Epoxy garages, basement coatings, concrete sealing. Diamond-grind prep. Salt and freeze-thaw shield for Zone 4b winters.
North Bay Painting Services installs epoxy garage floors, basement coatings, and concrete sealing across North Bay, from West End attached garages to 1980s ranch basements in Pinewood and Birchhaven. A typical two-car garage runs $2,500 to $4,800 over 2-3 days, with diamond-grind prep, moisture-tested base coat, flake or solid color, and a polyaspartic clear topcoat. Install season is May through October (Zone 4b) unless the slab is heated. Free consult across P1A, P1B, P1C. 1-year written warranty. Owned by Ahmed Khalil. Call (705) 482-1142.
Slab must hold above 10 Celsius for the full cure. Reliable window: mid-May through mid-October. Off-season is heated-slab only.
North Bay winter brine and freeze-thaw destroy bare slabs. Diamond-ground epoxy with polyaspartic blocks chloride attack completely.
Custom-build subdivisions and Twin Lakes corridor attached garages. Decorative flake polyaspartic is the popular spec.
1980s and 1990s ranch basements need a slab moisture test and a moisture-mitigation primer if humidity reads high.
We open concrete pores with a diamond grinder. Acid etching is shortcut prep that fails on North Bay slabs.
Trout Lake, Marshall Park, and Mattawa corridor outbuildings. Concrete sealer or solid color epoxy.
Includes diamond grind, moisture test, base coat, flake or solid color, clear topcoat. 1-year warranty.
Final number depends on slab condition and moisture reading. No surprise charges.
Call (705) 482-1142 for a Free QuoteAhmed measures, picks colour and flake, writes a quote in 24 hours.
Open the concrete pores. Calcium chloride or RH probe confirms the slab is dry.
Fill cracks and saw cuts. Roll a 100 percent solids epoxy base in the chosen colour.
Broadcast flake to refusal or leave solid. Scrape, vacuum, clear polyaspartic topcoat.
Walk-on at 24 hours, vehicles back at 5-7 days for epoxy or 24-48 hours for polyaspartic. Written 1-year warranty.
Our primary North Bay system. 100 percent solids epoxy base for slab adhesion, decorative flake or solid color, polyaspartic clear topcoat for UV stability and fast cure.
Operating in North Bay since 2016. Serving the city, Callander, Corbeil, and Nipissing District. Bonded, insured, WSIB.
Light-industrial floors, mezzanines, and machine bases for North Bay shops and fleet bays. Same diamond-grind prep, high-build epoxy.
Industrial Painting →Showroom floors, retail back-of-house, food-service kitchens. Flake or solid color, polyaspartic topcoat for fast turnover.
Commercial Painting →10 minutes south on Highway 11 along Callander Bay. Detached garages and lakeside workshops, same Zone 4b cure window.
Callander floor coating service →15 minutes east in East Ferris Township. Rural pole barns and Lake Nosbonsing detached garages. Concrete sealer is popular.
Corbeil floor coating service →Mid-May through mid-October. Epoxy and polyaspartic both need the slab above 10 Celsius for the full 24-48 hour cure. North Bay slab-on-grade garages do not warm up until the second week of May and cool fast after the first frost in mid-October. Off-season is heated-slab only. We push to spring before we warranty a bond that froze before it set.
A diamond-ground slab sealed with 100 percent solids epoxy, broadcast flake, and polyaspartic topcoat is the best defence a North Bay garage has. Bare concrete soaks up calcium chloride brine that expands when it freezes, and after 3-4 winters you see surface spalling. A coated floor blocks brine completely. Salt rinses off in spring. We have Pinewood and West End garages through eight winters still looking like install day.
Yes. Pinewood and Birchhaven 1980s ranches are common basement jobs. We start with a moisture test using calcium chloride or an RH probe, because slabs near the Lake Nipissing watershed can push 4-8 lbs of moisture per 1,000 sq ft in 24 hours and that will blow standard epoxy off. If moisture reads high, a moisture-mitigation primer goes first. Old concrete with sealer, dust, and old-carpet glue always gets diamond-ground. Typical Pinewood basement runs $4-$7 per sq ft for sealer-grade or $6-$9 per sq ft for a full decorative system.
Solid-color epoxy runs $4-$7 per sq ft and decorative flake polyaspartic runs $7-$12 per sq ft. For a 20x22 two-car garage that is roughly $1,800-$3,100 for solid color or $3,100-$5,300 for flake. The gap covers extra product layers, the same fixed-cost diamond-grind prep, and a polyaspartic topcoat that cures in 4-6 hours with better UV and hot-tire resistance. Daily-driver West End garage: full flake polyaspartic. Detached storage or basement utility: solid color.
A standard 2-car garage runs 2-3 working days from empty floor to walk-on, with full vehicle return at 5-7 days for epoxy or 24-48 hours for polyaspartic. Day 1: move-out, diamond grind, crack fill, moisture test. Day 2: base coat and flake broadcast, overnight cure. Day 3: clear topcoat. Keep vehicles out for full cure to avoid hot-tire pickup.
Free consultation across North Bay (P1A, P1B, P1C). Written quote in 24 hours. May-October books fast.