Floors worth looking down at, Pine Level.
Metallic, flake and quartz systems for homes around Pine Level. Insured, bonded, and poured by the owner.
Insured and bonded · 5 years · every floor poured by the owner
Get a free quote
Photos and rough square footage get you a real number.
Resin floors for Pine Level homes.
Pine Level calls usually start the same way: the slab is dusting, there is a stain that will not come up, and somebody is tired of looking at it.
We run out to Pine Level from the shop in Goldsboro, about 30 minutes out. Pine Level is in Johnston County, and we cover the towns around it too, including Smithfield, Selma, Princeton, Four Oaks.
Most garage floors in Pine Level were poured, troweled, and never touched again. That slab has been soaking up whatever landed on it ever since.
The sequence is the same on every floor. Diamond grind the slab down to clean, open concrete. Chase and fill the cracks the grind exposes. Pour, then topcoat. The grind is the part that decides whether the floor is still holding in ten years, which is why we own the equipment rather than renting it by the day.
The ground under a Pine Level slab.
This is coastal plain country. Sandy soil, a water table that rises and falls through the year, and eight months of genuine humidity. Slabs poured on that ground move a little, and the fine cracking that comes with it is normal rather than alarming. What matters is catching it during the grind instead of coating over it.
Vapor drive is the bigger issue. A lot of the housing stock here went down before vapor barriers under slabs were standard practice, so those floors move moisture upward every single day. Trap that under a coating and it lifts. We test for it up front, because finding out afterward is expensive for everybody.
Then there is the heat. A resin pour in an uninsulated garage in August behaves differently from the same pour in October, and on a metallic floor that difference shows up in the pattern. Knowing that is most of what five years of pouring in this climate buys you.
What we pour in Pine Level
Recent pours
Which rooms we end up in.
The rooms change but the problem does not. Bare concrete is porous, it stains, it dusts, and sealing it after the fact with something off a shelf almost never holds.
Countertops are the other half of the business. The resin pours over the counters that are already there, so a Pine Level kitchen changes completely without a tear-out, without new cabinets, and without a week of plywood while a slab gets templated. See how countertop pours work.
Timing a pour around the weather.
We pour most of the year. What moves a date is slab temperature, not the calendar, so a mild January week is often better than a brutal July afternoon.
What moves the price.
The honest answer on price is that we cannot give one over the phone and mean it. Two rooms the same size can be a long way apart once you know what is under the old coating.
Which is why we come out and look. You get a number the day we walk the slab, and that number does not move once the work starts. Send a couple of photos and we will tell you whether we are in the right range before anybody drives anywhere.
How the two days run.
Day one is prep. Grinders and dust extraction come off the trailer and the slab gets taken down to clean concrete, then the cracks and pits that the grind exposes get chased out and filled. It is loud and it is dusty, and it is most of the labor in the job. Day two is the pour and the topcoat, which is the fast half.
The room has to be completely empty the morning we start, because we grind the whole slab rather than working around things. Light foot traffic is fine the next morning. Vehicles go back on at day three or four depending on how warm it is, and rushing that is the one shortcut that will mark a brand new floor.
Who actually pours it.
Alpha Resin is a small shop on purpose. Fewer floors, poured by the person whose name is on the truck.
Insured and bonded, 5 years of pours, and a phone the owner answers. See the gallery, read about the rest of Johnston County, or send photos of the slab.
If you are on the edge of town or just outside it, call and ask rather than assuming. Town lines and county lines rarely match how far a trailer actually has to drive, and the answer is usually yes. Alpha Resin covers 10 counties out of Goldsboro, and Pine Level sits well inside that.
Questions from Pine Level customers
Is it slippery when wet?
A smooth topcoat is slick wet, same as polished concrete. For garages, patios and pool decks we broadcast an aggregate into the topcoat so it grips. Say the word and we will spec it.
How much does a floor cost?
It depends on square footage, the shape the slab is in, and which system you want. We quote off the actual floor, not a phone guess. Call (919) 440-1333 and we will come look.
Do you work in cold weather?
Resin cures by chemical reaction and the reaction slows down when the slab is cold. We work most of the Carolina winter, but we watch the slab temperature and will move a date rather than pour into conditions that will hurt the finish.
How long will it last?
A properly prepped residential floor is a ten to fifteen year surface. The ones that fail early almost always failed at prep, not at the resin.
Do you move what is in the room?
No, and it is the one thing we ask of you. The space has to be completely empty the morning we start because we grind the whole slab rather than working around things. Doing it the weekend before is easier than doing it that morning.
Got a slab in Pine Level?
Send a couple of photos and the 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