Epoxy Flooring in Norco, CA

Epoxy flooring in Norco often starts outside the house. Norco became a charter city in 2003 to protect animal keeping, and its charter departs from state general law on three things: horse trails, lot size and animal-keeping rights. Changing city rules on any of them takes a four-fifths vote of the council. That has kept Norco lots large and full of outbuildings. A typical job here might include a tack room, a feed room, a shop and the garage, all on one property.

Barn-side concrete

Concrete around horses gets wet, dirty and scuffed every day. Tack rooms collect dust, saddle soap and leather oil. Feed rooms get spilled grain, supplement powders and the occasional rodent. Wash areas see water and shampoo several times a week. Bare concrete soaks all of that in and stays stained.

A coated slab can be swept and hosed off. For these spaces we usually suggest:

• A flake system with a heavy chip broadcast, which hides dust and gives traction
• Grit added to the topcoat anywhere the floor gets wet, so boots and hooves have grip
• A cove or cant at the wall base in feed rooms, so spills do not sit in the corner
• A polyaspartic topcoat where the door stays open and sun reaches the floor

The shop and the trailer bay

Many Norco owners keep a truck and a horse trailer, and some keep a tractor. A shop floor with diesel drips and hitch work needs a thicker 100% solids epoxy base. We grind out old oil, fill cracks and spalls, and build the coating up where the heaviest wheels sit. If a trailer or tractor rolls in on dirt and gravel, a flake finish shows the wear less than a solid color.

Few sidewalks, lots of dirt

Wikipedia notes that Norco has few sidewalks and uses horse trails in their place. Trail dirt and arena sand end up in garages and mudrooms on boots and tires. A coated garage floor lets you push that grit out with a broom instead of grinding it into the concrete. In the house, a slab mudroom or laundry room is a good place for a flake or solid-color epoxy that can take wet boots.

Services we offer in Norco

• Garage floor coating for houses and detached garages
• Epoxy flake floors for tack rooms, feed rooms and mudrooms
• Polyaspartic floor coating for outbuildings with open doors
• Patio and pool deck coatings with UV-stable, textured finishes
• Metallic epoxy floors for slab rooms inside the house
• Commercial and shop floor epoxy for equipment barns and work bays

Garages on horse lots

The house garage on a Norco property sees more dirt than most. Boots come in from the barn, the truck comes in off a dirt drive and feed sacks get stacked by the door. A full flake broadcast with a clear topcoat handles that well. It hides grit between sweepings and gives good footing when the floor is wet from a hose. If your garage also holds saddles or a tack locker, we can coat the whole floor, including under the storage area.

What we will not coat

We do not coat dirt, mat-covered stall floors or concrete that takes standing urine all day. Stalls need drainage and bedding more than a coating. We will tell you where a coating helps on your property and where it does not.