Mountain garages, heated floors and decks in Park City
Park City garages hold more than cars. Ski gear, bikes, snowblowers and salted boots all live on that slab. Many homes here are second homes, so the garage sits cold and empty for weeks. Then the family arrives and four wet vehicles park inside at once. Radiant heated floors show up in a lot of Park City garages. Epoxy handles roughly 150 to 200 degrees, far more than a radiant slab puts out. We check the slab and the heat system before we grind. Old Town garages are tight and often built on a slope. Newer homes in Canyons Village and Silver Springs have wide bays and finished walls. We coat both.
Decks and balconies take the other half of the beating. A Park City deck carries snow load for months, then drains straight into the seams. Deck and balcony waterproofing starts with a rubberized membrane base coat. The decorative layer and a sealing top coat go on after that. Spring through fall is the season for deck work up here. A deck needs 2 to 3 days to dry after sealing, and the full job can run 6 days. Inside the house, metallic epoxy flooring gives a basement or bar area a marble look. HOA townhomes get the same landing and walkway coatings as single family homes. We work with the board or the property manager on color.
7,000 feet of snow, freeze-thaw and UV: Park City concrete
Park City sits near 7,000 feet, high in the Wasatch Range. The town averages well over 200 inches of snow a year. Measurable snow starts in October and can still fall in June. In midwinter the air swings between about 11 and 30 degrees in a single day. That swing is what breaks concrete. Water soaks into the slab in the afternoon, freezes at night and pushes the surface apart. Do that a few hundred times and you get spalling, pitting and flaking. Road salt and de-icer speed the whole thing up. At this elevation the sun is stronger too, so color and sealer fade faster than they do in the valley.
Prep is what makes a coating last up here. We grind or sandblast the old surface, then repair cracks and spalled edges before any color goes down. New concrete needs to cure at least 30 days before we seal it. Sealers go on between 50 and 90 degrees, which narrows the window in a Park City fall. An acrylic sealer gets redone every 1 to 3 years. A penetrating siloxane sealer can last around 10 years, which suits a driveway that sees a plow. For a porch or patio that is pitted and tired, resurfacing the old concrete costs less than tearing it out. Ask us about sealing a driveway or patio on the same visit.
Communities & areas we serve around Park City: Old Town, Historic Main Street, Deer Valley, Park Meadows, Prospector, Thaynes Canyon, Canyons Village, Kimball Junction, Jeremy Ranch, Pinebrook.
Park City ZIP codes served: 84060, 84068, 84098.