Garage floor coatings in Collierville, Tennessee

Garage floor coatings in Collierville, Tennessee, built for Mid-South heat

Mid-South garages live a hard life. Summer humidity above 75 percent pushes moisture up through the slab for months at a time. By August, a south-facing bay can sit at 130 degrees behind a closed door. A bare slab dusts, stains, and pits under that. Garage floor coatings in Collierville, Tennessee seal that surface, and a coated floor cleans up in minutes.

Our Memphis team puts down garage floor coatings across Collierville, Germantown, Eads, Houston Levee, and the rest of the Memphis metro, from new custom homes to garages that have soaked up oil for decades. The Tennessee garage floor coatings page covers every system we offer statewide.

Why do Collierville garages need a tougher spec than a typical Mid-South bay?

Lots of Collierville homes are custom builds, and their garages go well past the stock two-car bay. Three-car, four-car, and detached carriage-house garages with finished rooms above are routine on Schilling Farms, Bray Station, and Houston Levee builds.

Hot tires. After a 100-degree summer drive, your tires come home above 140 degrees. A polyaspartic topcoat shrugs off that heat. A bargain epoxy softens where the tire sits, and it can pull up in chunks within a season. That’s hot-tire pickup.

Shop chemicals. Custom-home garages often double as a workshop. Brake fluid, motor oil, hydraulic fluid, antifreeze, and battery acid all hit the floor over time. The right base is a 100 percent solids epoxy at 10 to 15 mils. That film holds. Cheap water-based epoxy doesn’t.

Looks. Some garages are on show. Think of a carriage house with finished rooms above, or a bay you can see through glass carriage doors. Flake, metallic, and quartz builds beat a solid color for depth, and they hide dirt better day to day.

How does the install run on a Schilling Farms or Houston Levee garage?

Our standard Collierville build runs four steps over two to three working days. The weather that morning sets the pace of each one.

1. Day one: grind the slab. We diamond-grind it to a CSP 3 profile per ICRI standards. That’s a rough, sandpaper-like face the resin can grip. Acid etching only gets to CSP 1, and it leaves a residue that makes the coating let go about two summers in. A CSP number alone doesn’t prove the slab will take resin. So we drop water on the ground concrete, and it should darken and soak in, not bead up. We clean out the cracks and fill them with a moisture-barrier epoxy mortar, then shave it flush before the primer. Oil-soaked spots, common in older Bray Station and Houston Levee garages, get a detergent scrub that sits and then gets vacuumed up. Bad cases get a shot-blast pass that takes off the top millimeter of oily concrete.
2. Day one or two: a moisture test, when the slab calls for it. We look over every slab. We test it if it shows a warning sign, like a pre-1990 pour, water stains, or an old coating that let go, or if you ask. That means a calcium chloride kit per ASTM F1869 and a humidity probe per ASTM F2170, to confirm vapor levels fit the system. The test has to sit undisturbed for a set time, so it can push the schedule back. If readings come in high, a moisture barrier primer goes down before the base coat.
3. Day two: base coat and broadcast. A 100 percent solids epoxy base goes on at 10 to 15 mils. We broadcast flake, metallic, or quartz into the wet base until it won’t take any more. Once the base sets, we vacuum up the loose flake.
4. Day three: polyaspartic topcoat. A clear polyaspartic at 4 to 6 mils seals the system. You can walk on it in 4 to 6 hours and park on it in 24.

What does a polyaspartic system cost on a Collierville custom-home garage?

A full polyaspartic system on a Collierville custom-home garage is priced per job, and the quote tool shows it for your garage. Our standard build is an epoxy base with a polyaspartic topcoat, the Memphis-suburb default, and it runs $8.55 to $10.39 a square foot installed. A two-car garage of 400 to 500 square feet runs $4,000 to $4,900 before the drive cost, which is our trip to your site. A small floor runs above the per-foot range, since setup spreads over fewer feet. The full polyaspartic system costs more because the resin costs more and it takes a more skilled crew to put down. What you get for it is a cure that’s usually done the same day, and that helps on a tight remodel schedule. Polyaspartic stays flexible from below freezing to past 150 degrees. It holds its gloss in direct sun without turning yellow, and it stands up to hot-tire pickup from cars driven on hot Mid-South asphalt. In West Tennessee, the combined system usually lasts 12 to 15 years before it needs a maintenance recoat.

What spec do new-construction Collierville projects need?

A custom-home garage slab should be poured with the coating in mind. That means a 4-inch slab over a plastic vapor barrier, with control joints laid out on purpose. It also means a broom or steel-trowel finish to match the coating spec, and a 28-day cure on record. That gives the coating crew the cleanest slab to work on. Skip any of those steps, and one of two things happens. The coating crew works around it, which adds prep cost. Or you end up with a coating that fails at the bond line within 24 to 36 months. Our Pour-4-Polish process keeps the pour and the finish under one spec, so that hand-off doesn’t break.

What should Collierville property owners know about garage coatings?

High water table near the Wolf River. Low Collierville lots south of Bill Morris Parkway, and along the Wolf River and the head of Nonconnah Creek, sit on river soil. The water table there is shallow, and it moves with the seasons. In late spring, the clay around the slab is full of water, and the sun hasn’t started drying it out yet. That’s when vapor pushes up through the slab. So the moisture barrier goes down first. Then the coating.

Clay that swells. The silty clay across Shelby and Fayette counties is expansive soil, so it swells when it’s wet and shrinks as it dries, and that moves the slab with the seasons. We fill stable hairline cracks with a moisture-barrier epoxy mortar before we coat. A moving crack is different. It needs a structural look before we commit to a system.

Pre-1990 garages. Older homes come with older problems: years of oil stains, cracks along control joints, and chipped edges by the overhead door. The big one is a thin or missing vapor barrier under the slab. Plastic sheeting under home slabs didn’t become standard until the late 1980s. We walk every Collierville garage before we quote, and we price the slab’s condition honestly. No surprises halfway through.

Related Collierville and West Tennessee pages

For other Collierville services, see Collierville polished concrete and Collierville concrete flatwork. For the wider metro, see Memphis garage floor coatings and Memphis polished concrete. For the systems themselves, see epoxy flooring and polyaspartic coatings. For the whole state, see Tennessee garage floor coatings or the Tennessee state hub. The Collierville city page covers everything we do in town, and the garage floor coatings service page covers the service in full.