Flooring contractor in San Ramon, CA - concrete floors that stay bonded

The city's Building & Safety office issues building permits in San Ramon. If your floor job needs one, we sort out with you which office covers your address and who pulls it, and we work with that office from there.

The city's list of permit-free work covers removing and replacing carpet, floor tile or vinyl, unless a termite report, water damage, or framing or subfloor changes are involved. Coatings, polishing and overlays on concrete aren't named on that list, so check with Building & Safety before the work starts instead of assuming. The city also says an exemption doesn't excuse work that breaks the code.

The state Contractors State License Board says a license applies when a project needs a building permit, uses any additional workers, or costs $1,000 or more in labor and materials. The board lists a job as possibly exempt only when there's no permit, no employee labor and a combined value under $1,000. We're licensed and fully insured.

The price depends mostly on your garage's size and on how much work the slab needs before any coating goes down. Deep cracks, pitting, old paint or sealer to grind off and moisture coming up through the concrete all add steps, and a full flake system or a polyaspartic topcoat usually runs more than a basic clear coat. I'll give you your number after I've seen the floor, since most of those costs only show once the slab is in front of me.

Ground movement is a big part of it, and the city's building code addresses expansive soil, clay that swells when wet and shrinks as it dries, as a condition found across San Ramon. That's a citywide finding, not a report on your lot, so we look at your own slab's cracks to see whether they're still moving. A crack that's still moving usually shows back through a coating, and I'll tell you that before we patch it.

Most of the schedule goes into the slab, not the coating, so it turns on how much grinding and crack repair your floor needs. After that it's the cure, which differs from one coating system to the next. Once I've seen your floor, I'll tell you how long the job runs and how long to keep cars off it.