Garage Floors In Willowick, Ohio

Willowick homeowners call us about garage floors for the same handful of reasons: slush and salt puddles all winter, the slab sinking toward the middle, and cracks near the door. Willowick is almost entirely residential, built out in the 1950s on a tight grid a few blocks from Lake Erie. Most driveways are single-width and many homeowners want them widened to fit two cars. Lakefront clay and a shallow water table mean grading toward the street has to be exact or water sits against the garage. That is exactly why we do not pour on raw ground: every garage floor in Willowick gets a compacted stone base and a grade we check with a string line before the truck arrives.

We work on garage floors around the Lakeshore Boulevard lakefront blocks, the streets off Vine Street, and Bayridge. Lot size and access vary across Willowick, so we look at the site before we price it and we protect the lawn and neighboring property with mats on every job. Building permits are issued by the Lake County Building Department; the city may require a zoning permit first. Apron and sidewalk work in the right-of-way goes through the city. We pull anything required and include the fee in your written quote.

Every garage floor we pour in Willowick sits on compacted stone and a vapor barrier, is 4 inches thick with 5 at the door, and is pitched 1/8 inch per foot to the door. On clay lots we drain the base; on sand we compact it twice. The finish is hard-troweled and ready for epoxy after 60 days.

The finish is steel-troweled for a smooth surface that is easy to sweep and ready for an epoxy coating if you want one later. We cut control joints and can add a trench drain at the door for detached garages that flood.