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The slab
Coatings are a seasonal trade in this region, and most of what goes wrong is predictable from a calendar and a thermometer. These are the dated notes — what the concrete is doing right now, and what it means for booking.
- Efflorescence on a basement floor White crust on a basement floor is salt, not mould. Where it forms tells you where the water gets in, and that decides if the floor can be coated. Read it →
- Garage floor paint Three products sell as garage floor paint here. What their own data sheets say about film thickness, hot tires and a cold Collingwood slab. Read it →
- Epoxy or polished concrete Polished concrete is your own slab refined. Epoxy is a film over it. What that means on a salted Collingwood garage floor, and which slab takes which. Read it →
- Booking the autumn window Late October into November is the last window to coat a Georgian Bay garage floor before salt season, and the escarpment rentals take it first. Read it →
- New builds: the 28-day clock New Collingwood builds handed over in spring passed the 28-day cure mark weeks ago. Coating before the first winter is the cheapest version. Read it →
- The spring salt audit April is when winter salt damage shows on a Collingwood garage slab. What to look for, and how to tell surface pitting from a failing slab. Read it →
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Talk to a Collingwood floor coating contractor
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.