Surface Prep & Repair in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota.

Oak Park Heights is one of the shortest runs we make into Minnesota, and it is an unusual city. Fewer than five thousand people live here, but Highway 36 runs the length of the city and brings retail, auto service, restaurants and light industrial with it, plus the power plant on the river and the state correctional facility, so the commercial floor here is a bigger share of the concrete than the residential floor is. On the housing side the stock is 1950s through 1970s ramblers and split-levels, on slabs sixty-odd years old that carry the usual load of settlement cracking, door-line spalling and old floor paint, with 1990s and 2000s townhomes and the Boutwells Landing campus filling in later. The St. Croix Crossing is the other local fact: it put a four-lane bridge and a highway interchange in a town this size, so the salt load through here in winter is what a much bigger city would see. Lower ground toward Highway 95 and the river carries more humidity than the bench up along Highway 36, and that difference shows up in the moisture readings.

Surface Prep & Repair specifically in Oak Park Heights

Oak Park Heights prep is mostly door-line spalling, settlement cracking and old floor paint on the residential side, and worn, oil-soaked or previously coated slabs on the Highway 36 commercial corridor. We diamond grind to bare concrete, remove failed paint and coatings, rebuild spalled edges, fill cracks with polyurea and moisture test before quoting an install. Prep on its own is available where a slab needs to be sound and clean before anything else happens.

Neighborhoods we work in

• Highway 36 corridor
• Highway 95 riverfront
• Boutwells Landing
• Osgood Avenue
• Oakgreen Avenue
• The Stillwater border