La Plata, MD · Decorative concrete since 2005
Epoxy flooring in La Plata, MD covers a lot of ground: a two-car garage in a newer subdivision, a pole barn out toward Port Tobacco, a shop floor near the courthouse. In the Mix Artistic Decorative Concrete has handled that whole spread from our Charlotte Hall base since 2005, with flake and metallic epoxy, polished concrete, overlays and skim coats.
La Plata is the county seat, and it shows in the mix of buildings. Older brick downtown, farmhouses with outbuildings on the back roads, and a lot of newer construction, including the blocks that were rebuilt after the April 2002 tornado. Every one of those slabs behaves differently. Tim McKenna learned concrete on substation and power plant jobs for 15 years before going decorative, and that is the kind of eye you want on a floor before anyone opens a can of resin.
Folks who type epoxy flooring near me from a La Plata address usually want one crew that can grind, coat, overlay or polish, not three subcontractors. That is us. Our epoxy and polyaspartic systems cover garages, basements and commercial floors, and we can tell you which one your slab actually needs.
Flake epoxy flooring is the workhorse. Colored vinyl chips are broadcast into a wet base coat, then locked under a clear topcoat. The texture gives your boots some grip, and the speckled pattern hides the dust, sawdust and tracked-in mud a working garage collects.
You choose the chip blend and how heavy the broadcast is, from a light scatter to full coverage. Compare flake, metallic and solid-color coatings before you decide.
Drive any back road out of La Plata and you pass pole barns, equipment sheds and detached shops. Those slabs were often poured fast and left rough, and they take tractors, trailers and the occasional hydraulic leak.
A flake or solid epoxy system turns that slab into something you can sweep clean and actually work on. If the surface is badly scaled, we will talk about repairs or an overlay first, because coating over loose concrete only hides the problem for a season.
Restaurants, auto service bays, medical offices and retail spaces along 301 all need floors that clean up fast and hold up to traffic. Commercial epoxy flooring does that, and the right topcoat can add chemical resistance or slip resistance where the space calls for it.
Downtime matters to a business. We plan the sequence with you ahead of time, and in some spaces a fast-curing polyaspartic topcoat can shorten how long the doors stay closed.
Some concrete is too far gone for a coating alone. Scaling, old patches, divots from removed equipment. A cementitious concrete overlay resurfaces the slab with a new, bonded layer, and it can be colored, stamped with texture or polished once it cures.
It is often the cheapest way to get a like-new floor without tearing out and repouring. Read more about resurfacing and coating options.
A concrete skim coat is a thin cementitious layer troweled over an existing surface. On a weathered porch, a set of chipped front steps or a dated block wall, it gives a smooth or hand-textured finish that looks like fresh concrete.
Skim coat designs were one of the decorative techniques Tim first discovered at the World of Concrete, and they are still one of the most satisfying jobs we do.
Pull up the carpet or tile in an older La Plata storefront and you rarely find a clean slab. Mastic, thinset, paint, patched trenches. All of it has to come off before anything new goes down.
We grind those layers away, repair what is underneath and then decide together whether the floor wants polish, stain, an overlay or a coating. Old concrete can be beautiful. It just takes more prep, and that prep is the difference between epoxy flooring in La Plata that lasts and a coating that is flaking by spring.
Once the floor is done, a lot of clients ask about the counters. Because we cast them ourselves, we can pull colors from your new floor into the kitchen island, the basement bar or the bathroom vanity so the whole room ties together.
Take a look at our concrete countertop work for edge styles and finishes.
For an office, a studio or a showroom with a sound slab, polishing may beat any coating. The concrete is ground, densified and polished to a sheen, and there is nothing on top to scratch through or peel.
Read more about polished concrete floors and the different sheen levels.
We are a veteran-owned shop that has run with up to a dozen well-trained employees over the years, and we take on projects big and small. Tim likes the hard ones best. Finding a fix that works for everybody is, in his words, where the fun begins.
If you landed here searching concrete contractor near me, read the story behind the shop, then give us a call. Estimates for epoxy flooring in La Plata are always free.
From La Plata, our work spreads out in every direction: Port Tobacco to the west, Bel Alton to the south, White Plains and Hughesville toward the east. We are in and out of these towns all year.
Up the road, we put down a lot of garage floor epoxy in Waldorf, and in St. Mary's County we handle epoxy flooring in Leonardtown and the towns around it.
Still have a question? Call 301-904-1359 and talk it through with us.
Every price we give is written after we see the floor. Square footage matters, but so do crack repair, old coatings that need to come off and the system you pick. A flake garage, a metallic basement and a commercial kitchen floor all price differently. The estimate is free.
The chips give flake floors a light texture that helps with grip. For garages, mudrooms and shops that see a lot of water, an anti-slip additive can go into the topcoat for more traction.
Yes. Outbuilding slabs are often rough or scaled, so we look at the surface first and plan repairs before any coating goes down. The building needs to be cleared out while we work.
An overlay is a thicker bonded layer that resurfaces a worn slab and can be colored, textured or polished. A skim coat is a thinner troweled finish used to refresh porches, steps and walls. We will tell you which one your surface needs.
Longevity comes down to prep, traffic and the system. A properly ground and repaired slab with a quality topcoat holds up for years of daily use. We would rather explain what affects your floor than quote a number that does not fit it.
It depends on the square footage, the repairs and the coating. We plan the schedule with you before we start, and a fast-curing polyaspartic topcoat can shorten the closure in some spaces.
Yes. Cars, shelving, tools and stored items need to be moved out so we can grind and coat wall to wall. We will tell you exactly what needs to go when we schedule.
We work all over Southern Maryland, plus Washington, DC and Northern Virginia. If you are not sure your town is in range, call 301-904-1359 and ask.
Garage, barn, storefront or basement, we will come look at it and tell you what it needs. Epoxy flooring in La Plata is our kind of work, and if you want a concrete bar top to go with it, we can quote that on the same visit.
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