Epoxy Flooring in Coralville, IA

Epoxy flooring in Coralville is mostly about homes that are still fairly young. American Community Survey estimates for 2019 to 2023 put the median Coralville home at 1995. Some 18.9% of homes were built in the 1990s, 16.2% from 2000 to 2009 and 20.4% from 2010 to 2019. Only 2.3% date to 1939 or earlier. That means a lot of attached garages and poured basements with slabs that are sound but have now seen 15 to 30 Iowa winters.

The age when garage floors start to show it

A garage slab from the 1990s has usually been through decades of salt brine dripping off cars. Common signs we see at that age: 1. Light scaling or pitting just inside the overhead door 2. Dark oil and tire marks in each parking spot 3. Hairline cracks running out from the corners 4. A dusty surface that never seems clean

All of these can be ground out and repaired before coating. A full epoxy base with a polyaspartic topcoat seals the slab so the same damage does not keep going.

Living below a dam on a river

The Iowa River runs along Coralville's east edge and forms part of its boundary with Iowa City. The Corps of Engineers finished the Coralville Dam in 1958, four miles north of the city, and it has prevented serious flooding except in 1993 and 2008. From June through August 1993, all three of Coralville's main road links to Iowa City were under water. In 2008 the river passed the 1993 record at over 31.5 feet. If your home is near the river or took water in either flood, a moisture test of the basement slab is the first step before any coating.

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A city named for its rock

Coralville takes its name from fossil coral found in the limestone along the Iowa River. Louis Agassiz lectured on the coral reefs of Iowa City in 1864, and more corals turned up at a mill site in 1866. Floor coatings are a long way from Devonian reefs, but the local limestone is a reminder that this whole area sits on old sea floor and river deposits, which is part of why groundwater and slab moisture vary from one lot to the next.

Systems that suit newer homes

• Polyaspartic garage floors that can often be coated and returned to use quickly
• Flake broadcast floors in gray and earth tones that hide salt and dust
• Metallic epoxy in finished basements and home theaters
• Commercial floor epoxy for small business spaces, storage rooms and service areas

For homes still under 10 years old, the main prep is removing the builder's sealer and opening the surface by grinding. Cure time on newer concrete matters too, so tell us if your slab was poured in the last few months.

What a Coralville job looks like

Most two- and three-stall garages here take one to two days, depending on the system and the weather. Day one is moving items, grinding, vacuuming and crack repair. The coats follow, either the same day with polyaspartic or over the next day with epoxy. We give you a written schedule showing when you can walk on the floor, put things back and park on it.