Included
any coating job
- Diamond grinding
- Crack & joint repair
- Spalling patch as needed
- Built into coating price
Surface Prep & Repair · North Hudson, WI · Est. 2003
North Hudson is the village immediately north of Hudson on the east bank of the St. Croix River, in St. Croix County, with Highway 35 running the length of it. It was settled heavily by Italian families, and the Pepper Festival it has held since 1954 still falls on the third full weekend of August. About 20 minutes north of River Falls. We install polyurea + polyaspartic floor coatings for North Hudson homeowners: diamond-ground prep, custom flake colors, 1–2 day install, written 15-year warranty. An older core near the water with houses from the late 1800s through the 1940s, then a large postwar build-out behind it: the village went from about a thousand people in 1960 to over three thousand by 1990, so most of the housing outside the core is 1960s through 1990s, with newer construction on the east side.
Surface Prep & Repair in North Hudson
North Hudson is a narrow village stretched along the river, and its concrete divides on elevation more than on address. Down near the water, in the older core and along the riverfront, houses run from the late 1800s through the 1940s and their garages are frequently detached and unheated, on slabs poured decades after the house. An unheated slab has to be warm enough for the polyurea to cure, and an old slab gets read before it is quoted: concrete that age is often thin, sometimes has no vapor barrier under it, and usually carries a coat of floor paint somebody rolled on. Behind and above that band, the 1960s through 1990s build-out is conventional attached two-car garage stock on slabs that grind predictably. Anything within a block or two of the St. Croix carries more ground moisture than the ground uphill, so a lower level or walkout down there gets tested before a coating goes on it. Highway 35 runs through the middle of the village, and the salt off it comes into garages on tires all winter.
North Hudson prep is mostly age and salt. The older riverfront core brings slabs that have been painted at least once and spalled at the door line; the 1960s through 1990s ring brings settlement cracking. We diamond grind to bare concrete, take off failed paint and old coatings, rebuild spalled edges, fill cracks with polyurea, and moisture test anything on the low ground before an install is quoted. Prep on its own is available if you want a sound, clean slab now and a coating later.
Why we don't install epoxy in North Hudson
Surface prep is where cheap coating installs get cheap. Acid etching takes 30 minutes with a $40 jug of muriatic acid; diamond grinding takes hours with $30,000 worth of equipment. The cost difference is why some installers acid etch, and the bond difference is why those floors peel. Here's the head-to-head:
If a coating contractor offers to "save you money on prep" by acid-etching, that's the moment to walk away. The prep is the foundation of the install; saving 30 minutes on prep guarantees a re-install in 18 months. Diamond grinding is the only surface prep we do, and it's included in every coating price.
North Hudson Pricing
For a coating install, prep is included in the per-sq-ft coating price: never a separate line item, never an upsell. For standalone prep work (sub-contracting to another coating contractor or repair-only jobs), pricing depends on slab condition + scope.
any coating job
any sq ft
linear ft + sq ft
Standalone prep is typically a contractor-to-contractor arrangement, but homeowners with damaged slabs sometimes commission repair-only work as a stopgap before a future coating install. Send photos + scope and Dave will quote.
The 6-step install
Same checklist on every floor. The reason our coatings still look new at year ten when the cheap stuff peeled in year two.
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Whatever the slab (garage, basement, patio, mudroom, commercial) gets the same diamond-ground prep, same polyurea + polyaspartic system, same 15-year warranty. Bundle pricing if you book multiple rooms in one visit.
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Same diamond-ground prep, same polyurea + polyaspartic system, same 15-year warranty across our entire service area. If you're outside {city}, here's where else we install.
Get a quote
Send four photos of your slab and we'll text back a real North Hudson number same-day. No salesperson, no quote-bot, no follow-up calls.