Floors worth looking down at, Pine Level.
Resin floors and countertops around Pine Level, poured by the owner, Beto Ponce. Insured and bonded, with metallic work as the specialty.
Insured and bonded · 5 years · every floor poured by the owner
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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.
Cracks get filled before color goes down, never after. The diamond grind takes the slab down to clean concrete, every hairline it exposes gets chased and filled, and only then does the resin go on. Then the resin goes down and the topcoat goes over it. Same order on every floor we do.
The ground under a slab in Pine Level.
Slabs out here sit on sandy soil over a water table that rises and falls, and they get eight months of real humidity on top of that. All of it keeps the concrete moving slightly, so fine cracking is expected. Coating straight over it is the mistake. We find those cracks while grinding and fill them before any resin goes down.
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.
Five years of pouring in this climate teaches you how heat changes resin. The same metallic floor behaves one way in an uninsulated garage in August and another way in October, and the difference shows up right in the pattern. Knowing which one you are walking into is a big part of the job.
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.
The metallic work that people notice on our floors goes on countertops too. Beto pours it right over the existing counters in your Pine Level kitchen, so the cabinets stay and nobody cooks on plywood for a week while stone gets cut. Read what a countertop job involves for the details.
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.
We would be guessing if we priced it over the phone. Two floors with the same square footage can land far apart once you see what is under the old coating.
Surprises in the middle of a job are what people dread, so we do the looking up front. We test the slab and hand you a number that same day, and that number holds after the work starts. A few photos and the square footage are enough for us to tell you if you are in the right range.
How the two days run.
You usually do not know what the slab is hiding until the grinder opens it up. That is the first day: grind the floor down to clean concrete with the extractor pulling dust at the tool, then chase out and fill every crack and pit the grind exposes. It is the loud, slow half of the job. The pour and topcoat come the next day and go fast.
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.
Coverage questions are a quick phone call. Pine Level is inside our area, which runs across 10 counties out of Goldsboro and about 60 miles in any direction. Addresses out on the edge are usually fine too, since a town or county boundary does not tell you much about the actual drive. Ask before you count yourself out.
Questions from Pine Level customers
Is it slippery when wet?
A plain smooth topcoat will be slick with water on it, the same as polished concrete. That is easy to fix. We broadcast an aggregate into the topcoat so it grips, which is what we recommend for garages, patios and pool decks. Ask 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?
Yes, most of the winter. Cold slows the chemical reaction that cures resin, so we keep an eye on the slab temperature and only pour when it is warm enough. If a cold snap puts the finish at risk, we will move the date.
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?
A couple of pictures and a rough size is all it takes to start. We will tell you what the slab needs.
Beto Ponce picks up when you call. If you want to see his floors first, the gallery has plenty.
(919) 440-1333