Flooring contractor in Pasadena, CA - older slabs prepped right, then coated

Some Pasadena projects need one, and the city's Permit Center is the office that issues building permits for most construction projects. Work that doesn't need a building permit can still need a zoning permit, and the city lists driveways and other paving in residential zones among the work that needs one, so outdoor jobs get a closer look. Before work starts, we check with the city about your address and tell you what we find.

Yes. The state's Contractors State License Board requires a license when a job's labor and materials total $1,000 or more, when the contractor uses employees, or when the project needs a building permit. Pasadena also requires every business working within city limits to hold a city business license, contractors pulling permits have to show a current one, and permit staff check the state license with the board and expect workers' compensation insurance. We're licensed and insured.

The price is set mostly by your slab and the finish you choose. How much old paint, sealer and oil has to come off, how many cracks need filling and how big the floor is all move it, and older Pasadena garages often need more of that prep, while a polyaspartic or metallic finish usually costs more than a basic epoxy coat. I look at the floor and write the number myself, because a photo can't show what's under old paint.

Most of the time on a coating job goes into prep and cure, not into putting the coating down. Grinding off old layers and repairing cracks takes longer on an older slab, and each coat has to cure before the next one goes on or before you park on it, with polyaspartic curing faster than epoxy. I'll tell you what your floor's prep looks like when I come out.

Peeling usually starts underneath, on a slab that wasn't ground clean or one with moisture coming up through it. On older Pasadena garages it's often old paint, sealer or oil left under the new coat, so we grind to bare concrete and check for moisture before anything goes on. If a slab isn't ready for a coating, I'll say so at the estimate instead of coating over the problem.

Usually it's a coating made to hold up in direct sun, put down over clean, repaired concrete. Ordinary epoxy can yellow and chalk outdoors, so outside we use topcoats built for sun and add texture so wet feet don't slip. If you'd rather keep the look of bare concrete, a sealer helps against stains and water but needs reapplying as it wears.