Flooring contractor in Westchester, FL - garage and epoxy floors built on real prep
Westmark Epoxy Floors of Olympia Heights coats, grinds and restores concrete floors in Westchester, FL, from carport and garage slabs to shop floors and pool decks, starting every job by getting the slab ready first.
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Block homes and carports across Westchester
Westchester is mostly street after street of single-family houses, a lot of them concrete block homes from the middle of the last century, with carports, one-car garages and back patios poured on slab. Many have been added on to or had the garage closed in over the years, and a good number still have the original terrazzo under carpet or tile. Along the busier roads you'll find shops, offices and small warehouses, and the same kind of neighborhood carries on next door in Westwood Lakes.
Slabs that age carry decades of adhesive, paint and patching, and some have settled cracks, so most floors here start with grinding and repair before any coating goes on. That's the part I won't rush.
What I sort out before a Westchester floor job starts
The first thing I find out on a Westchester job is which office handles your permits. Miami-Dade County issues them for unincorporated properties, the ones with a folio number starting with "30", and a property inside an incorporated city gets its permits from that city, so the answer decides who we deal with and whether a permit sits ahead of your start date. You can check two things on any contractor before you hire them, their state license, which the questions below cover, and their business tax receipt from the county tax collector, which is needed for each place of business, runs a year from October 1 and has to be paired with a city receipt when the business sits inside a city.
Before we schedule, we confirm which office covers your house, and if the job needs a permit, we apply for it as the licensed contractor and handle the paperwork and inspections. We're a flooring contractor based in Olympia Heights, FL, fully licensed and insured, and I've run this business since 2017, doing the same work nearby in Olympia Heights and Glenvar Heights. Satisfaction guaranteed on every job. On most floors here the price comes down to the size of the area, what has to come off the slab and how much crack repair it needs, while the schedule turns on any permit, the weather for outdoor slabs and how much prep the floor takes, and I put all of it in your written estimate once I've seen the slab.
Get a written floor estimate for your Westchester property
Send the form or call (786) 408-1023, and we'll reply within one business day to set a time. I come out to your Westchester property myself, look at the slab and leave you a free written estimate, with no pressure and no obligation.
Call (786) 408-1023Services in Westchester, FL
Garage Floor Coatings
Many Westchester garages still have bare or painted slabs that stain and dust. We grind off the old paint and lay a coating built for car traffic.
Terrazzo Flooring
Lots of older homes here have terrazzo under carpet or tile. We pull the adhesive, repair chips and cracks, and grind and polish it to a clean finish.
Commercial & Industrial Epoxy Floor Coatings
Shops and warehouses along Westchester's busier roads wear floors fast under carts and forklifts. Our commercial and industrial epoxy floor coatings renew a tired floor for that traffic.
Pool Deck Coatings & Resurfacing
Pool decks here take sun, chlorine and hard rain, so older ones crack and fade. We repair the concrete and resurface it for bare feet.
Concrete Grinding & Surface Preparation
Old tile glue, paint and patching are common on slabs here, and coatings won't grip them. We grind down to clean concrete before anything goes on.
Polyaspartic Floor Coatings
Open carports catch sun and rain all year, which yellows and wears some coatings. We often use polyaspartic there because it holds color in direct sun.
How it works when you call us about a Westchester floor
Call or send the form
Tell us what floor you have and how you use it. We get back to you and set a time for me to come out.
I look at your slab
I check the slab for cracks, old coatings and moisture, and ask how you use the space. You get a written estimate, so you know the price and what it covers before you decide anything.
Our installers prep and coat
Once you say yes, we set the date, and our installers grind and repair the slab before any coating goes down. You don't need to stand over the work, as long as we can get into the space.
Walk the finished floor together
I walk the finished floor with you before we pack up. That's your time to point out anything you want looked at.
Common questions
Do I need a permit to coat a garage floor in Westchester, FL?
For properties with a folio number starting with "30", Miami-Dade County's list of work that needs no building permit includes floor resurfacing, alongside interior painting and wallpaper. Anything that comes with the floor, like new electrical work in a shop, is a separate question, and a property under a city follows that city's rules. You can read the county's list on its permit application page.
Can work under $7,500 skip a building permit in Miami-Dade County?
Some can, because a state law now lets certain work valued under $7,500 on a single-family home, duplex, townhouse or their accessory structures use a simplified process with no building permit. Units in multi-family buildings don't qualify, nor do properties partly or entirely in a flood hazard area, and electrical, plumbing, structural, mechanical and gas work still needs permits at any value. The owner or contractor claims it by sending a written request and the contract through the county's permit exemptions page, and a project can't be split into smaller phases to stay under the limit.
Does a flooring contractor in Florida need a state license?
To pull a building permit in Miami-Dade County, yes, because the county issues permits only to licensed contractors or owner-builders. A Florida certified license is good anywhere in the state, while a registered license only covers the cities or counties where the holder has a certificate of competency. Ask a contractor which kind they hold before you sign.
How much does it cost to coat a garage floor in Westchester?
It's set by the garage's size, what's on the slab now and the coating you pick, so your real number comes from a written estimate after I see the floor. Old paint, tile glue or a failed coating adds grinding time, deep cracks and pits add repair, and a flake or metallic finish costs more than a plain solid color. If a sealer or a simpler coating fits how you use the garage, I'll tell you, because that can save you money.
What causes epoxy garage floors to peel in Miami-Dade?
Most peeling comes down to prep, with coating rolled over a slab that wasn't ground, was still dirty or had old sealer or paint on it. Moisture coming up through the slab is the other common cause, and it matters here because the county sits close to sea level and heavy rain sometimes has nowhere to drain. That's why we grind to bare concrete and check the slab for moisture first, and if yours isn't ready, I'll say so.
What is the best time of year to coat a carport or pool deck in Westchester?
Outside hurricane season is easiest, and the county puts that season at June 1 to November 30. An enclosed garage can be done most of the year, but an open carport or pool deck needs a dry stretch for the coating to cure. We watch the forecast and move the date if rain is coming.
Ask about your Westchester floor today
Call (786) 408-1023 or send the form, and mention what's on the floor now, carpet, tile or old paint, so I come out knowing what has to come up first.