Garage floor cleaning with the mess captured, not pushed into the driveway
Oil drips, tire marks, deicer slush and years of dust lifted off the slab, with the dirty water contained and taken away. It is also the right first step before any garage floor coating.
Garage floor degreasing and cleaning, Larimer County
The dirtiest concrete on the property is the one you walk across every day.
Garage floors take everything the car brings home: oil and coolant drips, road grime, and every winter a steady melt of magnesium chloride slush that dries into a white crust and eats at the surface. Add dust, lawn equipment, spilled paint and the occasional pet, and most garage floors have not been truly clean since the house was built.
The problem with cleaning a garage is where the water goes. Hose it out and you push oil and deicer onto the driveway and into the street. We degrease the floor, clean it with a surface cleaner, and capture the wash water so it leaves with us. That matters everywhere, and inside the City of Boulder it is required.
What we clean off garage floors
- Oil, transmission fluid and coolant drips under the parking spots
- Tire marks and rubber transfer at the entry and turn in
- White deicer crust and salt residue from winter slush
- Dust, dirt and leaf debris packed along the walls and in corners
- Spilled paint, stain and garden chemicals
- Pet stains and odor
- Old failed coatings and peeling floor paint, assessed and quoted for removal
If you are thinking about an epoxy or polyaspartic coating, cleaning and proper surface prep are where the coating succeeds or fails. We do both, and our Elite Crete Systems training covers the prep and the coating itself.
What a garage floor cleaning includes
Done the same way every time, in a single car garage in Loveland or a three car shop in Erie.
- Floor cleared and walls protectedYou clear what you can, we move the light stuff and protect the lower walls, outlets and door seals.
- Degreaser with dwell timeOil and fluid stains get a degreaser that is left to work before any water touches them.
- Surface cleaningA surface cleaner lifts the grime evenly across the whole slab, including the apron just outside the door.
- Edges and corners by handThe strip along the walls and the corners where debris packs in get finished by hand.
- Wash water capturedThe dirty water is contained, recovered and disposed of properly, never pushed into the driveway or the street.
- Squeegee dry and inspectThe floor is squeegeed and checked so you can see exactly what came up and what, if anything, remains.
Why Colorado garage floors need more than a hose
From November to April every Front Range car drags magnesium chloride into the garage. It melts off, dries into a white film and goes right back into the concrete pores. Over a few winters that is what causes the pitting and scaling you see around the parking spots.
An annual cleaning after the last snow, and a sealer or coating on top, keeps the slab solid and makes the next cleanup a broom job.
- Deicer crustMagnesium chloride is hard on bare concrete. Cleaning it off every spring stops it from working deeper into the slab.
- Oil that setsDrips that sit through a hot summer bake in. Treating them in the spring is far easier than in the fall.
- Water where it should goGarage wash water carries oil and deicer. Capturing it is the responsible way to do the job, and in Boulder it is the only way.
How a garage floor cleaning goes
Four steps, usually finished in a couple of hours.
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Clear and protect
Vehicles out, floor cleared, walls and door seals protected.
Degrease and clean
Stains are treated first, then the whole floor is surface cleaned with the water captured.
Squeegee and inspect
The floor is dried down and we walk it with you, with honest advice on sealing or coating.
Garage floor questions
The things people ask before they book. If yours is not here, text us a photo and ask.
Vehicles need to be out, and the more of the floor that is clear the better the result. Shelving against the walls can usually stay. We will tell you what to move when we quote it.
It does not go into your driveway or the street. We capture the wash water, recover it and dispose of it properly. Inside the City of Boulder this is required, and we do it everywhere.
Fresh drips lift with the degreaser. Older stains that have soaked in for years can leave a faint shadow, and we tell you ahead of time if we expect one. A coating afterward hides whatever is left.
A few hours with the door open is usually enough. If we apply a sealer or coating, we give you the specific cure time for that product before we leave.
Yes. Cleaning, degreasing and mechanical surface prep are the foundation of any coating, and we can quote the coating itself as part of the same job.
Services that go with it
Most garage cleanings turn into one of these, so here is what they are.
Garage floor cleaning near you
Based in Berthoud and working across Boulder, Larimer and Jefferson counties.
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Residential and commercial. Serving Boulder, Jefferson and Larimer counties.