Epoxy Flooring in Atlanta, GA

Atlanta Epoxy Flooring Pros installs epoxy flooring in Atlanta, GA and the towns around it: bungalow garages off intown driveways, three-car garages in the northern suburbs, daylight basements, workshops and busy commercial floors. Every quote starts with the concrete rather than a color card. We look at how old the slab is, how much moisture it gives off, what gets parked, dragged or spilled on it, and how much sun comes through the door. From there we recommend an epoxy floor coating, a polyaspartic system, or a combination, and write the whole plan down before any work begins.

Humidity is the first thing we check

The city sits in a humid subtropical climate. Average relative humidity runs 68.3% across the year and climbs to 74.4% in July and 74.8% in August, while the average July dew point is 67.8 F. That matters on install day. When the surface of a slab is cooler than the dew point, a film of water forms on it that you cannot always see. Resin laid over that film can turn cloudy, develop a greasy surface blush, or bond poorly. So before we open a kit, we take the slab temperature, the air temperature and the dew point. If the gap is too small, we start earlier, run fans and dehumidifiers, or reschedule. Heat is the other half of summer: Atlanta reaches 90 F or more on about 47 days a year, and warm resin sets faster in the bucket and on the floor. We mix smaller batches on hot days so every section goes down while it can still level.

Rain in every month, and what it tracks in

Atlanta averages 50.43 inches of precipitation on about 116 days a year, spread fairly evenly through the seasons. Cars come into the garage wet in January and in July, carrying grit and the clay-like soil the Piedmont region is known for. On those floors we usually suggest a broadcast chip finish or a light texture in the topcoat. It hides dust between cleanings and gives shoes and tires more grip when the surface is wet. A glossy solid color looks sharp, but on a busy family garage it shows every footprint.

Concrete from every era of the city

Atlanta was built in waves, and the slab under your car tells you which one. Eastside streetcar suburbs such as Inman Park and Old Fourth Ward went up between the 1890s and the 1930s, and the Craftsman bungalow is still the most common single-family home in the city's lower density neighborhoods. Collier Heights and Cascade Heights brought postwar suburban layouts, and the metro population grew 28.6% from 2000 to 2010 alone, mostly in low-density subdivisions. Each era brings its own prep work. Older garages often carry layers of paint, oil that has worked its way well into the concrete, patched cracks and no moisture barrier under the slab. Newer slabs may have a curing compound or factory sealer on top that stops a coating from bonding. We diamond grind both kinds to clean, open concrete, fill cracks and joints, and only then pick a primer.

Slopes, basements and the 2009 flood

Atlanta sits in the Appalachian foothills on rolling ground, so many homes have a basement or a garage set into the hill. Those floors deal with groundwater pressure that a flat, raised slab never sees. In September 2009, flooding across the metro caused major damage to some 20,000 homes, businesses and other buildings, and Sweetwater Creek reached its highest level ever recorded. If your lower level has taken water before, we want to know. We moisture test every below-grade floor and, when the readings call for it, switch to a primer rated for higher vapor levels beneath the finish. If a basement has an active leak, we tell you to fix the water first.

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Epoxy, polyaspartic, chip or metallic?

Standard epoxy builds a thick, hard layer and bonds well to properly ground concrete. Its weakness is sunlight: HomeGuide's UV grades put epoxy at poor to fair and polyaspartic at excellent, which is why a west-facing garage that bakes every afternoon usually gets a polyaspartic topcoat. Polyaspartic also cures faster, often ready for heavy vehicles in one to two days, against roughly a week for epoxy. Decorative chip systems add color and texture over either base. Metallic epoxy creates a poured, swirled look for basements, home bars and offices. Golf carts, boats on trailers and home workshops are common in metro garages, and each one changes how thick the system should be and which topcoat makes sense.

What epoxy flooring costs

HomeGuide puts professionally installed epoxy flooring at $4 to $10 per square foot nationally, with a two-car garage at $1,600 to $5,800. That guide lists polyaspartic at $5 to $12 per square foot. Where your floor lands depends on the slab: grinding off old paint, crack repair, a moisture-tolerant primer, a full chip broadcast and a thicker topcoat each move the number. For reference, a 20 by 20 foot space works out to 400 square feet, roughly a standard two-bay garage. We measure on site and you get a written, itemized quote, which is the price you pay.

Questions to ask any epoxy flooring contractors you call

When you compare epoxy flooring companies, ask the same questions of each one. How will you prepare the concrete, grinding or acid etching? Do you check the slab for moisture, and with what method? How many coats go down, and is the topcoat epoxy or polyaspartic? What happens if it is too humid on install day? How long before I can walk, move things back, and park? Good epoxy floor installers answer all of that in writing. We put it in every quote so you can compare like with like.

Commercial and industrial floors

Metro Atlanta runs on logistics. Hartsfield-Jackson has been the world's busiest airport by passengers in most years since 1998, Delta runs its largest hub there, UPS operates an air cargo hub on the field, and Norfolk Southern and CSX both run major rail yards in the city. Film production adds stages and shops at studios like Tyler Perry Studios and Pinewood Atlanta. Floors in warehouses, service bays, kitchens and production spaces need thicker, chemical-resistant concrete floor coating systems with safety striping. We plan those jobs in phases so a business can keep part of the space working.

We work across the city of Atlanta, including Buckhead, and in the suburbs around it. North of the city that means Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Brookhaven, Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Milton, Peachtree Corners, Duluth, Suwanee, Lawrenceville and Cumming. To the east we cover Decatur and Tucker. In Cobb and Cherokee counties we work in Marietta, Smyrna, Kennesaw, Woodstock and Canton, and to the west and south in Douglasville, Newnan, Fayetteville and Peachtree City. Each town has its own page with the local conditions we plan for, from lake-house boat garages near Lanier to golf cart garages on Peachtree City's path network.