A used two-post lift turns up on local classifieds every few weeks at $1,200 to $2,500, which is cheap enough that people buy first and ask about the floor second. The asking-about-the-floor part is what got me interested, because the…

Three relative humidity probes went into a 620 square foot shop floor on a Thursday and read 94, 96 and 91 percent. The coating crew was booked for Monday. That slab was eleven months old and its 28-day cylinders had…

The email from my flex-bay tenant had a photo and one line: “This is nine hours after we washed a truck.” The water stood 22 feet inside the overhead door, a puddle the size of a dining table, a half…

There was a stain in the middle of a Cedar Park garage floor shaped like a kidney, maybe four feet across, and it came back every February no matter what got rolled over it. Two coatings had already let go…

I have thrown away about $180 of polyaspartic because I answered my phone. Round Rock, second week of August, west-facing garage, slab reading 108°F on the gun at 9:40 a.m. I mixed a two-gallon kit, took a two-minute call, and…

I run a boom pump. Three summers back I placed the floor for a detached shop off South Lamar—5 inches, 4,000 psi, #4 rebar at 18 inches on center. Last June I was back on that street and the owner…