Epoxy Flooring in Chancellor, SD

Epoxy flooring in Chancellor often means a bigger slab than people expect. The town itself is small, about 0.22 square miles on Census figures, but the farm ground around it is full of shops, machine sheds and heated pole buildings with concrete floors. Those floors carry tractors, grain trucks and pickups that come in caked with mud in spring and salt in winter. A coating turns that slab into something you can scrape, squeegee and hose down.

Two kinds of calls we get from the Chancellor area

• The home garage in town. Chancellor had 131 housing units at the 2010 census. Many are older homes on town lots with one- or two-stall garages. These floors usually need crack repair and grinding to remove old paint or sealer before anything else.
• The farm or hobby shop outside town. These are wide slabs with floor drains, overhead doors and a lot of equipment traffic. Here the questions are about chemical resistance, grip and how long the shop can be out of use.

What fits a working shop

For a shop where you change oil, grease bearings and park equipment, we usually recommend our Commercial & Shop Floor Epoxy system. It goes down thicker than a typical garage system and holds up to dropped tools and hydraulic fluid. A flake broadcast in the top layers adds texture so the floor is less slick when it is wet. If you need the building back fast, a polyaspartic topcoat cures faster than epoxy and can shorten downtime.

We will also ask how you heat the shop. A floor that sits near freezing most of the winter changes when we can install and which products we use. We check slab temperature and moisture on the day and will reschedule rather than coat a cold or damp floor.

What fits a garage in town

Most Chancellor homeowners ask for a garage floor coating with flake. It hides dust and small chips, and it handles the meltwater that rides in on tires from November into March. If the basement is damp or musty, we test it before suggesting basement floor epoxy. Some basements need a moisture-tolerant primer, and a few need a drainage fix first.

Permits and paperwork

The Town of Chancellor lists building permits, town ordinances and zoning regulations on its forms page, and the town office is at Town Hall on 2nd Avenue. A floor coating inside an existing building is usually simple work. If your project also includes a new shop, an addition or a new slab, check with the town office before you pour. We are glad to coat a new slab once it has cured, and we will tell you how long to wait.

Caring for a coated shop floor

A coated floor is easy to keep up, but a shop still needs some routine care:

• Push out standing slush and mud with a wide squeegee instead of letting it dry on the floor
• Wipe up hydraulic fluid, diesel and battery acid soon after a spill
• Set a scrap of plywood or a rubber mat under jack stands and kickstands
• Rinse the floor with water and a mild cleaner a few times a year, and give it a good wash after winter

Those habits keep the topcoat looking good and make any small chip easy to spot and touch up.

How we price a Chancellor floor

We measure the slab, look at every crack and stain and test for moisture. Then you get a written quote that lists the system, the prep steps, the number of coats and the total. Distance from Sioux Falls does not change how we prepare the floor. Call (605) 299-0051 or

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to set up a visit.