Garage Floor Coating in Howell, MI

A Howell shop coating Howell floors

We're Poly Pro's Coatings, and our shop sits at 1870 Dorr Rd in Howell. When a Howell homeowner calls about a garage floor coating, the quote, the grinder and the flake all start from our shop in town.

Howell is the county seat and the biggest city in Livingston County, with a little over 10,000 people and about 4,760 homes. That mix shows up in the garages we see. Near downtown and the old courthouse lawn, a lot of slabs have decades of winters on them. Out toward the M-59 corridor, newer condo and subdivision garages are still smooth, and their owners want to keep them that way.

What a Howell winter does to a garage slab

Every snowfall, the road commission and MDOT put salt and brine on the roads, and your tires carry it straight into the garage. Livingston County's road commission keeps thousands of tons of salt on hand for a normal winter. On bare concrete, that salt water soaks in, freezes, thaws and freezes again. The top layer starts to pit and flake, usually right where the car sits.

A coated floor stops that cycle. Our garage coating system starts with a diamond grind, then we cut and stitch even hairline cracks, fill pits with polygrout, lay a polyurea base coat, broadcast flake wall to wall and finish with a polyaspartic topcoat. Salt sits on top of that floor until you rinse it off.

Older downtown homes and newer condos

The older Howell garages usually need the most prep. We often find pitting, spalled patches near the door and the odd coat of garage paint that has started lifting. The paint comes up under the grinder, the damage gets repaired, and the floor comes back flat before any coating goes down. Got a peeling epoxy job from years ago? Here is how we redo failed epoxy floors.

Newer condo garages are the opposite. The concrete is sound, so prep is mostly the grind, and the floor is often done the same day we start. Owners in the newer neighborhoods tell us they want it done before the first winter, and that's the cheapest time to do it.

Basements and patios in town

Howell basements get the same system, with a moisture check first, because water in a slab is the one thing that will push a coating off. Patios and porches around Thompson Lake and the older neighborhoods get a UV-stable topcoat that won't yellow in the sun. See our basement floor coatings and patio and porch coatings for how those jobs go.