Older Ogden homes: garages, basements and porches
About 19 percent of Ogden homes were built before 1940. Another 35 percent went up between 1940 and 1969. That history shows up in the concrete. East Central is full of 1910s bungalows with front porches and brick homes from the 1940s. Many sit inside the Central Bench Historic District, which covers 80 blocks and close to 3,300 buildings. Up on the East Bench you find century-old Tudor and Craftsman houses. Shadow Valley is mostly detached homes, and a lot of them date to the 1960s. Older lots often put the garage at the back, off the alley. Those slabs have seen 60 to 100 winters. Cracks, pitting, flaking and pop-outs come with that age.
Old concrete needs prep before it takes a coating. We grind the slab down to clean concrete first. Then we handle the cracks, spalling, pitting and pop-outs before any product goes down. A basement floor may need a vapor-barrier coating, since a lot of older slabs went in without plastic underneath. Detached garages get the same flake or polyaspartic finish as an attached one. Front porches and steps are a different job. Those we usually fix first. Then we recoat with a resurfacing overlay in a color you pick, and finish with a clear top coat. Most garage floors are done in a day. Porches and patios take longer because the repair work comes first.
Warehouses, hangars and Ogden winters
Ogden is a working city, and it has the floors to prove it. Business Depot Ogden covers 1,118 acres on the site of the old Defense Depot Ogden. It holds about 13 million square feet of warehouse, manufacturing and office space. Many of those buildings date to World War II, so the slabs are old and heavily used. Ogden-Hinckley Airport sits 4 miles southwest of the city center with 335 based aircraft. Owners lease the ground there and build their own hangars. Winter is the other factor. Ogden City salts hills and intersections once 2 inches of snow lands, and plows at 4 inches. Forklifts and trucks carry that brine right onto the slab.
Warehouse and hangar floors need a system built for the load. We use self-leveling epoxy on rough slabs. Mortar epoxy goes down where the concrete is chewed up. Anti-static epoxy is there when the work calls for it. Commercial and industrial epoxy flooring also goes into showrooms, food plants, schools and retail space. Hangar floors have to shed fuel and hydraulic fluid without staining. Where a coating is not the answer, a penetrating sealer can be. Silane and siloxane sealers hold about 10 years and slow salt damage. New concrete waits at least 30 days before we seal it. Tell us how the space gets used and we will plan the work around it.
Communities & areas we serve around Ogden: Downtown Ogden, Historic 25th Street, East Central, East Bench, Shadow Valley, Mount Ogden, Weber State University area, Lorin Farr, West Ogden, Business Depot Ogden.
Ogden ZIP codes served: 84401, 84403, 84404, 84405, 84414.