Peeling & failed coatings · Orlando, FL
Failed or Peeling Floor Coating Repair in Orlando
Epoxy floor peeling, flaking or lifting in patches? A coating that fails like that usually wasn't installed over properly prepared concrete. We grind off the failed coating, prepare the slab the right way and install a new system — coating repair and recoating, so you're not paying twice for the same problem.
Call and describe what your floor is doing
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- 4+ years of hands-on experience
- 200+ completed projects
- Written warranty
Experience and project count refer to the coating professional who leads Gatto Services.
Why epoxy floors peel
When a floor put down by another installer — or with a weekend kit — starts failing, the causes are usually the same.
- Skipped preparationThe concrete wasn't ground open, or dust was left on the surface. The resin sits on top instead of gripping the slab.
- Moisture in the slabWater vapor coming up through the concrete can push a coating off from underneath.
- Oil and contaminationOld oil stains, sealers or cleaners left in the concrete keep the coating from holding.
- The wrong productStore-bought kits and thin paint sold as "epoxy" aren't built for a garage or a business floor.
How to tell a coating is failing
- Bubbles or blisters that grow after rain or on humid mornings.
- A hollow sound when you tap the floor with a knuckle or a screwdriver handle.
- Chips stuck to tires or pieces lifting where you turn the steering wheel.
- White, cloudy or yellowed patches that weren't there when the floor was new.
- Edges curling along the garage door, at drains or around posts.
- Bare concrete showing through in walking paths after only a few years.
If you see one of these, take a few photos and a note of when the floor was installed. It makes the first phone call far more useful.
Our approach: remove it and start over
Spot patches on a failing coating are hard to make last — the problem underneath is still there. So the work starts by taking the failed coating off.
- Diagnose. We look at how and where the coating is failing and at the concrete underneath.
- Remove the failed coating. The old layer is ground off until we reach sound concrete.
- Get back to sound concrete. Sanding continues until the slab is clean and firm, then every speck of dust is vacuumed up.
- Install a new system. Chosen for the space and finished with a polyaspartic top coat (metallic floors get their own finish coat).
- Clean up. The removed coating and job debris are bagged and hauled away.
Whatever is on the floor today — old quartz, flake or full flake, a painted slab or bare concrete, new or old — it is ground down before anything new goes on. Moisture testing when needed.
Repair and recoating, in one sequence
When we say resurfacing, we mean recoating: the existing coating is removed or ground down to sound concrete, and a new coating system is installed on the prepared slab. Every repair job follows that order — there is no shortcut layer poured over a failing floor.
Failed coatings we redo
Garage floors. Peeling lanes, flaking at the door and patches lifting where the cars park. Our garage floor systems
Business floors. Restaurants, shops and offices where a worn coating looks bad to customers. Commercial floor coatings
Pool decks. An old deck finish that is lifting or breaking up. Pool deck coatings
After the redo. Simple care habits help the new floor stay in shape. Caring for a coated floor
How a redo is priced
Quoted individually. Removing a failed coating adds work that a new installation doesn't have, and how much depends on what's on the floor and how well it's stuck.
Our published per-square-foot levels for new systems are on the pricing page.
The new system carries our written warranty.
Peeling and failed coating questions
Most often because the concrete wasn't properly prepared — not ground, not fully cleaned of dust — or because of moisture, oil or contamination in the slab. A thin paint or kit product sold as epoxy can fail the same way.
Spot repairs on a failing coating rarely last, because the cause is still underneath. Our approach is to remove the failed coating, prepare the concrete again and install a new system.
When needed. Most floors don't call for it, but when the slab or the way the old coating failed points to moisture, we test before the new system goes down.
Yes. The new system is backed by a written warranty covering delamination, loss of adhesion and installation-related failures, when the floor is used and cared for as instructed.
Yes. We repair cracks as part of surface preparation, before the new system goes down.
Stop patching a floor that keeps failing
Call and describe what the floor is doing — where it's peeling, how old the coating is and what the space is used for.
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