Epoxy Flooring in Canton, MI

Canton had 11,057 residents in 1970 and 98,659 in 2020. Most of its homes went up in that window, and a large share have attached two- and three-car garages. Epoxy flooring in Canton is a different job than in the older cities east of here. The concrete is usually sound. The challenge is getting a coating to grip it.

Why a smooth slab is hard to coat

Builders often finish garage slabs with a steel trowel. That leaves a dense, glassy top layer that sheds water well. It also gives a coating very little to hold onto. Many newer garages were also sprayed with a curing compound or clear sealer when they were poured. Kit coatings rolled onto that surface tend to lift in the tire paths within a year or two.

We diamond grind every Canton floor before coating. Grinding removes the troweled skin and any sealer and opens the pores of the concrete. A water drop test tells us when the surface will absorb a primer.

At the estimate we also look for small details that newer floors tend to hide: a thin layer of drywall mud or paint overspray from construction, tire marks from a builder's truck, and caulk in the control joints that has to come out before the joints are filled.

Common requests in Canton

• Three-car garages with a workshop bay: flake across the parking bays, with a solid color or heavier coat under the bench.
• Finished basements: metallic epoxy for a rec room or home theater, solid color for a gym or storage room.
• Fast turnaround: a polyaspartic topcoat so the cars are back inside sooner.
• Cracks at control joints: even newer slabs crack along the saw cuts, and we fill them so the joint lines read clean under the coating.

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Subdivisions and shared rules

If your home is in a subdivision with an association, coating a garage floor is interior work, so it does not change how the house looks from the street. If you are also replacing the garage door or changing the driveway at the same time, check your subdivision's rules for that part. Our written quote covers the floor only.

Warehouse and distribution floors

Canton is a working township as well as a bedroom suburb. Its largest employers include Yazaki North America, A. D. Transport Express, Sysco Detroit, Amazon and The Home Depot. Truck terminals, warehouses and service shops need floors that take forklifts, pallet jacks and spills. Our Shop and Commercial Floor Epoxy uses thicker 100% solids coats, and we can add line striping and anti-slip texture where people and equipment share an aisle.

Water in the ground

The south of the township drains to the Lower River Rouge and Pine Creek. The northeast drains through Tonquish and Garden creeks to the Middle Rouge. Newer construction is not immune to a damp basement. We test every basement slab for moisture before we pick a primer.

Three-car garages and layout

A three-car garage is a big floor, often 600 to 900 square feet. We look at how you use each bay before choosing the system. Many owners park two cars and keep the third bay for tools, bikes or a second freezer. That bay may get a heavier coat or a different color. We also check where the floor slopes toward the door, so water from melting snow still runs out after the coating goes on. If you want a contrasting border or a darker strip under the tire paths, we can lay that out with you before the base coat goes down.