Epoxy Flooring in Upper Saucon Township, PA

Epoxy flooring in Upper Saucon Township usually means a garage that is fairly new. The township counted 11,939 residents in the 2000 census and 16,973 in 2020, a gain of about 5,000 people in twenty years. In 2000 it had 4,117 housing units. Many of the homes added since then sit in subdivisions around Center Valley with attached two- and three-car garages. Those slabs are younger than most in the Lehigh Valley, and they bring a different set of problems for a coating.

Why a newer slab still needs grinding

Builders finish garage floors with a steel trowel, which leaves a smooth, dense surface. That is good for concrete and bad for adhesion. A coating rolled onto a slick slab has little to grab, so it tends to lift in sheets once hot tires start pulling at it. Many newer floors also carry a cure-and-seal product sprayed on at the time of the pour. We diamond grind the whole floor to open the surface and remove that film. Then the base coat can soak in and lock on.

Younger slabs also show their first shrinkage cracks along the control joints and at the corners of the garage door opening. We fill those before coating so they do not telegraph through the finish.

What owners here tend to ask for

• Garage floor coating with a full flake broadcast, which hides tire marks and dust in a big, bright space.
• Polyaspartic floor coating when the household runs on two or three cars and cannot give the garage up for long.
• Basement floor epoxy for finished lower levels used as gyms, playrooms and storage.
• Concrete crack and floor repair at the apron and joints before any finish goes down.

Hills, creeks and cold mornings

The township rises from about 340 feet in Spring Valley to 1,042 feet at Bauer Rock on South Mountain. Saucon Creek drains most of it toward the Lehigh River. January's average temperature in Center Valley is about 29.5°F, so a garage slab spends much of the winter near freezing. Cars climbing out of the hillside neighborhoods bring slush and brine home on every trip. A sealed, textured floor lets you push that water out the door before it soaks in.

Homes and the businesses nearby

Upper Saucon is more than subdivisions. DeSales University and Penn State Lehigh Valley are here, and Olympus opened its U.S. headquarters in the township in 2006. Offices, campus buildings and service spaces have their own floor needs. We coat warehouse, shop and back-of-house floors with thicker 100% solids systems built for carts and foot traffic, and we schedule that work around business hours.

Hot tire pickup in a new garage

A coating that fails on a young slab usually fails the same way. A car comes home on a hot July day, when Center Valley averages about 74°F, and parks on the floor. The warm tires soften a weak coating and lift it when the car backs out. The result is bare patches in the exact shape of the tread. Grinding gives the coating a real bond, and a thicker base coat with a hard topcoat resists that pull. That is why we do not offer a rolled-on, no-grind option.

How we price a floor here

We visit, measure and run a moisture test before writing a number down. A newer garage with clean concrete usually needs less repair, so most of the cost sits in the coating system you choose. Your written quote names each step so you can compare it line by line. Call (610) 424-3849 or

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