Expert Epoxy Flooring Winston-Salem NC

The Real Challenge with Concrete in Winston-Salem

If you live in Forsyth County, you already know our weather can be a little unpredictable. We get freezing rain in January and thick, heavy humidity in July. But the real enemy of your concrete floor is right under your feet: North Carolina red clay.

Clay soil acts like a giant sponge. When it rains, the clay swells up. When we get a dry spell, it shrinks back down. All that moving and shifting puts a massive amount of stress on your concrete slab. That is exactly why you see so many cracked driveways and garage floors around neighborhoods like Buena Vista and Ardmore.

On top of that, concrete itself is porous. It breathes. During a humid Winston-Salem summer, moisture from the ground pushes up through the concrete. If you just slap some cheap hardware store floor paint over it, that trapped moisture will push the paint right off.

We hear stories about this all the time. Just last month, we spoke to a homeowner near Wake Forest University. He had spent his whole weekend scrubbing his garage floor and rolling on a DIY epoxy kit. It looked great for about three weeks. Then July hit. He parked his hot car inside, and when he backed out the next morning, the paint peeled right up, stuck to his tires.

We fix problems like that every week. We use special moisture-blocking primers and flexible crack fillers that actually move with your concrete. We seal the floor so the moisture stays out, and we use topcoats that laugh at hot tires.