Garage Floor Coatings in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.

Cannon Falls has an older core than its size suggests. The housing along the river and up the hill from downtown Mill Street runs from the 1880s to the 1920s, and the garages that go with it are usually detached, unheated, and on slabs poured decades after the house. Century-old concrete is worth reading before it is quoted: it is often thinner than modern concrete, was frequently poured without a vapor barrier, and has generally been painted at least once along the way. Behind that core is ordinary mid-century housing, and the newer building on the east side toward US-52 has modern slabs that grind clean. Outside the city limits the work changes shape entirely, because this is farm country and the detached shop or pole building is normal: a bigger floor, heavier equipment, oil and fuel, often no heat. Cannon Falls also gets none of the heat-island moderation the metro has, so its concrete crosses freezing more times each winter and door-line spalling shows up earlier here than it does in the suburbs.

Garage Floor Coatings specifically in Cannon Falls

Cannon Falls garages run a wide age range for a small town. The 1880s to 1920s core along the river and up from Mill Street has detached, unheated garages on slabs poured long after the house, which need a temperature window for curing and the most prep: prior paint, thin concrete, spalled edges. Mid-century and newer housing behind the core and out toward US-52 has conventional attached garages on slabs that grind predictably. Out on the farm ground the job is often a shop or machine shed floor instead.

Neighborhoods we work in

• Downtown Mill Street
• The Cannon River flats
• Hannah's Bend
• Highway 19 corridor
• The US-52 east side
• The bluff above the river