Flooring Contractor in Glendale, CA - Coatings and Concrete for Older Homes

Glendale's list of simple online permits covers jobs like re-roofs, water heater replacement and HVAC change outs, not floor coatings, so that list doesn't settle it, and the city's Development Services division is the office to ask. I check during the estimate whether your job needs a permit, and when it does, we handle the application and the city's paperwork through the city's online permit portal. On simple online permits, the city's inspectors check the work in the field rather than at the counter.

A contractor needs a license from the California Contractors State License Board whenever the job needs a building permit, uses any workers, or comes to $1,000 or more in labor and materials. The small-job exemption only covers work with no permit, no employees and under $1,000 in all, and a bigger job can't be split into pieces to fit under it. Glendale adds its own rule, so a business located in the city keeps a Business Registration Certificate, and a contractor based elsewhere applies for the city's Contractor's License instead.

Projects submitted to the city now follow the current California Building Standards Code along with Glendale's own local changes, which together make up the Glendale Building and Safety Code. It mostly comes into play when a job needs a permit, because that's the code the inspector checks the work against, and I'll tell you at the estimate whether yours falls under it.

The cost depends mostly on the floor's size, how much prep the slab needs and which system you choose, so your own number comes after I've seen the floor. Old paint or sealer to strip, cracks to fill and moisture in the concrete all add work, and a solid-color coating usually costs less than a decorative flake or metallic finish.

Most peeling and bubbling comes from a step done out of order or skipped, like coating a slab that wasn't ground, still had oil in it or was holding moisture. That's why our crew grinds the concrete open, repairs it and checks it before any coating goes down. It's the slow part of the job, and I'd rather plan for it than come back to strip a failed floor.

It depends mostly on what the slab needs before any coating goes on, and I'll lay out the days for your floor once I've looked at it. A clean, sound slab moves quickly, while one with old coatings, cracks or moisture needs stripping, repairs and testing first, and each coat has to cure before the next step or before you park on it. For a business, we plan that sequence around your hours.