Patios & Porches in North St. Paul, Minnesota.

North St. Paul is built on small lots, and small lots are the whole story for a floor coating here. Around downtown and Silver Lake, the housing dates to the 1900s through the 1920s and the garage is frequently detached, single-car, unheated and reached from the alley, standing on a slab that is either original or was replaced at some point nobody has a record of. That means two things: the coating has to be done inside a temperature window, because an unheated slab has to be warm enough for polyurea to cure, and the slab has to be read before it is quoted, because century-old concrete is often thin and was poured without a vapor barrier. The rest of the city is 1940s through 1960s post-war housing with small attached garages on slabs that grind predictably and that have usually been painted at least once. Salt is heavier here than in neighborhoods away from the highways, because Highway 36 and Century Avenue are treated all winter and every car on them parks here.

Patios & Porches specifically in North St. Paul

North St. Paul patios and porch slabs are small, like everything else on these lots, and many of them sit against a house whose foundation has settled, so the slab has both a slope and a crack to deal with before a coating goes on. Polyurea with a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat handles the freeze-thaw and holds color in the sun. Anti-slip aggregate is standard on front steps and on the shaded slabs under the old trees these blocks are full of.

Neighborhoods we work in

• Downtown and Seventh Avenue
• Silver Lake
• Casey Lake
• Margaret Street corridor
• Gateway Trail corridor
• Highway 36 frontage