What We Do
Epoxy & Concrete Coating Services in Kansas City
Ten systems, one decision. The right one depends on what the floor has to survive — the traffic over it, what gets spilled on it, and what the slab underneath is already doing.
Our concrete coating services
Ten systems. One that’s right for your slab.
We don’t push a single product. After we look at the concrete, its moisture and how the space gets used, we’ll tell you which of these actually fits — and which ones we’d skip.
Flake Flooring
Best for garages, basements, shops
A seamless, non-slip floor in the flake blend you pick. The workhorse finish for garages, basements and showrooms.
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Metallic Epoxy Flooring
Best for basements, showrooms, retail
Poured metallic pigment that moves like stone or water. No two floors come out the same, which is the point.
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Solid Color Epoxy
Best for workshops, plants, garages
One clean colour, wall to wall. The straightforward choice for shops, warehouses and utility spaces.
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Concrete Overlay
Best for worn patios, floors, walkways
A new surface over worn concrete, textured and coloured to order — without the cost of tearing the slab out.
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Concrete Polishing
Best for warehouses, retail, offices
Mechanically polished to the sheen you want. No coating to wear through, because the floor is the finish.
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Dye Polishing
Best for showrooms, breweries, lobbies
Translucent colour driven into polished concrete, so the aggregate and the character of the slab still read through.
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Grind and Seal Concrete
Best for high-traffic industrial floors
Grind to expose the aggregate, then seal. The cost-effective route to a durable, easy-to-clean industrial floor.
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Stain and Seal Concrete
Best for patios, basements, entries
Acid or water-based stain with a protective seal, for patios, entries and floors that should not look coated.
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Cleaning and Sealing Exterior Concrete
Best for driveways, patios, pool decks
Driveways, walks and patios cleaned back and sealed against Missouri freeze-thaw, salt and stains.
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Concrete Prep and Removal
Best for failed or coated slabs
Grinding, cleaning and stripping failed coatings. The step every finish above depends on, offered on its own.
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Neither are most people — send us the room and the rough size and we’ll come look at the concrete before anyone commits to a system. No pressure, no obligation — we reply within 24 hours.
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Two very different floors. Two very different jobs.
A garage in Belton and a 20,000 sq ft warehouse in Kansas City need different systems, different prep and different schedules. Tell us which one you are and we’ll take it from there.
For homeowners
Residential floors
Garages, basements, patios and driveways that survive road salt, hot tires and a dropped socket wrench.
- Garage floor coatings — flake, solid color, metallic
- Basement floors and finished living space
- Patios, walkways, pool decks and driveways
- Stained and sealed decorative concrete
For business owners
Commercial & industrial
Floors that take forklifts, foot traffic and health inspections — installed around your operating hours.
- Warehouses, manufacturing and distribution
- Auto shops, dealerships and service bays
- Restaurants, breweries and commercial kitchens
- Retail, showrooms and office polished concrete
How a job runs
Four steps, and you’ll know where we are in all of them.
Free on-site estimate
We measure, check the slab for moisture and cracks, and lay out real flake and color samples in your space so you can see them in your own light.
Diamond grind & repair
Old coating comes off, the slab gets ground to profile with dust-contained equipment, and cracks, pits and control joints get filled.
Basecoat, broadcast, topcoat
Basecoat goes down, flake is broadcast to rejection where the system calls for it, then it’s scraped back and locked in under a clear topcoat.
Walk-through & cure schedule
We walk the finished floor with you, hand over the written cure times and care instructions, and haul every bit of our mess out with us.
Why High Stakes
Most failed epoxy floors were lost before the coating ever came out of the pail.
Coatings don’t fail because of the product. They fail because of what happened — or didn’t happen — to the concrete underneath. That’s the part we refuse to rush.
We grind. We don’t acid etch.
Every floor gets mechanically diamond-ground to an open concrete profile before anything is applied. It’s slower, dustier and the single biggest reason a floor lasts fifteen years instead of peeling in two.
Commercial-grade product on residential jobs.
The same coatings we put down in warehouses go into your garage. No thinned box-store kits, no shortcuts on mil thickness to make a number work.
The owner is on your job.
High Stakes is owner-operated by Tyler Wilms out of Cleveland, MO. The person who quotes your floor is the person standing on it with a grinder.
You get the cure schedule in writing.
When you can walk on it, when you can park on it, how to clean it, and what’s covered. Written down before we leave, not guessed at over the phone a week later.
Frequently asked
Questions we get on almost every estimate.
How long does an epoxy floor last?
That depends almost entirely on the preparation underneath it. A floor that was ground back to sound concrete, with the cracks repaired before coating, outlasts one that was rolled over a dirty slab by years. It is why our quotes always price the prep as part of the job rather than as an option.
Can you coat over an existing epoxy or paint?
Usually we remove it. Whatever failed the first time is still under there, and a new coating bonded to a failing one fails on the same schedule. Our prep and removal service exists for exactly this.
Will you coat a garage floor with cracks in it?
Yes. Cracks, spalling and pitting are patched during prep. What we will tell you honestly is when a slab has moved enough that a coating is not the right answer — an overlay hides a bad slab for a season, and we would rather not sell you that.
Do you work on commercial floors as well as garages?
Both. The same systems go into shops, warehouses and showrooms as into home garages, which is why a residential floor from us is rated well past what a car and a floor jack ask of it.
What areas do you serve?
The Kansas City metro on both sides of the state line, plus western Missouri and eastern Kansas — thirty-four communities in all. If your town is not on the list, call and ask; the edge of the map moves.
How do I get a quote?
Send us the square footage, the current condition of the concrete and the finish you have in mind, or just call. Quotes are free, and we reply within 24 hours.
Where we work
Based in Cleveland, MO. On job sites across the metro.
We’re roughly forty minutes south of downtown Kansas City, which puts most of the metro inside an easy drive. Pick your city for local pricing, recent projects nearby and the systems that hold up best in that area.
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Ready when you are
Let’s go look at your concrete.
Free on-site estimate, real samples in your space, and a written number within a day. Call, text, or send the form and we’ll get you on the schedule.
105 N Main, Cleveland, MO 64734
Mon – Sat: 7:00 am – 6:00 pm
Quotes back within 24 hours