Oklahoma City garage floors: red clay wipes off a sealed floor

Why red clay shapes the prep here

Oklahoma City sits on red clay, and it follows you home. It rides in on tires and boots, and bare concrete holds onto it. A sealed, coated floor keeps the clay on the surface, where a mop lifts it. For more on that, read our post on red dirt and heat on Oklahoma City garage floors.

The clay matters underneath the floor too. Clay soils in this part of the state swell when they are wet and shrink when they dry out, and that movement can crack a slab over the years.

What a coating can and cannot do about a moving slab

Here is the plain version. A coating is not structural. It will not hold a slab together, and it will not stop one from shifting. If the ground under your garage moves, the concrete can still move with it.

What we do is look at the cracks you already have before a coat goes on. At the estimate we look at each one and tell you what prep it needs. A coating laid over an unprepared crack is a coating that has a problem waiting for it, so we do not skip that step.

Heat, hail and winter brine

Oklahoma City summers bring 100F days, and heat can make hot tire pickup more likely. A warm tire can pull at a coating that is not bonded well. Where the slab needs it, we use an MVB moisture vapor barrier base coat; the system is picked for your slab at the estimate, and the products page has the details. A standard residential flake floor carries a 10-year limited warranty; see the warranty page for metallic and commercial terms.

Hail is part of life in the metro. In winter the city treats roads with salt brine, and sand in very cold stretches. Those come home on the tires, and a sealed floor is easier to clean than bare concrete.

Across the metro

The Oklahoma City metro is big, and ground, age and use vary from one side of it to the other. A garage that backs onto a newer street and one on an older lot rarely need the same prep, which is why we look at each floor in person.

We serve the Oklahoma City metro, including Edmond, Norman and Moore. Coming from a neighboring town? See our pages for Edmond, Norman and Moore.

Shops and commercial floors of any size are part of the work too.

Pick your finish, then book your estimate

Flake and metallic finishes both work on Oklahoma City garages, and we show you the full color list before we quote.

Use the quote form to set up an in-person estimate. Mention any cracks, old coatings or stains in the notes, and we will plan for them.