Flooring contractor in Hillsborough, CA - Floors for big garages, pools and lower levels

A lot of Hillsborough houses have been around for decades, and their garages and lower floors have usually been sealed, painted or coated more than once along the way. Those old layers are the most common reason a new coating peels, because fresh epoxy grabs the old finish instead of the concrete, so I look for them at the estimate and we grind or strip back to clean, open concrete before anything new goes down, even when that means more prep time.

Big houses also mean big floors. A wide garage, a long lower level or a deck that wraps the pool gives us more joints, cracks and edges to work, and over that much area a damp corner or an old patch shows up in the finish if we skip past it.

In the Town of Hillsborough, building permits come from the Building Division, and the city asks you to call them before work starts to find out whether your project needs one. Their list names things like additions, decks, pools and re-roofing, not floor coatings, so I'd rather we ask than guess, because a permit adds plan review and inspections to the schedule, and the city's main line is 650-375-7400. The city also points out that most construction work in California has to be done by a licensed contractor, so ask anyone you're considering for their number with the Contractors State License Board and check it. We're licensed and insured, permit questions come up at my estimate, and when a job needs one we help you work through it with the Building Division and do the work to what the permit asks.

What moves the price here is mostly the size of the floor, how much old finish has to come off, what the moisture test shows and which system you choose, while the schedule turns on prep, repairs, cure time and any permit, and the estimate visit is where you get the figure for your own floor. Long driveways, gates and winding streets mean we plan deliveries and where our grinder and vacuum setup will sit before the first day. We're a flooring contractor based in San Francisco, CA, and we do the same work next door in Burlingame and up and down the Peninsula.

Hillsborough is almost all homes, with no downtown of its own, so most of our calls here come from homeowners rather than shops. The streets are quiet and the houses sit on large, landscaped lots, with older estate homes next to newer rebuilds. Neighbors notice noise and dust, so we run our grinders with vacuums attached and keep the work tidy, the same way we do over in San Mateo.

What shapes the job here is mostly size and age. Big floors and layers of old finish mean prep usually takes the larger share of the work, and that's where I'd rather we spend the time.