We're Benchmark Brownsville Concrete Coatings, based in Brownsville and coating, polishing and sealing concrete floors in Los Fresnos homes, garages and shops. I'll tell you straight what your slab can take before we put anything on it.
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Most of our work in Los Fresnos is concrete that sits right on the ground: attached garages, covered back patios and the slab under a living room once the old tile or carpet comes up. Parts of the city sit in flood hazard areas that take on water from time to time, so on lower lots I check the slab for moisture before I suggest a coating, because water pushing up from below is what lifts one.
Garages here do a lot of work. They hold the truck, the freezer, the tools and whatever didn't fit in the house, and the floor usually shows it with oil stains, hairline cracks and patches of old paint.
We reply within one business day to set a time, and I come out to your Los Fresnos property myself to check the slab and ask how you use the space. Then I write up what I'd do and why. The estimate is free, and there's no pressure and no obligation.
(956) 505-5381For garages we put down epoxy or polyaspartic floor coatings, and I lean toward polyaspartic when you need the garage back sooner, since it cures faster. Inside the house, polished or stained concrete works on a sound slab, and an overlay or self-leveler fixes one that's rough or uneven. Patios and pool decks get resurfacing or a sealer. Every one of these starts with grinding the surface, plus stripping when old paint, sealer or tile glue is in the way.
The City of Los Fresnos issues construction permits for work inside city limits, and its posted applications cover residential, commercial, sign and food service work without spelling out floor coatings, so we check with the city before your job goes on the calendar. If it needs a permit, I tell you, we work through the paperwork with you, and the start date waits on it. If your project also brings in an electrician, plumber or air conditioning contractor, the city wants their state license, ID and proof of insurance before it issues the permit. We're licensed and insured, and you can ask us for proof before we start.
What moves the price is mostly the slab: the cracks and low spots, any old sealer, paint or tile glue that has to come off, the size of the area and the system you pick. The schedule turns on that prep, any permit and how soon you need the space back, and my written estimate lays out what I'd do and why. We're a flooring contractor based in Brownsville, TX, a short drive away, and we do the same work in Harlingen, San Benito and other cities nearby, so if your city isn't on our list, call and ask.
I come out to look at the job myself. I check the slab for cracks, low spots, old coatings and signs of moisture, ask how you use the space, then write up what I'd do and why. If your concrete can't hold a system, I'll say so.
Most coating failures start with prep, so our crew lead and installers grind the surface, fill cracks and strip old sealer or tile glue before anything goes down. Coating over a dirty or sealed slab is how you get peeling, and we won't do it.
Before your start date, I tell you what has to come out of the space, when the crew arrives and what they do first. I stop by while the work is going on, so you have someone to ask when a question comes up.
I spent years running schedules for a busy company and watched crews get sent to floors nobody had checked, so I learned the trade on grinders and coating crews before starting this business in 2020. Your satisfaction, guaranteed. Call (956) 505-5381 or use the form to start.
There's no set price, because your slab decides most of it, so I give you a number after I've seen the floor. Beyond the prep work, the price moves with the system, a full flake finish or a solid color, and how fast you need the garage back, since a faster-curing polyaspartic usually costs more than a standard epoxy. The written estimate shows what I'd do and why.
We plan it in order, with prep first. After the estimate and the permit check, we set a date, you clear the space, and the crew grinds the slab, repairs cracks and cleans it before the base coat and topcoat go down. You stay off it until it has cured, and since that time depends on the system, I tell you when you'll have the floor back before we start.
Take everything off the floor, including cars, shelves, the freezer and boxes, and plan to park somewhere else until the coating has cured. Shelving bolted to the wall can usually stay if nothing touches the slab, but tell me at the estimate so the crew plans around it. Mention a water heater or anything else on the floor that can't move, too.
Usually it's prep. A coating laid over a slab that's dirty, already sealed or never ground open has nothing to grip, and hot tires can pull it up. Moisture coming up through the concrete can push it off too, which is why I check for it on lower lots.
The city requires a Floodplain Development Permit for development in the special flood hazard areas FEMA has mapped within its limits. If your house sits in one, that's one more thing we raise with the city before we set a date. Outside city limits, Cameron County has its own flood regulations for unincorporated areas.
The city charges double the scheduled permit fees when work that needed a permit starts without one. Fees otherwise follow the city's fee schedule, and when a job is valued over $1,000.00 and needs a plan, the city adds a plan checking fee of half the building permit fee. That's why we check before we start, not after.
