Basement Floor Coatings in West St. Paul, Minnesota.

West St. Paul is a post-war suburb and the garages are exactly what that means: attached one and two-car garages on 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s houses, on slabs that are now sixty to eighty years old. They are also narrower than what gets built today, so the usable floor is smaller and the walls take more of the wear. A slab that age is normally sound and normally tired, and it carries three things the grind has to remove: settlement cracking, spalling where the door meets the weather, and a coat of gray floor paint from some earlier decade. What separates West St. Paul from the Dakota County river towns below it is elevation. The city sits on the bluff top, well above the Mississippi, so basement slabs here read lower on a moisture test than the ones in South St. Paul or Inver Grove Heights down on the flats. What West St. Paul does get in quantity is road salt, because Robert Street is plowed and treated hard from November to March and every car on it comes home to a garage.

Basement Floor Coatings specifically in West St. Paul

West St. Paul basements sit on the bluff above the Mississippi rather than on the flats, so they generally test lower for moisture than basements in the river towns below. Every one still gets a calcium chloride test before it is quoted, because 1950s slabs were not consistently poured over a vapor barrier and it varies house to house. Where a reading comes back high the floor gets a vapor-mitigation primer under the polyurea; where it reads low, standard polyurea goes down.

Neighborhoods we work in

• Robert Street corridor
• Southview
• Signal Hills
• Thompson Oaks
• Dodd Road corridor
• Marie Avenue
• Wentworth Avenue