Epoxy Flooring in Crawfordsville, IN

Epoxy flooring in Crawfordsville gets asked to do real work. This is a manufacturing town. Nucor broke ground on its first sheet steel mill here in 1987, and the city is known as the home of the world's first thin-slab casting minimill. Printing has been here even longer, in the plant that began as R.R. Donnelley in the early 1920s and now runs as Lakeside Book Company. People who spend their days around heavy equipment tend to want garage and shop floors that can take a dropped wrench and a fluid spill.

Two kinds of Crawfordsville jobs

Most of our calls here fall into one of two groups.

• Working garages and home shops. Tool chests on casters, floor jacks, a welder in the corner, a truck that comes home dirty. These floors need a thicker system with a chemical-resistant topcoat.
• Older houses near downtown. Crawfordsville was laid out in 1823 and became a city in 1865. Its basements and detached garages often carry decades of paint, patches and settlement cracks.

We price the two very differently, so we always look at the slab in person first.

Shop floors around a steel town

For a home shop or a small commercial bay, we usually recommend our Shop & Commercial Floor Epoxy. It goes on thicker than a standard garage coat and is built for rolling loads. A broadcast of fine aggregate in the topcoat adds grip where hydraulic fluid or coolant might land. If you run a small business out of a pole building on the edge of town, we can match the system to the traffic and the chemicals you actually use.

Historic homes and older slabs

The city has 12 properties on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Elston Grove Historic District and the Crawfordsville Commercial Historic District. Homes of that age often have basements with uneven floors and old coatings that are coming loose. Our Concrete Crack & Floor Repair work handles that first. We grind off the failing paint, fill cracks and spalls, and feather low spots before any coating goes down. Then Basement Floor Epoxy over a moisture-tested primer gives you a clean, bright floor for laundry, storage or a workout room.

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Rentals near the college

Wabash College has about 900 students, and the city has plenty of rental housing around it. Census figures put Crawfordsville's rental vacancy rate at 7.7% in 2020. Landlords who want a basement or garage floor that cleans up fast between tenants often pick an Epoxy Flake Floor. The chips hide wear and the surface mops clean.

Sugar Creek and damp slabs

Crawfordsville was founded on the bank of Sugar Creek, a southern tributary of the Wabash. Homes on lower ground near the creek can have basement slabs that stay damp through spring. We take a moisture reading on every basement before we choose a primer. A normal reading gets a standard primer. A higher one gets a moisture-tolerant primer. If water is running through cracks, we will tell you to fix that first, because no floor coating stops a leak.

Our process in Crawfordsville

1. We visit, measure, and test the slab for moisture. 2. We note cracks, oil stains and any old coating. 3. You get a written quote that lists prep, coats and total. 4. On install day we diamond grind, repair, and coat in order. 5. You get written times for walking, moving items back and parking.