Flooring contractor in San Bruno - garage floors laid on tested concrete

The floor we're asked about most in San Bruno is the attached garage, and it's rarely a clean slate. These slabs have usually been a workshop, a laundry corner and a parking spot all at once, so they carry soaked-in oil, hairline cracks, patches and sometimes a sealer or paint that nobody remembers putting down. None of that shows once a coating goes on, which is exactly why it matters, so we grind the surface open, fill and repair the cracks and check for moisture before any product comes out of the truck.

Landlords call us about garages and lower floors turned into rentals or in-law rooms, where the floor has to look like a room and take a tenant's wear. On a bigger conversion the floor is usually the last step, so we time our work for after the other trades are done.

In San Bruno, building permits come from the city's Building Division, which covers alterations, repairs and improvements to a building, so whether your floor needs one is the city's call, and when it does, the permit and its inspections become part of the schedule. Before you hire anyone, check that the contractor holds a current California contractor license and a San Bruno business license, because the state requires the first for work over its small-job limit and the city requires the second of outside contractors working here. 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 city and do the work to what the permit asks. The price moves with the size of the floor, how much old coating, oil or damage we have to grind out, and which system you pick, and the schedule turns mostly on the prep, the cure time of that system and any permit, which I'll walk you through for your own floor at the estimate.

I started this business as a flooring contractor in San Francisco in 2013, and San Bruno is a short drive down 101 or 280, so getting our crew and a grinder here is easy. The same goes for South San Francisco to the north, Millbrae to the south and Pacifica over the hill on the coast. For a shop on El Camino Real or San Mateo Avenue, parking and loading for our equipment is part of the plan, so I look at that during the visit too.

San Bruno, as we see it on our jobs, is mostly single-family streets, some climbing the hills west of El Camino Real and some flatter toward the bay, with apartments and small businesses mixed in around San Mateo Avenue. The houses tend to be compact, with the garage at street level and doing double duty as storage, a workshop or extra living space. They have a lot in common with the homes we coat in Daly City, while the shop and storefront floors here look more like the ones we do in San Mateo.

Because so many floors here are garage slabs that have worked hard for years, most of our time on a San Bruno job goes into the concrete before the coating ever goes on.