RV pad coating

What an RV pad goes through in Arizona

An RV does not spread its weight the way a car does. It comes down on its tires, and once it is parked and leveled, on its jacks, so the load sits on a few small spots and stays there for weeks. A tire spreads its share over a patch of rubber. A leveling jack puts its share through one small foot, and a steel foot lowered straight onto any hard surface, coated or bare, can scuff it. A jack pad under each foot is a good habit on any concrete.

The pad is also out in the open, with nothing between it and the sun. When the RV is home, the concrete under it stays in shade and the strip around it takes the full afternoon. When the RV is out on a trip, the whole pad bakes. The top coat is the layer that takes that light, and the two materials behave differently under it.

Then there are the drips. A generator run on the pad can leave fuel and oil spots under it, and the engine and the leveling system leave their own. Oil and fuel soak into bare concrete rather than sitting on top of it, and a coating laid over an oil soaked patch grips the oil instead of the concrete. That patch is where it lets go first. On a coated pad, a new drip sits on the top coat and wipes up.

The pad, the driveway and cleaning first

An RV pad is often an extension of the driveway, poured beside it or on the end of it, so the two slabs meet along a joint. If both are coated at the same time, they get the same blend and read as one surface from the street. Where the pad meets the driveway, the joint between two pours is a line the slabs move along, and how it is handled under the coating is a thing to go over with Jayson on the slab.

A pad that sits under an RV for months collects what a sweep never reaches: dust, leaves, tire grime and whatever dripped. Every job we do starts with the slab blown off, diamond ground and vacuumed, and that takes care of a pad in ordinary shape. If the pad needs more than that, concrete cleaning is a service of its own.

How we coat an RV pad

• We blow the pad off, grind the whole slab with a diamond grinder and vacuum it, so the base coat lands on open concrete and not on oil, fuel or dust.
• We fill cracks before anything goes down, so a crack does not collect dirt and water under the coating. Crack filling is an add-on priced on your quote.
• We lay the epoxy base coat and broadcast the flake into it while it is wet. Epoxy is what bonds to the concrete, and the flake locks into it and gives the surface texture underfoot.
• We leave the pad to hold for 24 hours, so the base coat sets up hard before anything goes over it.
• We come back, scrape off the loose flake and roll on the polyaspartic clear coat, which seals the flake in and takes the sun.
• The RV stays off the pad for 48 hours, because the coating keeps hardening after it feels dry and the RV is the heaviest thing it will carry.

The 24 hour hold between the two coats is why an RV pad is a two day install, the same as a garage floor.

What it costs and what to expect

We price by the square foot, always. A bigger pad costs more, and so does crack filling or an old coating that has to come off first. Jayson comes out, measures the pad and gives you the price in person, and you pick your blend and book the install date at the same visit. If you would rather spread the cost, financing is available through Affirm. A driveway or garage floor done at the same time goes on the same quote, each priced by its own footage, like everything else we do.

Jayson is on every job, and the installers who start your floor are the ones who finish it. The RV has to be off the pad before we start, and for those two days it lives on the street, in storage or out on a trip. You can walk on the pad 24 hours after we finish and park the RV on it after 48 hours. What the written warranty says about the floor is in its own words. We coat RV pads in Peoria, Glendale, Sun City, Youngtown, El Mirage, Sun City West, Surprise, Litchfield Park and Phoenix, and the service areas page shows how far each one is from the office.