Epoxy Flooring in Frenchtown, MT

Frenchtown homeowners call us about epoxy flooring for a simple reason: a lot of the houses here are new enough that the garage slab is still plain gray concrete. The census counted 883 people in Frenchtown in 2000, 1,825 in 2010 and 1,958 in 2020. Growth like that means subdivisions, fresh driveways and attached garages that nobody has gotten around to coating. We drive out from Missoula on I-90, about 16 miles, and take Exit 89 into town.

Family garages get used hard

Frenchtown is a family town. In 2020, 62.7% of its 732 households were married couples and 32.5% had children under 18. In a house like that the garage is rarely just for parking. It holds bikes, sports gear, a second fridge and boots dripping with slush. Bare concrete soaks up every spill and sheds dust onto everything stored on it. A sealed floor sweeps clean and does not stain when a juice box or a jug of washer fluid tips over.

For busy garages we usually point people toward one of these:

• Epoxy flake floors: the chips hide gravel dust and dried brine between cleanings, and the texture helps small feet on a wet floor
• Polyaspartic floor coating: a faster cure, so the family car is back inside sooner
• Garage floor coating with a solid color base: a lower-cost option that still seals the slab

New concrete still needs prep

A newer slab looks smooth and clean, so people assume it is ready to coat. It usually is not. Builders often trowel garage floors to a hard, slick finish and may spray on a curing compound or sealer. A coating will not grip that surface. We diamond grind the whole floor, edges included, until it has an open profile the base coat can bite into. We also check the control joints and any hairline cracks that formed as the slab cured, and fill them before coating so they do not show through later.

Basements and lower levels

Many Frenchtown homes have finished or partly finished lower levels. A basement floor epoxy gives you a bright, washable surface for a laundry room, a home gym or a playroom. Before we quote, we look for damp spots, white mineral deposits and old paint lifting at the edges, because moisture coming up through the slab is the usual reason a basement coating fails. If we find a moisture problem, we tell you and pick a primer made for it, or we tell you plainly that the floor is not a good candidate yet.

Shops left from the mill era

The paper mill west of town produced containerboard from 1957 until it closed in 2010, when it still employed 417 people. Plenty of longtime residents built shops and outbuildings during those decades. Those older slabs often carry oil, old paint and cracked sections. Our shop and commercial floor epoxy work starts with degreasing and grinding, then concrete crack and floor repair, and only then the coating.

What the estimate covers

We measure every area you want coated and note the condition of the concrete in writing. You get a quote that lists the prep, each repair, each coat and the total. If you are weighing two systems, such as flake with an epoxy base versus a full polyaspartic build, we price both so you can compare them side by side. Nothing changes after that without a written change you approve.

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