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Exterior concrete in Cave Creek deals with a harder version of the same problem: the direct sun everywhere in the valley gets, plus real runoff when a monsoon comes off higher ground, and a wider swing between afternoon and night. Dialed In Epoxy coats driveways, patios and walkways in UV stable polyaspartic, base and topcoat both, because epoxy chalks outdoors. ROC 358358, and we are licensed, bonded and insured.
Call (602) 820-7739Water is the failure no topcoat fixes, and around Cave Creek it tends to arrive fast rather than steadily. A slab sitting below a slope, beside a wash, or at the bottom of a drive takes monsoon water that fell somewhere else entirely, and it takes it carrying grit. Standing water afterwards is the obvious version of the problem. The one that does damage quietly is moisture drawn up from underneath a slab that never fully dries out between storms. Both get assessed before a quote, because no coating holds on concrete that is pushing water back at it.
Grit carried in moving water behaves like a mild abrasive, so the exterior surfaces that wear first are the ones water crosses rather than the ones people stand on. That changes what gets specified where. A patio that only ever sees the rain falling on it is a different job from an apron a wash runs across twice a summer. We look at the whole run of concrete rather than at each slab on its own, because water does not stop at a control joint. Where a run of concrete crosses a drop, the lower slab is usually the one that has taken the most and the one worth looking at first. If you want the material side in full, here is what goes into an exterior coating, coat by coat.
Cave Creek sits high enough that the daily temperature swing is wider than it is lower down, and concrete answers that by expanding and contracting further. Polyaspartic is specified here for a reason beyond holding its color: it stays flexible enough to move with a slab that expands through a 115 degree afternoon and contracts again overnight. Control joints are honored rather than filled over, so the concrete still moves where it was built to move instead of cracking somewhere it was not. Where a slab has already cracked because of that movement, the crack is cut out and filled before anything goes over it, rather than coated across and left to reopen through the finish. Call (602) 820-7739 or use the form on this page.
Three stages on every exterior concrete coating in Cave Creek, AZ, and the first one decides the other two.
We mechanically grind, profile and vacuum the concrete with diamond tooling, which takes off the weathered top layer along with any old sealer. Exterior slabs almost always carry one, and a coating laid over an existing sealer has nothing to bond to. That preparation runs under every interior floor we lay: the four layers of an epoxy floor build, in order.
Cracks, spalled edges and pitted areas are cut out, filled and ground flush. Control joints are honored rather than filled over, so the slab can still move where it was designed to move instead of cracking somewhere new.
Then the system itself: a polyaspartic base, the color layer, and two coats of UV stable polyaspartic over the top, with anti-slip aggregate broadcast in where it was specified. A polyaspartic build goes down in a day, which on a driveway is the difference between one afternoon without the car and a week of it.
If you want to protect your concrete floor from damage, improve safety, and keep your space looking its best, give us a call or fill in our FREE quote form.
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