Epoxy Flooring in Bend, OR

Epoxy flooring in Bend has to handle a climate that most coating brochures never mention. Bend sits at about 3,600 feet in a cold semi-arid climate, and Wikipedia's climate data (1981 to 2010 normals) puts the average freezing season from mid-September all the way to mid-June. Days are sunny and dry, with about 70% of possible sunshine, while the gap between daytime highs and nighttime lows averages close to 35 degrees. A garage slab here warms, cools, wets and dries over and over. A coating has to be bonded tightly enough to move with it.

Why so many Bend homeowners start with the garage

More people in Bend search for garage floor coating than for epoxy flooring. That tracks with what goes on in a Central Oregon garage. The City of Bend applies magnesium chloride ahead of icy weather, and ODOT uses magnesium chloride and rock salt on the highways. That brine comes home on the car. A 2008 study by Michigan Tech researchers for the South Dakota Department of Transportation found that magnesium chloride and calcium chloride react chemically with hardened cement paste, causing expansive cracking, higher permeability and a significant loss of strength. Bare concrete soaks the brine in. A sealed resin floor keeps it on the surface where a squeegee can move it out the door.

Newer homes, bigger garages

Bend is a young city in housing terms. Census figures from the 2019 to 2023 American Community Survey, summarized by Point2Homes, put the median year built at 2001, with about 27.5% of housing units built in the 2000s and another 20% from 2010 to 2019. Close to 70% of units are single-family detached houses. That means a lot of attached two- and three-car garages on slabs that are flat and sound, which makes for a strong coating job. Newer does not mean ready to coat, though. Builders often leave a curing compound or sealer on garage slabs, and the surface can be hard and slick. Grinding removes that layer so the base coat can grab.

Older neighborhoods and rental properties

About 4% of Bend's homes were built before 1940, and roughly 12% date from the 1970s. Those floors are more likely to have old paint, patched cracks or settled sections near the door. We check for all of that at the estimate and price the prep to match. Many Bend homes also have shops, ADU garages or detached outbuildings, and we coat those the same way.

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Sun, sawdust, skis and bikes

The strong sun at this elevation matters when a garage door is open half the summer. Plain epoxy can amber over time in UV light. HomeGuide rates polyaspartic UV resistance as excellent and epoxy's as poor to fair, so most of our garage floors get a polyaspartic or aliphatic topcoat. Bend's garages also do a lot of work. People park cars there, hang bikes and skis, run woodworking tools, and tune gear for Mt. Bachelor and the city's 300-plus miles of mountain bike trails. A textured flake floor hides grit, sheds tire marks and is easy to rinse.

Systems we install

• Garage floor coating: ground slab, crack repair, base coat, flake or color, and a clear UV-stable topcoat.
• Epoxy flake floors: vinyl chips broadcast into the base coat for texture and a forgiving look.
• Polyaspartic coatings: fast-curing, color-stable coats that can go down on cooler shoulder-season days.
• Metallic epoxy: a poured, marbled finish for basements, studios, offices and retail floors.
• Shop and commercial floors: thicker 100% solids systems for breweries, warehouses, fabrication shops and service bays.
• Concrete crack and floor repair: filling cracks, rebuilding spalled edges and leveling low spots before any coating.

What an installation includes

• A walk-through to agree on what moves out and when
• A moisture test and a close look at cracks, scaling and old coatings
• Diamond grinding of the field and edges, then dust removal with a HEPA vacuum
• Crack, pit and joint repair
• Base coat, color or flake broadcast, and topcoat
• Written cure times and care notes for winter

Bend is home base. We also coat floors in Redmond, Sisters, La Pine, Sunriver, Tumalo, Deschutes River Woods, Three Rivers South, Seventh Mountain, Terrebonne, Eagle Crest, Crooked River Ranch, Black Butte Ranch, Cloverdale, Alfalfa, Powell Butte, Prineville, Juniper Canyon, Culver and Camp Sherman. Conditions shift across the region. Towns to the south, like La Pine, sit higher than Bend, at over 4,200 feet. Resort communities such as Sunriver, Black Butte Ranch and Eagle Crest have many seasonal homes, so scheduling around owners' visits is part of the job. Acreage properties around Tumalo, Alfalfa and Powell Butte often have large shops and barns with concrete floors. Each area page covers what we know about homes and floors there.