A patio finish built for Carolina sun and Carolina rain.
A textured outdoor finish that survives Carolina sun, Carolina rain and cookout traffic.
Insured and bonded · 5 years · every floor poured by the owner
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Carolina sun, Carolina rain, and a grill going all summer.
Most outdoor slabs around Goldsboro were poured, floated, and left to it. Sun, rain, pollen and standing water have been working on them ever since.
Outdoor concrete lives a different life than a garage. It takes direct sun, freeze and thaw, standing water, and whatever comes off the grill. The systems we use outside are built for UV and get a textured finish so the surface is not slick the first time it rains.
Every patio we coat starts with the weather window. Outdoor resin has to cure before dew, rain or a temperature drop reaches it, so the pour gets scheduled around the forecast rather than the calendar. The slab still gets ground clean first, the same as any floor.
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.
The same flake system, on floors we can show you
How the job runs.
01. Look at the slab and the sky
We check the concrete and the forecast in the same visit. Outdoor resin has to cure before dew or rain reaches it, so the date depends on the week ahead as much as on the slab.02. Grind it clean
Diamond tooling takes off old sealer, paint and the weathered surface layer, and opens the pores. Outdoor slabs usually carry more organic staining than a garage, so this takes longer than people expect.03. Fix what the grind finds
Cracks get chased out and filled. Spalled edges get rebuilt. Anywhere water pools gets flagged, because standing water on a coating is the one condition that shortens its life outdoors.04. Pour and broadcast
The base goes down and aggregate is broadcast into the topcoat for grip. Outside that texture is not optional: a smooth gloss finish is slick the first time it rains.05. Cure and hand it back
Foot traffic the next day. Furniture back in three to four days depending on temperature. We watch the forecast through the cure rather than walking away at the last coat.Who actually pours it.
Every floor Alpha Resin puts down gets poured by the owner. There is no crew that shows up instead of the person you talked to.
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 happens before any resin goes down outside.
The slab gets ground clean the same as any floor, but outdoor concrete arrives with a different set of problems: weathered surface, organic staining from leaves and pollen, and usually more spalling at the edges where water has been sitting.
Anywhere water pools gets flagged before we quote. Standing water on a coating is the one condition that shortens its life outdoors, and if the slab does not drain we would rather say so than coat it and watch that spot fail first.
What owning this surface is actually like.
Hose it off. Outdoor coatings take pollen, leaf tannin and red clay, and all three rinse rather than stain the way they do on bare concrete. A stiff broom and water handles the rest.
Keep a mat under a fire pit and put the grill on its own pad. Direct flame and dropped coals mark any coating. Furniture feet are worth capping if you drag chairs, the same as you would on a wood deck.
The topcoat is the sacrificial layer, so a scuff usually sands and re-coats in place without touching the color underneath. Outdoors that topcoat is UV stable, which is the one thing an indoor product cannot do: put interior resin in full sun and it ambers and chalks inside a couple of seasons.
Put interior resin in full sun and it ambers and chalks inside a couple of seasons. Outdoors is a different product, not the same one used outside.
Against the alternatives.
Against pavers, there are no joints for weeds and no settling to reset every few years. Against stamped concrete, the color sits in a sealed layer rather than in the surface, so it does not fade the same way. Against leaving the slab bare, you stop the tannin staining and the spalling that comes from water getting into the concrete every winter.
See the gallery or send photos of the slab.
Questions about patio coatings
Will it hold up to full sun?
Outdoor systems are UV stable, which indoor resin is not. An indoor product outside ambers and chalks within a season or two. We use a different topcoat out there for exactly this reason.
Is it slippery when it rains?
Not with the finish we put down outside. Aggregate gets broadcast into the topcoat so the surface grips wet feet. A smooth gloss finish belongs indoors.
Will a grill or fire pit damage it?
Direct flame and dropped coals will mark any coating. Put a mat under a fire pit and keep the grill on its own pad. Normal cookout traffic, dropped plates and spilled drinks are what it is built for.
Does it get hot underfoot?
Cooler than a dark uncoated slab in August, and lighter colors help further. Nothing is cool at two in the afternoon in July, but it is a real difference.
Can you coat a patio that is already cracked?
Usually. Cracks get chased out and filled before anything goes down. If the slab is actively moving or heaving we will tell you, because a coating will not hold a broken slab together.
What about pollen and leaf stain?
It rinses. That is most of the point outdoors: sealed concrete does not hold the tannin stain that bare concrete picks up from wet leaves every fall.
Ready to talk about your patio coatings?
Send photos and rough square footage. We will tell you what it takes.
Look at real floors in the gallery, then call. Beto Ponce answers, and he is the one who would do the work.
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