Garage floor epoxy in Kingwood and Humble
Kingwood's first homes went up in 1971, and the area along the San Jacinto River and Lake Houston flooded badly during Hurricane Harvey. Both facts shape how garage floors here are prepared: older slabs need repair, and slabs that took water need a moisture test before any coating.
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The Livable Forest
Kingwood was developed by Exxon's Friendswood Development Company with King Ranch, and Houston annexed it at the end of 1996. It has 31 villages under a heavy tree canopy. Trailwood, the oldest, finished its first homes in 1971, so many garage slabs here are 40 to 50 years old.
- Older floors usually need old coatings ground off and cracks filled before coating. See peeling floor repair.
- Tree litter tracked in on tires is easier to live with on a flake floor than a solid color.
After the floods
Kingwood saw evacuations and severe flooding during Harvey in 2017, made worse, according to Wikipedia, when the San Jacinto River Authority opened floodgates upstream. A slab that sat under water holds moisture long after it looks dry, and coatings put down too soon can blister and lift. If your garage flooded at any point, ask for a moisture test, and expect a moisture-mitigating primer if the slab fails it. See slab moisture and peeling coatings.
Humble and Atascocita
Humble, where oil was found in 1904 and the company that became Exxon was founded, has a mix of older homes and newer subdivisions around it. Atascocita, east of Humble near Lake Houston, has a lot of newer construction with bare slabs that need cure time and a moisture test.
Services in Kingwood, Humble and Atascocita
- Flake garage floorsA base coat, a full broadcast of vinyl flakes and a clear topcoat. The finish most Houston coating companies lead with.
- Polyaspartic coatingsFast-curing, UV-stable coatings. Usually ready for cars in about a day.
- Epoxy garage floorsSolid-color and metallic epoxy, plus epoxy base coats under flake floors.
- Peeling floor repairRemoving failed coatings, fixing cracks and recoating floors that peeled.
- Patio and pool decksUV-stable coatings for patios, porches and pool decks, with texture for grip.
- Shop and commercial floorsWorkshops, warehouses, auto bays, gyms and kitchens, scheduled around your hours.
Nearby areas
The contractor also covers The Woodlands and Spring and Cypress and Tomball.
Related guides
- Slab moisture and peeling coatingsWhy coatings bubble and lift on Houston slabs, how moisture is tested, and what fixes it.
- How long a garage floor coating lastsTypical lifespans for epoxy and polyaspartic floors, what shortens them and how to make one last.
- Garage floor coating cost in HoustonTypical prices by garage size and system, what adds to the bill, and how to compare quotes.
Questions people ask
My garage flooded and was cleaned up years ago. Do I still need a moisture test?
Yes. It costs little compared with a floor that lifts, and it tells the contractor whether a mitigating primer is needed.
Does a coating help if the garage floods again?
A coated floor is easier to clean after water and mud, but no coating makes a garage flood-proof. After any flood, let the slab dry and have the coating checked.
Sources
- Wikipedia: Kingwood, Houston: development, villages, Harvey flooding
- Wikipedia: Humble, Texas
- Construction Specifier: concrete moisture mitigation
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