Flooring Contractor in Fontainebleau, FL - Floors for Condos, Townhomes and Garages

The county decides, because homes in Fontainebleau fall under Miami-Dade County, and its Permitting and Inspection Center is the office that handles building permits here. An older county list puts floor surfacing in homes outside the Florida Building Code, but the county's exemptions only cover that code and other agencies may still want an approval, so we check with the office for your address before we start. If your address sits inside Sweetwater or Doral, that city's own building official makes the call, and if a permit is needed we handle our side of the paperwork and walk you through the part you sign.

It might, if the project is valued under $7,500 and your home is a single-family house, duplex or townhouse, because those jobs may qualify for the county's simplified process with no building permit. Units in multi-family buildings are left out, so most condos and apartments won't qualify, and neither will a property partly or entirely in a flood hazard area, which the county says to check on FEMA's Flood Map Service Center. You can't split a bigger job into smaller pieces to get under the limit, and the owner or contractor has to upload a written request with the contract showing what the work is and what it's worth, under the county's permit exemption rules.

Miami-Dade County's Contractor Licensing Section licenses contractors and tradesmen working in the county, and its qualifying board's rules apply the same way in unincorporated areas like Fontainebleau as inside the cities. A state certified license is good anywhere in Florida, while a registered one only covers the places where the holder has a certificate of competency, so it's worth asking which kind a contractor holds. The county also requires a business tax receipt for each place of business, and we're licensed and fully insured, with our work backed by our satisfaction guarantee.

The price turns mostly on how much work the slab needs before the coating goes on, not just on how big the floor is. Pulling up tile and glue, grinding off an old coating, filling cracks or pouring a leveling layer all add cost, and a metallic or decorative multi-coat finish costs more than a solid color or a clear sealer. That's why the condition of your slab, more than its size, is what I'm pricing when I come out.

Most peeling comes from moisture pushing up through the slab or from a surface that wasn't prepped right, and the moisture part gets extra attention here because the county sits close to sea level with groundwater just below the surface. Big storms sometimes leave rainwater nowhere to drain, so a garage or ground-floor slab can stay damp longer than it looks. We test the slab and grind it to open, clean concrete before anything goes down, and if a slab is too wet for a coating, I'll tell you that instead of selling you one.

Most of the time goes into prep and curing rather than the coating itself, so the schedule comes down to what's on your slab now and which system you pick. A floor that needs tile stripped or a leveling pour takes longer than a clean slab, and a fast-curing polyaspartic usually gets your car back in sooner than a standard epoxy. Our damp air can slow a cure too, so we'll tell you how long to stay off your floor before we leave.