Epoxy Flooring in Alfalfa, OR

Most of the epoxy flooring we put down in Alfalfa goes into a building that earns its keep. This is a high-desert farm community about 16 miles east of Bend, and it serves roughly 400 families living on the surrounding farms. The concrete we see out here sits under equipment, hay trucks, tack and tools. Many of these slabs were poured for function decades ago and never sealed. A coating gives that floor a surface you can sweep, scrape and hose off without pulling up more dust every time.

A place named for its crop

Alfalfa takes its name from the forage crop grown here under irrigation. Wikipedia notes that the 80-day growing season limits most farmers to grass and alfalfa, and that yields suit grazing cattle better than haying. So a lot of local buildings serve livestock and the machinery that moves feed. Those floors take spilled grain, manure on boots, hydraulic drips and the steady scrape of steel implements.

What we install on Alfalfa properties

• Commercial and shop floor epoxy for equipment barns and farm shops where tractors, ATVs and trailers park
• Concrete crack and floor repair for older slabs with settled joints, chipped edges or holes from old bolted equipment
• Epoxy flake floors for tack rooms, mudrooms and garages, where texture helps footing in wet boots
• Garage floor coating for the attached garage at the house
• Polyaspartic floor coating when a building cannot be out of service for long
• Metallic epoxy floors for a finished space, such as a converted barn office or home studio

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Old canal-era slabs need prep first

The Central Oregon Canal runs through Alfalfa. The Central Oregon Irrigation District says its canals were built by 1907, and Wikipedia notes that many local houses date from the early irrigation district period. Concrete from older outbuildings can be thin, patched or uneven. Some floors have never seen a grinder. Before we talk about color, we check for cracks, soft spots, old paint and oil that has soaked deep into the slab. Repair comes first. A coating over a broken floor just fails sooner.

Keeping a working floor working

Farm shop floors get abused, so we build them with that in mind. That usually means a thicker base coat, a broadcast aggregate or flake for grip, and a tough topcoat that resists chemicals like diesel, hydraulic fluid and fertilizer residue. We also leave clean transitions at the big door so a loader bucket does not catch an edge. If a building has drains, we work around them and keep the slope that moves water out.

Land that stays agricultural

In the 2000s, Measure 37 raised the idea of rezoning Alfalfa land from agricultural to residential. Measure 49 reversed nearly all of that, and the area remains mostly farmland. For you, that means the barns and shops here are long-term buildings worth improving. A sealed floor holds up for years and is far easier to keep clean than raw concrete.

Dust, chaff and cleaning

Hay chaff and dry soil get everywhere on a farm. On raw concrete, that grit sits in the pores and gets ground in by every tire. A sealed floor gives it nowhere to hide. Most owners clean a coated shop with a push broom and a hose, and a squeegee moves the water out the door. Feed and fertilizer spills come up instead of staining.

When to schedule

We can coat a shop between seasons, when the equipment is out in the field or parked outside for a few days. A polyaspartic topcoat shortens the time the building is closed. We will give you a realistic timeline at the estimate so you can plan around haying and calving.

Getting a price

Every farm building is different in size, condition and use, so we measure on site. Call (541) 871-3858 or request an estimate and we will walk the floor with you, note what repair it needs and give you a written price.