Epoxy Flooring in Lauderhill, FL

Epoxy flooring in Lauderhill fits a city that was built small and built tight. Lauderhill packs 74,482 residents (2020 census) into about 8.5 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 8,747 people per square mile. Lots are modest, homes are compact and a lot of daily life happens on a carport, a lanai or a single garage bay. When a floor like that is the only workshop, laundry spot and parking space you have, it has to be tough and easy to clean.

Where the city's homes came from

Lauderhill was incorporated on June 20, 1959. Developer Herbert Sadkin's All-State Properties used house designs by architect Andrew Geller that had been shown as "Typical American Houses" at the American Exhibition in Moscow and sold through Macy's. The New York Times described the package as a 730 to 1,200 square foot house on a 75 by 100 foot lot, priced around $13,000 to $17,000 with appliances and furniture included. Those first houses are now more than sixty years old. Their slabs have outlived several owners, and most have been tiled, painted, patched or cut into for plumbing along the way.

What that means for us on a typical early Lauderhill house:

• A one-car garage or carport that doubles as storage, with paint or kit coating worn through at the tire lines
• Ceramic tile or terrazzo inside, sometimes with carpet over the top
• Patch lines where a bathroom or kitchen was re-plumbed
• A back patio poured separately from the house slab, often with a small step or slope where the two meet

Inverrary and the golf-course condos

Inverrary Country Club opened in 1970. From 1972 its East course hosted the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic on the PGA Tour, which ran through 1983, and Gleason built his last home on the course. Until the late 1980s and early 1990s, much of Lauderhill was a retirement community and a second-home market for snowbirds, especially in Inverrary. That history left a lot of mid-rise and garden condo buildings around the fairways. In those units our work is usually inside: a ground-floor living area where the tile is coming loose, a screened porch, or a storage room. Condo jobs start with the association, so we put the scope, product and color in writing for your board before we book a date.

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Part-time homes and rentals

The 2020 census counted 30,304 housing units in Lauderhill and found 10.5% of them vacant, with a rental vacancy rate of 7.9%. Some of those units are seasonal homes and some are between tenants. Both situations suit a coated floor. An owner who is away half the year wants a surface that does not hold mildew or dust. A landlord between tenants wants a floor that can be cleaned in an hour and does not need new carpet every lease. For rentals we usually suggest a solid color or a dense flake with a polyaspartic topcoat, which hides wear and goes back into service quickly.

A climate with a short dry season

Wikipedia classifies Lauderhill's climate as tropical monsoon (Köppen Am) and notes it is part of the only region in the 48 contiguous states with that classification. In practice that means a long wet season and a short, drier winter. We like to schedule open garages, carports and lanais in the drier months when we can, and we save summer slots for air-conditioned interior rooms. If your job has to happen in August, we plan the coats around the morning hours and keep an eye on the radar.

Matching the system to the space

• Single garage or carport: ground, crack-filled and coated with a flake broadcast so dust and tire marks do not show
• Living room or hallway in a villa or condo: metallic epoxy straight on the slab once tile and thinset are gone
• Screened lanai or back patio: a textured, UV-stable finish that stays grippy when the rain blows in
• Storefront, salon or office on a busy road: a commercial system with a chemical-resistant topcoat
• Any floor that must be used again tomorrow: a polyaspartic system with a faster return to service

Weekend cricket and everyday traffic

Central Broward Park in Lauderhill is home to a county-owned cricket ground that opened in 2007 and hosted the first international match between two ICC full members on U.S. soil in 2010. It is a reminder that a lot of Lauderhill families spend weekends outdoors and come home with grass, dirt and sports gear. A sealed garage or entry floor lets you hose or mop that off without the stains soaking into bare concrete.

Starting your floor

We live and work in central Broward, so a visit in Lauderhill is easy to fit in. We measure, check the slab for moisture and old coatings, and leave you a written price that lists the prep and every coat. Call (754) 342-5374 to set a time.