Concrete Grinding & Surface Preparation in Titusville FL - a slab your coating can grip

People usually call Northline Titusville Concrete Coatings when a garage coating is peeling, a slab still has paint or carpet glue on it, or they're about to put down a new garage floor coating and want the part underneath done right. We're based in Titusville and work across Brevard County and into nearby parts of Orange and Volusia counties. The price mostly moves with the size of the floor, how much has to come off it and how rough a texture your coating needs. The schedule turns on those same things and on what the moisture test shows. At the estimate I look at the slab, test for moisture where the job calls for it and give you a written scope you can hold up next to anyone else's.

First I ask which coating you're planning, because the grind should match it. Our crew then grinds the slab with diamond pads to take down high spots and remove old epoxy, paint, urethane and mastic, which is the glue left under old tile. They also take off any weak top layer, and we run dust collection the whole time so the dust goes into the vacuum instead of through your house. When the grinding's done, we vacuum the floor clean, because a slab with the right texture will still fail if it's dusty or oily. Before anything goes on, we check that the surface soaks up primer well, since a grind run too fine can polish the concrete shut. I check the prep myself before coating starts.

Grinding is usually the first half of a bigger job. A freshly ground slab is ready for a sealer, so we often go straight into concrete sealing. If grinding turns up deep pitting or concrete too worn to coat, concrete resurfacing and overlays put a sound new layer down first.

Inside city limits, the City of Titusville Building Department handles plan reviews, permits and inspections, so that's the office to ask whether your job needs a permit. Grinding often goes along with a bigger floor project, and I won't assume either way for yours. When a job needs a permit, we handle the paperwork and inspections with the city or county office that covers your address, and I'll go over where that stands at the estimate.

Many slabs here sit on sandy ground and live in damp air most of the year. A lot of garages and patios also carry a store-bought coating or paint that's started to lift. So we plan on removing that coating completely, and we test for moisture before we settle on a new coating with you. We see the same thing on jobs in Mims and Port Saint John, and we prep those floors the same way.