Epoxy Flooring in Morgantown, IN

Epoxy flooring in Morgantown usually starts with concrete that has seen a lot of years. Robert Bowles and Samuel Teeters laid out the first 52 lots here in March 1831, and the town's historic district joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. Homes on lots that old often have garages, sheds and basement floors poured, patched and re-poured by several owners. We plan each coating around what that history left behind.

What we find under old garage floors

Older slabs in town tend to share a few problems:

• Several pours of different ages meeting at uneven seams
• Old gray porch paint or a sealer that has half worn off
• Oil and drip stains soaked deep into bare concrete
• Pitting and scaling in the first few feet inside the door
• Hairline cracks running out from the corners

None of these rule out a coating. Every one of them changes the prep. Paint and sealer have to be ground off completely, or the new coat bonds to the old film and peels with it. Uneven seams get ground and filled. Deep oil gets cleaned out or treated so it does not push up through the base coat later.

A small town with a tight housing market

The 2020 census counted 1,014 people and 416 housing units in Morgantown, packed into about 0.38 square miles. The rental vacancy rate that year was 0.6%, and the homeowner rate was 3.2%. Houses here do not sit empty long. Landlords tell us they want a floor that cleans up fast between tenants. Owners who plan to stay want a garage they can use as a workshop or a home gym. Both groups end up asking for a coated floor that is easy to sweep and mop.

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Low ground near Indian Creek

Indian Creek runs along the town's southern edge and flows west toward the White River south of Martinsville. Homes on the lower streets near the creek can have damp basement slabs in a wet spring. Before we recommend a basement coating, we test the slab for moisture. A modest reading calls for a primer made for damp concrete. Water seeping through a crack or the floor-wall joint has to be fixed before any coating goes down, and we will tell you that up front.

Services that fit Morgantown floors

• Concrete crack and floor repair comes first on many older slabs, filling cracks, chipped joints and low spots so the coating sits on a sound surface.
• Garage floor epoxy with a flake broadcast hides the patchwork of an old slab and gives a uniform finish.
• Basement floor epoxy turns a damp-smelling storage floor into a usable room once moisture checks out.
• Polyaspartic topcoats help when you need the garage back within a day or so.
• Shop floor epoxy suits detached garages and outbuildings used for repairs and projects.

On the road between three towns

State Routes 135 and 252 meet in the middle of town on Washington Street. Martinsville is about 10 miles northwest, Nashville about 12 miles south and Trafalgar about 6 miles northeast. A lot of Morgantown residents drive those routes every day, and in winter that means brine and slush carried home into the garage. A sealed floor keeps that brine on the surface, where you can squeegee it out the door instead of letting it soak into the concrete.