Single (1-car wide)
~400 to 600 sq ft
From
$1,200
to $6,800
- Most common single-vehicle drives
- Essential or Ultimate tier
Driveway Coating · Long Lake, MN · Est. 1996
Driveway Coating in Long Lake, Minnesota.
Long Lake is a small city on Hwy 12 in western Hennepin County, north of Lake Minnetonka and wrapped around the lake it is named for. It is one of the few places out here with an actual walkable main street rather than a highway strip. Driveway coating for Long Lake homes. We match the system to how the driveway is used: penetrating sealer for protection-only, polyurea + polyaspartic for a finished surface, flexible urethane for older slabs with movement. A compact older core of early and mid-1900s homes on small lots, most with detached garages that were added later and built for smaller cars. Postwar and 1970s stock fills the rest of the city, and newer infill and rebuild work appears on the better lots near the water. Three-car attached garages are the exception rather than the rule, which makes Long Lake projects smaller on average than the surrounding acreage cities.
Driveway Coating in Long Lake
What an install looks like in Long Lake.
Long Lake is small-town rather than acreage, which sets it apart from Medina and Orono either side of it. Garages are modest and frequently detached, sitting on slabs that have been through six or seven decades, so the honest assessment of the concrete matters as much as the finish conversation. Where a slab is sound the change is dramatic, because the starting point is bare, dusty, never-finished floor. Lake-adjacent lots read higher for moisture and get tested before any lower-level work is quoted, while the higher ground toward Holy Name is straightforward.
Driveway Coating specifically in Long Lake
Driveways here are short and narrow on the older small-town lots, which keeps projects modest and makes bundling with the garage the sensible approach. Apex flexible tier handles the seasonal slab movement and the Hwy 12 salt where the property meets it, and on old concrete it also evens out decades of uneven weathering.
Neighborhoods we work in
- Downtown Long Lake
- Lakeview
- Brown Road
- Watertown Road
- Holy Name
- Willow Drive
30+ YR
Years working concrete
Driveways included
Salt
Resistant
De-icer + brine tolerant
UV
Stable
Polyaspartic topcoat
A+
BBB rated
Accredited since October 2005
Why sealing is the highest-ROI driveway service in Long Lake
Why driveway sealer is the difference between a 20-year driveway and a 30-year one.
Untreated Minnesota driveway concrete absorbs water, salt, and brine all winter. Each freeze-thaw cycle pulls the surface paste apart from inside (spalling), and the surface scales over time. A penetrating sealer is the cheapest intervention with the highest return: it stops the absorption, which stops the freeze-thaw damage. Reapplied every 5 to 7 years, it can add a decade of useful life to the slab.
Untreated driveway concrete
What most driveways look like
- Absorbs water, brine, de-icer
- Surface scales and spalls over time
- Faster aging from freeze-thaw
- Full replacement at 20 to 25 years
Sealed every 5 to 7 years
What we'd put on our own driveway
- Penetrating sealer blocks moisture absorption
- Slows freeze-thaw scaling significantly
- Affordable: a few hundred to a few thousand per cycle
- Adds 10+ years to slab life
A sealer is not glamorous, but a $1,500 sealer cycle every 6 years is a much better deal than a $12,000 replacement at year 20.
Long Lake Pricing
Driveway coating pricing in Long Lake, MN.
Driveway pricing tracks square footage closely. The choice of tier and current slab condition do the rest. Most driveways are a 1- to 2-day install with a few days of cure before drive-on traffic.
Standard (2-car wide)
~700 to 1,000 sq ft
From
$2,400
to $10,000
- Typical suburban driveway with turnaround
- Most common is Essential sealer or Ultimate film
Large or oversize (3-car+ or extended)
1,200+ sq ft
From
$4,500
to $14,400+
- Long rural driveways, multi-car wide, or with parking areas
- Apex tier or premium sealer choice
Cracks, spalling, or oil-stained concrete add to prep time. We assess condition during the in-home estimate and write the quote to include any necessary repair work.
The 6-step install
How we install your floor in Long Lake.
Same prep on every driveway, scaled to the slab in front of us. The reason a 30-year coating shop stays busy is repeat customers from sealer cycles.
