Floors worth looking down at, La Grange.
Metallic, flake and quartz floors for La Grange homes, plus resin countertops. Beto Ponce pours every one himself, and the company is insured and bonded.
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 La Grange homes.
Most of the garages we coat around La Grange were poured with the house and never touched since.
We run out to La Grange from the shop in Goldsboro, about 30 minutes out. La Grange is in Lenoir County, and we cover the towns around it too, including Kinston, Pink Hill.
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.
A floor that is still tight in ten years got that way on the first day. That is the grind: diamond tooling takes the slab down to clean, open concrete so the resin has something to bite into, and any cracks it uncovers get chased out and filled. The pour and topcoat follow, and they are the easy part.
What eastern North Carolina does to a slab.
Sandy ground and a water table that moves through the seasons are what make humidity the surprise here. Moisture sits close under the slab, and if the concrete has no vapor barrier it travels straight up through it, every day, for the life of the floor. Nothing about that changes when a coating goes on. A coating that lets vapor through survives it. One that traps it gets pushed up in blisters and sheets.
So we test before we quote rather than after. If the slab is wet we say so and price the system that can handle it, and if it is bad enough that no coating belongs on it we will tell you that too. It is a shorter conversation than the one that happens a year after a floor fails.
Summer here is the other thing a resin floor has to deal with. Before a pour in a hot La Grange garage, we look at the slab temperature, because the reaction that cures the resin runs faster as it climbs and the working window gets shorter. That matters most on a metallic floor, where the look is set while the resin is wet.
What we pour in La Grange
Recent pours
Which rooms we end up in.
Most of our work is garages, and a lot of it starts with dust. Bare concrete that has begun to powder coats everything stored on it, and people get tired of sweeping up a floor that keeps coming apart. A two-car bay is the job we quote more than any other.
A kitchen in La Grange can get a whole new look without anybody pulling out a counter. The resin pours right over the tops that are already there, so the cabinets stay put and there is no waiting on a slab to be templated and cut. Countertops are a big part of what we do. Here is how a countertop pour goes.
Timing a pour around the weather.
Spring and fall book up first. Mild weather gives resin the widest working window, so those are the months everybody wants. Summer works fine as long as the pour is scheduled early in the day, and winter works as long as the slab is warm enough.
What moves the price.
Oil is one of the things that moves a number. A slab soaked with years of drips needs degreasing and sometimes a primer before it will hold a coating, and that is extra labor. Cracks and an old failed coating add time the same way. Square footage matters, but prep is most of the job.
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.
If you look in at the end of the first day, there is no color on the floor yet. That is normal. Day one is all grinding, taking the slab down to clean concrete and filling the cracks and pits the grind turns up, and it is the dusty, loud part of the job. Color and topcoat happen on day two, and that part goes quickly.
How fast you get the garage back depends mostly on the temperature. Resin keeps curing for days after it looks done, so light foot traffic is fine the next morning, while cars wait until day three in warm weather and day four when it is cooler. Parking early is how a brand new floor gets marked. And the room has to be empty when we start.
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 of pours, and a phone the owner answers. See the gallery, read about the rest of Lenoir County, or send photos of the slab.
Some people outside La Grange assume they are too far out and never call. Usually they are not. We pour across 10 counties from a Goldsboro base, and the boundaries on a map are a poor guide to how far that really is by truck and trailer. If you are unsure whether your place is covered, call and we will tell you straight.
Questions from La Grange customers
Can you match a color I have seen?
Close, and usually closer than people expect. Bring a photo. Metallic pigment moves on its own while it cures, so the floor reads as that look rather than copying it exactly.
How much dust does the grinding make?
Less than people picture. The grinder runs into a dust extractor at the tool, so it is captured where it is made. It is not zero, and we sheet off doorways, but it does not fill the house.
Do you take on small jobs?
Yes. A single-bay garage, a laundry room, a set of counters. Small work is a good share of the schedule and it is how most people try us before a bigger job.
Is there a warranty?
Yes, and it is worth reading rather than framing. Ask when we quote and we will tell you plainly what it covers and what it does not.
How far out are you booking?
It moves with the season. Spring and fall fill first. Call and we will tell you honestly where you would land rather than telling you what you want to hear.
Got a slab in La Grange?
Start with a few phone pictures and the rough dimensions. Beto will tell you what it would take to do it right.
Questions go to Beto Ponce directly, with no answering service in between. Want to see his work? Start with the gallery.
(919) 440-1333