Epoxy Flooring in Palm Bay, FL

Epoxy flooring in Palm Bay mostly means garage floors, because this is a city of detached houses. Single-family detached houses make up about 83.5% of homes here, based on ACS figures that Point2Homes summarizes. The street grid itself dates to 1959, when General Development Corporation bought and platted large tracts here for its Port Malabar project, and many of the homes followed in two big waves.

The 1980s wave

Nearly a third of Palm Bay's housing, 31.9%, was built in the 1980s. Those slabs are now around forty years old. By that age, a garage floor has usually picked up hairline cracks, oil stains that have soaked deep, and in some cases an old coat of paint that is lifting. A coating will only grip as well as the surface under it, so we grind off anything loose, fill the cracks and degrease the stained areas before any epoxy goes down.

The 2000s wave

Another 27% of homes went up between 2000 and 2009. These slabs are flatter and less stained, but builders often left a curing compound or a cheap sealer on them. That film has to come off, too. A light grind is usually enough, which can make a newer garage a quicker job.

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Drainage and ground moisture

Wikipedia notes that the drainage canals dug from 1922 onward left parts of the land more vulnerable to flooding, and the city averages about 55.55 inches of rain a year. Water under and around a slab pushes vapor upward. We test every Palm Bay floor for moisture, and when the numbers run high, the primer changes to one made for damp concrete.

Choosing a finish

Most owners here pick full vinyl flake sealed under a polyaspartic topcoat. The flake hides dirt and adds grip, and polyaspartic resists yellowing when the door is open to the afternoon sun. For anyone who works at the large L3Harris campus on Palm Bay Road and wants a cleaner, shop-like look at home, a solid color lightly broadcast with flake is another option.