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Epoxy Flooring in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Canal-front lanais, dock decks and pool surrounds take standing water and salt; inland garages are mostly 1950s to 1970s slabs.
Fort Lauderdale is a city where the water decides most of the work. There are 165 miles of inland waterways inside the city limits and 7 miles of Atlantic beachfront, so a large share of what we quote on has a canal, a dock or a pool within a few feet of the slab.
The two Fort Lauderdales are waterside and inland, and they fail in different ways.
On the water side the job is usually a lanai, a dock deck or a pool surround rather than a garage. Those surfaces lie flat and open, take rain directly, and hold standing water after a storm. The inland half is a different animal. The city built out hard after the war — the 1960 census counted 83,648 people, about 230% of the 1950 figure — and a 1967 report estimated Fort Lauderdale was already around 85% developed. Growth after that moved west into the suburbs, which is why the inland stock is largely 1950s to 1970s concrete. The median structure in the city dates to 1973.
That inland slab is where prep earns its money. Sixty-year-old garage concrete usually carries oil, paint, adhesive and hairline cracking, and none of it can stay under a coating. Waterside, the enemy is different: salt film, sun, and water arriving from above and below.
Standing water deserves its own paragraph. The wet season runs from May through October, and on 12 April 2023 the city took 25.91 inches of rain in a day. Slabs here sit close to grade. We test for moisture before coating, because a damp slab sealed under a floor is a failure you meet later at full cost.
Systems follow the surface. Flake is the usual decorative ask on a garage, broadcast full and sealed. Metallic and solid finishes suit a lanai or a pool deck where the floor is looked at rather than parked on. Everything outdoors gets a UV-resistant topcoat and a texture that holds footing when wet.
Of the 101,691 housing units in the city, 60,780 — close to 60 percent — sit in buildings of two or more units, and only about 39 percent are single-family. A large share of what we quote in Fort Lauderdale is therefore shared concrete: a condominium parking level, a common walkway, a building's pool deck. Those jobs carry a second set of decisions, because an association usually approves the finish and the work has to be sequenced around residents and lift access rather than one household's weekend.
Estimates are free and on site. On a dock or a pool deck the walk-around matters more than the measurements, because what is under the waterline decides the spec. Call or text (754) 801-8819, or send the form.