After inspecting the floor it was clear the original concrete had not been ground to create a suitable surface for the stain or sealer to bond to.

Due to the inevitable disruption to the business, we agreed to rectify the flooring over a typically slow 3 days in their business. The first thing we had to do was to carefully protect all the cabinetry, which could not be removed due to time constraints. Then using HTC heavy duty industrial grinders we ground off the coating and created a profile on the surface of the concrete floor for our overlay to bond to.

Alternative Surfaces met the clients’ needs by applyingthe X-Bond System in a Natural Grain. Because it is specially designed to chemically adhere to any solid surface, this fast drying system allowed us to meet the very strict time lines.  This helped reduce the installation time by 50% and the entire project came in at a remodeling cost of 25% less than its original budget and the client was open for business in 3 days.

With the use of overlays and stains we can transform an ordinary concrete slab into a luxurious old world floor resembling marble or glazed stone with vibrant modern colors that turn floors into works of art.

Our overlay process surpasses all others in performance and durability. It will not chip, fade, or peel,and will last the lifetime of the surface to which it is applied.

Alternative Surfaces will transform any concrete surface in any condition into an easy to maintain floor,while still being very economical.

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 overlay. The first step in the process was shot blasting the concrete in order to prepare it so that it may receive the overlay. Once the surface prep was complete a scratch or bond coat was applied. The following day, any imperfections were removed. With all major imperfections gone, we hand troweled a heavy texture using the X-Bond system – this texture provides more visual interest while helping to maintain slip resistance leaving a leathered and antiques patina to the floor.

On day two, we applied the colors were applied using a low-pressure sprayer. Due to the fact that the floor was highly textured, we sealed the floor with 3 coats of sealer that make highly textured floors such as this, easy to clean. On the third day, a finish coat of clear sealer was applied, putting the final touch on this project.

The end result? A durable, high gloss, scratch resistant floor that will provide years of worry-free service.

Alternative Surfaces offers you the state of the art in floor and wall coating services designed to fit your commercial flooring needs.

Our applicators use the most professional equipment and procedures to assure speed and simplicity of application.

For quotations, enquiries and additional information about your options, please contact us today.

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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 a problem. If expansion joints or control joints aren’t constructed properly or if the ground isn’t compacted properly before concrete pouring, the concrete will eventually fail. When a concrete driveway isn’t kept covered and moist while curing, it can dry out and easily crack. Small cracks grow into large ones, especially in cold weather with freeze/thaw cycles.

A most cost-effective way than replacing a driveway is to repair and strengthen by resurfacing concrete flooring.

Some of these overlays are Portland cement-based and modified with high-performance polymers for high bond strength. They can be placed over the surface of existing concrete to produce a new wear layer, as well as tofill in small surface defects such as spalls, gouges, and cracks. We commonly use them to restore existing concrete surfaces, including sidewalks, patios, plazas, courtyards, walkways, driveways, parking garages, pool decks and most vertical concrete surfaces. Once applied these overlays can be broom textured before it sets for a reduced-slip surface.

•               Suitable for residential and commerical flooring

•               Use for interior and exterior floors and walls, freeze/thaw resistant

•               Resurface worn and spalled concrete surfaces to provide a“new concrete” finish

•               Easy to apply and hardens quickly

•               Compressive strength (ASTM C109/mod – Air cure only) – 4000-8000 psi at 28 days

We recommend that all concrete be resealed every three to five years, depending on the exact materials used forthe original work. Our experts are more than happy to advise you on the exact time scale for your particular installation.

Alternative Surfaces installs a wide range of decorative concrete surfaces suitable for driveways, parking decks, pool decks, patios and virtually any exterior space.

For quotations, enquiries and additional information about your commercial or residential coating options, please contact us on the number below.

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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 liquid polymer provided the protection for the concrete while maintaining the slip resistance necessary for this high traffic and often wet environment.  The sealer we used had an aggressive anti-slip flooring additive and actually has a better co-efficency of friction when wet than when dry.

Alternative Surfaces prepared, restored and sealed this pool deck in 5 days, giving our clients the appearance and durability they strived for but could not achieve with an annual painting. The final outcome was a beautiful, durable

and low maintenance surface for this customer to enjoy for many years.  The project was completed on time and on budget to the extreme satisfaction of the client and pool contractor.

