Flooring contractor in Burbank, CA - garage and shop floors built on sound prep

Yes, the state licensing board requires a license when a job needs a building permit, uses any workers besides the contractor, or costs $1,000 or more in labor and materials. That state rule covers work in Burbank the same as anywhere else in California. We're licensed and insured, and before work starts we check with the city or county office that covers your address and tell you what we find.

Only when no building permit is needed, no employees work on it, and labor, materials and every other cost add up to less than $1,000. The limit used to be $500, and the board doesn't allow a bigger job to be split into smaller contracts to stay under it.

It depends mostly on how much prep your slab needs, so your figure comes from the estimate I write after seeing it. Heavy oil, old paint and a lot of crack repair push the price up, and so does choosing metallic epoxy or polyaspartic over a basic flake coat. A clean, sound slab with a simpler system keeps it down, but prep is the one place I won't cut corners.

It turns on the prep and the coating you pick, so you'll know more once I've seen the floor. A clean slab with few cracks moves faster than one with old paint, oil and patching to do. Polyaspartic also gets you back on the floor sooner than epoxy, which needs longer to cure before you drive on it.

Usually the slab underneath, not the coating, because epoxy rolled over oil, old sealer or damp concrete has nothing solid to grip. We see it on a lot of older Burbank garages that had a kit put down. That's why we grind the surface open, clean out the oil, fill the cracks and check for moisture before anything goes on.

For a specific address in a local responsibility area, the state fire marshal's office says to contact the local jurisdiction, which in Burbank is the City of Burbank. The office has updated the state maps and has since been mapping local areas and passing those maps to cities.