A peeling, chipped or failed garage floor coating is fixable. Detroit Concrete strips the failed system back to bare concrete, repairs the slab, and rebuilds the coating the way it should have been installed the first time, mechanical prep, full system, proper cure. The result is a floor that bonds and holds, not a fresh coat over the same broken surface. Every assessment is a free written estimate.
Almost every failed garage floor coating in Detroit has the same root cause: the slab was not mechanically prepped before the coating went on. Rolled-on coatings over a sealed, dusty or moisture-laden slab peel at the tires within a season. The product was fine; the prep was not.
Garage floor repair starts by stripping the failed coating back to bare concrete with mechanical grinding or shot-blasting. Cracks and pits in the slab below are repaired, moisture is tested, and the surface is profiled for a real bond.
From there, the right coating system goes back on, epoxy if cost matters, polyaspartic if downtime does, metallic epoxy if look does, or polished if no-coating is the goal. The fix is doing it the way it should have been done originally.
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How it works
How We Repair a Garage Floor in Detroit
Assess garage floor failure
We walk the garage with you, identify why the previous coating failed, peeling, chipping, hot-tire pickup, moisture lift, and confirm what needs to come off versus what can stay.
Strip back failed coating
The failed coating is stripped mechanically, ground or shot-blasted back to bare concrete so the new system bonds to sound substrate, not to old half-bonded material.
Repair slab and re-profile
Cracks, pits and spalled areas in the slab are repaired with the right repair mortars, moisture is re-tested, and the surface is profiled fresh for the new coating system.
Rebuild coating system
The new coating goes on as a full system, primer, body coat, topcoat, in the right sequence and temperature, so the install actually performs the way the product was tested to perform.
Different result this time
A Real Fix, Not Another Coat
Painting a new coat over a peeling coating just delays the failure. Garage floor repair does the work the original install skipped, mechanical prep, slab repair, full-system install, so the new floor bonds and holds.
Often we recommend a different coating system the second time around if the original was the wrong choice for the use. Polyaspartic for a busier garage, polished for no coating at all, or pro-installed epoxy done properly. Either way, the fix is real.
Why coatings fail, what stripping looks like and how to avoid the same failure twice in Detroit.
Almost always because the slab was not mechanically prepped before the coating went on. Coatings rolled over a sealed or dusty slab cannot bond, and they peel at the tires within a season. The fix is to strip back and prep properly the second time.
No, and no honest installer would. A coat over a peeling coating just delays failure; the new coat lifts wherever the old one is lifting. Real repair strips back to bare concrete first, then rebuilds the system properly.
Depends on why the first one failed and how you use the garage. Often the original choice was right, just installed wrong. Sometimes a different system, polyaspartic or polished, is the better fit for the use.
Yes. Cracks are routed and filled, spalled and pitted areas are patched with repair mortars matched to the coating that will go over, and the surface is profiled fresh so the new system bonds to sound substrate.
Usually a few days from strip-back through new install, depending on coating type and cure windows. Polyaspartic rebuilds finish in about a day; epoxy takes longer to fully cure for vehicles.
Homeowner reviews
What Detroit Homeowners Say About Their Garage Floor Repairs
Previous epoxy peeled by the door within months. They ground it all back, prepped right, and re-installed the same brand of product. Two years later still solid where the original lasted one season.
S. T.
Detroit
★★★★★
Switched from a basic epoxy to polyaspartic during the repair because we cannot afford the downtime again. Done in a day this time, has held up perfectly.
C. L.
Dearborn
★★★★★
Honest assessment that the failure was prep, not product. Repair was thorough, the new floor bonds to the slab like it should have the first time.
L. A.
Sterling Heights
★★★★★
Stripped the failed metallic coating and went polished instead. No more coatings to worry about, the slab itself is the finish now.
N. O.
Warren
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Peeling, chipping or failed coating, tell us what is happening and we will assess it free, give a straight diagnosis of what went wrong, and put the repair plan into a written quote.
