Rensselaer sits directly across the Hudson from Albany, with the train station, the port, and a tight grid of older neighborhoods packed into a small footprint. The garages, basements, and businesses here have seen a lot of winters, a lot of road salt, and a lot of river-valley humidity. The concrete shows it. Epoxy Done Right is the Latham-based concrete coating team Rensselaer property owners call when the floor needs to come back to looking new and stay that way. Every install starts with diamond-ground concrete, includes structural crack and spall repair, and finishes with an epoxy base coat and a polyaspartic topcoat built for the Capital Region. Call 518-543-7699 for a quote.
A lot of the housing stock in Rensselaer dates back to the early and mid 1900s. That means a lot of garages with 50, 60, even 80-year-old concrete slabs that have been pulling road salt and freeze-thaw activity their entire lives. Pitting is common. Spalling along door aprons is common. Old paint, old sealers, and the occasional failed coating someone tried 15 years ago are common.
None of that is a deal breaker. Sound concrete underneath a damaged surface is still sound concrete. Diamond grinding takes the surface back to clean stone. Structural patching fills what needs filling. A real coating system goes down on a prepped slab, and the floor reads as new.
The newer construction in Rensselaer (along the riverfront, in the developments off Route 9J, and in the homes near the East Greenbush line) tends to have sound concrete that just needs a finish. Those installs are quick, clean, and almost always done in a single working day.
The mix of work in this town is a little different than the suburban service areas. We see more older residential garages with serious salt damage, more small commercial properties along Broadway and Washington Avenue, more basements being finished for rental units or income properties, and more outdoor concrete (porches, stoops, side yards) on tighter urban lots.
What gets coated:
Concrete only, in every case. The full system catalog is on our epoxy flooring page.
A flake floor with an epoxy base coat and a polyaspartic topcoat is what most Rensselaer property owners end up with. Three pieces, each doing a specific job:
The epoxy base coat bonds to the prepped concrete and fills the minor imperfections in older slabs. Broadcast vinyl flake goes into the wet base for color, slip resistance, and the visual texture that hides remaining hairline differences. The polyaspartic topcoat seals everything, handles UV exposure, flexes through freeze-thaw, and resists road salt and chemicals. The system runs about 15 years or more on a properly prepped slab.
For finished basements where the look matters as much as durability, solid color polyaspartic and metallic epoxy with a polyaspartic topcoat are both strong options. Quartz broadcast systems work well for utility spaces, shops, and high-impact areas.
Browse color and flake choices on our color chart before your appointment.
If you take one piece of information from this page, it should be this: the coating is not the variable, the prep is. A floor that lasts 15 years and a floor that peels in two are almost always coated with the same kind of material. What separates them is what happened before the first coat went down.
On a Rensselaer install, prep includes a walk of the slab, removal of old coatings and paint if any, structural patching of cracks and spalls with polyurea and cementitious compounds, diamond grinding to a Concrete Surface Profile of 2 to 3 with HEPA-rated dust extraction, edge grinding the full perimeter, vacuuming the floor multiple times, and moisture testing where the slab is at risk. Only after all of that does any coating go on.
The prep is what we do that most price-shopped quotes skip. It is also the reason our floors last.
We travel from Latham, NY, across the river to Rensselaer and out across the surrounding communities, including:
If your town is not on the list, call us anyway. We cover a wide stretch of the Capital Region and we are happy to come look at your concrete.
Call Epoxy Done Right at 518-543-7699. The first step is a 20 to 30 minute walkthrough of your slab so we can see what you are working with, talk through finish options, and write you a clear quote. Quotes stay valid for three months. Financing is available if you want to spread the cost. Every install is backed by our satisfaction guarantee, and our Spanish-speaking team members are on staff. See finished installs on our projects page before you call.
We believe every space deserves a strong foundation—and we’re here to make sure it’s done right the first time.
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