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Coastal garages, lanais, and pool decks for the Greek sponge-dock city — historic bayou bungalows to Cypress Run golf homes.
Tarpon Springs is the northernmost city in Pinellas County, built where the Anclote River meets the Gulf, and its concrete runs from historic to brand-new. The Greektown and Spring Bayou historic district holds 1920s bungalows, Mediterranean Revival homes, and bayou-front Victorians from the sponge-diving boom that made the city famous, while the postwar decades filled in ranches and ramblers, and gated golf communities like Cypress Run and family subdivisions like Keystone brought newer slabs east of town. With more than 50 miles of waterfront along the river, Lake Tarpon, and a string of bayous, a lot of this concrete sits close to the water.
Apex Epoxy Coatings gives Tarpon Springs slabs a finish built for the coast. We install garage floor epoxy, our flagship full-broadcast flake systems, metallic epoxy, and UV-stable lanai and pool deck coatings, plus commercial floors for the shops and restaurants along the sponge docks and US 19. Salt air and a high coastal water table make moisture testing the non-negotiable first step here, so we diamond-grind, repair, and check every slab before a drop of coating goes down.
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(727) 423-5985A Spring Bayou bungalow from the 1920s sits on some of the oldest concrete in Pinellas County, with detached garages and additions on slabs that have seen a century of Florida weather. Restoring that kind of floor is careful work: grind back to sound concrete, repair the cracks and spalling, and moisture-test before any system goes down. The ranches and ramblers of the established neighborhoods get the same honest prep, and their one- and two-car garages become clean, dust-free flake floors that finally match the house.
East of the historic core, the newer slabs change the job. Gated communities like Cypress Run and Crescent Oaks and family subdivisions like Keystone and Woodfield bring younger concrete and bigger two- and three-car garages that turn into real showpieces with a full-broadcast flake blend or a metallic pour. Screened lanais and pool decks come standard out here, and every outdoor surface gets a UV-stable topcoat with slip-resistant texture, because Tarpon Springs logs the same intense Gulf-coast sun that ambers bare epoxy across the rest of Pinellas.
The 2024 storms hit Tarpon Springs from both sides. Hurricane Helene drove several feet of seawater into the sponge-dock businesses along Dodecanese Boulevard and submerged streets like Pineapple, flooding homes throughout the low waterfront; weeks later Hurricane Milton pushed the Anclote River to major flood stage. Coastal and riverine slabs hold moisture long after the water drops, so flood-affected floors here get fully dried, moisture-tested, ground clean of salt and silt, and primed with moisture-tolerant products before coating. A sealed floor makes the next storm’s cleanup a rinse instead of a rebuild.
The sponge docks are still the city’s commercial heart. The Sponge Exchange has anchored the waterfront since 1908, and more than 100 shops and restaurants line Dodecanese Boulevard, with more retail and services spread along Tarpon Avenue downtown and the US 19 corridor. Restaurant kitchens, retail floors, and service businesses are the typical commercial job here, and we install them seamless, slip-aware, and scheduled around open hours. Historic buildings often hide sound concrete under old flooring, and grinding one back to a finished floor is some of the most satisfying work we do.
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