Portland Garage Floor: History: This Portland home had an epoxy coating applied just last year by the homeowner – within weeks it started to exhibit signs of failure and frustrated with the lack of performance he called us in to assess the situation. These Big Box DIY floor kits give “Epoxy” a bad name. But...
Hair Raising Floor in West Linn Alternative Surfaces transformed this heavily damaged concrete slab in an old building in West Linn, to a hard wearing, durable, easy to clean floor for an expanding hair salon in West Linn, OR. Alternative Surfaces installed the modern commercial flooring for this busy new facility using a hand troweled texture...
Improved Curb Appeal by resurfacing your Driveway Your driveway is your home’s first impression to the neighborhood and an often neglected project on the remodeling list due to the effort and expense of removing and replacing the concrete or asphalt. Concrete Driveways are likely something you use every day but you don’t notice until there’s...
Non-Slip Flooring Pool Deck Resurfacing Heavy preparation was the key to success on this job. In order for our overlay to have proper adhesion the multiple layers of epoxy paint had to be completely removed. We shot blasted and diamond ground the surface to leave a flat, contaminant free surface. A multilayered coating system with...
Dale Chihuly residence – Seattle, WA Innovative Recycled Glass Wall – Beautiful, Colorful, Sustainable Recently we were asked to design a custom recycled glass wall for the internationally renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly’ residence in Seattle. After several on site visits and consultations we choose a custom blue glass with a slight white tint. Made...
Dreamy Floor for Dream Dinners – Polished Concrete Restaurant floor As an alternative to the tiling that covered the floor of their other franchise locations, Dream Dinners opted to utilize their existing concrete base by choosing an HTC Polished Concrete Floor. HTC diamond grinding and polishing achieves an incredible finish that is impossible to beat...
Fairchild Medical Center in California required a high performance anti-slip finish for the area surrounding its lap pool in Yreka. As well as being highly slip resistant the client also wished to create a bespoke aesthetic that portrayed sand meeting water. To satisfy this demanding specification Alternative Surfaces advised the installation of a Quartz Carpet floor....
We received a call from a local developer who was in the process of completing the sale of a custom home right on Lake Oswego. The prospective buyer had viewed several homes and noticed how clean the garages looked with a coating applied and asked the builder if they could arrange to have one installed...
We received a call from a homeowner who had a custom epoxy floor installed in her home a couple of years back. We have worked with her current general contractor for many years and we got the call to come look at some issues with the existing garage floor. Over the past couple of months...
Recently a Vancouver homeowner called us to see if we could help him. He had installed a “do it yourself” epoxy garage floor coating a year or so prior to calling us, and the epoxy coating had begun to fail. To make matters even worse, the slab in his 4-car garage (which was 25+ years...
This Lake Oswego boat house had a failing waterproof coating applied to the roof. We were asked to refinish the entire area and install a waterproof coating more suitable for the climate we have here in the Northwest. Our coatings rebuff rain, snow and spills and are ideal for areas of heavy traffic. Engineered for...
This 5 year old 900 square foot garage floor in Vancouver, WA had extensive cracks as a result of no expansion joints. We were asked to install a slip resistant, durable coating that would resist the inevitable oil, grease spills that Jon Mark had from working on his race bikes. While Mark wanted his garage...
Transform your garage from the floor up with Alternative Surfaces Garage LLC, a flooring system that represents the very latest, most innovative, highest quality products on the market today. Unlike garage paints from big box stores, Alternative Surfaces Garage coatings are resistant to heat with no chipping, peeling or adhesion to tires. These coatings are...
