Across the line into Montgomery County
Gilbertsville is five minutes from the shop and the Route 422 corridor runs the length of our patch. Montgomery is our second home county.

Where we work
Montgomery County at a glance
The Montgomery County line sits a few minutes east of Boyertown, which means Gilbertsville, Bally and the New Hanover townships are closer to us than half of our own county. From there the Route 422 corridor runs south east through Pottstown, Limerick, Royersford and Collegeville, and that corridor is where a large share of our residential work comes from.
Montgomery is a Philadelphia collar county and the building pattern shows it. The Schuylkill boroughs, Pottstown and Royersford in particular, are old industrial towns with tight streets, narrow detached garages and deep basements from a period when concrete was poured thin and without a vapour barrier. Out from those centres, the townships filled in hard from the nineteen eighties onward, and the result is street after street of newer construction with big attached garages sitting on flat, sound modern slabs.
We show up, finish on time, and get it right. No hidden fees, no surprises.
Jimmy and Justyn, Cobra EpoxyWhat we get called for
What Montgomery County asks us for most
Every service runs across the whole county. These are simply the three that come up most often here.
Garage Epoxy Flooring
The floor that takes the most abuse in the house, finally protected from road salt and hot tyres.
Commercial Epoxy Flooring
Specified for pallet jacks and constant traffic rather than scaled up from a house.
Basement Epoxy Flooring
The cheapest square footage in the house, once the slab stops being bare concrete.
Towns we cover here: Gilbertsville·Pottstown·Limerick·Royersford·Collegeville·Schwenksville·Harleysville·Skippack·Pennsburg·East Greenville·Trappe

What we find under the paint
Those two building types could not want more different jobs. A borough basement in Pottstown gets moisture tested before we talk about anything else. A ten year old garage in Limerick is usually the most straightforward work we do, because the slab is level and the only thing wrong with it is that nobody ever protected it from the road salt coming in off the 422.
Commercial work sits in the middle of that. The corridor between Pottstown and Collegeville carries a lot of small industrial units, trade counters, veterinary practices and workshops, and those buildings tend to have older concrete under whatever the last tenant did to it. Stripping a failed floor is a normal part of a Montgomery County job rather than an exception.
Salt, slush and the Route 422 problem
The corridor that makes this county convenient also makes it hard on concrete. Anyone commuting on the 422 or the 100 through a Pennsylvania winter is carrying brine, grit and slush home on the underside of the car every day for four months, and all of it comes off onto the garage floor overnight.
Bare concrete absorbs that. The salt goes into the pore, the water freezes and expands inside the slab, and the surface starts losing thin flakes along the tyre tracks and around the door. Once the pitting has started it accelerates, because each new pit is a better reservoir than the flat surface it replaced.
A sealed floor simply does not participate. The brine sits on the surface until it gets hosed or mopped off and nothing goes into the concrete at all. It is the least glamorous argument for coating a garage and it is comfortably the strongest one.
How the floor gets built
It starts with grinding rather than cleaning. Acid etching and pressure washing leave a surface that looks prepared and is not, which is why coatings applied that way come off in sheets. We run diamond grinders with dust extraction until the concrete is open and clean.
Then the slab gets fixed. Cracks and divots filled, pitting levelled, spalled areas cut back to something sound. Whatever we find gets told to you rather than buried, because the finished floor is only ever as flat as the concrete underneath it.
The base coat goes on next, American made, and while it is still wet the flake goes in by hand across the whole area until the surface is completely full. Doing that inside the working time of the base is why it takes two people.
The following day the excess chip is scraped and vacuumed off and the polyaspartic topcoat goes over the top. That is the wear layer and the reason the floor still looks like this in ten years.
On the map
Getting to you from Boyertown
Montgomery County is inside our normal working radius, which runs roughly fifty miles out from Boyertown. The county seat is Norristown.
If your town is not on the list above, that does not mean we do not cover it. Call and ask. We would rather tell you honestly than send somebody on a two hour round trip, and we would rather hear from you than have you assume.
Questions
Working in Montgomery County
The questions that come up most on calls from this part of the patch.
What is your service area?
Four counties. All of Berks, a large piece of Montgomery, the northern half of Chester and the southern boroughs of Lehigh, which works out at roughly fifty miles from the shop in Boyertown. The service areas page lists every town we have written up, though plenty of jobs happen in places that are not on that list.
How far in advance should a business book?
Further than a homeowner, mostly because the scheduling conversation is longer rather than because the lead time is. Working out section sizes, access, out of hours arrangements and return to service against your actual trading pattern takes a proper walkthrough and usually a follow up. A month of notice makes for a much better job than a fortnight.
My basement gets damp. Can it still be coated?
Usually yes, but we test the slab first. Water moving up through concrete as vapour is the most common cause of a basement coating lifting, so we measure it rather than guess. A high reading means a moisture tolerant primer goes down first. A very high reading means we tell you the drainage needs solving before a coating makes sense.
My floor was coated before and it failed. Can you fix it?
Yes, and it is a good share of what we do. The old system comes off completely, because coating over somebody else failed film means inheriting their bond. Then the damage underneath gets repaired and the floor is rebuilt properly. It is more work than a bare slab, so an honest price is higher rather than lower.
How soon could you get here?
Jimmy gets back to you within a business day and the walkthrough is usually inside the week. Lead time to the actual install depends on the season, and exterior work in particular books up ahead of the summer, so spring and pool deck slots go early.
Is the warranty actually in writing?
Yes, you get it on paper. It covers the residential interior system against loss of bond, so peeling and delamination, for as long as you own the floor. We are comfortable offering that because the preparation is done properly, and a floor that was ground and repaired before the first coat does not come off. Outdoor work carries its own separate terms.
How much mess does the grinding make?
Less than you would expect. The grinders run with dust extraction attached throughout, which captures the great majority of it at source. That is a health matter before it is a housekeeping one, because silica dust off concrete is a real exposure issue, and it is also why we are not filling the rest of your house with grey powder.
Is the work subcontracted out?
No. Cobra is deliberately small, which means Justyn is on the floor and Jimmy has seen every job that goes out. We could take on more crews and more trucks tomorrow, but the standard is only reliable while we are standing next to it, and the reviews are the thing we would lose first.
Book a walkthrough
Book a walkthrough in Montgomery County
Tell us the town, the space and roughly what condition the concrete is in. Jimmy comes back within a business day and arranges to walk it with you.
OSHA certified crew, materials made in the USA, and a written lifetime warranty on residential interiors. Registered in Pennsylvania as HIC 177204.
Phone is quickest: (484) 942-3219. Otherwise email jfaust@cobraepoxy.com and Jimmy will pick it up. The contact page takes the same details.
Tell us about the floor
Whatever detail you have is enough to start. Expect a call within a business day.
Also covered: Berks County, Chester County, Lehigh County, Bucks County, Lancaster County. Browse the full list of services, see finished work in the gallery, or get in touch.