COMMERCIAL & GARAGE
EPOXY IN BLOOMINGTON, MN
Bloomington is one of the oldest suburban cities in the metro — 1950s through 1970s housing stock means a lot of the garage slabs here are 50 to 70 years old. We see heavy scaling at overhead doors, deep pitting in parking zones, and old peeling coatings that almost always need full mechanical removal.
Local Concrete Notes — Bloomington
WHAT WE SEE
ON BLOOMINGTON SLABS
Bloomington's housing stock is mostly 1950s through 1970s — post-war ramblers and mid-century construction throughout the city. The garage slabs that come with those homes are 50 to 70 years old, and they show it. We see heavy surface scaling near overhead doors from generations of salt and ice melt, deep pitting in high-traffic zones, and shrinkage cracks that have widened over decades of freeze/thaw cycling. The commercial sector — the 494 corridor, retail and warehouse properties — has its own profile: thicker slabs, more abrasion wear, and often a failed prior coating from a past contractor that has to come off entirely before re-coating.
On older Bloomington slabs, the prep is sometimes 70% of the job. Crack repair, pitting fill, full removal of failed coatings, and aggressive diamond grinding all have to happen before the system goes down — and there's no skipping any of it on a slab this old.
- Older Bloomington slabs typically need crack repair, pitting fill, and aggressive grinding
- Commercial floors often have a failed paint or epoxy from prior work that has to come off
- Spalling and weak laitance on slabs older than 50 years is common
- Diamond grinding on every job — no acid wash, no shortcuts
- Sherwin-Williams industrial epoxy and polyaspartic products
- 10-year written warranty on every installation
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Free quote, no pressure. Benjamin Buckner or Mitchel Lovett — the co-owners — will walk the slab with you, talk through what it needs, and write a real number on the spot.