Richmond floor coatings
The oldest concrete on our map is in Richmond
Richmond was incorporated in 1837 and has been the seat of Fort Bend County since 1838, older than almost everything else our Houston, TX crew drives to. We come in on US 90A or down FM 359. It is a short drive for a job that asks more questions than the newer suburbs do.
The reason is the age spread. Inside the city limits the median home was built in the mid 1980s and about a fifth of the housing went up before 1970, while the subdivisions on FM 359 are barely finished. A 1960s slab and a 2024 slab need different plans. Either way it ends with the same garage floor coating built on properly ground concrete.
The Brazos is the reason we test first
The Brazos cuts Richmond in two, and living beside it is part of the deal. Houses here are built slab on grade, so your garage floor sits on ground that holds water. The USDA soil survey puts this area in the Clodine series: very deep, somewhat poorly drained, with about 49 inches of rain a year (USDA soil series descriptions). Water does not run off, it sits, and some comes up through the slab as vapor.
That vapor is the number one reason a coating lets go in Richmond, and it has nothing to do with the product on top. If moisture pushes up faster than a coating can handle, the bond fails from underneath. So on any slab low to the river we run a moisture test before we quote. Sealing the concrete is often part of the answer.
What we handle here
Floors we coat in Richmond
Moisture Testing Before Anything Goes Down
On a slab this close to the Brazos, testing comes before product. We check how much moisture is moving up through the concrete and how the slab sits relative to the yard. Old concrete that tests high is not a lost cause, it needs the right build and primer. Part of it is simply sealing the concrete properly.
Garage Floors On Older Slabs
An older Richmond garage has usually had a hard life: oil soaked in, hairline cracks from decades of clay moving underneath, maybe a coat of porch paint from the nineties. We grind it back to open concrete, fill the cracks, then build a flake floor that hides the history. Here is how the garage floor build works.
Shop and Back Of House Floors
Richmond has working buildings as well as houses, and a shop floor has a different problem to a garage. Carts, pallet jacks and cleaning chemicals land on it, and the owner cannot shut the doors for a week. We section the space and finish with a polyaspartic topcoat. Tell us what happens in the room and we will spec a commercial floor coating for it.
Patios, Porches and Walkways
Outdoor concrete in Richmond takes the full weight of the climate: sun, humidity, heavy rain and the odd flood scare off the river. Bare slabs go chalky and grow a green film on the shaded side. A sealed surface sheds that and washes down in minutes. See more of the floors we have finished.
Why Richmond calls us
We would rather test it than guess at it
James Walsh drives out to Richmond and does the estimate himself. He looks at how the slab sits, what the surface has been through and whether the concrete is giving off moisture. Then he runs the crew that grinds it and coats it.
He is honest about the limits of the trade. He does not pour concrete and he does not fix a slab breaking up underneath. What he does is take the surface back to bare concrete and put a floor on it that lives with a Gulf Coast climate. If your slab is not a candidate you hear that on the first visit.
Old Richmond, new Richmond, same truck
Downtown Richmond is a real historic district, not a theme. The 1908 Fort Bend County Courthouse and its copper dome sit at the middle of it, and Morton Cemetery down by the river has Jane Long and Mirabeau Lamar in it. Around it, older streets like Hillcrest and Winston Terrace carry garages with concrete from an era when nobody sealed anything.
Then you drive five minutes and it is a different century. Pecan Grove and the subdivisions along the Grand Parkway are full of three car garages that have never been coated. We take the same grinder to every one of them.
Where we work
Coating garage, patio and commercial floors across Richmond
We cover Richmond end to end, from the historic district out to Pecan Grove and the newer subdivisions on FM 359. Next door we run the same work in Sugar Land and Fulshear, and north of both in Houston.
Ask the guy doing the work
Straight answers about your floor coating questions
Why do you test for moisture on Richmond floors?
Because Richmond sits on the Brazos and the ground holds water. Homes are built slab on grade, so moisture can move up through the concrete and break the bond from underneath. Testing first tells us which system your slab can carry.
My garage is from the 1960s. Can concrete that old be coated?
Usually yes. Old Richmond concrete is often dense and sound, it is just stained and never sealed. We grind it back to open concrete, fill the surface cracks and pinholes, then build the floor. If the slab is failing structurally we will say so.
Do you fix the cracks in my slab?
We fill surface cracks and pinholes on every Richmond floor as part of prep, because a coating needs a continuous surface. We do not pour concrete or do structural repair. If the slab has a real problem underneath, you need a concrete contractor first.
Is a coated floor a good idea if we have flooded before?
A sealed slab is easier to clean up and does not soak water and silt into the concrete the way a bare floor does. It is not flood protection, but it makes the aftermath a lot less miserable.
Do you cover the newer neighborhoods with a Richmond address?
Yes. Pecan Grove, the streets off FM 359 and the subdivisions along the Grand Parkway are all part of our Richmond map, and those newer garages are the easiest floors we do.
How do I get started on my Richmond floor?
Call (346) 278-3376. James drives out himself, looks at the slab, tests it if it needs testing, and gives you a free estimate. No obligation and no pressure on the day.