Your garage floor isn't the only concrete taking a beating. Riverside has some of the oldest residential slabs we work on, and they show it: oil worked deep into the pour, edges breaking up, cracks opening along the joints. We coat driveways, patios, pool decks and interior slabs across the city. Free on-site estimate. 10-year material and craftsmanship warranty.
Driveways, patios, pool decks, porches and walkways take the worst of it here, and across much of Riverside they have been taking it for sixty or seventy years. The Wood Streets, the older blocks off Victoria Avenue, the early Canyon Crest tracts. Those slabs were poured long before anyone sealed concrete as a matter of course.
Age changes what the job actually is. Oil that dripped for decades is not sitting on the surface, it has wicked down into the pour, and it has to be drawn back out before anything will bond. Edges that have spalled need rebuilding to a clean line rather than filling. Where a street tree has lifted a slab section, the crack gets chased, cut and filled so it stops moving before a coating goes over it. None of that is optional. It is the difference between a floor that holds and one that lets go inside a year.
A coating doesn't replace your concrete. It bonds into the slab you already own. On an older Riverside pour that means most of the work happens before the first coat goes down, and that is the part worth paying for.
Concrete doesn't have to stay hidden under carpet. In the older housing stock here the slab underneath is often in better shape than the flooring on top of it, because it has been covered and protected for decades. Once the carpet or tile is up, that slab becomes the finished floor: seamless, quick to sweep, with no grout lines or seams for dirt to settle into.
What makes that worth doing is how the floor is built. Every other option is a separate material laid over your slab. A coating isn't laid on the concrete. It is ground into it, and it cures as one continuous surface with nothing to lift, catch, or come apart at a seam.
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Metallic epoxy and solid color are the two finishes we install inside, and we can coat a single room or carry the same floor through several. In older homes we take moisture readings first: a pre-war pour rarely has a vapor barrier under it, and that changes the primer we use.
The first floor that meets wet shoes and grit off the driveway. On an older entry slab we grind out the worn traffic path before coating, so the finish sits level rather than following the dip that decades of use put there.
Water resistant underfoot, so a tipped detergent bottle or a leaking washer is a wipe rather than a stain. In older homes the laundry often sits on a slab poured later than the house, and that cold joint gets treated before anything goes over it.
One seamless surface with nothing for crumbs, flour or spills to sit in. Kitchen slabs in remodeled older homes usually carry adhesive from two or three previous floors. That comes off in the grind, not under the new coating.
High traffic, and where transitions look worst in a house that has been re-floored in pieces over the years. A single coated run takes the joins out altogether, so there is nothing to lift or wear through down the middle.
Where metallic epoxy earns its keep. Pigment moves through the resin as it cures, so the pattern settles on site. In a converted garage or bonus room it also gives you a hard, level surface over a slab that was never meant to be a finished floor.
Below-grade and added-on rooms are where moisture rises through the slab, and older Riverside pours rarely have a vapor barrier under them. A moisture barrier primer goes down first wherever the readings call for it.
Three systems cover almost every home we coat. Flake goes outside, metallic goes inside, and solid color works in either when you want the floor to stay quiet. All three are epoxy and polyaspartic systems, all three go down over ground and prepared concrete, and all three carry the same 10-year warranty. What changes is the texture, the look, and where each one belongs. Tell us the room and we will tell you which one fits it.
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One even color, no movement, no pattern. It suits laundry rooms, pantries, mud rooms, and hallways where you want the concrete bright and clean rather than decorative. Low maintenance: sweep and mop, no waxing and no resealing. It is also the most straightforward of the three to install.
Our main floor system, and the one that goes outside. Color flake is broadcast into the wet epoxy, then locked under a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat. The texture gives grip when the surface is wet and hides dust and tire marks between cleans. Pick your blend from the color chart, or we will bring samples out with the estimate.
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Our interior finish. Pigment moves through the resin as it cures, so the pattern is settled on site and no two floors finish alike. It suits living rooms, entryways, kitchens, and home gyms. Metallic colors are worth seeing in person before you choose, and we can bring them to the estimate.
A coating is only as good as the slab under it, and on a sixty-year-old pour that is most of the job.
We diamond grind every surface before anything goes down, which opens the concrete so the coating bonds into it rather than sitting on top. On an older Riverside driveway that grind also takes off the contaminated top layer: decades of oil, old sealer residue, and whatever the last owner rolled on. Where oil has soaked deeper we degrease and test before we coat. Spalled edges are rebuilt to a clean line, structural cracks are chased, cut and filled, and where moisture is rising through the slab a moisture barrier primer goes down first.
Skip that work and the floor lets go at the bond line. On a contaminated older slab it does not show up as a stain you can clean off, it lifts in sheets, and putting it right costs more than doing it properly the first time.
That is why every residential floor we install carries a 10-year material and craftsmanship warranty. Evolve Epoxy is licensed, bonded and insured under Lic. #1084974.
If you want to know what your own slab actually needs, call (951) 454-6688 or schedule a free estimate and we'll come look at it.
High standards protect you from low-quality experiences. We are a small, family-owned crew run by Steve Monroe, and the people who quote your floor are the people who grind, coat and finish it. Older Riverside slabs are a large share of the residential work we do.
We open the concrete with diamond grinders so the coating bonds into the slab instead of sitting on top of it. No acid etching, and no shortcuts on the part of the job you cannot see once it is finished.
Every residential floor carries our 10-year material and craftsmanship warranty. The full terms sit on our Terms and Conditions page, so you can read them before you commit to anything.
Lic. #1084974, held in California. Worth asking any contractor for their number before work starts on your property, and worth checking that it is current.
Not a franchise and not a call center. You deal with the same small crew from the first visit through to the final coat, and you can ask them questions while they work.
We come out, measure, look at the condition of the slab, and give you a real number. No charge for the visit, no obligation, and no pressure to book on the spot.
Military, veteran, and first responder discounts are available. Ask for details when you book your estimate and we will apply it to your quote.
It comes down to three things:
1. the square footage,
2. the condition of the slab, and the finish you choose.
A spalled driveway needs far more prep than a clean laundry room, and prep is where the labor sits, so two jobs of the same size can price differently. We do not guess over the phone. We measure on site, look at the concrete, and give you a fixed number with no charge for the visit.
Call us or fill in our free quote form and we will book a time that suits you.
Plan on more than one day for an outdoor floor. We grind and prep first, then coat, then let it cure. On a heavily oil-stained older driveway the prep day can run long, and we would rather take the extra time than coat over contamination.
Foot traffic is about 8 hours. Vehicles need longer, in as little as 48 hours on a driveway. Cure times stretch in cold weather, and we will give you the real schedule on the day.
Yes. Once the carpet, tile or vinyl is up, we coat the slab underneath. In older homes we take moisture readings first, because a pre-war pour rarely has a vapor barrier under it.
It depends on whether the crack is still moving. We chase and fill structural cracks and rebuild spalled edges before coating. Where a slab section has been lifted by a tree root and is still shifting, we will tell you straight: sometimes the answer is a repair before a coating, not instead of one.
Military, veteran, and first responder discounts available. Ask for details.
Garage floors are our flagship, and Riverside has its own page for them. We also coat commercial and industrial floors across the city.
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One-day garage floor installation on a prepared slab. We grind, coat and finish in a single day, and you can walk on it in about 8 hours.
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Shop floors, showrooms and warehouse space across Riverside, CA, coated with the same prep and the same warranty as the residential work.
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