Start with the traffic
Cars and household use point us at flake. Forklifts and impact point at quartz. Somewhere you look at points at metallic. Somewhere nobody sees points at solid color.
What we coat
Epoxy Flooring Services Across Fairfield and New Haven County
We coat every concrete floor a home or a business has, and the preparation underneath is what makes it last. The coating is the part you see. The grinding is the part that decides whether you are still happy with your floor in five years.
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How We Install Your Epoxy Floor
Our order of work does not change, whatever your room is. Most of the time and most of your money goes into the part nobody sees.
The slab comes first
We diamond grind your floor back to bare, sound concrete with dust extraction running. We cut and fill the cracks, patch the pitting and take off any old coating. A coating is only as good as its bond, and we make the bond here.
Then the system
A base coat carries your color or your chips, and the top coat takes your traffic. Which system we use depends on what your room does, which is what the pages below are about.
Then the wait
Cure time is real and it varies by system and by temperature. Walking on it comes before parking on it, and Brad tells you both numbers when he quotes.
Choosing a Floor Coating by Room and Traffic
Traffic, chemicals, water and daylight. Each of them rules something in or out before we talk to you about color.
Weight and wheels
Your garage takes a car and dropped tools. A warehouse takes pallet trucks and impact. That difference is why we build some floors thicker and with aggregate rather than thin.
Water and chemicals
A pool patio is wet as a matter of routine and a workshop sees solvents. We choose your surface for that rather than making it pretty and hoping.
Daylight
Epoxy ambers where sun falls on it directly. If your room has a glass door, a window wall or open sky, we specify a UV-stable top coat, or your color shifts within a couple of summers.
Every floor on this page is one we poured
Epoxy Flooring Services Across Fairfield and New Haven County
We work from Milford across both counties, on garages and basements, on retail and restaurant floors, and on warehouse and plant floors. The trade is one trade; what we specify for you is not.
Residential
Garages, basements, pool decks and countertops. The job we do most is a two-car garage in flake, and the second is a basement slab sealed before the room gets finished.
Commercial
Retail, showrooms, restaurants and back of house. Here your constraint is almost never the floor, it is the number of days you cannot use the space, and that changes what we specify before anything else does.
Industrial
Warehouses, workshops and plant floors. Impact, chemicals and forklift traffic decide how we build it, and we specify your floor from what actually happens on it rather than from a product range.
What Atlas does not do
Structural concrete repair, slab replacement and waterproofing walls. Where your floor needs one of those first, Brad will tell you rather than coat over it.
How Every Atlas Floor Is Installed
Our sequence does not change between a garage and a plant floor. What changes is how long each step takes on your job and what goes down in the middle.
Reading the slab
Before we quote. Age, cracks, previous coatings, pitting, oil, and whether your slab is passing moisture. Two floors of identical size can be quite different jobs, and this visit is where we find that out.
Mechanical preparation
We diamond grind or shot blast with extraction. Not acid etching and not pressure washing. Grinding opens your concrete so the resin keys into it mechanically, and it takes off laitance, old sealer and contamination in the same pass.
Repair
We cut your cracks into a V, vacuum them and fill them, then patch spalled edges and pits. Joints get honoured or filled, and we decide that with you rather than by default.
Priming and moisture management
Where your slab is thirsty or damp, a vapour-tolerant primer or a mitigation layer goes on before the system. Skipping it is the most expensive shortcut in this trade.
The system
Base coat, broadcast if the system has one, then clear top coats. Your top coat is the sacrificial layer and it is what we can renew later without redoing your floor.
Cure
Walk-on first, then wheels, then heavy load. Three different dates, all of them on your quote, all of them dependent on the system and that week's temperature.
Choosing Between the Floor Systems
Six systems, and your room decides more than the color chart does.
Then the water
Anywhere wet as a matter of routine, we specify traction into the surface rather than adding it afterwards as a mat or a treatment.
Then the daylight
Clear epoxy ambers under UV. If you have glass doors, a window wall or anything outdoors, we use a UV-stable top coat or your color shifts within a couple of summers.
Then the downtime
If losing the space costs you money, that is the argument for a fast-cure top coat. If it does not, we would rather spend your budget on preparation.
What customers wrote
4.7 from 15 Google reviews. We publish every one of them on the reviews page, including the one star and what came of it.
Great experiwnce with brad thanks for the great floor
great job on my garage floors thanks again
great job on my Epoxy floors and countertops
What Preparation Costs and Why It Is Most of the Job
The part of your floor that is invisible when it is finished and decisive for how long it lasts.
It is where the hours go
On a typical residential floor, our grinding and repair take substantially longer than putting the coating down. That is the work you are paying for.
It is what a low quote leaves out
A quote well under the others is usually a quote for less preparation. The coating on top can be identical and your floor will not last, because what was skipped is the part that makes it stick.
It is also why two honest quotes can differ
Two contractors reading your slab can reasonably disagree about how much repair it needs. That is a conversation worth having with both of us rather than a reason to pick the lower number.
