Epoxy Flooring in Lugoff, SC

Lugoff is a town of homeowners, and that shapes the epoxy flooring work we do there. Census QuickFacts puts the owner-occupied rate at 87.3% for 2020 to 2024. People who own their homes tend to treat the garage as part of the house. They want a floor that looks finished, cleans easily and lasts, and they are willing to prep it properly to get there.

Growth since 2010

The census counted 7,434 people in Lugoff in 2010 and 9,990 in 2020, a gain of more than a third in ten years. Households rose from 2,861 to 3,217 over the same stretch. New households mean new slabs. A new garage floor is usually flat and sound, but it often has a slick troweled finish or a curing compound on top. Coatings do not bond well to either one. We diamond grind the whole floor, edges included, so the base coat soaks into open concrete.

Room to spread out

Lugoff covers about 23 square miles, and its 2020 density was only about 439 people per square mile. That is spread-out living compared with suburbs closer to Columbia. Properties like that often include more than an attached garage: a detached shop, a carport slab, a pole barn with a concrete floor or a back patio. We coat all of them, and we choose a different system for each:

• Attached garage: flake epoxy with a polyaspartic topcoat for a finished look.
• Detached shop or pole barn: a thicker 100% solids epoxy that stands up to jacks, welding carts and dropped tools, with grit added near work areas.
• Patio or pool deck: a textured, UV-stable coating in a lighter color that stays cooler underfoot.
• Bonus room or home gym over a slab: metallic epoxy for a poured, glossy look.

Shop floors get extra attention

A working shop sees oil, brake fluid, solvents and heavy point loads. Thin garage paint lifts under a floor jack. For shop floors we build thicker, choose chemical-resistant topcoats and talk with you about texture. A smooth floor is easy to sweep. A floor with some grip is safer when it is wet. Most owners pick a middle ground with more texture where they stand and work.

The railroad town

Lugoff takes its name from Count Lugoff, a Russian engineer who worked on the Seaboard Air Line Railway in 1899, and the railroad once had a station here. Some older homes near the original crossroads have slabs poured long before today's subdivisions. Older concrete can carry decades of oil, patched cracks and paint. We test how the slab takes water, grind past the contamination and repair what we find before any coating goes down.

Our process in Lugoff

1. Walk the floor with you and agree on what gets coated. 2. Check moisture, cracks and any existing coating. 3. Grind, vacuum and repair. 4. Apply base coat, flake or color and topcoat. 5. Give you written cure times before you park or move furniture back.

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