Flooring Contractor in La Crescenta-Montrose - Floors Built From the Slab Up

LA County Public Works issues building permits for property in unincorporated Los Angeles County, and La Crescenta-Montrose is unincorporated. The county points people to its Service Locator first, where a street address or parcel number shows which office gives permits for that property. That's worth doing here, since part of the valley is Glendale and property outside the county's jurisdiction may go to a different office.

The county's permit list doesn't settle it for a floor coating, so the answer for your address comes from LA County Public Works. That list names new construction, additions, alterations, repairs and replacements, plus electrical, plumbing, mechanical, solar, pool and grading work, and the county runs its own building code, based on the California Building Code with local changes. We check with the office that covers your address and tell you what we find before work starts.

Yes, California requires a current, valid license from the Contractors State License Board for anyone contracting for work worth $1,000 or more in combined labor and materials. The same goes for anyone using employee labor or contracting on a project that needs a building permit. We're licensed and insured, and you're welcome to ask about it when I come out.

There's no honest number until I've seen the slab, because prep drives the cost here more than the coating does. A clean, sound floor that only needs grinding costs far less than an older one with paint to strip, cracks to fill and moisture to deal with, and a flake or metallic finish costs more than a plain solid color. I come out, look at the floor and write the estimate, so you see what your own slab needs.

Most of the time goes into prep, so the schedule comes down to your slab and the coating you pick. Grinding, crack repair and any stripping come first, and a slab with moisture coming through can need an extra step before it's ready. After that, polyaspartic cures and lets you back on the floor faster than epoxy, which needs more time between coats and before you drive on it.

For most garages here I'd go with a ground slab, an epoxy base coat, color flake and a polyaspartic top coat. Epoxy grabs the concrete well, and the polyaspartic on top handles hot tires and sun through an open door better than epoxy alone, which can yellow. If you'd rather have a bare, glossy floor with nothing to wear through, polishing can work on a sound slab.