Epoxy Flooring in Escalon, CA

Escalon is a working farm town, and epoxy flooring here gets asked to do two jobs. One is the family garage. The other is the shop out back or on the ranch, where trucks, sprayers and harvest equipment come in with dust, grease and hydraulic fluid. Escalon has about 7,472 residents as of the 2020 census, and Wikipedia notes that the fertile farmland around the city drives its economy. We coat both kinds of floor, and we price each one on its own terms.

A town built around farm freight

Escalon grew because growers needed a way to ship crops. The first Santa Fe train reached town in the spring of 1896, and the city sits where State Highway 120 crosses the BNSF tracks. It did not incorporate until 1957. Today one of the largest walnut processing facilities in the world, DeRuosi Nut, operates here, and nut processing accounts for much of the local farm economy. That history shows up in the buildings. Many properties have a pole barn, a metal shop or an old equipment shed next to the house.

What a farm shop floor needs

A shop floor in orchard country takes a different kind of wear than a garage that holds two cars.

• Fluids: diesel, hydraulic oil and grease soak into bare concrete fast and leave dark stains that never fully clean up.
• Weight: tractors, forklifts and loaded trailers put point loads on the slab and on any coating over it.
• Grit: harvest dust and fine soil get tracked in all season and act like sandpaper on a soft finish.
• Washdowns: many owners hose the floor out, so it needs grip when wet.

For these floors we usually recommend a thicker commercial epoxy build with a broadcast aggregate in the topcoat. It resists chemicals, and the texture helps footing when the floor is wet. Where a shop also doubles as a place to park a nice pickup, a full flake system is a good middle ground.

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Escalon garages and owner-occupied homes

About 72.4% of occupied homes in Escalon are lived in by their owners, according to 2020 census figures cited on Wikipedia. Owners tend to keep a house for years, and they often want a garage floor that holds up for the long haul. Our most common Escalon request is a flake floor with a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat. The chips hide the fine dust that blows in from the fields, and the topcoat keeps its color when the door is open on a summer afternoon.

Older slabs near the original town site

James Wesley Jones laid out the town with streets running on a diagonal, so some blocks are square and others are triangular. Homes near the old core along Main Street can be decades older than the newer tracts on the edges of town. Older garage slabs may have settlement cracks, patches or a painted surface. We grind those down to sound concrete, fill cracks and chips, and only then lay the first coat.

Picking the right system

• Garage Floor Coating for everyday parking and storage
• Epoxy Flake Floors for a textured, forgiving finish that hides dust
• Polyaspartic Floor Coating when you want a faster return to service
• Commercial & Winery Floor Epoxy for ag shops, equipment bays and small processing rooms
• Patio & Pool Deck Coatings for outdoor slabs around the house

We measure first, test the slab, and give you a written price before any work starts.