Garage Floor Coating in Conway, SC

What Conway garages look like

• New subdivisions. Conway has grown fast, and a new home garage is bare builder concrete that still has to be ground. See new build garage floor coating.
• Older homes in and around downtown. Many of these slabs were poured long before vapor barriers were standard, and they often carry old paint, oil stains and patched cracks.
• Work garages and detached shops. Bigger lots mean trucks, trailers, boats, mowers and rolling tool chests, which puts more weight and more spills on the floor.

River, rain and low ground

Conway sits on the Waccamaw River, and parts of town and the county around it are low and slow to drain. After a long wet stretch the ground under a slab stays saturated, and that moisture works up through the concrete. The signs are dark damp patches, white powder on the slab and coatings that bubble or peel.

The Waccamaw has flooded parts of Conway after major storms. A garage that took on water can usually still be coated once it has dried out, as long as the slab is sound. It gets ground, tested and sealed with the moisture vapor barrier base like any other floor. More in why coatings peel.

Hotter summers than the beach

Inland, Conway does not get the sea breeze that cools the beach towns, so summer afternoons run hotter. Tires coming off hot pavement are hotter too, and that is what softens a thin coating and pulls it up. A ground slab with a hard polyaspartic top coat is built for it. See hot tire pickup.

Salt is less of a problem this far from the ocean, but pine pollen and yard dirt are not. A mid tone flake blend hides both.

Shops and heavy use

A work garage needs a floor that shrugs off oil, fuel and brake fluid and wipes clean. The polyaspartic top coat resists those far better than bare concrete, which soaks them in for good. If the floor gets wet from washing equipment, ask about Shark Bite non skid.

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