Floors worth looking down at, Dortches.
Metallic, flake and quartz floors for Dortches 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 Dortches homes.
Dortches 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 Dortches from the shop in Goldsboro, about 50 minutes out. Dortches is in Nash County, and we cover the towns around it too, including Rocky Mount, Nashville, Bailey, Middlesex.
Most garage floors in Dortches were poured, troweled, and never touched again. That slab has been soaking up whatever landed on it ever since.
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.
The ground under a slab in Dortches.
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.
We test for moisture before we quote, every time. Too many local slabs were poured without a vapor barrier under them, and those floors push moisture up constantly. Learning that after the coating is down means a floor that lifts and a second job nobody wanted to pay for. Learning it first just changes which system we use.
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 Dortches
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.
Replacing counters the usual way means waiting on a templated slab and living with plywood in the meantime. A resin countertop skips all of that because it goes over the counters you already have. It is the other side of our business. If your Dortches kitchen is due for new tops, see the countertop page.
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.
Square footage alone does not set the price, which is why we do not quote by phone. Pull up an old coating and you might find a sound slab or a cracked, stained one, and those are very different jobs.
Beto walks the slab himself before giving a price, because he is the one who will be grinding it. The number you get that day is the number you pay, start to finish. To save everyone a trip, get us a couple of photos first and we will tell you if it fits what you were expecting.
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.
Plan on the car living in the driveway for a few days. Walking on the floor is fine the morning after the pour, but vehicles wait until day three or four, and warmer weather is what gets you the earlier end of that. Before we start, the room needs to be cleared out completely, since the grinder goes over the entire slab.
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 Nash County, or send photos of the slab.
Some people outside Dortches 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 Dortches 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 Dortches?
Start with a few phone pictures and the rough dimensions. Beto will tell you what it would take to do it right.
Call and you get Beto Ponce, not a call center. Or look through the gallery first.
(919) 440-1333