Floors worth looking down at, Turkey.
Metallic, flake and quartz floors for Turkey 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 Turkey homes.
We get to Turkey often enough that the trailer knows the way.
We run out to Turkey from the shop in Goldsboro, about 40 minutes out. Turkey is in Sampson County, and we cover the towns around it too, including Clinton, Newton Grove, Autryville, Garland.
A floor is the one surface in the house that gets walked on, parked on, dropped on, and then judged anyway.
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 Turkey.
Concrete here sits on sand, and the water under that sand moves up and down with the seasons. A slab on ground like that settles and shifts a little, which leaves the fine cracking that is so common. The grind is where we deal with it, opening up those lines and filling them so the coating goes on over solid concrete.
The age of the house matters here. Plenty of homes in this area were built before anyone routinely put a vapor barrier under the slab, so moisture has been coming up through those floors every day since. Seal that in under a coating and it will lift. We test every slab for it before we price the job.
Heat is the third thing working on a floor out here. Resin in a hot August garage with no insulation moves on a different clock than it does in October, and on a metallic pour you can see that in how the pattern lays down. After five years in this climate, we plan for it.
What we pour in Turkey
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.
Your old counters become the base. We prep them and pour resin over the top, which means your Turkey kitchen gets a new surface without demolition and without a week of waiting on cut stone. Countertop work is a steady part of what we do. More on countertop pours.
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.
A phone price would not mean much. What is under the old coating changes the job, and you only find that out standing on the slab. Size alone tells us very little.
Photos are a good place to start. Send a couple along with the rough size, and we can tell you whether your project lands in the range you have in mind before anybody makes a trip. After that we come out, walk the slab, and give you a number that same day. It stays put once we begin.
How the two days run.
If you split the job by hours, day one gets most of them. That is the grinding: diamond tooling and dust extraction take the slab down to clean concrete, and whatever cracks and pits show up underneath get chased out and filled the same day. Day two is quick by comparison. The resin goes down, then the topcoat goes over it.
Your part of the job is small. Have the space emptied out before we arrive on the first morning, since we grind every square foot of the slab. Then stay off it until the next morning, when walking on it is fine, and keep the vehicles out until day three or four. Cooler weather pushes that toward four.
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 Sampson County, or send photos of the slab.
Alpha Resin works a 60-mile radius around Goldsboro, and Turkey is inside it. If your address is out past the edge of town, do not rule yourself out. A county line on a map says very little about how far the trailer drives, so give us a call and ask. Most of the time we can get there.
Questions from Turkey customers
Can you coat a floor that already has something on it?
Usually. Old paint, failed sealer, and most previous coatings come off in the grind. If there is a moisture problem underneath we will tell you before we quote it, not after.
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?
There is no fair number until we see the slab. A sound floor and a cracked, oil-soaked one of the same size price very differently, and the system you choose matters too. Give us a call at (919) 440-1333 and we will come out.
Do you work in cold weather?
We do. A Carolina winter leaves plenty of workable days, and the one thing we check closely is how cold the slab is, since resin cures by chemical reaction and cold slows it down. We would rather reschedule than pour into conditions that 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.
Got a slab in Turkey?
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