Flooring Contractor in Coral Gables, FL - Fresh Floors for Older Homes and Shops

The cost of a garage floor coating in Coral Gables comes down mostly to how much prep the slab needs, how big the floor is and which coating you choose. In older houses, stripping old paint or glue and patching cracks can be a bigger share of the bill than the coating itself, and a basic epoxy usually runs less than a polyaspartic or metallic system. I'll come look at it and put your number in writing.

Most houses in the MacFarlane Homestead subdivision were built between 1926 and 1939, going by the city's building records. The city describes them as a wood frame style you won't see anywhere else in Coral Gables, and the neighborhood is the city's only historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Our coatings go on concrete, so in a house that age I start by checking what each floor is actually built on before we talk finishes.

Yes, every business and state-licensed professional in Coral Gables has to open a new account and file a new application through the city's portal, because old accounts aren't carried over. Once city staff approve the Local Business Tax application, the city sends the 2026/2027 Business Tax Receipt invoice. The city has pushed its Sept. 30 deadline for this cycle to Jan. 31 with no late fees, and you can get started on the city's CU and BTR registration page.

Miami-Dade County requires its own local business tax receipt for each place of business and for each separate classification at the same address, so a business in Coral Gables needs the county receipt as well as the city's. County receipts run one year, October 1 through September 30, and one that isn't renewed by Sept. 30 can pick up a 10% penalty in October plus 5% for each month after, capped at 25% of the tax. The city's Jan. 31 extension doesn't cover the county receipt, and the details are on the county tax collector's page.

You find out by having someone look at the slab itself for cracks, crumbling edges, oil soaked deep into the concrete and spots where the top layer is coming loose. Plenty of older garages can take a coating once they're repaired and prepped, but some need more patching than the owner expected, and I'll tell you that up front rather than sell you a floor the slab can't hold.

Peeling usually comes from poor prep, where the coating went over concrete that wasn't ground open, cleaned of oil or cleared of an older sealer, so it never really grabbed. Hot tires parked on a weakly bonded coat can then pull it up in patches, which is often when people first notice. That's why we grind down to bare, clean concrete before anything new goes on.