Dyer Indiana Epoxy Flooring for Salt-Pitted Garages

Dyer sits on the Illinois line in Lake County. A lot of the cars we see here spend the workday on salted roads and come home wet. So the crust on the tires doesn’t stay on the tires. It melts onto the garage slab. After a salty winter, the tire paths look pitted. That’s when owners ask about Epoxy Flooring in Dyer.

We have walked into garages and found the surface paste worn off in two stripes. The stone shows through. But the wear is heavier where the tires sit. Little craters mark the parking spot. Because brine soaked into the pores and the slab froze and thawed, the top broke loose. Salt from the winter roads starts that cycle.

US 30 runs through Dyer, Indiana. Plenty of drives run west into Illinois. Others head north toward the Chicago suburbs. When snow moves through northwest Indiana, crews salt those roads. Then the car sits overnight and the undercarriage drips. After you pull out, a wet salt ring stays on the slab. We have swept that residue in spring and still found those spots soft.

A mat by the door catches some of the melt. But brine that already soaked into open concrete is still in the slab. When the garage is unheated, that wet concrete freezes overnight. So the pitting keeps going under the mat. We have pulled mats back and found craters in the same tire path.

Garage Salt Wear and Epoxy Flooring in Dyer

Salt water pits this concrete. So we coat the slab and keep that brine on the surface. When the coating bonds to concrete we have ground clean, the pores stay closed. You mop the salt off the surface. People call us after the same stripes get worse winter after winter.

On a garage in Dyer we grind the surface so the coating has something to grab. Then we fill the small pits. After that we put the coating down. We have seen floors where someone painted over salt dust, and the paint peeled. So we don’t coat a dirty slab. The grind has to reach sound concrete.

The coated floor is easier to keep clean. Salt grinds into a rough open surface and stays there. We have coated garages where the owner was tired of gray dust and dark wet marks by the door. After the floor cured, a broom and a mop handled what used to stick. For example, salt stains the drip line just inside the overhead door. A mop takes care of that drip line.

Epoxy Flooring in Dyer When the Slab Needs Work First

A coating won’t hold on a floor that is already breaking up. So we look at the pits before we talk about color. We grind and fill shallow scaling. A deep crater takes patch work before any coating. When a tire path has lost too much concrete, we talk about removal and a pour back. Sometimes that section is a tear out and replace. Garage floors are a steady part of the work we do in Dyer.

We have cut out sections where the top had gone loose and the concrete below still held. Then we poured that area back. We coated the whole floor after the new concrete cured. Because a coating over a weak spot fails, we build that wait into the job. Our crew knows these floors. We write the repair and the coating as separate lines on the quote.

Cabe’s Concrete is a family owned company, and our doors opened in 2006. We specialize in epoxying floors. We also handle the concrete under them, from patch work through concrete removal and replacement. You can see finished floors in our photo gallery. Then we talk through the color and the finish with you. We source the coating products ourselves, so we know what is going on the slab.

If the surface is gone across the whole slab, replacement comes before any coating. We handle garage epoxy flooring and the concrete under it. We schedule the coating after any new concrete is ready. Our About Us page covers how the company works. In Dyer, Indiana, the heavy wear still shows in the tire paths. The drip zone just inside the overhead door takes the same wear.