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Floor Coatings in Collingwood
There are two Collingwoods, as far as a slab is concerned. Floors poured in the last decade, and floors poured before anybody thought to put a barrier underneath them.
Which side of that line your garage sits on decides most of the price. Collingwood has grown quickly, and the housing stock carries the whole history of it in one town — so knowing which group you are in tells you more than any phone quote will.
The new subdivisions, which are the easy ones
The builds on the south and east edges of town hand over with a bare, clean slab sitting on a modern vapour barrier. Prep is a grind and a vacuum. The moisture test comes back well inside tolerance. The price sits at the bottom of our range, because there is nothing to repair.
The only real question on a new build is age. A slab poured this season needs 28 days minimum before anything goes on it, and a cold late-autumn pour can want longer than that. We would rather book you for spring than coat a green slab.
The older town, where the test earns its keep
The grid between Hurontario and the harbour, and the postwar streets south of it, are a different proposition entirely. Garages here are frequently detached and often built later than the house. The slabs under them were poured to whatever the standard was at the time, which usually meant straight onto grade with nothing between the concrete and the ground.
Sixty winters of salt on top of that
The last thirty of them with heavily salted roads. That is what produces the pitted, sandy surface you can feel through a boot, and that floor wants an overlay before a coating rather than a coating on its own. Occasionally it produces a floor we tell you not to coat at all until something is done about the water. See concrete repair and resurfacing.
And then there is the shipyard end
Collingwood built ships until 1986. The industrial and light-commercial buildings left from that around the harbour have floors quite unlike anything residential — thick, hard-wearing, often already coated with something we now have to grind off, and sometimes carrying decades of oil that has to come out of the concrete before anything will bond to it. Down there a commercial quote starts with a bond test on a small patch, not with a price.
Booking work in Collingwood
Tell us the size of the bay, roughly when the slab was poured, and whether the building is heated. That is usually enough for a realistic range over the phone — and enough for us to say if you are in the small group of floors where the honest answer is to fix the water before spending anything on a coating.