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Epoxy floors in Alpena, Michigan.
Alpena garages and shop floors take road brine off US-23 and M-32 all winter, and bare troweled concrete soaks it up.
Around Alpena
Epoxy floors for Alpena.
Alpena has older in-town garages, detached garages on city lots, and newer shops and pole barns out in the township. A lot of those slabs were troweled smooth and left bare. Cars come home along Chisholm Street and Washington Avenue with brine on the tires, it drips onto the floor and sits in the pores, and freeze and thaw lifts the surface a little more each year.
A flake floor stops that cycle. The slab gets ground with a diamond grinder, cracks and chipped edges are filled and cut flush, a wet base coat bonds, and vinyl flake goes down by hand before a clear coat. Basements get checked for moisture coming up through the slab first. Request a quote and we bring the blend boards to your garage.
What we do
What we coat in Alpena.
Where we work
Around Alpena.
Roads we know around Alpena
| US-23 | Runs through the city as State Avenue and then Chisholm Street, along the Thunder Bay shore. |
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| M-32 | Ends in downtown Alpena, using Washington Avenue past the south end of the airport and then the one-way pair of Second and Third avenues. |
| US-23 north of the city | Crosses the Thunder Bay River near Lake Besser, then passes Long Lake and Grand Lake on its way into Presque Isle County. |
| M-65 | Meets M-32 just south of Lachine and runs north toward Rogers City. |
Alpena neighborhoods and communities
- Lakewood (Alpena Township, on US-23 at the northeast side of Long Lake)
- Rockport
- Wilson Township (Alpena County Regional Airport side)
Townships
- Alpena Township
- Wilson Township
Lakes and water
- Thunder Bay
- Lake Huron
- Thunder Bay River
- Lake Besser
- Long Lake
Business areas and big lots
- M-32 big-box retail west of downtown
- Former Alpena Mall site on US-23 South (now used by manufacturing)
- Gordon Food Service (former mall anchor)
- MidMichigan Health (largest employer in the city)
- Lafarge-Holcim cement plant
- Besser Company
- Decorative Panels International
- Alpena County Regional Airport
At a glance
Alpena by the numbers.
- people live in Alpena (2020 census)
- 10,197
- ZIP code
- 49707
- county
- Alpena County
- snow a year (average annual, 1991-2020, NOAA NCEI figures as published by Current Results)
- About 77.6 inches
- call us
- (989) 255-1435
Landmarks: Alpena County Courthouse, Besser Museum, Maltz Opera House, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Mich-e-ke-wis Park.
Town facts from public sources: 1 (opens in a new tab) · 2 (opens in a new tab) · 3 (opens in a new tab) · 4 (opens in a new tab) · 5 (opens in a new tab). Checked 2026-11-04.
Questions
Epoxy floors in Alpena: questions.
Can an old painted garage floor in Alpena be coated?
Yes. The diamond grinder cuts off old paint, sealer and the closed troweled surface, so the new base coat has bare concrete to grip. That is the step a roller and etching acid cannot do, and it is why hardware store kits peel. We look over the slab before we say what it needs.
Does Alpena road salt wreck an epoxy floor?
Salt brine and hot tires are what lift weak coatings. A ground-in flake floor holds because the base coat bonds to a cut slab. A darker grey or an earthtone blend also hides salt and tire marks longer than a near-white. We bring boards so you pick on your own concrete.
Do you install epoxy floors in Alpena?
Yes. Alpena is in Alpena County, inside the Northern Michigan area we cover. Call (989) 255-1435 or send a photo of the slab and a rough size. We look at the concrete before anything is quoted.
Can I just roll a hardware store kit onto my garage floor in Alpena?
You can, but it usually lifts by spring. A roller and a jug of etching acid do not open the troweled surface of the concrete, so the coating dries onto a skin. Hot tires and salt brine peel that skin off. Grinding is the difference.
Can a floor in Alpena be coated in the winter?
Yes. Epoxy cures inside a closed building, so this is year-round work. Before the snow is easier, though: the garage is easier to empty and nobody is driving a salted vehicle back onto a new floor. How long to stay off it is something we tell you for your floor when we quote it.
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