San Carlos epoxy floor coatings
Yes, we pour floors in San Carlos
San Carlos calls itself the City of Good Living, and downtown on Laurel Street is a big part of why. Shops and restaurants line the street a block off El Camino Real and the Caltrain station. East of 101 the city turns to light industry and labs, with San Carlos Airport out by the bay. It is a straight run up the Peninsula from the San Jose base.
Many homes on the flats near downtown were built in the years around World War II, with single and two car garages on old slabs. The hill neighborhoods came later and tend to have larger garages. Both are full of floors that have never been sealed, and both are a good fit for our residential floor installs.
What San Carlos concrete brings to the job
On the flats, age. A garage slab from the 1950s has decades of oil and dust worked into it, and many have old paint flaking off in patches. In the hills, slope. A garage cut into a hillside can pick up moisture through the slab on the uphill side, which lifts a coating from below if nobody checks for it.
East of 101 it is a different floor altogether. Shops, labs and light industrial spaces need a floor that takes carts, chemicals and constant cleaning, and they cannot close for a week. Those jobs run through our commercial flooring installation in San Carlos work, planned in sections around your hours.
What we handle here
Floors we pour in San Carlos
Flake and Solid Garage Floors
The job San Carlos asks for most: a gray slab that has been catching oil, dust and tire marks for years. We grind it back to open concrete, fill the cracks, roll the base coat and seal it under a polyaspartic topcoat. Here is how we build garage floors in San Carlos.
Hand Poured Metallic Floors
The floor Josh is known for. Reflective pigment moved by hand through wet resin, so the floor has veins and movement and never repeats. Entries, studios, showrooms and show garages in San Carlos. See the metallic floors we pour in San Carlos.
Rooms Inside the House
Studios, gyms, laundry rooms, mud rooms and converted garages on a slab. The old floor comes up, the slab gets ground, and a sealed coating goes down that you can live on. Same build we use on home floor coatings in San Carlos.
Shop, Studio and Warehouse Floors
San Carlos businesses run on floors that take carts, boots and spills all day. A coated floor stands up to that and cuts the cleaning down to a mop, and we work around your opening hours. Have a look at our commercial floors in San Carlos.
Why San Carlos calls us
Why San Carlos homeowners call Josh
You know the plan before the grinder shows up. The estimate spells out what happens on each day: the grind and crack fill, the coats, and when you can walk on the floor and park on it again. If a slab test changes anything, you hear about it right away, not on the morning of the job.
You also talk to the person who knows your floor. A call or a text with a question goes to Josh, not to a front desk. That is how a garage on the flats or a shop by the airport stays on schedule.
Where you will find us around San Carlos
Laurel Street and the blocks around it hold downtown and many of the oldest homes, with Burton Park close by. Neighborhoods climb west from El Camino into the hills along Alameda de las Pulgas and Crestview Drive. East of 101, Industrial Road and the area around the airport hold the shops, labs and warehouses.
Three kinds of floor in one small city. Old garages on the flats, newer garages in the hills, working floors by the bay. The same first step for all three: a diamond grind and a close look at the concrete.
Where we work
Pouring metallic, flake and commercial floors across San Carlos
We cover San Carlos from Laurel Street and the flats up into the hills and out past 101 to the airport. The same truck runs south to floor coatings in Atherton and up the hill to Woodside.
Ask the guy pouring the floor
Straight answers about your epoxy floor questions
Do you really come up to San Carlos from San Jose?
Yes. San Carlos is about forty minutes up 101 or 280. Send the form with the address and the size of the floor and Josh will set a time to see it.
My San Carlos garage on the flats has old paint peeling off. Is that a problem?
No. The old paint comes off with the diamond grinder along with the stained top of the slab. The new coating then bonds to clean, open concrete.
Can you coat a shop or lab floor east of 101?
Yes. Commercial floors are planned in sections or around your hours so work can keep going. Tell us the size of the space and what the floor takes each day.
Our San Carlos garage is built into the hill. Will the coating lift?
Not if the slab is checked first. Hillside garages can push moisture up through the concrete, so we test for it and change the primer and build when we find it.
Do you fix cracked or sunken concrete in San Carlos?
No. We coat sound concrete and fill hairline cracks during prep. A slab that is sinking or breaking up needs concrete repair first, and we will tell you so.
When can I park on the new floor?
Most garages are out of use for one to three days. You can walk on the floor soon after the topcoat and park on it a few days later. The dates are in writing before work starts.