Garage Floor Coatings in Edina, MN

Garage floor coatings for Edina's 1950s, 1960s and 1970s homes

Edina began as a farming and milling community along Minnehaha Creek in the 1860s. In 1888 it became one of the first incorporated suburbs of Minneapolis. It expanded as a car-centric suburb in the 1950s and 1960s.

Census Bureau estimates count 4,454 homes built in the 1950s, 4,125 in the 1960s and 4,894 in the 1970s. Together that is about 56 percent of Edina's 24,071 homes, and about 68 percent were built before 1980. We work across the city, including Morningside, Country Club District, Indian Hills and Braemar Hills.

The ready-mix concrete industry says the risk of scaling grows as freeze-thaw cycles add up. Scaling is the flaking or peeling of a slab's finished surface. In the Twin Cities, about 75 days a year the temperature swings across freezing.

Our prep follows the standards a coating inspector checks for, starting with diamond grinding and a moisture test. Then crack and pit repair comes before an epoxy or polyaspartic base coat, full flake and a scrape. A UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat finishes the floor and hardens in 6 to 8 hours. Most garages are coated in one day, in your pick of two dozen flake color blends.

What do Edina's winter streets leave on your garage floor?

The City of Edina starts snow and ice control when snow builds up to 1.5 inches or more. Red Routes are plowed first. These high-volume routes connect major sections of the city and give access for fire, police and medical services.

Streets that lead to schools and businesses come second. Low-volume residential streets are third, then alleys, cul-de-sacs and city parking lots.

The city says it is concerned about salt's effect on the environment, so it limits salt use. It uses straight salt or a treated mix, calibrated to the lowest effective amount per lane mile. Deicing chemicals are generally limited to Red Routes, steep grades and intersections. The city says this gives traction but is not meant to leave bare pavement.

Across the Twin Cities metro, an estimated 365,000 tons of road salt go down each year. Salty slush still rides into the garage on your tires and melts onto the slab. The ready-mix concrete industry says deicers raise surface saturation and the number of freeze-thaw cycles. It advises hosing off the salt that cars leave on garage slabs.

Our garage floor systems are chosen for Minnesota winters, with salt, snowmelt, humidity and freeze-thaw cycles in mind. The estimate spells out the system, the mil thickness and the repairs for your floor.

Basement floor coatings for Edina homeowners

About 72 percent of Edina's 22,914 occupied homes are owner-occupied. Single-family detached houses make up about 54 percent of all homes, 12,987 in total. Minnesota basements are more and more used as finished living space, University of Minnesota Extension notes.

Extension also says vapor can move from the wetter ground through basement concrete. So every basement floor coating starts with mechanical grinding and a moisture test. Moisture issues are addressed before coating, with a moisture-resistant primer when the slab calls for it.

A coated basement floor can serve a family room, a home gym, a home bar or a workshop. Flake and solid-color epoxy floor coatings work there, and so do metallic floors and polished concrete. Stain and seal systems and overlays for damaged slabs are options too.

Commercial floor coatings near Southdale, 50th and France and I-494

Edina's best-known shopping centers include Southdale Center and 50th and France, which the city shares with Minneapolis. Business parks sit along I-494, which crosses the city east and west with Highway 62. Floors in retail stores, offices and showrooms take foot traffic, spills and winter slush.

Our commercial and industrial floor coatings are built for heavy equipment and steady foot traffic. Quartz and textured topcoats add grip where floors get wet. Fast-curing systems limit downtime, and we plan the work around your operation.

For an office or showroom, polished concrete gives a dense, low-dust floor that is easy to clean. We grind and polish concrete for commercial spaces as well as garages and basements.

About 27 percent of Edina homes, 6,506 in all, sit in buildings of 50 or more units. If you look after the floors for a condominium association or an apartment building, call us about our commercial systems. The estimate covers the prep each floor needs, and we plan the phasing around your residents.