Keep the concrete. Lose the stains.
A penetrating seal for slabs that should stay concrete but stop drinking every spill.
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For slabs that should stay concrete.
Concrete is porous. It drinks oil, it dusts under tires, and once a stain is in there it stays. A resin floor closes the slab off for good.
Some slabs should stay concrete. A driveway, a shop floor with equipment on it, a patio you like the look of. A penetrating sealer soaks into the surface and stops it drinking oil, water and salt, without changing what it looks like or building a film that can peel later.
Every Every slab we seal starts with what is already on it. Old sealer, paint, glue and curing compound all come off before anything else can happen, and what the grind exposes underneath decides what the job actually is. That is why we quote after seeing it. we install starts the same way: the slab gets ground down with diamond tooling until it is clean, open concrete. Coatings do not stick to sealed, dusty or oily surfaces, and no amount of good resin fixes a bad grind. That is why we own the grinders instead of renting them.
We work out of Goldsboro and cover 10 counties across eastern North Carolina, roughly 60 miles in every direction. If you are inside that circle, we will come look at the floor.
How the job runs.
01. Walk the slab
We come look at the actual concrete. Moisture, cracks, old coatings, how the light hits it. You get a number that day and it does not move later.02. Set up containment
Dust extraction goes on the tool and the work area gets sheeted off. This is the step that decides whether the rest of the building ends up covered in concrete dust.03. Grind it down
Diamond heads take the slab down past whatever is sitting on it, old sealer, paint, glue, curing compound, and open the pores of the concrete.04. Fix what the grind finds
Cracks get chased out and filled. Pits get patched and re-ground flat. Control joints get treated so they can still move.05. Seal or hand off
Either a penetrating sealer goes down, or the slab is left clean and profiled and ready for whatever coating comes next. Both are finished jobs.Who actually pours it.
Beto Ponce does the pours himself. The person who quotes your floor is the person standing on it with a squeegee.
Insured and bonded, 5 years in, and a Facebook page where every job we finish goes up. Have a look at the gallery or tell us about the slab.
What the machine actually does.
The grinder runs diamond-segmented heads across the slab under weight, attached to a dust extractor that captures the dust at the tool. Successive passes take off whatever is sitting on the surface, old sealer, paint, glue, curing compound, and open the concrete pores.
How far we go depends on what you want. Stop early and you have clean, profiled concrete ready to coat. Keep going with finer heads and you get a polished surface that stays concrete. Both are legitimate finishes, and plenty of people stop at one of them rather than buying a coating.
Cracks get chased out into a V and filled with a rigid repair resin. Pits get patched and re-ground flat. Control joints get treated so they can still move.
What a ground or sealed slab is like to own.
Sweep it or run a dust mop. A sealed slab stops drinking oil, water and road salt, so spills sit on top long enough to wipe instead of soaking straight in. There is no film to peel because a penetrating sealer lives inside the concrete rather than on it.
Resealing depends on traffic and exposure. An interior garage might go five to seven years. A driveway taking full sun and rain year round is on the shorter end of that. Reapplication is a clean and a recoat, not a redo.
Every coating we install starts with this step. Plenty of people stop here and never buy the coating.
When grinding is the whole job.
If a previous coating is failing, this is what has to happen before anything else, and we do it for people who are not buying a floor from us at all.
What the grind usually finds.
Oil that looked like a surface stain often turns out to have soaked through, which means a degreasing pass and sometimes a primer before anything else. Hairline cracks that were invisible under dust open up and get chased and filled. Old glue from tile or carpet strip comes off in ribbons and takes longer than the rest of the slab combined.
Occasionally the grind finds something worth stopping for: a slab that is spalling through, active moisture, or a crack with a height difference across it, meaning the two sides are moving independently. We would rather find that on day one and tell you than coat over it.
Tell us what is on the slab and we will tell you what it takes to get it off.
Questions about concrete sealing
Do I have to coat it after grinding?
No. Plenty of people grind and seal and stop there, especially on a shop floor or a slab they like the look of. Grinding is a service on its own, not only a step toward a coating.
Will grinding get rid of the oil stains?
It removes the stained surface layer, which handles most of it. Oil that has soaked deep into the slab can ghost back, so heavy contamination gets a degreasing pass first and sometimes a primer.
How much dust does it make?
Far less than people expect. The grinder runs into a dust extractor at the tool, so the dust is captured where it is made rather than filling the house. It is not zero, but it is not the fog people picture either.
Can you grind down a coating somebody else put on?
That is a good share of the work. Failed coatings, old paint, glue from tile, curing compound. It all comes off in the grind, which is the only honest way to start over.
What does sealing actually do?
A penetrating sealer soaks into the concrete and stops it drinking oil, water and salt. It does not build a film on top, so there is nothing to peel later, and the slab still looks like concrete.
How often does a sealed slab need redoing?
Depends on traffic and exposure. A garage might go five to seven years. A driveway taking sun and rain year round is on the shorter end of that.
Ready to talk about your concrete sealing?
Send photos and rough square footage. We will tell you what it takes.
Call and you get Beto Ponce, not a call center. Or look through the gallery first.
(919) 440-1333