Patio Concrete Coating in Bensenville, IL

The patio, the wet end and the path round to the front

The main patio slab is where the floor earns its cost, because it is where the furniture stands, where the grill lives and where the family sits in the evening. A flake coating turns a plain or stained slab into a colored, textured floor that reads as part of the house, and the blend can be picked to sit with the siding, the brick and the fence.

The wet end of the slab, where the sprinkler runs, the kiddie pool sits, the outdoor tap drips and the grill gets hosed down, runs wet for most of the summer and needs a surface that grips when it is soaked and does not blister or lift when it stays damp. The same flake system, with the texture set for wet feet and the topcoat built for standing water, is the right floor there, and because it is seamless there is no joint for water to get under.

Steps, walkways, the path round to the front and the apron outside the garage door connect the patio to everything else, and they take the same coating so the whole run reads as one surface from the driveway to the back fence. Where a slab has been extended or patched over the years and no two pours match, one coating across all of it is what finally makes them look like a single floor.

Flake blend, texture and a topcoat that holds its color

The flake blend is the color decision, and outdoors it is judged in daylight against the house, the fence and the planting rather than under a kitchen light. Blends run from quiet tones close to the color of stone, which suit a patio that should recede behind the furniture and the garden, to bolder mixes that make the floor a feature. Lighter blends stay cooler in the sun, which matters on a slab that is used barefoot, and the color is agreed in writing before anything is broadcast.

Texture is set by how densely the flake is broadcast and how the topcoat is finished over it. A full broadcast sealed with a lighter topcoat leaves more of the flake standing proud and gives the most grip, which suits the wet end of the slab. A heavier topcoat over the same flake gives a smoother, easier-to-hose surface that still has grip in it, which suits the dining end of the patio where chairs are pulled in and out.

The topcoat is what makes an outdoor floor different from an indoor one. It is a clear, UV-stable finish formulated to hold its color and clarity in direct sun without yellowing or chalking, to stay bonded through freeze-thaw and standing water, and to take a hose, a stiff brush and a snow shovel without wearing through. A polyaspartic topcoat can be specified over the flake where a harder-wearing, fast-cure finish suits the job, and it reads as a topcoat rather than as a different floor.

Patios and yards around Bensenville

We cover Bensenville and the neighboring DuPage and Cook County suburbs from our shop in Roselle, which is a short drive away, and the people who come out to look at the slab are the people who coat it.

Locally the patios are mostly the plain poured slabs behind the mid-century ranches and split-levels that make up much of the village, often extended once or twice over the years and now showing their age in the sun. Those slabs are exactly what a flake coating is for: one colored, textured surface across all of it that stays cooler underfoot, grips when wet, hoses clean and looks like a finished outdoor floor for the summers ahead.

Get your Bensenville patio coated before summer

We work throughout Bensenville and the surrounding suburbs from our shop in Roselle, with our own crew rather than subcontracted labor. The visit is free and commits you to nothing. Tell us how the patio is used, what is on the concrete now and what it should look like from the house, and we will recommend a flake blend and a texture for each part of the slab, explain how the old surface will be prepared and put the whole job in writing with a fixed price. Call (630) 206-5602 or email info@evolveconcretecoating.com to arrange a visit. We answer Monday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM.