Service areas
Where we work in Alabama
About 100 miles out of Huntsville: 124 towns across 20 counties, north and central Alabama.
What traveling this far actually means
What a job actually looks like on your calendar
A two car garage is normally two days on site. The first day is the loud one: grinding, vacuuming, repairs, then the base coat and the flake broadcast. The second day is scraping back the loose chip, vacuuming again and putting the clear coat down. You keep off it that night, walk on it the following day, and park on it after the cure time we give you, which depends on the product and the temperature.
Bigger floors and commercial work
Commercial jobs scale with square footage and with how much has to come off first. Removing a failed coating or old tile adhesive can take longer than installing the new system. We schedule around business hours where we can, and on occupied buildings we usually work in sections so part of the floor stays usable.
Weather and temperature
Resin cures chemically, and temperature changes how fast that happens. Very cold slabs slow it down and very hot ones speed it up, sometimes faster than a floor can be worked properly. Interior floors are largely unaffected because the building is conditioned. Exterior work gets scheduled around the forecast rather than forced.
The same crew everywhere
There is a reason we keep saying owner operated, and it is not a slogan. In this trade the gap between a quote and a result is usually a subcontractor. An outfit sells the job, a crew nobody vetted shows up, and the person who promised you the floor is not there when decisions get made about the prep.
When something unexpected turns up under a slab, and on older concrete something usually does, somebody has to decide what to do about it. If that person is the owner, the decision gets made on what the floor needs. If it is a crew being paid by the square foot to finish today, the decision gets made a different way.
Kortni Brewster quotes the floor and then installs it. That means the person who told you what it would cost is the person standing on it with the grinder, which is the simplest accountability there is.
Every photograph on this site is our own work. More of it is in the gallery.
Houses across the region
Interior living space is the fastest growing part of residential concrete work. Polished concrete in a house reads as a deliberate material choice rather than a compromise, it carries light through a room, and there is nothing on it to wear through.
Residential work here is mostly garages, and a garage is a harder floor than people assume. It sees vehicle weight, tires that are still hot from the road, whatever leaks out of an engine, road salt in the winter months and everything that gets dropped off a workbench. Flake epoxy over a properly ground slab handles all of it, and the chip does real work hiding the small imperfections a solid color would put on display.
Businesses across the region
Anywhere with a floor drain is a signal. A drain means water on the floor regularly, which means the finish needs to turn up the wall at a coved base instead of stopping in a seam where water can work underneath it.
Commercial floors get specified around the cleaning routine more than the traffic. A retail floor that gets dust mopped is an easy floor. A kitchen that gets hosed, degreased and steam cleaned nightly is a hard one, and it is the reason urethane cement exists.
What goes wrong, wherever the floor is
- A coating that peels in sheets. Almost always a bond failure, and bond failures are prep failures. Either the slab was not ground open, or something was left on it, or moisture underneath pushed the film off. The finish itself is rarely the culprit.
- Bubbles and pinholes. Air coming out of the concrete while the resin is still wet, usually because the slab was warming up as it cured. Timing the pour against the temperature of the slab rather than the air is how you avoid it.
- A floor that turned yellow. Ordinary epoxy is not UV stable. In a garage with a window or a patio in the sun it will amber over time. That is why the top coat on our systems is polyaspartic, which holds its color.
- Flake that looks blotchy. The broadcast was not taken to refusal, so the chip density varies across the floor. It shows up clearly once the clear coat goes over it, and it cannot be corrected afterward without recoating.
- Cracks coming back through. A crack that is still moving with the seasons will telegraph through any surface finish. Filling it hides it for a while. If the slab is moving, that is a structural question and no coating answers it.
Every floor is different. That is the part of the work that keeps it interesting after 12 years.
Kortni Brewster, owner
Why the distance does not change the floor
People sometimes assume a job an hour and a half away gets a different standard than one down the road. It does not, for a practical reason: the same person quotes it and the same person installs it, so there is nobody in the chain for the standard to slip through.
What distance does change is scheduling. A job in the Birmingham or Montgomery end of the area gets booked as a block of consecutive days rather than fitted around local work, because a resin floor cannot be left half installed. That is usually better for the customer anyway.
The other thing worth saying plainly: we do not charge travel inside this area. The radius is drawn where it is because that is genuinely how far we are willing to work without the drive starting to affect the quality of the job.
Questions
How far do you travel?
About 100 miles out of Huntsville. That covers the Huntsville metro, the Birmingham metro, the Shoals, and down toward Montgomery and Auburn.
Is there a travel charge?
Not inside that 100 miles.
My town is not listed.
Call anyway. The list covers where we work regularly, not a fence. If you are close to it we will tell you honestly whether it makes sense.
Do you have references?
Yes, and where we can we will point you at a floor near you.
Same crew everywhere?
Same crew, same prep, same systems. The owner is on the job regardless of which town it is in.
Somewhere on this list?
Call (205) 238-8111 and tell us the town and the room.