Epoxy Flooring in Philipsburg, PA

Epoxy floors for Philipsburg's older houses

Census Bureau estimates show the median home in the borough was built in 1949. The same estimates show about 4 in 10 homes in the borough were built before 1940. In all, about 9 in 10 homes were built before 1980. Newer houses are rare, since fewer than 1 in 100 homes were built in 2000 or later.

Next door, about 3 in 10 homes in Rush Township were built before 1940. Basement slabs and garage floors that old often carry decades of paint, patches, glue and old tile. That is why grinding and prep come first. Grinding takes the slab back to the bare concrete a coating can grip.

In a house this age, old 9 by 9 tile or black glue gets tested before anyone grinds it. Our guide to asbestos floor tile removal in Pennsylvania explains why that test comes first.

Census Bureau figures also show about half of the borough's occupied homes are rented. When an apartment turns over, owners and landlords want a floor that cleans up fast between tenants. On a basement unit or laundry room slab, a seamless coating mops clean.

Basement floor epoxy in the Moshannon Valley

Moshannon Creek flows along the borough and forms the line between Centre and Clearfield counties. The creek's name comes from a Seneca word meaning "elk river place." Philipsburg sits on the Centre County side, in the Moshannon Valley and the State College metro area. The Philipsburg-Osceola School District serves the borough.

Our basement process is the same in every town we cover. Each slab gets a moisture check before any coating goes down. Epoxy cannot bond properly to a wet slab or in high humidity.

Once the slab passes, we grind off old paint and patches and fill minor cracks. Then basement floor epoxy goes down over clean, open concrete. Our own installed work includes a tan full-flake floor in a finished basement.

Garage floor epoxy for Philipsburg winters

Philipsburg sits at about 1,437 feet, higher than State College or our base in Lock Haven. Major roads through the area include US Route 322 and PA Routes 53, 350 and 504. Drive any of them in winter, and snow, road salt and grit ride into the garage on your tires.

Bare concrete soaks up that salty meltwater, and the slab ends up stained and gritty. We grind that worn surface off first. Then garage floor epoxy covers the slab with one seamless surface. Meltwater sits on top of the coating until you squeegee it out the door.

In a garage that works hard, flake epoxy floors make sense. We fully broadcast colored flakes into the wet base coat, and a durable clear topcoat seals them in. Our installed work includes gray full-flake floors in two-car garages. On an older house, our porch and step coatings give concrete front steps the same flake finish.

Black Moshannon State Park lies 9 miles east of Philipsburg on PA 504. It holds the largest reconstituted bog in Pennsylvania. State Game Lands 60 covers roughly half of Rush Township. After a day out there, mud and grit come home on boots and tires, and a flake floor wipes clean.

Downtown Philipsburg storefronts and commercial floors

Henry Philips bought the land here from 1795 to 1796. In 1812, the first screw mill in the United States was built in Philipsburg. The village became a borough on November 29, 1864.

The Rowland Theater stands on Front Street. The Union Church and Burial Ground, known as the "Mud" Church, stands on Presqueisle Street. The Philipsburg Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

Older storefront and office floors downtown often carry tile, VCT or glued-down flooring. All of it has to come up before a coating goes down, so tile removal is often step one. We scrape off the glue or thinset underneath, then grind the slab clean.

On the clean slab, commercial epoxy flooring gives a shop or office a tough, seamless floor that mops clean. The photo at the top shows Memorial Park in Philipsburg (photo by Mr. Matté, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped).