.

Basement floor epoxy in an older city house always starts with a moisture test. Old basements can be damp, and a coating will lift off a wet slab. If moisture is too high, we tell you before you spend anything.

Buffalo grew as an industrial city. Wikipedia notes that it came to be dominated by steel production by the 20th century, and many older commercial buildings still have heavy concrete floors. Commercial and shop floor epoxy suits garages, small shops, storage rooms and back-of-house spaces that need a floor that cleans up fast.

Detached garages on narrow lots

Many city houses sit on narrow lots with a long driveway and a detached garage in the back. These garages are often unheated, and some have no power near the slab. We plan for that. We check the outlets at the estimate, bring what we need for the grinder and dust collector, and schedule the job for a stretch of days warm enough for the coating to cure. In an unheated garage that usually means late spring through early fall.

The slabs in these garages are often older than the house's basement floor. Some were poured thin. Some have settled at the door, leaving a lip where water collects. We grind and patch what we can. If a section is badly sunken or broken apart, we tell you it needs to be replaced before any coating is worth the money. That keeps you from paying twice.

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Getting a quote

Tell us the neighborhood, the type of space and roughly how big it is. Photos of cracks, old paint or damp spots help. We come out, measure, test and give you a written quote with every step listed.