A Dudley garage floor built to take the truck.
Two-car bays are the job we quote most weeks in Dudley. We grind the slab open first, then pour a floor that closes off the stain by the driver’s door for good.
Insured and bonded · 5 years of pours · Beto grinds and coats every garage himself
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Send a photo of the bay and the rough size.
That stain by the driver’s door.
Almost every garage call starts with the same spot. The car has parked in one place for years, the slab under it has gone dark, and nothing anybody poured on top has made it go away.
Bare concrete is porous. Oil drips find the pores and sink in. Tires press grit into the surface, and after a few years the slab starts dusting, so the floor looks dirty an hour after you sweep it. Most of the paints and sealers people try sit on top of that problem instead of dealing with it, which is why the stain keeps showing back through.
We start underneath. The slab gets ground with diamond tooling down to clean, open concrete, and the stained surface layer comes off with it.
Then the resin keys into the concrete itself. Spills wipe up. The dusting stops. The stain is gone because the layer it lived in is gone, and the new surface is sealed over the whole bay, wall to wall.
Everything comes out the weekend before.
The one part of the job that lands on you is emptying the room.
We grind the whole slab, so there is nothing to work around. Shelves, bikes, the freezer, the boxes that have sat by the door since you moved in. All of it has to be out the morning we start, and it stays out until the floor can take weight again.
Do it the weekend before. Clearing a garage the morning of means a late start, and the start is the grind, which is the last part of the job anybody should be rushing.
If something truly cannot move, bring it up when we come look at it. That is a much easier conversation on the walk than on day one.
Walk on it tomorrow. Park on it later.
Most two-car garages are two days of work and a few days of waiting.
Day one is the loud half. Grinders and dust extraction come off the trailer and the slab gets taken down to clean concrete. Then the cracks and pits the grind opens up get chased out and filled. That day is most of the labor in the job.
Day two is the pour and the topcoat. That part goes fast once the prep is right.
What stretches day one is the shape the slab is in. A clean, sound garage floor grinds quickly. One carrying an old kit that has started to flake off, oil worked deep into the concrete, or a run of cracks that all need chasing takes longer, because every one of those gets dealt with before any resin is mixed. We see that on the walk, and the quote you get that day already accounts for it, so it does not change once the grinders are running.
Light foot traffic is fine the next morning. Vehicles go back on at day three or four, and which one depends on how warm it is. Resin cures by chemical reaction, so a warm garage gets there sooner and a cold slab takes longer.
Parking on it early is the one shortcut that will mark a brand new floor.
We tell every customer that on day two. If the truck has to go to work, leave it in the driveway for a few more nights. A floor you waited on is worth two more mornings of walking out to the driveway.
Chips or a metallic pour on a garage slab.
A lot of people call about a garage thinking metallic. Most garages end up in flake once people have seen both in person.
Flake is vinyl chip broadcast into the base coat and locked under a clear topcoat. The chips hide tire marks and dust, and the texture gives you grip when the floor is wet, which counts in a room where the car drips rain onto the slab.
Metallic is the showpiece. The pigment moves while the resin cures, so no two floors come out the same, and the gloss throws back every light in the room. You can see the window in this one. It looks great in a garage. It also shows dust sooner, and it is slick when wet unless we add aggregate to the topcoat.
Neither one is a wrong answer. Ask about both when we come look at the slab, or read more about flake floors around Dudley and metallic pours first.
Goldsboro to Dudley is a short haul.
We are based in Goldsboro, so Dudley is close enough that the trailer knows the way. Beto Ponce does the pours himself. The person who walks your slab and gives you the quote is the same person standing on it with a squeegee on day two.
Insured and bonded, with 5 years of pours behind it. Dudley sits in Wayne County, and we cover the towns around it as well, Mount Olive, Pikeville and Fremont among them. Look through the gallery before anybody drives anywhere, or send photos of the slab and we will tell you what we are seeing.
Every garage slab gets a moisture check on that same walk, for reasons the concrete grinding page spells out.
Garage questions from Dudley
Will the oil stain by the driver’s door come out?
Grinding takes off the stained surface layer, and that handles most of it. Oil that soaked deep into the slab can ghost back through the new floor, so a heavily saturated spot gets a degreasing pass first, and sometimes a primer, before any color goes down.
Can a garage floor go down in the summer?
Yes. A summer pour gets booked for early in the day, before the garage heats up and the resin starts running fast. Spring and fall fill up first because mild weather gives the widest working window, so call early if you want one of those months.
When can the shelves and the freezer go back in?
On the same day three or four the vehicles go back on. Walking in to grab a tool the morning after the pour is fine. Dragging a loaded freezer or a steel shelf unit across a topcoat that is still curing is how a new floor gets scuffed, so carry things in rather than sliding them.
How loud and dusty is the first day?
Day one is the loud half of the job. The grinder runs into a dust extractor right at the tool, so the dust gets caught where it is made instead of drifting through the house. Some still gets loose, which is one more reason the room has to be empty.
Is flake or metallic better for a garage?
Look at how the bay gets used. A garage the truck pulls into wet every evening wants chip texture underfoot. A bay that stays shut and swept most of the week can carry a metallic without looking dusty by Tuesday. Beto will tell you which way he leans when he walks the slab.
Why did the kit from the hardware store peel?
Store kits go over sealed concrete with no mechanical prep, so the coating sits on top of the slab and eventually lets go. We grind the concrete open first, which lets the resin key into the slab itself. A kit that is already peeling comes off in that same grind, it just adds time to day one.
Show us the garage floor.
Take a couple of photos of the slab from the door, add the rough square footage, and send them over.
We will tell you what we are seeing before anybody drives anywhere. When the photos look right, we come look at it in person and you get a quote the day we walk the slab. Rather talk first? Beto Ponce answers the phone himself. Finished garages are in the gallery.
(919) 440-1333