What builder-grade Rexburg concrete needs before a coating
Rexburg is one of the newest-built cities we serve. Census data shows 63.5% of the city's 10,834 homes went up in 2000 or later, and 33% were built just between 2010 and 2019. That means most Rexburg garage floor coating jobs are on slabs under 25 years old. So most Rexburg floors we quote are first-time coatings on bare, never-sealed concrete, not crack repair on old, worn slabs.
Only about 1 in 5 homes here is a detached house. Nearly half the city is big apartment buildings, most of it BYU-Idaho student housing. Detached homes make up 21.5% of that mix, and buildings with 10 or more units make up 48.6%. Garage and basement floor coating jobs concentrate in the newer detached-home subdivisions around town, so we aim our Rexburg quotes at those neighborhoods rather than the big student apartment complexes.
Rexburg stays cold longer than most towns we serve. NOAA data puts the December average high at 28.9F and January's at 28.6F, with a January low of 11.4F. The average low stays at or below freezing every month from November's 21.0F to March's 23.7F, a five-month freeze stretch. A new pour needs a heated space and extra cure time here, and older bare slabs often need crack repair before we coat them.
Rexburg stays dry through the cold season too, with just 13.09 inches of rain and snow a year, and 0.74 to 1.06 inches each cold-season month. Most winter moisture on a Rexburg garage floor comes from tracked-in slush and road salt, not storms, so the topcoat needs to handle months of de-icer. New-construction work here also routes through the City of Rexburg's own Building Department, not the Bingham County office covering our Blackfoot base.