Garage floor coating in Boulder, Colorado

A large share of Boulder's garages were poured in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Martin Acres, Table Mesa and Keewaydin ranches have original slabs with sixty winters of use, and it shows: patches of different-colored concrete where someone repaired a crack, a layer of old floor paint, deep oil staining and sometimes a slab thinner than anything poured today. Newlands, Whittier and Mapleton Hill add detached alley garages that predate vapor barriers entirely. We treat every one of these as a prep project first and a coating second.

Boulder is also a natural fit for basement floors. Finished lower levels are common here, and a light-colored full-flake polyaspartic floor is a durable, easy-to-clean alternative to carpet or vinyl on a concrete basement slab. Below-grade concrete is exactly where moisture matters most, so basement jobs get a careful moisture test and, when needed, a moisture-mitigating primer before the base coat.

Odor and cure time are common questions. Polyaspartic sets in hours rather than days, so the floor is walkable the next morning and any smell is gone the same day, not lingering through the week the way a solvent epoxy can. We keep the garage door open during the install and cover the door into the house. Boulder is about twenty-five minutes from our shop and inside our primary area, so there is no travel charge.