Epoxy Flooring in Gunbarrel, CO

Epoxy flooring in Gunbarrel is often a restoration project. Gunbarrel Estates dates to the early 1960s, and IBM broke ground on its plant along the Diagonal Highway in 1965. Garages poured in those early decades have gone through a lot of freezing nights, salted tires and dripping engines.

What an aging slab looks like up close

When we walk an older Gunbarrel garage, we look for a handful of things before we talk about colors:

• Surface scaling where deicing salt has flaked the top layer
• Control joints that have opened up or broken at the edges
• Oil and transmission stains that have soaked in for years
• A previous roll-on coating that is peeling in the tire paths

Each one needs to be handled before a new system goes down.

Getting the old stuff off

Floors this age often carry thin hardware-store epoxy or garage paint, and neither can stay under a new coating. We remove them with diamond tooling, degrease the stained spots, then rebuild scaled areas with a repair mortar. That process takes more labor than coating new concrete, and it is the reason we price each Gunbarrel garage after seeing it in person. Broken joint edges get special attention: we saw them clean, fill them with a semi-rigid filler, and then carry the coating over the top, so the line stays sharp instead of chipping again under tires. Where an old garage slab has settled toward the door, we can feather in patch material to reduce puddling before the coating goes on.

Townhomes and shared buildings

Gunbarrel has more than 4,500 housing units, including attached homes and townhomes. In shared garages or buildings with an HOA, we confirm working hours, parking and any rules about fumes or noise ahead of time. Polyaspartic systems with low odor and a fast return to service are a good fit when neighbors share walls.

Why higher-grade materials pay off here

Census Reporter puts Gunbarrel's median home value at $821,000. If you are renovating a home at that level, it makes sense for the garage floor to match the rest of the work. A commercial-grade build with a UV-stable top layer resists yellowing by the open door, and it shrugs off the grit and meltwater of a Front Range winter.

A realistic timeline for a renovation floor

Because old coatings, stains and scaling all add steps, a Gunbarrel restoration can run a day longer than a floor on clean concrete. Plan on clearing the garage completely, including shelving that sits on the slab, so we can reach every edge. If wall cabinets hang low, we work beneath them. Water heaters and furnaces stay in place, and we coat carefully around their bases. Twin Lakes Open Space and its trails sit inside Gunbarrel, so if your garage holds bikes, strollers or trail gear, plan where those will live for the few days the floor is curing. Once the last layer cures, you put things back and the space is done; nothing about the job requires new permits or changes to the structure of the garage.