It is why the quote follows a visit
Nobody can price preparation from a photograph. Anybody who quotes a floor sight unseen is pricing the slab they hope you have.
Four questions to ask any contractor
How will you prepare the slab, what happens if it tests wet, how thick is the system, and what is the top coat. Those answers separate contractors faster than price does, because the two who cannot answer them are the two whose floors fail.
And one to ask yourself
Whether the floor is going to be looked at or worked on. Almost every specification decision follows from that one answer, and it is the thing a contractor cannot tell you.
Coatings we install
We install six systems, and most floors we put down combine two of them.
Flake
- Where it fits
- Garages and basements
- How it looks
- Vinyl chip broadcast into the body coat. Busier blends hide more of a working slab.
- Where we use it
- The garage floor we put down most.
Solid color
- Where it fits
- Workshops, warehouses, basements
- How it looks
- One flat color, sealed and cleanable.
- Where we use it
- Floors you need easy to clean, where we can add line marking.
Metallic
- Where it fits
- Attached garages, showrooms, countertops
- How it looks
- Pigment moved through the resin while it's wet, so no two floors come out the same.
- Where we use it
- Floors you look at as part of the house, which is where we get asked for it most.
Quartz
- Where it fits
- Commercial kitchens and wet areas
- How it looks
- Colored quartz aggregate for a hard, textured floor.
- Where we use it
- Floors where we have to meet a slip specification.
Polyaspartic
- Where it fits
- Top coat over any system, patios
- How it looks
- A UV-stable clear coat that cures in hours.
- Where we use it
- We use it for sunlight, cold weather and fast turnarounds.
Anti-slip
- Where it fits
- Pool decks, ramps, plant floors
- How it looks
- A coarse broadcast texture in the surface.
- Where we use it
- We put it where your floor gets wet or sits outdoors.
What's under your finished floor
We put down four layers, and each one has its own job. Scroll and we'll take your floor apart so you can see them.
- Polyaspartic top coatWe finish with a UV-stable, hard-wearing coat that takes your tires, your chemicals and the sunlight so the color underneath doesn't.
- Color and flake coatOur body coat carries your flake blend or metallic pour, so this is the layer you picked.
- Primer and moisture barrierWe work it into the opened concrete, and it locks everything above it to your slab.
- Concrete substrateYour slab. We diamond grind it back to bare concrete so everything we put on top has something to grip.
How big is your floor?
Slide to your size and see what fits it. Brad gives you the exact number when he's seen the slab.
2-car garageAbout 20 by 22 feet
What we'd suggestFlake, solid color or metallic
What we put downWe grind your slab, then primer, a color or flake coat and the top coat
Install timeMost residential floors are finished in a day.
How your epoxy floor gets done, from first call to parking on it
Three steps, and Brad does every one of them himself. Most residential floors are finished in a day.
- 1
You call, text or send the form
Tell us the room and roughly how big it is. We'll talk you through the range and book a time to come and look, often the same day. Weekends count, and there's nothing to sign.
- 2
Brad reads your slab and you pick your finish
He checks for cracks, old coating and moisture, then measures up. You choose your flake blend or metallic against your own floor, not a brochure. Your written quote comes back the same day.
- 3
We grind it back and build your floor up
Your slab goes back to bare concrete under a diamond grinder with dust extraction. Then the primer, the body coat with your flake or metallic, and the top coat. You get your walk-on and park-on times with the quote.
The preparation is the part that lasts
Grinding the slab back to bare concrete is slow, dusty and invisible in the finished floor. It is also what a cheap quote leaves out.
Get my free quoteQuestions people ask
Which floors do you actually do?
Garages, basements, pool patios, countertops, retail and shop floors, and industrial floors. We do residential and commercial both.
Do you work outside Milford?
Yes. We work across Fairfield and New Haven County as a matter of routine, and Brad travels further for larger jobs.
How long does a floor take?
Most residential floors are a small number of days on site including grinding and cure. The slab decides, which is why he looks at it first.
Are you licensed?
Yes. We hold Connecticut Home Improvement Contractor registration #0661733, and we are insured.
What flooring services does Atlas offer?
We coat garages, basements, pool patios, countertops, commercial premises and industrial floors, across Fairfield and New Haven County from our base in Milford.
Do you do both residential and commercial work?
Yes, we do both. The systems overlap, the traffic does not, and we specify from what happens on your floor.
How long does an epoxy floor take to install?
Most residential floors are a small number of days on site including grinding and cure. The slab decides, which is why Brad looks first.
Do you offer free estimates?
Yes, and you sign nothing for one.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. We hold Connecticut Home Improvement Contractor registration #0661733.
What areas do you cover?
We cover 48 towns across Fairfield and New Haven County, all within about 30 miles of Milford, and we travel further for larger commercial and industrial work.
Can you coat over an existing floor coating?
If yours is worn but sound, often. If it is lifting, we take it off first, because recoating over a failed bond repeats the failure.
Ready to stop looking at that floor?
Tell us roughly what you have and we'll come and look at it. The quote is free, there's nothing to sign, and you'll know what your floor costs before you commit to anything.
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