Removal & Surface Prep Training
Every great floor starts with what comes off
Coating removal, epoxy removal and surface prep are where floors are won or lost. The 4-day masterclass trains you to strip failed coatings and prep concrete like a professional, because that's the skill that keeps installers booked.
Why Removal Pays
The door-opener service most installers ignore
Somebody with a peeling, failed floor isn't shopping for a new floor yet, they're shopping for a fix. The installer who can remove the old coating professionally gets the call first, and almost every removal ends with the same question: what goes down next? Master removal and surface prep and you'll walk into new-floor sales with the grinder already on site.
It's also the skill that protects your reputation. Bad prep is the most common reason coatings fail, and coatings installed over failing coatings fail fast, taking your name down with them. Knowing when a floor can be recoated and when it has to come off is what separates professionals from painters.
In The Masterclass
The removal and prep skills you graduate with
Coating Identification
Learn to read what's on the slab, epoxy, paint, sealer, urethane or polyaspartic, because the coating decides the removal method.
Mechanical Removal & Grinding
Diamond grinding done right: tooling selection, machine control and how to take a failed coating off without punishing the concrete, so the slab underneath is still sound enough to coat again.
Moisture Testing
Read concrete moisture correctly so the next coating bonds and lasts instead of bubbling and failing. Most failed floors trace back to skipping this, which is why it's the first thing you'll check.
Moisture Barriers
Select and apply barriers that protect the new system from the slab up, so the floor you install doesn't repeat the failure you just removed.
Repair & Leveling
Patch, grind and level cracks, joints and spalls so every pour starts on a flawless, properly profiled surface that won't telegraph through.
Containment & Cleanup
Dust control and jobsite containment habits, so you can remove coatings inside a customer's finished home or open business without shutting them down or damaging what's around you.
The Professional Process
How pros remove a failed epoxy floor
It's the exact sequence you'll drill hands-on at the academy, and it's the reason a properly removed and prepped floor never fails the same way twice.
01
Assess and identify
Inspect the failed coating, find why it let go, and identify what it is. The failure tells you what the new floor's got to do differently.
02
Test the slab
Moisture testing before anything else. If the slab's pushing vapor, removal is only half the fix.
03
Grind it off
Mechanical diamond grinding takes the coating down to sound, clean concrete. No shortcuts, no chemical-stripper gambles that leave a residue the next coat won't grip.
04
Repair the concrete
Cracks, joints and spalls uncovered by removal get patched and leveled while the slab's bare.
05
Profile and verify
The surface gets a proper mechanical profile, the difference between a coating that'll last a decade and one that peels in a year.
06
Install on it
The prepped slab is ready for the new system, and in class you'll pour on the surface you just prepped, so the whole cycle becomes second nature.
Need It Done, Not Taught?
Our install side removes coatings across Texas
You don't have to strip it yourself.
The academy is run by New Era Epoxy, a working flooring company. If you have a failed floor in Houston, Austin or San Antonio and want it handled instead of learning it, the same pros who teach this class do the work.
Or bring your questions to the class, the FAQ covers prep and moisture in depth so you're not guessing.
$1,899 • 4-Day Masterclass • All materials included
Learn removal and prep the hands-on way
Four days, real floors, real grinders. Walk out knowing how to strip a failed coating and prep concrete that holds for a decade.