Flooring contractor in San Marino, CA - Garage and patio floors that hold up

Ask the city's Planning and Building Department, where the Community Development Director acts as the Building Official and the city's building code is kept for anyone to read. San Marino builds to the California Building Code with some local changes of its own. Before any work starts, we check with the office that covers your address and tell you what we find.

A job needs a contractor licensed by the California Contractors State License Board when it requires a building permit, uses employee labor, or the contracts on it add up to $1,000 or more. Splitting a bigger job into smaller pieces to stay under that amount isn't allowed. We're licensed and insured.

Yes, in some cases, because the state exempts a homeowner improving their own main home. That holds when the work is finished before any sale, you've lived there for the 12 months before it's done, and you haven't used the exemption on more than two structures in three years. A small job with no building permit, no employee labor and under $1,000 in all can also be exempt. If you do it yourself, spend most of your effort cleaning and grinding the slab, because that's where home coatings usually let go.

Yes, a business working in San Marino needs a city business license, and it has to be renewed every year before work starts in the city. Contractors applying for one give the city their state license number, type and expiration. If you have a question about a business license, the city's Business License Department answers them at (626) 300-0700.

Your price is set mostly by the slab, so I give you a number only after I've looked at your floor in person. Grinding off old paint or sealer, filling cracks and fixing low spots add to the cost, and so do a larger floor, a thicker system or a metallic or flake finish. A clean, sound slab with a straightforward coating costs the least, and the on-site estimate is where you get your own figure.

Most peeling starts with the slab, not the coating, because epoxy can't grip concrete that's still carrying oil, old sealer or paint, or that's pushing moisture up from below. Hot tires can also pull a thin coating off a poorly prepped slab. That's why we grind to clean, open concrete and check for moisture before anything goes on, which matters on the older garage floors we see in San Marino.