- 1
In-home assessment + written quote
Visit the property, measure the driveway, assess slab condition, write the fixed quote on the right tier. - 2
Surface clean + diamond-ground prep
Pressure wash to remove embedded dirt and stains, then diamond grinding for film-tier installs. Sealer-only tier skips the grind but still requires a thorough surface clean. - 3
Crack + spall repair
Hairline cracks filled. Spalled areas patched and feathered. Joints addressed before coating. - 4
Sealer or basecoat application
Essential tier: sealer worked into the concrete in two passes. Film tiers: polyurea or flexible urethane basecoat rolled at full thickness. - 5
Decorative + topcoat (film tiers)
Ultimate tier: decorative flake broadcast, scraped flat after cure, polyaspartic UV-stable topcoat seals everything in. Sealer tier skips this step. - 6
Walk-through + cure
Final walk-through. Walk-on at 24 hours for film tiers, 48 to 72 for sealer. Drive-on at 48 to 72 depending on tier and weather.
Long Lake questions
Common questions for Long Lake homeowners.
Is a 1950s detached garage in Long Lake worth coating?
Condition decides it, not age. Most older Long Lake garage slabs are dusty, pitted near the door and cracked through the joints, all of which diamond grinding and joint repair address. What rules a slab out is settlement, cracking well past hairline, or deep spalling. We assess in person and tell you which one you have before quoting, because putting a finished surface over a failing slab helps nobody.
The garage is unheated. Can you still install in winter?
Often, within limits. Polyurea and polyaspartic cure across a wider temperature range than epoxy, which is one reason Clear View uses them, so the window is broader than a hardware-store product would allow. Deep winter in an unheated detached garage still needs planning, and we would rather schedule into a workable window than promise a date and install outside product spec.
Does Hwy 12 salt reach the residential streets?
It reaches the properties along it and the first block or so back, and the wear at the garage door line shows it. Interior streets get far less. Where the exposure is real, a coating puts a chemically stable barrier between the salt and the concrete and stops the freeze-thaw-with-salt cycle that produces the pitting in the first place.
Our house is near the lake. Does that affect the basement floor?
It affects which system, which is why we test rather than assume. Lake-adjacent lots sit closer to groundwater and their slabs push more vapor. A film coating over a slab pushing vapor lifts off the floor eventually. High readings get a penetrating sealer that seals while letting the slab breathe; the higher ground toward Holy Name and Watertown Road usually tests normal and takes the film system.
Will this stop my driveway from cracking?
No coating prevents future cracking; the slab moves with the seasons and that movement causes cracking over time. The Apex tier (flexible urethane) bridges existing hairline cracks so they don't telegraph through. Sealer prevents the surface scaling that comes from absorbed moisture freezing, which is different.
How often do I re-seal?
Essential sealer: every 5 to 7 years for Minnesota driveways. Film coatings (Ultimate, Apex) last much longer; on a typical install, no maintenance re-coat for 10+ years.
What about snow plowing and shovels?
Plastic shovels and rubber-edged plow blades are fine on either sealer or film. Metal-edge plows or sharp scrapers will eventually mark the topcoat surface; same as they would on stamped concrete. Daily ice melt use is fine.
Can you do it over an asphalt driveway?
No. These systems are concrete-specific. Asphalt sealers are a separate category and we don't offer them.
What about hot tire pickup?
Polyurea handles hot tires without lifting; this is the most common epoxy failure mode but not a polyurea problem.
How long does the install take?
Most driveways are 1 to 2 days on site. Drive-on cure is 48 hours minimum for film tiers, longer for sealer in cool weather. We schedule with you so you can plan around vehicle access.
Will it look glossy?
Essential sealer is matte (looks like wet concrete that's now dry). Ultimate and Apex tiers have a satin to semi-gloss topcoat finish; the exact level is chosen at the estimate.
Can I coat just part of the driveway?
Yes, sealer can be re-applied in sections. Film coatings work best as a single-day full install; partial film coating creates a visible seam.
Do you offer a warranty?
Yes, written limited warranty on every install, with terms varying by tier. Walked through at the estimate.
More in Long Lake
All the services we offer in Long Lake, MN.
Driveway plus garage plus walkway is a common multi-surface visit. Bundle pricing when we can prep multiple slabs in the same install window.
Restoration in Long Lake
Other surfaces we work on in Long Lake.
Clear View runs both sides of the business out of the same shop. If you're booking a driveway coating in Long Lake, bundle pricing applies when we restore or coat another surface in the same visit.
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- Free on-site measurement
- Written limited warranty
- No subcontractors, no upsells