Epoxy Flooring in La Porte City, IA

Epoxy flooring in La Porte City covers two very different floors. One is the concrete in a farm shop or machine shed outside town. The other is the basement or detached garage of a house that may be more than a hundred years old. The city was platted in 1855 and named after La Porte, Indiana, the former home of one of its founders. The census classifies all of its residents as rural.

Shop and machine shed floors

A farm shop floor takes punishment that a garage never sees. Tractors and skid loaders, hydraulic fluid, diesel, fertilizer dust and steel tracks all end up on the concrete. For these floors we use our heavier shop systems:

• A 100% solids epoxy base built thicker than a residential coat.
• A broadcast of sand or aggregate for traction when the floor is wet or oily.
• A chemical-resistant topcoat that holds up to fuel and hydraulic fluid.
• Coated or sealed edges along walls and around floor drains.

We can also coat just the work bays and leave equipment storage as bare concrete, which keeps the cost down on a large building.

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Older homes in town

La Porte City has one of the oldest housing stocks in the area. ACS estimates summarized by Point2Homes show 334 of its 996 homes, or 33.5%, were built in 1939 or earlier, and the median year built is 1957. The old town hall and fire station on Main Street was finished in 1876, five years after the town was organized.

Floors in houses that old may be uneven, patched, painted several times, or poured thinner than modern slabs. Basement floors in particular can be damp or have old efflorescence. We test, grind and repair first. If a slab is too far gone for a coating to last, we will say so.

Agriculture is part of the town

The La Porte City FFA Historical and Ag Museum runs two sites, including more than 4,000 square feet of rotating exhibits on Main Street. Farming is part of daily life here, and that shows in the shops and sheds we get calls about.

Pole buildings and new shop slabs

Many farm shops and machine sheds in the area are steel pole buildings with a poured slab. If yours is new, the concrete needs time to cure and dry before a coating. Ask your concrete crew for a hard troweled or lightly broomed finish that suits a coating, and we will grind it to the right profile when it is ready. If you plan to coat later, keep fuel and fluid off the bare slab as much as you can, since deep stains add prep.

Heating and timing

A heated shop can be coated in winter. An unheated machine shed is usually a late-spring to early-fall job, since most resins need the slab and the air above set minimum temperatures. We check the slab temperature on the day and reschedule rather than coat a floor that is too cold.