Metallic floors, poured for Bradbury
Three guys from Palmdale and a grinder that chews through old coatings. That is who shows up at your Bradbury floor, and we walk you through the price on site. It sits in Los Angeles County, about 31 miles south of Palmdale.
Reading the Bradbury housing stock
About 31 miles south of Palmdale. Housing figures from the US Census.
Half the homes in Bradbury are older than about 1974 and half are newer, by the Census count. Homes from the 1970s often have garages that doubled as storage for decades, so the slab underneath may have barely seen daylight. Clear it out and you usually find rust marks, rings from old paint cans and a crack or two.
We grind the whole floor, fix the cracks and start the system on clean concrete.
Stand-alone houses make up the bulk of it, roughly 97%. In a neighborhood of houses, garages do a lot of jobs: parking, storage, gym, workshop. A good floor has to handle all of them at once, which is why most garages we coat get flake with a hard top coat. Metallic is for the people who park on art.
Around 92% of households own their place. Numbers like these are why we ask what the space is used for before we talk systems.
Bradbury belongs to the San Gabriel Valley, a crowded, busy region east of Los Angeles where older homes sit close to working industry. Close by, typical homes run from about 1954 in South Monrovia Island to 1987 in Irwindale, and Bradbury sits on the newer side of that spread.
What Bradbury weather asks of a floor
The San Gabriel Valley.
Auto repair, body shops, tire shops and car dealers line a lot of the valley’s commercial streets, and their floors take a specific kind of beating. Motor oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid and coolant drip all day, solvents and degreasers get splashed during cleanup, and jack stands and creeper wheels gouge the surface. Lift bays carry concentrated loads around the posts and anchor bolts. Plenty of these shops sit in older buildings on slabs that have soaked up oil for decades, and some have been painted with floor enamel that peels wherever a hot tire sits. The floor has to stand up to chemistry as much as weight.
For a restaurant kitchen, urethane cement is our first suggestion. It takes hot water, grease and daily washdowns, handles the temperature swing between the dish area and the walk-in, and can be finished with texture for grip. We run it up the wall as a cove base so there is no seam for grease to hide in, and plan the job around your closed days or overnight hours.
In a garage that soaks up San Gabriel Valley heat all afternoon, we finish flake floors with a polyaspartic top coat. It handles hot tires off the freeway without softening and keeps its color where sun comes through the door. Summer jobs start early so the coats go down on a slab that cooled overnight, and we tell you how long to wait before the first hot car rolls in.
Picks for Bradbury garages and shops
Garage Floor Epoxy Coatings
Flake, metallic or solid garage floors built on a full diamond grind, with a top coat that handles hot tires and oil.
Flake Epoxy Flooring
Colored vinyl chips broadcast into an epoxy base and sealed under a clear top coat, for garages, shops and patios.
Pool Deck Coatings
Textured, slip-resistant coatings for pool decks that handle chlorine, wet feet and hard sun, in light colors that stay cooler.
The next towns over
- Monrovia
1.2 miles away, Los Angeles County
- Duarte
1.2 miles away, Los Angeles County
- South Monrovia Island
2.6 miles away, Los Angeles County
- Irwindale
2.9 miles away, Los Angeles County
More in Los Angeles County, on the services page and in the gallery.
Things worth knowing first
Do you come out to Bradbury?
Yes. Bradbury is about 31 miles south of our shop in Palmdale, inside the 60 miles we cover for homes and well inside the 150 we cover for commercial and industrial work. We come out, look at the floor and give you a price after we have seen it.
What should I know about a slab from around 1974?
Watch for spalling near the garage door, where water and tires wear the surface off. Small spots get patched after the grind; bigger ones get cut back to sound concrete. We point them out before we quote so the price already covers them.
We live on a hillside lot with steps into the house. Can those be coated?
Yes. Steps get flake on the treads and faces, grit in the top coat and extra hand work on the edges. If the house sits on a post-tensioned slab, we keep all prep at the surface, with no drilling or sawing.
Water pools at our garage door after storms. What can we do?
A coating stops the water from soaking into the slab, though it will not stop it from arriving. A threshold seal or a drain at the door handles that, and we seal the coating edge tight so water cannot get underneath. We also coat only when the slab has dried out after a storm.
Our converted garage still has old tile and glue on the slab. Is that a problem?
It all has to come off, because a coating bonds only to clean concrete. We pull the tile and grind away the adhesive, then fill any holes left behind. It adds time to the job, and we include it in the price after we see what is there.
Can a coated floor work around car lifts in a shop?
Yes. We grind and coat right up to the lift posts, build extra thickness where loads concentrate, and leave the anchors where they are. Bays with heavy equipment get a thicker system than an ordinary garage.
Can I send photos first?
Yes. Photos of the whole floor, the worst crack and any old coating help us tell you what you are looking at before we drive out. We will still want to see it in person before giving a final price, since a photo cannot show moisture or a sealer.
Can it all happen in one day?
Sometimes, on a small, clean slab with a fast-cure system. Most floors need more than that, because grinding, crack repair and each coat take their own time. We would rather add a day than rush a cure and have the floor fail.
Why do you grind instead of acid etching?
Grinding takes the top skin off the concrete, along with sealers, curing compounds and old coatings. Acid etching does not reliably remove those, and a coating is only as strong as what it bonds to. Every floor we do gets a diamond grind.
Will a hot garage hurt the floor later?
A properly cured coating handles a hot garage, and polyaspartic top coats hold up well to UV and hot tires. The risk is during the cure, which is why we coat at the right time of day. After that, the heat is not a problem.
Planning a floor
in Bradbury?
Send a few photos of the floor and the room and we will tell you what it needs.
What to send and what happens next. Want proof first? See the floors.