Gibsonia concrete floors
Route 8 country, and a lot of unfinished concrete
Gibsonia is a short run east from the Wexford shop we work out of across the top of the North Hills. It is a postal address rather than a borough, so it covers a wide spread of Richland, Hampton, Pine and West Deer, and the properties change a lot as you move through it.
What that means for us is variety. Subdivision garages on one street, a 1960s ranch with a full basement on the next, then a property with a detached workshop or a pole barn on an acre. All of them sit on concrete, and most of that concrete has never had anything done to it. Start with the garage.
Why the concrete out here takes a beating
Route 8 gets salted heavily every winter, and what is on the road ends up on your floor. Salty meltwater runs off the tires into the pores of a bare slab, then freeze and thaw lifts the surface off in flakes. Around Gibsonia the garages are often deeper and the driveways longer, so there is more of everything coming in with the vehicle.
Workshops and barns add a second problem: oil. It soaks deep into an unsealed slab over years and it has to be ground past before any finish will hold. That is normal prep for us, not a surprise, and it is part of why sealing a floor properly in the first place saves so much trouble later.
What we handle here
Floors we finish in Gibsonia
Garage And Workshop Floors
Deep garages, detached shops and pole barns all take the same build: ground open, cracks filled, coated, flaked and sealed. The texture hides the marks a working space collects. Here is how we build one.
Basement Bars And Family Rooms
The older houses along Route 8 have big basements that are still half unfinished. Stained and sealed concrete turns the floor into the best part of the room. See a finished basement floor.
Resurfacing A Slab That Has Gone
If the top inch is pitted and patched but the concrete underneath is sound, a new wear surface beats breaking it out. Read about resurfacing a worn slab.
Small Commercial And Storage
The businesses along the corridor run on floors that shed dust and soak up spills. Polished or coated, both stop that at the source. See floors in working buildings.
Why Gibsonia calls us
Twenty two years of western Pennsylvania slabs
Rick Chase started Elite Concrete Floors in January 2004 and has been on floors around the North Hills ever since. He does the estimate himself, so the man pricing your barn or your basement is the man who has to make it work.
He will also tell you when a floor is not worth doing. We finish concrete, we do not pour it and we do not repair it structurally, and you hear that on the first visit rather than after you have paid for something.
Where you will find us around Gibsonia
Route 8 is the spine, and most of our Gibsonia work sits a few minutes either side of it, through Richland and Hampton and out towards West Deer. The side roads run to bigger properties fairly quickly, which is where the workshops and barns are.
It is an easy area for us to serve because it is close to home. Wexford is a straight run west across the top of the hills, so a look at a slab in Gibsonia is a short trip rather than a day out.
Where we work
Grinding, coating and polishing floors across Gibsonia
We cover the whole Gibsonia postal area across Richland, Hampton, Pine and West Deer. The same truck runs west to the Franklin Park service area, north west to Cranberry Township and south into Pittsburgh.
Ask the guy doing the work
Straight answers about your concrete floor questions
Do you come out to Gibsonia?
Regularly. It is a short run east from Wexford across the top of the North Hills. Call (724) 313-7520 and Rick will arrange a time to come and look at the floor.
Can you do a detached workshop or a pole barn in Gibsonia?
Yes, and we do a lot of them out here. The slab usually has oil soaked into it, which gets ground past before anything goes down. Tell Rick what happens in the building and he will spec it.
My garage floor is flaking apart. Is it too late?
Usually not. That flaking is salt and freeze and thaw taking the top off the slab, and Route 8 gets plenty of salt. If the concrete underneath is sound, a new wear surface and a coating fix it.
Does the building need power and water?
Power yes, because the grinders and vacuums run off it. Water is helpful but not essential. Rick will check what is available at the estimate so nothing holds the job up on the day.
Gibsonia covers several townships. Do you serve all of them?
Yes. The Gibsonia postal area takes in parts of Richland, Hampton, Pine and West Deer, and we work right across it. Call with the address and Rick will confirm on the spot.
Do you pour a new slab if mine is past it?
No. We finish concrete that is already there. If a Gibsonia slab needs replacing, you need a concrete contractor first, and Rick will tell you that straight rather than coat over a floor that will not hold.