Epoxy Flooring in Montrose, SD

Drive west from Sioux Falls on I-90 and you will see what this area does with metal. Porter Sculpture Park, a quarter mile off the interstate on the eastern edge of McCook County, holds more than 60 sculptures welded from scrap, old farm equipment and railroad tie plates. Farm and hobby shops around Montrose do metalwork of their own. That is the starting point for most epoxy flooring jobs we quote here: a working floor that has to stand up to sparks, steel and spilled fluids.

Coating a floor you weld on

Welding and grinding are hard on any floor finish. Hot spatter can mark a coating, and dropped steel can chip a thin one. We talk through how the shop is used before we pick a system:

• Heavy fabrication area: we often suggest leaving a welding zone as bare, sealed concrete or using a thicker, harder system there, and coating the rest of the shop.
• General shop and equipment parking: our commercial and shop floor epoxy at full thickness with a flake broadcast for grip.
• Wash bay or drain area: extra texture in the topcoat so wet boots do not slide.

We will be plain with you about what any coating can and cannot take. A sealed floor still sweeps up slag and metal dust far faster than bare concrete does.

Garages and basements in town

Montrose was platted in 1880, and the 2020 census counted 202 housing units, about the same number as in 2000. That points to a stable, older housing stock with few new builds. Garages in town tend to have aged concrete with cracks, settled sections and stains. Our garage floor coating starts by grinding all of that down to clean concrete and filling every crack before the base coat. For basements, we test moisture first and then talk about basement floor epoxy or a moisture-tolerant primer.

Snow, salt and the I-90 commute

The 1991 to 2020 normals on Wikipedia's Montrose page show about 31 inches of snow a year and 28.08 inches of total precipitation. That is a bit less snow than Sioux Falls gets. Anyone who drives the interstate in winter still brings home plenty of brine. Salt water sitting in a garage slowly scales bare concrete near the door. A coated floor keeps it on top where you can push it out.

When to schedule

Many shops around Montrose are unheated or only partly heated. Coatings need the slab and air above certain temperatures to cure, so we book most unheated jobs from late spring through early fall. A heated shop can often be done in winter. Fast-curing polyaspartic floor coating helps when you cannot spare the building for long.

What a sealed shop floor changes day to day

Shop owners who coat their floors tend to notice the same few things. Metal shavings and slag sweep up instead of embedding in the concrete. Oil and coolant bead on top and wipe off. A light-colored floor reflects shop lights, which helps when you are hunting for a dropped bolt. And the floor stops shedding concrete dust onto everything you store.

Getting a price

We come out, measure, test and look at the floor with you. The written quote lists the prep, the system and the price. Call (605) 299-0051 or

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