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Garage and lanai coatings for west Tampa’s original suburb — 1960s block ranches to Bay Crest waterfront rebuilds.
Town ’n’ Country was one of Tampa’s first suburban communities, and its concrete tells that story. In 1958 the LaMonte-Shimberg Corporation bought a 525-acre dairy farm near Hillsborough Avenue and Memorial Highway and started laying out the Town ’n’ Country Park subdivision; by 1978 they had built close to 8,000 single-family homes and townhouses across more than 2,000 acres. That means the typical garage here sits on a 1960s or 1970s slab-on-grade block home, with one- and two-car garages and carports on concrete that is now 45 to 65 years old, dusted, cracked, and never once finished. Newer pockets like Countryway add younger slabs on the west side.
Apex Epoxy Coatings gives that concrete a finish that lasts. We install garage floor epoxy, our flagship full-broadcast flake systems, metallic epoxy statement floors, UV-stable patio and pool deck coatings, and seamless commercial floors for the shops and offices along the Hillsborough Avenue corridor. A mid-century slab has decades of paint, stains, and hairline cracks in it, so every job starts the same way: diamond grinding back to sound concrete, crack and spall repair, and a moisture check before a drop of coating goes down.
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(727) 423-5985The classic Town ’n’ Country job is a Bay Crest Park or Sweetwater Creek garage from the 1960s, where the original floor has tire stains, dusting, and a surface that never got better than bare concrete. We grind it, repair it, and broadcast a full flake system that hides everyday dirt and takes hot tires without complaint. The 1958-to-1978 LaMonte-Shimberg homes were built to a tight suburban footprint, so garages and carports are modest, which makes them fast, satisfying transformations and some of the most-improved rooms on the property.
Outdoor concrete works just as hard. This is a screened-lanai and back-patio part of Hillsborough County, and the area sits in the same humid subtropical belt as the rest of Tampa Bay, with a July UV index that ambers unprotected epoxy and a wet season of near-daily afternoon storms. We finish every lanai, patio, and pool deck with a UV-stable topcoat and slip-resistant texture, tuned for wet, barefoot use and the daily rain.
Town ’n’ Country reaches the water at Bay Crest Park, on the northern banks of Old Tampa Bay, and Hurricane Helene hit it hard in 2024. The neighborhood saw as much as 3 feet of storm surge and flooding many longtime residents had never seen, and Hillsborough County has since gone back through the community’s buried stormwater pipes near Stillbrook Avenue and Millwood Drive. Saltwater-flooded slabs can be coated once they are fully dry: we test moisture, grind off silt and salt contamination, and prime with moisture-tolerant products first, and a sealed floor turns the next storm’s cleanup into a rinse instead of a rebuild.
On the commercial side, the Hillsborough Avenue and Waters Avenue corridors carry the area’s retail, and the Veterans Expressway and nearby Tampa International Airport put warehouse and service businesses all through the west-county flex space. We coat them to match the work: seamless retail and showroom floors that stay presentable under traffic, back-of-house surfaces that handle spills and wash-downs, and high-build systems for shops and warehouses, installed nights and weekends so the doors stay open.
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