Epoxy Flooring in Dexter, MI

Dexter grew up where Mill Creek runs into the Huron River, and epoxy flooring in Dexter has to suit a town with a long past and a lot of recent building. Samuel W. Dexter settled the area in 1824. The village was platted in 1830, and Dexter became a city in 2014. Its population rose 10.6% between 2010 and 2020, from 4,067 to 4,500, and housing units went from 1,704 to 1,894. That puts a 19th-century village center next to newer homes, and the garage and basement floors we coat range just as widely.

The 2012 tornado and the slabs it left behind

On March 15, 2012, an EF3 tornado with estimated winds of 135 to 140 mph crossed more than seven miles of the area. More than 250 homes were affected and losses came to about $12 million. No one was killed or seriously hurt. Some houses were repaired and some were rebuilt, so a single Dexter street can now hold garage slabs of very different ages.

That matters for prep. A slab poured in the last decade is usually sound, but it tends to have a dense, smooth trowel finish that a coating cannot grip until it is ground open. An older slab next door may have patched cracks, old paint or a stained, salt-worn apron by the door. We look at each floor on its own terms before we price it.

Near the water

The original settlement sat right at the meeting of Mill Creek and the Huron River, and parts of Hudson Mills Metropark and Dexter-Huron Metropark fall within the city. Homes close to the creek and river are worth a closer look on the basement side. Before we coat a basement floor here, we test the slab for moisture. If the reading is high, we use a vapor-tolerant primer. If water is actually coming in, we tell you to deal with that first.

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What Dexter homeowners usually ask us for

• Garage floor epoxy with a clear topcoat for the salt and slush that come in on tires every winter
• Epoxy flake floors for a textured finish that gives some grip on wet days and hides grit
• Polyaspartic floor coating when a family wants the garage back in service quickly
• Basement floor epoxy after a moisture test, for laundry rooms, gyms and storage
• Metallic epoxy floors for a finished lower level or a home bar
• Shop floor epoxy for detached workshops and hobby garages on larger lots

How we handle a newer slab

A newer garage floor often looks perfect and still fails a coating if it is not ground. We diamond grind the full floor, edges included, until the surface is open and slightly rough. Then we fill any shrinkage cracks and control joints that need it, lay the base coat, add flake or color, and finish with a clear topcoat. You get a written schedule for foot traffic and parking.

How we handle an older slab

Old Dexter garages can carry a previous owner's paint, a sealer that has gone cloudy or oil that soaked in years ago. We grind off loose coatings, degrease where needed and repair spalls and cracks before any new coating goes down. If a section has heaved or the slab is breaking up, we say so and leave the concrete repair to a flatwork contractor before we come back.