Floors worth looking down at, Holly Springs.
Resin floors and countertops around Holly Springs, 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 Holly Springs homes.
Holly Springs 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 Holly Springs from the shop in Goldsboro, about an hour out. Holly Springs is in Wake County, and we cover the towns around it too, including Raleigh, Garner, Knightdale, Wendell.
Most garage floors in Holly Springs were poured, troweled, and never touched again. That slab has been soaking up whatever landed on it ever since.
Beto came to epoxy from land clearing and excavation, and it shows in how much of every job goes into the slab itself. Each floor gets a diamond grind down to open concrete, the cracks get chased and filled, and then the pour and topcoat go on. He owns the grinding equipment so that step never gets cut short.
Why slabs around here fail early.
Most of the failures we get called out to look at were not caused by the resin. They were caused by what the slab was doing before anyone coated it. Sandy subgrade shifts with the seasons, hairline cracks open, and a coating laid straight over them telegraphs every one of those lines back to the surface within a year.
The fix is unglamorous. Cracks get chased out into a V and filled with a rigid repair resin, pits get patched and re-ground flat, and control joints get treated so they can still move without splitting the finish above them. None of that photographs well and all of it is why a floor is still holding in ten years.
A metallic floor poured in a hot Holly Springs garage does not give you the same working time as one poured in cool weather. Resin cures by chemical reaction, and heat speeds it up. We check the slab temperature and plan the pour around it.
What we pour in Holly Springs
Recent pours
Which rooms we end up in.
A finished garage tends to get people thinking about the rest of the house. The laundry room is a common next call. So are sunrooms and basement steps, anywhere a hard, cleanable floor makes sense.
The metallic work that people notice on our floors goes on countertops too. Beto pours it right over the existing counters in your Holly Springs 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.
The busy stretch runs from about March through June and then again in September and October. If you want a specific week, calling a month out is the difference between getting it and waiting.
What moves the price.
Price tracks the prep, not the resin. The material cost between a simple flake floor and a showpiece metallic pour is real but modest; the hours in the grind and the repair are what change the total.
Once we start, the number does not change. We set it the day we walk the slab, after we have seen the cracks and the old coating in person. Want a gut check before anyone drives out? Send a few photos and we will tell you whether 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.
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 of pours, and a phone the owner answers. See the gallery, read about the rest of Wake County, or send photos of the slab.
The same person who answers the phone drives the trailer out, so the question of whether we come to you is easy to settle. Holly Springs is well within the 10 counties we cover from Goldsboro. If you are a few miles beyond town, call before you assume we will not come. Town limits rarely line up with the real drive.
Questions from Holly Springs customers
Will it peel like the kit I bought at the store?
Store kits fail because they go over sealed concrete with no mechanical prep. We grind the slab open first, which is what lets the resin key into the concrete instead of sitting on top of it.
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?
Only if it is left smooth. Grit broadcast into the topcoat gives it traction, and we use it on garage floors, patios and pool decks where water is a given. A smooth topcoat is about as slick as polished concrete when wet.
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?
Most winter days, yes. It comes down to the temperature of the slab itself, because a cold slab slows the reaction that cures the resin. When it is too cold for a good finish, we push the date back rather than risk the floor.
Got a slab in Holly Springs?
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