Melton has two housing stories running at once — the seventies and eighties township, and the growth corridor still being built out around it. What they share is the ground underneath, and it is demanding clay to build on.
Floor shown is a visualisation — stock reference photography, not a completed Ironclad job.
Melton is on undulating basaltic and alluvial plains, and the soils across the western volcanic plain are cracking clays. The state's own land resource mapping for this country describes gilgai — the mound-and-hollow ground surface that forms where clay swells and shrinks hard — and notes plainly that it can cause problems for road and building foundations. That is the ground your slab is sitting on.
We are not going to tell you Melton has the worst clay in Melbourne. That line gets repeated a lot and nobody can actually source it. What is on the record is that Melton sits alongside Wyndham, Hume and Whittlesea among the growth corridors where highly reactive clay has produced real, litigated slab-movement disputes. Your own site classification comes from a soil test on your lot.
The practical consequence for a floor is cracking. On an older Melton garage there is often a crack or two running across the slab. That is not automatically a reason not to coat it. It is a reason to prepare properly: cracks get cut out and filled, control joints get treated rather than blindly bridged, and the honest conversation about whether a moving crack may eventually show through the finish happens at quote stage rather than afterwards.
There is a real limit here and we would rather state it. A resin floor is a few millimetres thick — it cannot stop a slab on reactive clay from moving. What the written guarantee against lifting covers is the coating staying bonded to the concrete. Anyone telling you their product will hold a moving slab together is selling you something.
1970s–1980s in the township; recent in Atherstone, Toolern Waters, Exford Waters and Cobblebank.
Double garage around 36 m², and very often a freestanding Colorbond shed as well — 6×9 m is the classic.
Cracking that needs cutting out and filling, plus workshop use — oil, welding, stands and jacks.
Same four stages on every job in Melton, residential or commercial. No shortcuts, because we're the ones carrying the guarantee.
Diamond-ground back to bare, open concrete. Not acid-etched, not rolled over. Dust-extracted, so the garage stays clean.
Moisture tested before a drop goes down. Cracks and joints are cut out and filled so they don't telegraph through the finish.
Pigmented base coat, then decorative flake broadcast to refusal for full coverage, grip and depth. Your colour, chosen before we arrive.
Clear coat over the top, edges cut in sharp, site cleaned. You get the guarantee in writing before we leave.
One day on site. Walk on it after 24 hours, car back on it at 48. Gear moved and put back — you don't lift a thing. Written guarantee against lifting, and it transfers if you sell.
Melton is about 35–40 km west of the CBD on the Western Freeway, and it is a comfortable day trip for us — we are not treating it as a fringe postcode. Blocks out here are generous by Melbourne standards, so parking and access are rarely the constraint.
Sheds are, though. A lot of Melton properties have a garage and a freestanding workshop, and the shed slab is frequently a different pour from a different decade — sometimes thinner, sometimes unreinforced, sometimes poured in sections with a cold joint through the middle. If you want both done, photograph both. They may not get the same answer.
If your shed is a working workshop, tell us what happens in it. Welding spatter, jack stands, a hoist, engine degreaser and hot tyres are all different demands and they change the topcoat we spec.
Usually yes. Cracks are cut out and filled as part of the preparation so they don't telegraph through the finish. What we won't do is promise you a crack that is still moving will never show again — on reactive Melton clay that would be a claim we can't stand behind. We will tell you at quote stage which kind of crack we think you have.
Yes, and we quote them separately because they are often different slabs. A shed floor poured a decade after the house can have completely different moisture behaviour and thickness. Send photos of both and rough dimensions.
We come out. Melton and the surrounding estates are part of the area we cover, and the quote is the quote — no travel surcharge buried at the bottom of it.
More general questions are answered on the main FAQ, and Melbourne-wide answers — cost, systems, timing — live on the epoxy flooring Melbourne page.
One photo and rough dimensions is all we need to give you a real number — no site visit required. Quotes weekdays 7am–7pm.
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