Service area · The Blue Mountains
Floor Coatings in The Blue Mountains
A chalet garage takes more abuse in one ski season than a family garage takes in five. And the only weeks anybody can work in it are the weeks nobody is renting it.
This is the hardest use case we have, and it is not close. The Blue Mountains fills with short-term rentals from December to March, and a bay at Craigleith or up toward the village sees a different vehicle every few days — every one of them off Highway 26 carrying brine, every one of them unloading wet gear onto the floor.
What that does to a bare slab
Concentrated salt, repeated, with almost no drying time in between. A family garage gets one car that dries out over a working day. A rental bay in February is essentially never dry.
So the spalling on an uncoated chalet slab runs years ahead of the same-age slab in town, and the surface goes sandy long before the owner expects it to. This is also the one place where the economics argue for a coating without any help from the appearance: replacing a spalled slab is a week of closed calendar plus the concrete.
The scheduling problem, which is the real one
Nobody wants a garage floor done in ski season. Nobody wants it done in peak summer either. What is left is the shoulder — roughly mid-April into early May, and late October into November — and those are the same weeks every property manager on the escarpment is chasing every other trade for. If you know you want the floor done, tell us in January for an April slot.
A cold shoulder-season slab does not stop the job. It changes the pail.
An unheated chalet garage in late April is a cold slab, and whether that ends the conversation depends entirely on which product is in the van. Several epoxies are rated to 0–3°C. Several polyaspartics will not go below 13°C. We read the slab and then choose, which is why we can usually hold an April date when a crew committed to one product cannot.
Anti-slip is not optional up here
Ski boots, meltwater and a glossy floor make a genuinely bad combination, and on a rental property it stops being about comfort and becomes a liability question. Every chalet floor we do gets an aggressive aggregate grade in the top coat. Slightly less beautiful in photographs. Considerably better at its job.
Booking work in The Blue Mountains
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.