Driveway Coatings

Bare concrete driveways on the coast stain from irrigation rust, mildew in the shade lines, and oil where the cars sit. Pressure washing buys a few weeks. A coated driveway changes the equation: sealed against stains, finished in a flake blend that complements the house, and cleanable with a hose.

Exterior work on this coast lives or dies on UV stability. Our topcoats are chosen specifically to hold color and gloss in direct sun, and the textured finish adds traction when the afternoon storms roll through. The same diamond grinding and repair process we use inside goes into every exterior job, because sun exposure punishes weak bonds even faster than garages do.

We install three one day flake systems for driveways. One uses a 100 percent solids epoxy basecoat, one uses polyurea, one uses polyaspartic. All three take the same vinyl flake broadcast, all three are sealed under the same polyaspartic topcoat, and all three finish at over fifty mils. Their published test numbers are identical: same adhesion, same tensile strength, same abrasion resistance, same gloss retention under accelerated UV.

A driveway lives in open sun, so the polyaspartic basecoat is usually the call, since it will not amber where flake coverage runs thin. On a damp or heavily patched slab we will spec the epoxy basecoat instead.

The price is the same whichever one your floor calls for, so the choice is a technical one rather than a budget one. See the full system comparison, or read why we test your slab first.