Epoxy Flooring in Yuma, AZ

Epoxy flooring in Yuma has to cope with more sun and heat than almost anywhere in the country. Guinness lists Yuma as the sunniest city on Earth, and Wikipedia reports that the sun shines during about 90% of daylight hours. The city averages 117 days a year at or above 100°F, usually from April through October, and the July average high is 107.6°F. A floor coating here has to resist UV, hold up to hot tires, and be installed by a crew that knows how resin behaves when the slab is warm.

Sun and heat change which coating makes sense

Standard epoxy is a strong, thick base coat, and it bonds well to ground concrete. Its weakness is sunlight. HomeGuide rates epoxy's UV resistance as poor to fair and polyaspartic's as excellent. In a Yuma garage where the door stays open on a west-facing driveway, an epoxy-only floor can yellow and chalk. Most floors we install pair an epoxy or polyaspartic base with a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat. Heat matters during the install too. HomeGuide notes that warm temperatures speed hardening and lists 60°F to 85°F as the range for applying epoxy. For much of the year Yuma is far above that by midday, so we start early, mix smaller batches and pick products rated for the conditions.

Blowing sand and grit

Much of the land around Yuma is sand. The USDA describes the Superstition soil series, whose type location is a few miles east of San Luis, as sandy soil that formed in wind-deposited sand on dunes. That sand ends up in garages and on patios, and it gets ground in by shoes and tires. A coating with flake texture and a hard topcoat hides it between cleanings and resists the scratching that dulls bare concrete and thin paint.

The homes we work on

Yuma's housing is mostly built in the last fifty years. American Community Survey figures (2019 to 2023) summarized by Point2Homes put the median year built at 1990, with about 15% of units from the 1970s, 14% from the 1980s, 17% from the 1990s and 19% from the 2000s. Homes are slab-on-grade, so the work is garages, carports, patios and interior slabs, not basements. About 56% of housing units are single-family detached and about 19% are mobile homes. Many manufactured homes have a carport, a concrete pad or a covered patio instead of a closed garage, and those slabs take a coating too.

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Systems we install

• Garage floor coating: a ground slab, a bonded base coat, color or flake, and a clear UV-stable topcoat.
• Flake floors: vinyl chips broadcast into the base coat for texture and a finish that hides sand and dust.
• Polyaspartic coatings: fast-curing and UV-stable, with a wide application temperature range.
• Patio and pool deck coatings: textured, lighter-colored systems for slabs that sit in direct sun.
• Metallic epoxy: a poured, marbled finish for interior slabs, home offices and game rooms.
• Shop and commercial floors: thicker systems for equipment buildings, hangars, warehouses and service bays.

What every install includes

• An on-site look at the slab, including a moisture check and notes on cracks and old coatings
• Diamond grinding of the full floor and edges, then dust removal
• Crack, chip and joint repair
• Base coat, color or flake, and topcoat
• An install time set around the day's temperatures
• Written cure times for foot traffic, furniture and vehicles

Yuma is the center of our service area. We also coat floors in Fortuna Foothills, Somerton, San Luis, Avenue B and C, Donovan Estates, El Prado Estates, Gadsden, Rancho Mesa Verde and Wellton, and across the Colorado River in Winterhaven and Bard, California. Each area has its own mix. Fortuna Foothills has many seasonal homes whose owners want the work done while they are away or before they arrive in the fall. San Luis has grown fast, with newer houses and garages. Older neighborhoods in Yuma, Somerton and the colonias south of town have more slabs that have been painted, patched or left bare for decades. Farm country toward Wellton and Bard has equipment buildings and shops. Each area page covers what we know about homes and floors there.