Garage floor concrete in Yakima WA - a floor that holds up to hard winters
If your garage floor is flaking, cracking or sinking, we'll tell you straight whether it needs a repair or a new slab.
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Should you fix your garage floor or pour a new one?
Garage floor concrete in Yakima, WA means either repairing the worn top of the slab you have or breaking it out and pouring a new one, and United Yakima Concrete does both for homes in Yakima and the cities around it.
Most calls start with a floor that's flaking by the door, where slush melts off the car all winter, or a slab that's cracked and dropped since the house was built. The price moves with the size of the garage, whether the old slab has to be broken out and hauled off, how much base work the ground needs and the finish you want. The schedule mostly turns on the permit side and the weather on pour day. I put all of it on a written estimate, with the mix, the prep and what's included spelled out, so you know exactly what the number covers.
How do you know your garage floor needs work?
Top layer flaking off
You see thin pieces of the surface coming loose, usually worst near the door where the car drips. That's scaling, the top of the slab breaking apart, and the longer it goes the deeper it reaches and the harder it is to save with a repair.
Cracks that keep widening
A hairline crack isn't always trouble, but one that keeps opening or gets uneven edges usually means the ground under it is moving. Left alone, water gets in and every winter pries it a little further apart.
Sunken or uneven sections
When part of the floor sits lower than the rest or drops off at the garage door, the dirt underneath usually wasn't packed before the pour. It won't come back up on its own, and the car rolling over that edge every day keeps breaking it down.
How we handle garage floor concrete
Before I quote, I look at how far the flaking has gone, because some worn floors are worth fixing and some aren't, and if a fix will do, I'll tell you that instead of selling you a new slab. When it's a new floor, our crew breaks out the old concrete and digs down to the subgrade, the dirt the slab sits on, then packs a solid base instead of raking it level, because a raked base settles and takes the floor down with it. We set forms, lay rebar where the job calls for it so the steel holds the slab together if it cracks, and pour early in the day so the heat doesn't leave a weak, dusty top. Then we cut control joints, shallow grooves that give the slab a place to crack where we chose. The base is the part you'll never see and the first thing people want to trim from the budget, and I'd put the money there before the surface every time, because a nice finish on a bad base cracks just the same.
A garage floor is often one piece of bigger work. If you want color or a pattern on the floor or the approach, that's our decorative concrete work, and where the ground beside the garage needs holding back, we build concrete retaining walls so the dirt stays off the slab.
Repairing a worn surface
This suits a floor that's sound underneath with a top that's worn or flaking in spots. It costs less than a new slab and leaves the floor in place, as long as the damage hasn't gone too far.
Tearing out and pouring new
This suits a floor that's sunk, broken up or flaking all over, where a repair would only cover a slab that's still failing underneath. You get a new base, new joints and the mix written on your estimate.
Get a written estimate for your garage floor
We respond within 1 business day to set up a visit. I come out, look at your floor and give you a free written estimate, and you're under no obligation to go ahead.
Call (509) 452-5002- Based in
- Yakima, WA 98901
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 6 AM–10 PM, Sat–Sun: 8 AM–10 PM
What happens when you call about your garage floor?
Here's how it goes from your first call to the day we pick up the last tool, and who you'll be dealing with at each step.
Call or send us a message
Call (509) 452-5002 or use the form, and we'll get back to you to set up a visit. It helps to tell us the garage's size and whether you're seeing cracks, flaking or both.
I come out and measure
I look over the floor, measure and ask how you use the garage, whether that's two cars, a shop or both. You get a written estimate with the mix, the prep and what's included, so there's no guessing what you're paying for.
We prep, pour and clean up
Once you say go, we sort out the permit side, then prep and form the job. I'm on site for the pour and the cleanup, so the person who wrote your estimate sees it through.
Why Yakima homeowners call United Yakima Concrete for garage floors
The owner writes your estimate
I come out myself to look at the floor and write the estimate, and I'm on site when our crew pours it. You won't hear one thing at the visit and get something else on pour day.
Pouring in the valley since 2013
I learned concrete on a flatwork crew here in the valley and started this business in 2013, so we've had 13 years of Yakima winters to watch which floors hold up. That's how I know what to look for when a floor starts flaking.
Licensed and fully insured, every job
United Yakima Concrete is licensed and fully insured. That way you're not the one carrying the risk while our crew works on your property.
On a garage floor, the base and the mix decide how it wears for years, so that's what I look at first. Send us your project details or call (509) 452-5002 to set up a visit.
Permits and hard freezes for garage floors in Yakima
Some addresses around here fall under the City of Yakima and some under Yakima County, so I check which one covers yours before anything else. The county's list of work that doesn't need a permit names things like driveways, sidewalks and roofless decks, but not garage floors, so I don't assume a floor is exempt. For addresses in the city, the city's Code Administration answers permit questions at codes@yakimawa.gov. We handle the permit paperwork for our part of the job and tell you plainly where things stand before we set a pour date.
The city rates weathering here as severe and plans for frost 24 inches down, and a garage floor takes that freeze and thaw every winter, plus whatever drips off the car. For concrete like that, the guidance is to order good-quality air-entrained concrete, which has tiny air bubbles mixed in that give freezing water room to expand, so ask any contractor which mix they plan to use. Ours is on the estimate, and we pour into the same kind of winter on jobs in Selah and Ellensburg.
Questions about garage floor concrete in Yakima
Call (509) 452-5002A concrete slab in Yakima usually costs about $6 to $12 per square foot, without staining or stamping. That's the going range around here, not a quote, and where your floor lands depends on what I find when I come out. Your written estimate gives you the number for your garage.
A floor with light to moderate scaling can usually be repaired, but a slab where the flaking is heavy and still spreading may not be worth trying to save. Minor flaking is mostly cosmetic and may not need fixing at all. I'll tell you which one you have after I've seen it.
No concrete can be kept from cracking entirely, but joints that are laid out properly control where it cracks and keep the cracking down. A crack running along a joint is the floor doing what it was built to do. The ones to worry about wander across the slab, and those usually point back to the base.
Washington requires every construction contractor to register with the state's Labor and Industries department, L&I, and to be bonded and insured. The state's contractor lookup shows whether a business has an active registration and a paid-up workers' comp account for its employees, plus any safety violations or lawsuits against its bond. It takes a minute, and you're welcome to look us up.
Skip deicing chemicals on a new floor for its first winter, and use them in moderate amounts after that. It's worth planning your ice care before the work starts, so nobody reaches for the salt bag out of habit in December.
It's worth considering a commercial breathable sealer, the kind that lets moisture out of the slab instead of trapping it. Ask about it when the floor's finished, since it's one of the simplest bits of upkeep you can do.
Other concrete work around your garage
Decorative concrete
If a plain gray floor or approach isn't what you want, decorative work adds color, texture or a pattern to concrete that has to hold up to winter.
Concrete retaining walls
When the ground next to your garage or driveway keeps creeping toward the concrete, a retaining wall holds that dirt back so it stops pushing on the slab.
Service areas for garage floor concrete
United Yakima Concrete is based in Yakima, WA, and we repair and pour garage floors in the cities around it, from Ellensburg down to Grandview. The 8 cities below have their own pages, and we work in plenty of places in between.
Yakima, WA
Have your garage floor looked at
Call (509) 452-5002 or send the form with your garage's size and a note about any cracks or flaking, so I come out knowing what to look for.