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Premier Garage Question
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thegarageguy
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Since no one wants to answer, I'll give it a shot.
Even though all premier dealers would tell you its a "hybrid", blah, blah, blah, they use a polyaspartic "one day" system that more often than not requires multiple days. The fact is that preperation of the concrete is impossible to determine due to size, equipment used and scale of substrate hardness. All of which determine how long a system will take.
It's a rolled on product that goes on super thin, like all one day systems. They only offer solid and chip floors. From my experience, there floors look great on new, minimally flawed concrete. With that said, we can make any floor look good with cheap water down products if there isnt any flaws or self leveling or patching required.
This is not to say that one day systems don't work. I think there is a use for them but not for every application.
lastly, check for references, see some finished work done, preferably 3 to 5 years old. Get a few different contractors and compare apples to apples.
Even though all premier dealers would tell you its a "hybrid", blah, blah, blah, they use a polyaspartic "one day" system that more often than not requires multiple days. The fact is that preperation of the concrete is impossible to determine due to size, equipment used and scale of substrate hardness. All of which determine how long a system will take.
It's a rolled on product that goes on super thin, like all one day systems. They only offer solid and chip floors. From my experience, there floors look great on new, minimally flawed concrete. With that said, we can make any floor look good with cheap water down products if there isnt any flaws or self leveling or patching required.
This is not to say that one day systems don't work. I think there is a use for them but not for every application.
lastly, check for references, see some finished work done, preferably 3 to 5 years old. Get a few different contractors and compare apples to apples.
Dreamindiesel
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FWIW, I have a friend of family that had a newer condo garage floor done and loves it. This one is hard to swallow because I bid this but at the time couldn't give him the 24 hour turn around and beat the price and still offer a 15 warranty. They also sold him another $4000.00 in cabs. (gulp) I lost a good job and good money, but wasn't going to argue or give him a half a$$ job. I have no idea on what it will look like in a couple of years, but he is happy with it for now. BTW, they ended up not being able to get it done in a day like they said, it took 2 for the floor.
Thanks, Shannon
Thanks, Shannon
JD in DFW
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Premiere in our area is know for "Bait and Switch" and throwing out all kinds of pricing for the same type of floor and prep. Three different houses on our street had them come out to get quotes, all the houses had the same size garage and age house. All wanted the exact same floor, all houses got different prices, one was almost $400 more. It seems that if the sales guys knows they are competing with another company they are more competitive with their pricing, but if they know that a customer is not shopping them they jack up the price, at least thats what happened in our case on our street.
I would stay away from the big franchise garage companies, find a medium size outfit that has references, has fished garages at multiple ages to go look at, and go out to one of their projects under way to see how the process goes. From our experience a good floor coating is going to be priced around $4.00-4.75 sqft and this would include diamond grinding as the prep and a 10-15 yr warranty.
I would also stay away from the painters that do the garage floors on the side....one house down the street did that and thought they were getting a great deal for $750.....floor was peeling up in 7 months and look like...well ****.
Do your home work and remember you get what you pay for. Would you hire a cheap electrician to wire your house or the cheapest A/C guy in the summer??
I would stay away from the big franchise garage companies, find a medium size outfit that has references, has fished garages at multiple ages to go look at, and go out to one of their projects under way to see how the process goes. From our experience a good floor coating is going to be priced around $4.00-4.75 sqft and this would include diamond grinding as the prep and a 10-15 yr warranty.
I would also stay away from the painters that do the garage floors on the side....one house down the street did that and thought they were getting a great deal for $750.....floor was peeling up in 7 months and look like...well ****.
Do your home work and remember you get what you pay for. Would you hire a cheap electrician to wire your house or the cheapest A/C guy in the summer??
jdcompman
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Premier is our area is notorious for not honoring their warranties and actually seem to have skipped town. None of the jobs I have seen, have taken the advertised 1 day. They have all taken longer. Some cases up to 4 days.
thegarageguy
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All wanted the exact same floor, all houses got different prices, one was almost $400 more.
Not do defend anyone but I can see why this might happen. There are many factors that our company puts into a quote. We have a base price for our solid floor, granite floor, quartz, metallics and overlays.
The condition of the substrate plays a huge factor in our final quote. If it's pourus, deteriorated, broom finished or hard troweled? Does it have a sealer? Any coatings? How thick is the coating? Is it dirty, greasy or oil stained? Are there cracks? How bad are the cracks? Does it have a high moisture rate?
All these determine our company's final quote. And believe it or not, every home on the same block would have separate and completely different variables. Even if it was a track home or built by the same builder or poured by the same concrete truck. No 2 slabs are the same. Unbelievably I have even seen different conditions on the same slab in different sections.
Just my 2 cents