When we talk to homeowners and business owners across Brainerd, whether it's someone with a garage floor bubbling up after one winter or a shop owner watching a commercial epoxy system fail under daily forklift traffic, the frustration lands the same way every time: "We already had this done. Why is it failing?"
Epoxy doesn't fail because it's a bad product, it fails because the concrete underneath it wasn't ready to receive it.
I remember walking on a heated garage floor just outside Nisswa for a homeowner who had paid a local crew to coat the slab the previous spring. By the time the first freeze-thaw cycle had come and gone, the epoxy was lifting in sheets near the perimeter. The prep work had been surface cleaning with a pressure washer, no grinding, no profile, no moisture testing. The bond failed because there was never a real bond to begin with. We stripped the floor, ground the surface to the correct profile, tested and addressed moisture vapor emission at the slab, and applied a system built for a garage environment in a Minnesota climate. That floor has held through two full seasons of use without a single issue.
That outcome is the standard, not the exception, when the prep work gets done correctly.
Technical Construction Solutions was founded by Freddy Lewis, who grew up in a highway construction family and spent 15 years working in the field before starting TCS. That background in concrete systems, structural work, and substrate behavior shapes how this crew approaches every epoxy installation, starting with the slab, not the product.
If your current floor is failing, or you want a coating done right from the first day, a free estimate is the place to start.
