Garage Floor Resurfacing in Rochester NY: Repair, Resurface, or Replace?

Aldric ServicesEpoxy Flooring, Garage Floor Coating

Finished garage floor coating in Brockport NY
If your Rochester garage floor is worn, cracked, or flaking, resurfacing is usually the right answer and slab replacement usually is not. Resurfacing means grinding the existing concrete back to a sound surface, repairing what is damaged, and building a new coating system on top. It costs a fraction of replacement, takes two days instead of two weeks, and on ... Read More

Can You Coat Over an Old Epoxy Garage Floor in Rochester NY?

Aldric ServicesEpoxy Flooring

Garage floor coating in Rochester NY
Usually no. Coating over an old epoxy garage floor works only when the existing coating is still fully bonded to the concrete, and in Rochester it usually is not. The reason a floor gets recoated is almost always the same reason it should not be recoated: the original coating has already started letting go of the slab. That is not ... Read More

Hot Tire Pickup: Why Garage Floor Coatings Peel (Rochester NY)

Aldric ServicesEpoxy Flooring, Garage Floor Coating

Hot tire pickup peeling on a Rochester garage floor coating
Hot tire pickup is when a garage floor coating lifts and peels where your tires sit, because warm tires soften a weakly bonded coating and pull it off the slab. It happens to thin DIY kits and big-box one-day coatings, not to a properly installed professional system. The only lasting fix is full removal of the failed coating and a ... Read More