Lincoln’s concrete floor coatings
Flake, metallic, quartz, polished and sealed floors for Lincoln homes and businesses. It is about 19 miles from the shop in Anniston, which is a routine run.
What Shanks coats in Lincoln
Detached shops and workshop buildings make up a good share of the calls here, which usually means a bigger, simpler floor than a subdivision garage. It is about 19 miles from the shop in Anniston, which is a routine run.
Talladega County covers a wide spread of housing ages and a fair amount of industrial floor space around Sylacauga and Childersburg, so the work here swings between residential garages and shop floors that need a harder build.
Whatever the slab turns out to be, the order of work does not change: grind it open, repair what is broken, then coat it. The twenty-two systems Shanks installs all sit on top of that same preparation.
Systems Lincoln homeowners ask for
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 decides whether it lasts
Why the grinder decides everything
Almost every failed garage floor starts the same way: a coating rolled onto concrete that was never opened up. A trowelled slab has a tight, closed surface, and resin sitting on top of it has nothing to grip. Diamond grinding cuts that skin away and leaves a profile like fine sandpaper, which is what a coating actually bonds into. It is the loudest, dirtiest and least glamorous day of the job, and it is the one that decides whether the floor is still tight in ten years.
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.
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.
The owner does the work
You deal with the owner from the first phone call to the walk-through at the end. Nobody sells you a floor and then disappears. Taylor Shanks trained with Brian Phillips, The Epoxy Dude, in southern Indiana, and he and Heather have run Shanks Concrete Coatings since 2025. Licensed and insured, Alabama #2602341.
If the honest answer for your Lincoln floor is a cheaper system than the one you called about, that is what you will be told. More about how Shanks works.
See finished floorsWhich floor for which room
If you are trying to work out which floor you want before anyone comes out, this is the short version:
The slab is in rough shape
Restoration or a self-leveling overlay before anything decorative. A coating cannot bridge a surface that has broken down; the slab has to be rebuilt flat first, and then it takes any system you like.
You park a vehicle on it
Flake, almost every time. The chip field hides tire marks and dust, the texture stops it being slick when you track rain in, and the polyaspartic topcoat handles hot tires without softening. It is the most requested floor Shanks installs and it is the right call for the large majority of garages.
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.
Other towns in Talladega County
Shanks covers the whole county. If you are between two of these, you are still inside the radius, and the Talladega County page lists every town.
Talladega, AL
24 miles from the shop in Anniston.
Childersburg, AL
40 miles from the shop in Anniston.
Sylacauga, AL
43 miles from the shop in Anniston.
Lincoln questions
Do you actually work in Lincoln?
Yes. It is about 19 miles from the shop in Anniston, which is a routine run. Lincoln is inside the sixty-mile radius Shanks covers out of Anniston, and it is quoted at the same rate as a job in town.
How long will my floor take?
About three to four days for a standard two-car garage: grinding, repair and base coat, broadcast and scrape, then the topcoat. Bigger or more damaged floors take longer, and Taylor will give you the real schedule before starting.
Can you coat a basement here?
Often yes, but below-grade slabs get moisture-tested first. Vapor coming up through concrete will push a coating off no matter how good the prep was, so it is measured rather than assumed.
Will you look at it before quoting?
Always. The condition of the slab is most of the price, so a number over the phone would be a guess. Taylor looks at the floor, then gives you a real number in writing.
What is the most popular floor around here?
Flake, by a distance. It hides dust and tire marks, it is not slick when wet, and it suits both a garage and a finished basement.
Floors in Lincoln
Square footage, what the room is used for, and what the slab looks like now. That is enough for a real number on a Lincoln floor.