Surface Prep & Repair in St. Paul, Minnesota.

St. Paul is older than every suburb around it, and it is the one place where the detached alley garage is the normal case rather than the exception. Across Macalester-Groveland, Merriam Park, Summit Hill, Hamline-Midway and Dayton's Bluff, the garage sits at the back of the lot off the alley, holds one or two cars, has no heat, and stands on a slab that is either original to a 1910s or 1920s house or was replaced at some point nobody remembers. Those two facts change the job. An unheated slab has to be coated inside a temperature window, and an old slab has to be read before it is quoted: 1920s concrete is often thin, sometimes has no vapor barrier under it, and can carry a century of oil. Highland Park, Como and Battle Creek are the post-war half of the city, mostly 1940s to 1960s, with attached and tuck-under garages on slabs that grind predictably. Highland Bridge is the newest concrete in St. Paul, poured from 2019 on, and it behaves like any other new build. We diamond grind to bare concrete on all of them and moisture test before quoting any lower-level or tuck-under floor.

Surface Prep & Repair specifically in St. Paul

St. Paul has more surface prep demand than anywhere else we work, and the reason is age. A hundred-year-old garage or basement slab in the pre-1940 neighborhoods has usually been painted at least once, patched at least once, and cracked from both settlement and freeze-thaw. We diamond grind to bare concrete, remove failed paint and old coatings, repair spalled edges, fill structural cracks with polyurea, and moisture test before quoting an install. Prep alone is available if you want a sound, clean slab now and a coating later.

Neighborhoods we work in

• Highland Park
• Macalester-Groveland
• Merriam Park
• Summit Hill / Cathedral Hill
• Como Park
• St. Anthony Park
• Battle Creek / Highwood Hills
• Dayton's Bluff
• West Seventh / Fort Road
• Hamline-Midway
• Payne-Phalen
• Highland Bridge