Concrete floor coatings across DeKalb County
Fort Payne and Rainsville, on the far northern edge of the sixty-mile line.
Coating concrete in DeKalb County
DeKalb County jobs are usually larger ones that justify the drive, including shop and light industrial floors around Fort Payne. Sitting higher up, these slabs also see slightly harder winters than Anniston does.
Shanks Concrete Coatings works out of Anniston, and DeKalb County sits inside the sixty-mile radius Taylor covers. Every floor starts the same way regardless of which county it is in: the slab is opened with a diamond grinder, cracks and spalls are repaired, and only then does anything get applied. All twenty-two systems are available here.
Every county we cover
Where Shanks works in this county
Distances are measured from the shop in Anniston. If your town is between two of these, it is almost certainly still inside the radius.
Fort Payne, AL
55 miles from the shop in Anniston.
Rainsville, AL
57 miles from the shop in Anniston.
Systems available across DeKalb County
Garage Floor Epoxy
Ground, patched and coated so hot tires and dropped tools do not mark it.
Flake Epoxy
Vinyl chip in a pigmented base under clear. The most requested floor here.
Metallic Epoxy
Pearl pigment moved through resin so the floor reads like poured stone.
Grind and Seal
The concrete you already own, opened up, stained if you want, and sealed.
Patio Coatings
Textured, UV-stable finishes for porches, patios and pool surrounds.
Commercial Epoxy
Shop, warehouse and showroom floors specified for the actual use.
What happens after you call
A call back the same day
Usually within working hours, Monday to Friday. A couple of questions about the room and the slab, then a time to come out that suits you.
A look at the actual floor
Measured, checked for moisture where it matters, and assessed for repair. Free anywhere inside the sixty-mile radius, including every town on this page.
A number in writing
The system, the preparation it needs, the schedule and the price. Nothing to sign on the doorstep and no pressure attached to it.
Three to four days on site
Three to four days for a typical garage, with Taylor on site for the grind, the repair, the broadcast and the topcoat, then a walk-through at the end.
What decides whether it lasts
What repair actually involves
Cracks get chased out into a V with a saw rather than simply filled, so the repair has shoulders to hold onto, then filled with a rigid polyurea that can be ground flush the same day. Spalled edges near a garage door, where water has sat and frozen for a few winters, are rebuilt with a polymer-modified patch. None of this shows in the finished floor, which is precisely why it gets skipped by people quoting the cheapest number.
Why the topcoat matters more than the base
The layer you actually walk on, wash and scuff is the clear coat, not the color underneath. A cheap job leaves a standard epoxy as the top layer, and epoxy ambers in daylight, so a garage with a west-facing door turns yellow within a couple of years. A UV-stable polyaspartic or aliphatic urethane holds its color, cures fast enough to walk on the next day, and can be scuffed and recoated years later without disturbing what is underneath.
No pricing over the phone. Anyone who quotes a concrete floor sight unseen is guessing, because the condition of the slab is most of the cost. Two garages of identical size can be a full day apart in preparation once you factor in old paint, glue, cracking and how much of the surface has broken down. Taylor looks at the floor, measures it, tells you what it needs, and then puts a real number in writing.
Which floor for which room
Most people call about one system and end up with a different one, because the room decides more than the brochure does. A quick way to narrow it down:
It is a finished room you look at
Metallic, if you want the floor to be the feature, or polished concrete if you want it quiet. Metallic gives you flowing depth that no two floors share; polishing gives you the slab itself, refined, with nothing on top that can ever peel.
It gets wet or greasy
Quartz or a non-slip build. Both put graded aggregate into the surface so there is real traction underfoot, and both can be coved up the wall and sloped to a drain so the room can be properly washed down rather than just mopped.
You like the concrete you already have
Grind and seal. The slab is opened up, optionally stained, and sealed. It costs less than a full coating system, it keeps the character of the concrete, and on a stamped patio or an older shop floor it is very often the better-looking answer.
It is outside
A textured patio coating with a UV-stable topcoat. Color choice matters more outdoors than anywhere else, because a dark smooth surface around a pool gets hot enough to be unpleasant barefoot in an Alabama July.
DeKalb County, AL
Shanks Concrete Coatings is based in Anniston and covers DeKalb County as part of its regular working area. Licensed and insured, Alabama #2602341.
DeKalb County questions
Do you charge extra to come out to DeKalb County?
No. DeKalb County is inside the sixty-mile working radius, so it is quoted the same as a job in Anniston. The drive is Taylor’s problem, not yours.
How soon could you look at a floor in DeKalb County?
Usually within the same week for a look, and the schedule for the work itself depends on the weather and what is already booked. Resin cures on a temperature and humidity window, so nothing gets squeezed in ahead of a storm.
Residential and commercial both?
Both. Garages, basements, porches and patios on the residential side, and shop, warehouse and showroom floors on the commercial side.
What if my town is not on the list?
Call anyway. The list covers the towns Shanks works in most often across DeKalb County, but the radius takes in plenty of smaller communities between them.
Do you need to see the floor before quoting?
Yes, and anyone who quotes concrete coating over the phone is guessing. The condition of the slab is most of the price, and that cannot be assessed by description.
What is the most common job in DeKalb County?
Flake garage floors, by a wide margin, followed by basements and covered porches. On the commercial side it is shop and warehouse floors that have never had anything on them and are shedding dust under traffic.
Can several floors be done on one visit?
Yes, and it is worth asking. A garage and a porch done together share the same mobilization, the same grinder setup and the same cleanup, so the second floor is always cheaper than it would be as a separate job.
Floors in DeKalb County
Tell Taylor the town, the square footage and what the slab looks like now, and he will give you a real number.