We offer a nearly limitless variety of pool deck re-surfacing options. If your pool deck is cracked, uneven or just plain ugly we can make look better than new at a fraction of the price of replacing it. From simply repairing cracks and sealing to applying a wide variety of decorative overlays we work on residential and commercial flooring and pool decks throughout the Northwest. We work with some of the largest and most innovative manufactures with tried and tested products specifically for the pool industry.

Our applicators use the most professional equipment and procedures to assure speed and simplicity of application. Our advanced equipment is custom manufactured for high production, top quality preparation methods for any and all types of pool conditions.

For quotations, enquiries and additional information about your options, please  contact us today.

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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 for durability. This natural environmentally friendly finish can be easily cleaned and maintained without chemicals.

An HTC Superfloor refines a concrete surface by means of specialist diamond grinding equipment and tooling. A platinum Superfloor finish was achieved finished to a high gloss with an exposed aggregate finish. The process removes the surface paste of the existing concrete to reveal the true strength and beauty of the concrete that lies beneath.  We first had to remove the carpet and mastic, repair the floor spalls and cracks and then start the grinding process. We used a Westcoat fast stain to create a variegated antiqued look throughout the space
Dream Dinners decided to finish the concrete floors, because polished concrete is an environmentally friendly flooring option in keeping with the business philosophy of the owner. The rich, variegated patina of stained concrete creates a feeling of warmth and antiquity for the new space.

The design called for changes in the depth of color in specific areas.

The tint of the concrete was executed so that there is a soft wash of color moving from deep concrete stains in the darker, cozy interior spaces, to lighter stain tones. This creates a soft and subtle continuum of color, but with each area having its own feel and character. Deeper tones are in the recesses of the restaurant, while lighter tones blend with the bright light spilling in from wrap around windows.

Alternative Surfaces’ expertise and its comprehensive high-performance product line provided the perfect solution to meet the customer’s budget without sacrificing quality and durability. The result was a beautiful stained floor for the popular restaurant.

Alternative Surfaces offers you the state of the art in floor coating services designed to fit your commercial flooring needs. Our coatings are formulated specifically for high impact and abrasion resistance at the most competitive prices. Coatings applied by Alternative Surfaces can be easily and economically maintained and/or re-coated.

Our applicators use the most professional equipment and procedures to assure speed and simplicity of application.

For quotations, enquiries and additional information about your options, please  contact us today. Our advanced equipment is custom manufactured for high production, top quality preparation methods for any and all types of floor conditions.

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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.

A Quartz Carpet floor is a bespoke quartz screed with remarkable slip resistant qualities even when wet. It is also highly durable and visually stunning.

The client also requested coving for this Quartz Carpet which is created by the trowels of our artisan installers. With over 1000 color finishes to choose from there is something to suit every environment and in this instance we custom matched two colors that were consistent with the facilities logo and identity.  We also installed a custom logo in the entrance to the pool.

A Quartz Carpet floor is in full compliance with Health and Safety requirements for public-use wet areas.

This Quartz Carpet floor was installed on time and on budget and to the extreme satisfaction of the client.

About Quartz Carpet:
Seamless when finished, a Quartz Carpet floor in installed on site and can accommodate any contour in the surfaces, leaving you with a clean, modern flooring that adds gracious beauty to your home.Quartz Carpet is a slip-resistant natural stone floor that combines a unique, foot-massaging finish with natural quartz granules in a clear low resin finish for an uncluttered, sophisticated look that can be found in some of the most luxurious residences and bespoken commercial flooring projects throughout the world.

Made out of millions of stones, polished by nature our floors are compatible with radiant heat and are ideal for every room in your home. With the same maintenance as a regular carpet, quartz carpet is the result of over 30 years of product development in Europe, having developed a unique coating system for quartz granules that ensure uniform color, UV stability and a color range with over 1,000 color options.

With its reserved elegance it fits perfectly into every setting and provides a grand entrance area, especially in high traffic flooring areas such as entrance halls and corridors.

For quotations, enquiries and additional information about your options, please  contact us today.

