Epoxy Flooring in Hygiene, CO

Epoxy flooring in Hygiene usually means more than a two-car garage. Hygiene is a small unincorporated community in Boulder County, sitting at about 5,089 feet on the plains below the foothills, and a rural lot here may include a detached shop, a tack room or an equipment building alongside the house. Each of those floors gets a different kind of abuse.

Equipment, mud and fluids

Tractors, trailers, mowers and trucks drag in gravel and clay, and they leak hydraulic fluid, diesel and oil. On a bare slab those stains soak in and the surface dusts over time. A thicker epoxy base with a chemical-resistant top layer seals the concrete so spills sit on top and can be scraped or hosed off. For bays where a skid steer turns or a trailer jack gets dropped, we build the coating up in extra layers and may add a quartz broadcast, which stands up to gouging far better than a thin decorative system. Around wash-down areas we slope-match the coating to the existing drain so water still leaves the floor.

Questions to settle before the install

• Will heavy equipment with steel edges or chains be on the floor?
• Is the building heated in winter, or does it sit near outdoor temperatures?
• Does water run into the building during storms or snowmelt?
• Is there a floor drain, and which way does the slab slope?

The answers steer the product, the thickness and the timing. An unheated outbuilding, for example, may need a coating that cures at lower temperatures.

Basements and radon in Boulder County

The county ranks as EPA radon Zone 1, and Boulder County says roughly half of local homes have elevated levels. If you are coating a basement slab in Hygiene, we seal cracks and pipe penetrations as part of the prep and leave any mitigation fan, piping or sealed sump untouched. Testing should be done by a certified radon professional; our coating does not replace that.

Ground that moves

About half of Colorado's soil has high or very high potential to shrink and swell with moisture, according to the state's hazard planning guidance. On rural lots, irrigation, downspouts and snow piles near a building can change the moisture under a slab. We repair existing cracks and fill them flexibly, and we will point out drainage near the door if it looks like a problem.

Coating a large building in stages

Shops and equipment buildings can be big, and emptying one all at once is not always practical during planting, haying or calving season. We can split a large slab into sections along existing control joints and coat them on separate days, moving equipment from one side to the other. The seams follow the joints, so they read as part of the original layout rather than patches. For a smaller footprint such as a tack room or a garage beside the house, one visit usually covers it. If a big door faces south and stays open through summer, the floor near it takes hours of direct sun at over 5,000 feet, so we finish those buildings with a UV-stable polyaspartic layer that resists fading and chalking.