Epoxy & polyaspartic garage floors in Broadview Heights

Taking off a failed epoxy floor — and why it failed

A good share of our Broadview Heights calls start with "there's already something on it and it's coming up." Here's what we find:

• It was rolled onto a troweled builder slab. Homes from the 2000s came with a slab finished glass-smooth by a power trowel. A DIY kit painted straight onto that surface has nothing to grip. It holds for a few winters, then lifts in sheets — usually starting where the tires sit.
• The acid etch didn't do what the box promised. Etching is the shortcut those kits recommend instead of grinding. On a hard-troweled slab it barely opens the surface, which is why the failure is so consistent across an entire subdivision.
• Hot tire pickup, not wear. When a warm tire sits on a thin, under-bonded coating, the rubber grabs it and pulls it off the concrete as you back out. Homeowners think they scratched it. They didn't — the bond was never there.
• Removal is included, not extra drama. We grind the old material off down to sound concrete as part of prep. It adds machine time, and we tell you that in the quote, but it is a normal day's work rather than a reason to say no.

The upside: once a slab has been ground back to bare, open concrete, it takes a coating better than it ever did new.

One-day garage floor coatings for Broadview Heights homes

Every floor we install in Broadview Heights is built the same proven way — and finished in a single visit:

• Diamond-grind & repair — we profile the concrete, fill cracks with structural polyurea, and degrease oil spots so the coating bonds permanently.
• Pigmented base + full flake — a tinted base coat, then a full broadcast of vinyl chips in your chosen blend for a deep, even, showroom texture.
• Polyaspartic clear top — a UV-stable, hot-tire-proof top coat. Walk on it the next day, drive on it 24 hours after the top coat.

The finished floor is roughly 50 mil thick — slip-resistant, chemical-resistant, and easy to keep clean with a mop. It's backed by our 3-year workmanship warranty and built to last 15–20+ years.

Why Broadview Heights homeowners choose Level Coating

• We remove failed DIY coatings as part of the job, not as a bargaining chip
• Based one road south in North Royalton — this is a ten-minute drive for us
• One day, start to finish, and the dust leaves with us
• Diamond grinding, never acid etching — the reason the first floor failed
• 3-year workmanship warranty, in writing

What a Broadview Heights garage floor costs

Our rate is $6 per square foot for the full one-day flake system:

• Two-car (~400–500 sq ft) — about $2,000–$3,000.
• Three-car (~600 sq ft) — around $3,600. Frequent on the newer streets.
• Single-car (~200–300 sq ft) — starts at $1,800.

Stripping an old coating adds grinding time and we price it into the fixed quote after seeing how much is left and how well it's stuck. We'd rather show you the number than surprise you with it.

Neighborhoods we serve in Broadview Heights

We install across Broadview Heights and the surrounding streets, including Broadview Road · Royalton Road · Wallings Road · Avery Road · Oakes Road · the Towpath area and beyond. If you're nearby and don't see your area, just ask.

Broadview Heights garage floor questions

There's already epoxy on my floor and it's peeling. Do I have to remove all of it?

Yes, and we do it. Coating over a failing coating just inherits the bad bond underneath — the new floor comes up with the old one still attached to it. We grind back to sound concrete, which also gives us a chance to see the slab properly before anything goes down.

Why did the first one fail if it was expensive?

Price usually wasn't the issue; preparation was. Almost every failure we lift off a Broadview Heights slab was acid-etched rather than diamond-ground, and on a power-troweled builder floor etching doesn't open the surface enough. The product on top can be perfectly good and still have nothing to hold onto.

Is it worth doing again, or will this one peel too?

The honest test is what's under it, not what's in the bucket. Ground concrete, a pigmented base that soaks into the open pores, full flake broadcast, polyaspartic top — that stack doesn't peel from hot tires. It's the same reason we won't quote a coating over a slab we haven't seen.

Worth reading

Since most calls here start with a floor that already failed: why epoxy floors peel in Ohio · what removal adds to the timeline.