Coating Older Garage Slabs in Bedford
About 57 percent of Bedford's housing was built between 1970 and 1989 (American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024), so a typical garage floor here has been in service for more than 35 years. Slabs that age show predictable wear: oil soaked deep into the concrete where the engine sat, a dusty or pitted surface by the door, cracks along control joints, and in some garages a painted or kit-coated floor peeling in tire patches. North Texas clay can add settlement cracks that open and close with wet and dry seasons.
None of that rules out a coating, but it changes the prep. Old paint and sealers have to be ground completely off, because a new coat bonds only as well as the layer under it. Deep oil stains get degreased and ground, and cracks get filled and ground flush. We also test older slabs for moisture vapor, since no one can see whether a vapor retarder was placed under concrete poured decades ago. On the commercial side, Bedford added an industrial park, shopping centers and restaurants during the 1970s (Texas State Historical Association), and floors in buildings like those can take a quartz broadcast system where water and grip matter.