EPOXY FLOORS
IN MINNETONKA, MN
Minnetonka spans a wide age range of slabs — 50s and 60s detached garages around the lake all the way up to newer attached construction east of 169. Older detached garages here almost always have a peeling paint coating or pitted surface that needs full mechanical removal before anything new goes down.
Local Concrete Notes — Minnetonka
WHAT WE SEE
ON MINNETONKA SLABS
The older lakeside neighborhoods around Gray's Bay, Big Willow, and the Boulevard run on slabs from the 1950s and 60s. A lot of those are detached single- and double-stall garages with original concrete — pitted, sometimes spalled at the apron, and almost always carrying an old painted or coated surface that needs to come off mechanically before anything new will bond. The newer construction east of 169 has tighter, cleaner slabs, but you still see moisture vapor issues here from the mature tree cover and slow drying.
On any slab where there's a prior coating, we plan on full removal as part of the prep. A new coating laid over a failing one doesn't fix the problem — it just buys you a year before both layers come up together.
- Older detached garages often have failed paint coatings that need full grinding removal
- Heavy tree shade keeps slabs damp longer — moisture vapor testing matters here
- Lakeside properties can show frost heave damage at slab edges and joints
- Diamond grinding on every job — no acid wash, no shortcuts
- Sherwin-Williams industrial epoxy and polyaspartic products
- 10-year written warranty on every installation
Service Areas in Minnetonka
NEIGHBORHOODS
WE SERVE
Minnetonka borders Lake Minnetonka on the west and sits within the Nine Mile and Minnehaha Creek drainage systems. The city spans distinct zones — low-lying lakeside neighborhoods with older detached garages and slower-draining soils, and higher eastern sections with newer construction closer to Highway 169. That topographic range creates different moisture and prep conditions depending on which part of the city we are working in.
Local Area
SERVING THE
MINNETONKA AREA
We are a local Minnesota company. If you can see any of these landmarks from your property, we are in your neighborhood and work here regularly.
- Gray's Bay on Lake Minnetonka
- Minnehaha Creek corridor
- Ridgedale Center
- Westwood Hills Nature Center
- Big Willow Park
- Nine Mile Creek trail
FREQUENTLY ASKED
QUESTIONS
Minnetonka-specific questions we hear often — answered straight.
We live near Gray's Bay in Minnetonka. Are lakeside slabs different to coat?
Lakeside and low-lying properties in Minnetonka tend to have higher ambient moisture and slower-drying soils. Older detached garages in those areas almost always need a moisture vapor test before we select the primer — putting a non-vapor-tolerant system over a wet slab leads to bubbling and delamination within a season.
Our Minnetonka garage has a painted floor from the 1970s. What does prep look like?
Old painted surfaces have to come off entirely. We use diamond grinding to remove the paint down to clean concrete, then continue grinding to establish the correct surface profile for the new coating to bond to. It is more labor than a clean slab, but skipping it means the new system bonds to a failing layer instead of concrete — and fails for the same reason.
Do you do commercial floor coatings in Minnetonka for office or retail spaces?
Yes. We work on commercial slabs in Minnetonka including retail, light industrial, and office finishes. The system selection depends on use case — high-traffic retail needs a different topcoat hardness than a residential garage, and we spec accordingly.
How soon after coating can we park in the garage?
Light foot traffic is safe after 24 hours. We recommend waiting 72 hours before driving vehicles onto the surface. For the first week, avoid leaving tires stationary in one spot for extended periods — fresh polyaspartic can develop slight tire marks if a hot tire sits on it before the full cure is complete.
ALSO SERVING NEARBY CITIES
READY FOR A NEW FLOOR
IN MINNETONKA?
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.