Crack and apron repair in the garage
Freeze-thaw opens the slab at the door first. That gets rebuilt before coating, at $18 to $35 per linear metre.
A Mount Dennis garage slab works harder than any room
A detached Toronto garage takes brine off the car, meltwater pooling on the slab through the winter, freeze-thaw opening every hairline crack, and hot tires gripping the surface in summer. That is a harsher environment than any room in the house, and it is why an uncoated or badly coated garage slab in this neighbourhood spalls at the door and dusts underfoot. A properly ground, crack-repaired and coated floor at $7 to $14 per square foot for standard epoxy stops all of that, and a typical two-car garage lands between $2,800 and $5,200. The same logic applies to a basement workshop where the slab is the working surface.
Flooring jobs we run in Mount Dennis
Garage floor coatings
Diamond ground, cracks repaired, then epoxy or polyaspartic over the top.
Workshop and basement slabs
Coated concrete where the floor is a working surface rather than a finish.
Interior flooring
Hardwood, plank and tile over subfloors measured before anything goes down.
What decides a Mount Dennis flooring quote
A coating specified for cold cure
An unheated garage cannot take standard epoxy outside the warm months. Polyaspartic can.
A moisture read on any basement slab
Older houses here frequently have no underslab vapour barrier.
Subfloor thickness indoors
Same 19 mm question as anywhere in the wood-framed stock.
The Mount Dennis basement slab needs its own answer
Houses of this era were built before under-slab vapour barriers were routine, so the basement concrete sits directly on ground that is wet for part of the year. That shows up in the moisture reading, and the reading decides everything below grade: whether a glue-down is viable at all, whether laminate is off the table, whether a barrier is needed first. It is a different conversation to the one upstairs and it gets its own line on the quote.
What our clients say
Reviews collected directly from clients.
5/5
We had several damaged floorboards that needed repair. The team matched the new boards closely with the existing flooring and completed the work with excellent attention to detail.
5/5
Ontario Flooring installed new hardwood flooring throughout our home, and the results look beautiful. The crew was careful, professional, and kept the work area clean from start to finish.
Mount Dennis flooring, answered
Can my garage be coated if it is unheated?
Yes, with the right system. Standard epoxy needs warmth to cure and is a warm-season job in an unheated garage. A polyaspartic system at $10 to $18 per square foot cures at lower temperatures and is the honest answer for a winter booking.
The concrete at my garage door is crumbling. Is it too far gone?
Usually not. Spalling at the apron is the most common failure here because that edge takes the most salt and freeze-thaw. It is rebuilt as part of the preparation. What would genuinely rule out a coating is structural failure through the slab, which is rare.
Can I coat a workshop floor and still work on it?
Yes, and it is a good use of a coating. A sealed slab stops concrete dust, resists oil and solvent spills and sweeps clean. Specify a topcoat with some aggregate if the floor gets wet, because a smooth coating is slippery underfoot.