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 windows to work in are the weeks nobody is renting.
The Blue Mountains is the hardest use case we have, and it is not close. A short-term rental chalet garage at Craigleith or up toward the village sees a different vehicle every few days from December to March, every one of them arriving off Highway 26 carrying brine, every one of them unloading wet gear onto the floor.
What that does to a bare slab
Concentrated, repeated salt exposure with almost no drying time between vehicles. A family garage gets a car in it that dries out over a working day; a rental bay in February is essentially never dry. The spalling we see on uncoated chalet slabs runs years ahead of the same-age slab in town, and the surface goes sandy long before anyone expects it to.
It is also the strongest case for coating on economics rather than looks. If the floor is a rental asset, replacing a spalled slab is a closed booking calendar for a week plus the concrete.
The scheduling problem
Nobody wants a garage floor done in ski season and nobody wants it done in peak summer either, which leaves the shoulder weeks — roughly mid-April into early May, and late October into November. Those weeks are when every property manager on the escarpment wants the same trades, so this books out early. If you own a rental up here and you know you want the floor done, tell us in January for an April slot.
The one advantage of working in a polyaspartic system on the escarpment is that a cold shoulder-season week is not a barrier. An unheated chalet garage in late April is still a cold slab, and that stops an epoxy crew outright. It does not stop this.
Anti-slip is not optional here
A glossy floor, ski boots, and meltwater is a genuinely bad combination, and on a rental property it is a liability question rather than a comfort one. Every chalet floor we do gets an aggressive aggregate grade in the top coat. It is slightly less beautiful in photographs and 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.