Garage Floor Coatings in Eden Prairie, MN

Garage floor coatings for Eden Prairie's 1980s and 1990s homes

Eden Prairie sits on the north bank of the Minnesota River, southwest of downtown Minneapolis. Flying Cloud Airport was the first sign of big development, in 1946. I-494 and the Eden Prairie Center mall came later. The city became a village in 1962 and a statutory city in 1974.

About 70 percent of today's homes went up between 1970 and 1999. The 1980s were the biggest decade, with 8,945 of the city's 26,557 homes, and 5,603 more came in the 1990s. A garage slab poured with a 1988 home has now been through more than 35 Minnesota winters.

In the Twin Cities, about 75 days a year the temperature swings across freezing. Concrete soaked with salty meltwater takes stress with each freeze, and the surface can flake and pit.

We prep each slab to the standards a coating inspector checks for. That means diamond grinding, a moisture test and crack and pit repair. Then come an epoxy or polyaspartic base coat, full flake, a scrape and a polyaspartic topcoat. Most garages are coated in one day, in your pick of two dozen flake color blends.

What do Eden Prairie streets and highways leave on your garage floor?

Eden Prairie has over 230 center lane miles of streets, divided into 18 plow routes. It also has over 630 cul-de-sacs, cleared on 22 more routes. City crews plow with the storm, a strategy the city says helps limit unneeded salt use.

The city may limit salt to major roadways, steep grades, curves and high volume intersections. Its policy says winter treatments are not meant to give bare pavement. County and state crews plow the highways that cross the city, like I-494, US 212 and US 169. Flying Cloud Drive, the old route of US 212, became a Hennepin County road in 2008.

Across the Twin Cities metro, an estimated 365,000 tons of road salt go down each year. In Eden Prairie, a Snow Emergency starts when snow reaches 2 inches. Parking on city streets is then banned until they are plowed, so cars move into driveways and garages.

That salty slush rides home on your tires and melts onto the slab. The ready-mix concrete industry says deicers raise surface saturation and add freeze-thaw cycles. It also advises hosing off the salt cars leave on garage slabs.

Townhome garages and basement floors in Eden Prairie

Census figures count 5,867 single-family attached homes in Eden Prairie, about 22 percent of the total. Another 14,289, about 54 percent, are single-family detached houses. About 76 percent of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Townhome or house, the garage slab takes the same winter salt and gets the same prep.

University of Minnesota Extension says vapor moves from the wetter ground up through basement floors. So every basement floor coating starts with grinding and a moisture test. A moisture-resistant primer goes down when the slab calls for it.

A coated basement floor can serve a family room, a home gym, a storage room or a workshop. Flake and solid-color epoxy floor coatings, metallic floors and polished concrete all work there.

Commercial floor coatings in the Golden Triangle and around Eden Prairie Center

The Golden Triangle sits west of US 169, east of US 212 and north of I-494. It is a regional employment center with more than 20,000 jobs. Shady Oak Road runs south from Minnetonka into the Golden Triangle and ends at Valley View Road.

Many Eden Prairie businesses work in logistics and distribution, retail and wholesale trade, health care and industrial equipment. The city is also home to the Eden Prairie Center mall. Those floors take heavy equipment, foot traffic, spills and slush tracked in from the parking lot.

Our commercial and industrial floor coatings offer quartz or textured topcoats for grip where floors get wet. We plan the work around your operation. For an office or showroom, polished concrete gives a smooth, dense, low-dust floor that is easy to clean.