Flooring Contractor in Kendall, FL - Garage and Shop Floors That Stay Put

You ask Miami-Dade County, because Kendall is unincorporated and has no city government of its own. Before we start, I check with the county on whether your floor job needs a permit, and if it does, we handle our side of the paperwork and walk you through the part you sign.

Maybe not, because Florida now lets qualifying projects valued under $7,500 on single-family homes, duplexes and townhouses go through a simpler county process instead of a building permit. Units in multi-family buildings and properties partly or fully in a flood hazard area don't qualify. Electrical, plumbing, structural, mechanical and gas work still needs a permit at any size, and nobody's allowed to split a project into phases to stay under the line. The owner or the contractor makes a written exemption request to the county with the contract or papers showing the work and what it costs.

Florida law requires anyone in the business of contracting to be certified or registered with the state, and county licensing rules still apply on top of that. A certified license covers the whole state, while a registered one only covers places where the holder has a certificate of competency, so it's fair to ask which one a contractor carries. Miami-Dade County also requires a local business tax receipt for each place of business, renewed every year. We're licensed and fully insured, and I'm glad to go over it at the estimate.

Your price comes down to the size of the garage, the shape the slab is in and the system you pick, so the estimate is where you'll see your own number. Prep moves it most, because grinding, filling cracks and stripping an old coating all take time before any color goes down. A basic epoxy with flake costs less than a polyaspartic topcoat or a metallic finish, and the schedule mostly turns on that prep and on how long your coating needs to cure.

Hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, so if your deck work falls in those months, leave some room in the date. When a tropical storm or hurricane watch or warning comes out, the county expects permit holders to fasten down or remove loose materials on the jobsite. On outdoor jobs we'd rather pack up and come back than leave buckets and tools sitting in your yard.

Most peeling comes from poor prep, because a coating rolled onto dirty, smooth or already sealed concrete has nothing solid to grab. Moisture coming up through the slab can lift it too, and so can hot tires on a thin coat, which is how a floor ends up leaving with your car. That's why I tell you at the estimate what your slab can take, and why we grind it open before anything goes down.