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This very large garage, over 1,500 sq ft, was completed in 3 days and cost far less than they expected. Typically checkerboard patterns and custom garage floor installation take a little longer to set up than a regular flake floor.  Both builder and the new home owner were extremely happy with the finished product and the movers arrived on schedule the day after we finished, loaded their dollies freely, and never left a scratch on the new floor.

Alternative Surfaces installs between 150-180 floors like this every year in the Portland, Vancouver metro areas and throughout Oregon, Washington and Northern California (commercial only in California) in garages of all shapes and sizes.

An Alternative Surfaces Garage Floor Coating System has four times the abrasion resistance, twice the adhesion, and 95% more flexibility than Epoxy. These characteristics are combined with its ability to cure rapidly and be completed in one day at any temperature (based on a standard 2-3 car garage) with 100’s of colors to choose from.

Where do you start? All floors must be inspected prior to any job – a trained professional will visit your home and review the substrate conditions with you to see if your garage is a candidate for a seamless coating system. We can help you choose a color or pattern just tell us what you’d like to see and in all likelihood we’ll be able to accommodate.

Our factory-trained installation team will apply your new Alternative Surface Garage Floor using our commercial grade seamless, high gloss process – guaranteed to give you years of durability and satisfaction. We will work with you to schedule your installation around your schedule.

Alternative Surfaces is the smart solution that fits how you live, and what you do and how you use your garage.

Contact us today and tell us your story. We are confident that we can meet your schedule, budget and finish requirements!

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Over the past couple of months the car tires had pulled her epoxy floor off the garage slab. She called the company that had originally installed the floor only to find that they were no longer in business. In need of garage floor repair, she called us and asked if we were able to help her. During our visit we determined that her slab had an extremely severe moisture problem evidenced by efflorescence (white mineral deposits) pushing up through the concrete slab floor.

Problems like this are common among North West garage floors. Moisture had caused the old floor to fail. We removed the old floor and before we installed a new garage floor, we put down a prime coat of AquaLok to seal and harden the slab thereby reducing the likelihood that moisture will damage a new floor coating. The entire project including removal of the old floor and installation of the new floor over the Aqualok primer took 1 1/2 days.
Alternative Surfaces installs between 150-180 floors like this every year in Oregon, Washington and Northern California (commercial only in California) in garages of all shapes and sizes.

An Alternative Surfaces Garage Floor Coating System has four times the abrasion resistance, twice the adhesion, and 95% more flexibility than Epoxy. These characteristics are combined with its ability to cure rapidly and be completed in one day at any temperature (based on a standard 2-3 car garage) with 100’s of garage flooring colors to choose from.

Where do you start? All floors must be inspected prior to any job – a trained professional will visit your home and review the substrate conditions with you to see if your garage is a candidate for a seamless coating system. We can help you choose a color or pattern just tell us what you’d like to see and in all likelihood we’ll be able to accommodate.

Our factory-trained installation team will apply your new Alternative Surface Garage Floor using our commercial grade seamless, high gloss process – guaranteed to give you years of durability and satisfaction.  We will work with you to schedule your installation.

Alternative Surfaces Garage Floors Portland Oregon is the smart solution that fits how you live, and what you do and how you use your garage. Contact us today and tell us your story. We are confident that we can meet your schedule, budget and finish requirements!

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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 old) had nearly 150 feet of cracks in it. The floor was showing significant coating loss, peeling and lifting which is pretty typical of a lot of floors we see unfortunately.

He was in the process of remodeling his home and putting new cabinets in his garage and wanted his garage to have a “finished” look to it. We were able to remove his old, “do it yourself” epoxy floor (for no additional charge). We then repaired his concrete slab cracks using our proprietary fast curing and extremely tough crack filler. Despite the fact that some of his crac

ks were nearly ½” wide, we were able to repair all of the cracks which gave us a smooth surface on which to install our coating.

We used HTC concrete grinding equipment with diamond blades and a dustless vacuum system to remove the coating. Once the coating was removed we ground the surface eliminating high spots and potential bond breakers like oil and grease in the surface and filled all the cracks, which given the extent of the damage took longer than normal.

The Garage floor coating we used absorbed into the surface, sealing the air holes and veins in the concrete. This process also serves to cap off moisture pressure preventing possibility of delamination.

The project took two days in total and the owners were able to have their cabinets installed the following day. The first day we completed the surface preparation and the second day the coatings were applied in Saddle Tan.