Flaking, cracked or oil-stained garage floor? Get a straight answer on resurfacing or replacing it, and a new slab poured on a solid base.
Garage floor concrete work in Aberdeen either puts a new surface on an old slab that's still sound or tears it out and pours a new one, and either way the finished floor has to stand up to the salt your car drags in all winter.
Most calls start with a floor that's flaking, cracked, stained with oil or holding a puddle of melt by the door. Before anything else, I figure out whether your slab is solid enough to resurface or due to be replaced, and I'll tell you straight. Price comes down mostly to your garage's size and which of those two jobs it is, the schedule turns on the weather, and the estimate lays out what's included for your floor.
If you want color or a pattern on the new floor, that's our decorative concrete work, and if the yard beside the garage is slumping toward the slab, we also build concrete retaining walls. Residential contractors in Aberdeen have to be licensed through the city, and we're licensed and fully insured.
I'll get back to you and set a time to come out, look at the garage and hear what you have in mind. Have the garage size and your preferred timing handy if you can.
I check the slab myself, see where the water runs and whether the old floor is sound enough to resurface. Your estimate then lays out what's included, and I'm happy to go over it line by line so the price doesn't surprise you.
Once you say go, we take care of any permit paperwork the job needs. Then we set a pour date that works with the weather, not just the calendar.
Our crew and I do the work, with me on site from the prep through the finish. Before we leave, I'll tell you when the floor is ready to walk on and when you can park on it.
On a new floor, most of the work is stuff you'll never see. We dig out to the subgrade, the dirt the slab sits on, and pack a solid base instead of raking it level, because a slab settles with whatever's under it. We set the slope so melt runs toward the door, not the back wall, and cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a place to crack before it picks its own.
Around Aberdeen your car carries salt in all winter, and Concrete Alberta, a concrete group up in Canada, warns that even that salt may cause severe scaling, where the top flakes off, on a newly placed garage slab. The same group calls air-entrained concrete, a mix with tiny air bubbles worked through it, a must against scaling, so ask for it by name when you compare quotes. Before a new pour, I'll go over the salt with you and how to protect the slab.
What a garage floor job can include:
The first thing I check is whether your old floor is solid underneath, and I'll tell you straight what I find. Surface wear, pitting and stains on a slab that hasn't moved usually point to resurfacing. Wide cracks, sections that have sunk or tipped, or a floor that rocks under your foot mean the base has let go, and a new top won't fix that. That's when it's time to tear out and pour new.
Size is the starting point, then whether the old slab has to be broken out and hauled off. After that it's the base and how much digging and packing it takes, any work on the slope or a floor drain, and whether you want a sealer. If the budget gets tight, trim the finish before the base, because nobody sees the base on day one, but a nice top can't save a floor sitting on a bad one.
I learned concrete from an old-school contractor who made me reset forms until they were dead straight and wouldn't let a truck pour on a base he hadn't walked himself. I started Aberdeen Concrete Company in 2023 to run jobs that same careful way, and I'm on your job from the prep to the finish.
I'd also rather you understand the job before we start, so nothing about the plan or the price catches you off guard. Ask me anything, as many times as you need, and we'll leave your garage and driveway picked up when we're done. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Call (605) 824-9815 and I'll come walk the floor with you, so you know whether it's worth saving before you spend a dime.
Tell us your garage size, how the floor looks now and when you'd like the work done. I'll reply within one business day to set up a free on-site estimate, with no obligation.
Resurface it if the slab underneath is sound and replace it if it isn't, because a new surface is only as strong as the floor it bonds to. The Michigan Concrete Association says scaling, where the top flakes away, is generally cosmetic and leaves the slab itself intact, so a flaky floor is often a resurfacing job. The old floor has to be clean of dirt, oil and paint first, so ask how your oil stains will be handled.
There's no honest single number, because your garage's size and whether the old slab can be resurfaced or has to come out set most of the price. A sound floor that only needs a new surface usually costs less than a full tear-out and new pour. Your estimate lays out what's included for your floor.
It can, but not on frozen ground, because concrete placed on a frozen subgrade is likely to settle unevenly and crack once that ground thaws. A cold-season job waits for thawed ground, which can push your start date back, and we'd rather wait than pour on it.
Keep salt off it that first year as best you can, since the Michigan group advises limiting deicers on new concrete until after one year and using sand for traction instead. That's tricky in a garage, because your car brings salt in on its own, as the Concrete Alberta warning above covers. A floor poured in October or November may not get 30 days of drying before deicers go down, so a fall pour is a good time to plan that protection.
A penetrating sealer is worth asking about, because Euclid Chemical, a sealer maker, says these soak into the concrete without forming a film and cut how much water and chloride, the part of road salt that does the damage, it takes in. That guide also says they keep the surface's traction and typically last 5 to 10 years when properly applied.
Aberdeen's Building Inspection office in City Hall issues building permits for a fee, and for projects within the county's jurisdiction, Brown County Planning & Zoning reviews and processes them. The city's list of work that doesn't need a permit names flooring but not garage floor concrete, so check with that office about your job. When a job needs a permit, we take care of the application and keep you posted on where it stands.
We're based in Aberdeen and work in the cities around it too. Pick Aberdeen below, or call (605) 824-9815 if your city isn't listed.
