A Mount Olive garage floor worth pulling the good car onto.
Flake or metallic, every Mount Olive garage starts the same way. We grind the bay down to open concrete and fill every crack it turns up. Then Beto pours a floor built to handle tires and summer heat.
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A photo from the doorway helps most.
The Corvette floor, and the floor most garages get.
The floor people point at is black and gold metallic, with a red Corvette parked on it.
That is a metallic pour. The pigment drifts while the resin cures, so the gold veins land where they land and no other garage gets the same pattern. Park a car like that on it and a plain garage starts to look like a showroom. It is also the finish that asks the most of you. Dust shows on it by the weekend, and a smooth topcoat turns slick the moment a wet tire rolls in, unless we add aggregate so it grips.
Flake is the other road, and more garages end up there. Vinyl chip gets broadcast into the base coat and sealed under a clear topcoat. The speckle swallows tire marks and grit, and the texture holds your feet when the floor is wet.
Both go down over the same ground slab. Some people pick metallic for a bay the car mostly sits in and flake for the one they work out of. Read more on the flake floor page for Mount Olive, or see how a metallic pour gets handled.
Hairline cracks do not stay hidden under a coating.
Sandy subgrade moves a little with the seasons, and slabs around Mount Olive show it.
Most garages we walk have a few hairline cracks running across them. That is normal for this ground and nothing to lose sleep over. What gets people in trouble is a coating rolled straight over those lines. The resin follows the crack, and inside a year you can see every one of them printed back through the finish.
So day one is spent on the concrete. The grinder takes the slab down to a clean, open surface and pulls up any old paint or failed sealer on the way. Cracks get chased out into a V and filled with a rigid repair resin. Pits get patched and ground flat. Control joints get treated so the slab can keep moving without splitting the floor above them.
None of that shows once the color goes down. It is the reason the floor is still holding ten years from now.
July in a closed garage changes the pour.
Resin cures by chemical reaction, and heat speeds that reaction up.
A Mount Olive garage in the middle of July can get hot enough to cut the working time on a pour short. On a flake floor that means moving quicker with the broadcast. On a metallic floor it means less time for the pigment to settle into its pattern before the resin grabs. So we book pours off the temperature of the slab, never off a date on the calendar.
Cold works the other way. The reaction slows down, so in winter we keep an eye on the slab and move the date if it is too cold to cure right.
The busy months run from about March through June, then again in September and October. If there is a certain week you want the garage done, call a month ahead.
Empty bay on day one, keys back by day four.
Nothing stays in the garage. We grind wall to wall, so the room has to be bare when the trailer pulls up.
That means the shelving, the mower, the bikes and the second fridge. Clear it out the weekend before and the grind can start on time that first morning.
Day one is loud. The grinder runs into a dust extractor at the tool, doorways into the house get sheeted off, and most of the labor in the whole job happens before any resin is mixed. Day two is the base coat, the flake or the metallic, and the topcoat. That half goes fast.
You can walk across it the next morning. Vehicles wait until day three or day four, depending on the temperature. Pulling in early is how a new floor gets marked, and that is a shame after all the work underneath it.
From Goldsboro to Mount Olive with the trailer.
Home base is Goldsboro, which makes Mount Olive a short haul. Mount Olive is part of Wayne County, and the same trailer runs to Dudley, Pikeville and Fremont.
Beto Ponce walks the slab, gives you the quote that day, and is the one pouring it. The number does not move once the grinders start. We are insured and bonded with 5 years of floors behind us. See finished garages in the gallery, or send photos of the bay first.
Older slabs around here often went down without a vapor barrier, so every garage gets a moisture test before we price it. The concrete grinding page for Mount Olive explains what we look for.
Before you clear out the garage
Which holds up better under a car, flake or metallic?
Both take the weight of a car once they have cured. The difference shows up in daily life. Flake hides grit and tire marks and grips when it gets wet. Metallic shows dust faster and needs aggregate in the topcoat to grip. Pick based on how dirty your bay really gets.
My slab has hairline cracks. Is that a problem?
Not for us, as long as they get handled before the coating goes down. Hairline cracks are common on sandy ground. We chase each one into a V during the grind and fill it with rigid repair resin, so it does not print through the new floor later.
What if the day you booked turns out cold?
Then the date may move. Cold concrete slows the chemical reaction that cures the resin. We work most of the Carolina winter, but we check the slab temperature first and would rather push a pour back a few days than put down a finish that cures badly.
Will you coat over the paint already on my floor?
No, the old paint comes off first. Paint, failed sealer and most earlier coatings grind away with the top of the slab. If there turns out to be moisture trouble under them, you hear about it before you get a quote, and not halfway through the job.
How long will a garage floor like this last?
A residential floor that was prepped properly is a ten to fifteen year surface. When one fails early, the cause is nearly always the prep underneath rather than the resin itself. That is why most of our time on a garage goes into day one.
Is a single-car garage too small a job?
No. One-car bays, laundry rooms and small sets of counters are a regular part of the schedule. Plenty of people start with a small space to see how we work, then call back later about the rest of the house. Send photos either way.
Send a photo from the garage door.
Stand in the driveway, snap the bay with the door up, and add a rough size.
Beto looks those over and tells you what he is seeing before anyone loads the trailer. If it looks like a fit, he comes out, walks the slab and gives you the number that same day. Want to hear it from him first? He answers the phone himself. There are finished garages to look through in the gallery too.
(919) 440-1333