Garage floor coating in Longmont, Colorado

Longmont's housing spans from the 1880s to last year, so there is no single Longmont slab. The 1960s and 1970s ranches in Southmoor Park and the northeast side have original concrete with decades of de-icer damage. Clover Basin, Meadowview and Fox Hill were built in the 1990s and 2000s and are in that middle age where dusting and cracking start. The newest subdivisions toward Union Reservoir have young slabs that need a moisture test more than anything else.

What sets Longmont apart is the shop floor. East of town on the Weld County side, and on the larger lots around the edges of the city, there are detached shops, barns and workshops with big slabs and rough broom finishes. Polyaspartic is the right material for those: it does not chip when a wrench hits it, jack stands and rolling toolboxes do not mark it, and oil or brake fluid wipes up. Shops are quoted per square foot, and larger ones can run to a second day.

The oldest slabs sometimes have spalling, where chunks of the surface have broken away, along with old paint or a sealer from the 1990s. We grind through all of it. A spalled area is filled with polyurea and ground flush, and the flake floor hides the repair completely. We are fifteen minutes up 287 from Erie, so Longmont carries no travel charge.