Coating a Newer Gilbert Slab
A young slab is not the same job as a thirty year old one, and it is mostly good news. There is rarely much cracking to chase or an old coating to grind off, so the preparation is cleaner and the finish sits flatter. What a newer slab can still carry is moisture moving up through the concrete, which is the single thing most likely to lift a coating that was put down over it. That is what the base coat is there to handle.
The rooms are usually the whole ground floor rather than one space. Hallways and open living areas where tile and grout have started to look tired, laundry and mud rooms that take everything from outside, and the garage, which in a newer house is often the cleanest slab on the property. The preparation does not change between them: the concrete is ground and profiled first, and that step decides whether the coating stays down. For the full technical explanation, here is how the layers of an epoxy floor stack up on our Phoenix page.
