Tubby Engelhardt at Decor Floors & Surfaces does the kind of floor work that quietly raises the value of every other thing in the room. Polished concrete, epoxy and resin installations, decorative finishes — the surfaces under your feet that most people don't think about until they're done well, at which point they're the thing everyone comments on. Tubby has been in this trade in Sioux Falls long enough to know which products hold up, which prep steps the cheap competition skips, and exactly why a floor that fails in three years is almost always a prep problem rather than a product problem.
Decor Floors & Surfaces handles residential and commercial — garages, basements, restaurant kitchens, retail floors, showrooms, custom epoxy art pours, manufacturing floors, automotive shops, and the residential applications where homeowners are tired of the carpet-and-vinyl rotation and want something that lasts. The Sioux Falls metro is the primary service area; commercial scope travels for the right project. The signature work is the resin floors — durable, finished surfaces that look custom because they are, with prep and pour discipline that determines whether the result lasts ten years or two.
The thing that separates a real epoxy or polished-concrete installation from the cheap version everyone has seen fail is what happens before the product touches the floor. Concrete has to be diamond-ground or shot-blasted to the right profile. Cracks have to be properly chased and filled. Moisture has to be tested and addressed. Contaminants — old sealers, oil residue, paint overspray — have to be removed completely. None of that prep is glamorous and all of it is the difference between a finish that holds and one that lifts and peels in 18 months. Tubby's process front-loads that prep, which makes the price honest and the result stable.
Where Decor Floors fits in the home-services trade lane is the specialty side — not the carpet-and-LVP general contractor, the surface specialist. If your project is a garage you want to actually use as a workshop, a basement that needs to handle moisture and look right, a commercial kitchen floor that has to pass health and last under abuse, a showroom or retail space where the floor is a design element rather than just a surface — this is the call. The decorative side of the work covers metallic epoxies, flake systems, quartz broadcasts, and custom color blends that turn a slab into a finished room.
The commercial side of the business is where the volume lives. Restaurants need floors that survive grease and constant cleaning. Manufacturing floors need surfaces that handle equipment loads and chemical exposure. Automotive shops need finishes that resist oil, brake fluid, and the constant abuse of a working bay. The product knowledge required to spec the right system for each of those environments is real, and it's the part that the general-contractor approach to floors usually gets wrong.
Mixed truth: epoxy and resin work is prep-heavy, and the prep is what separates a good install from a bad one. The cheap quote almost always cuts the prep. Tubby's process accounts for the prep up front, which makes the price legible and the finish stable. If you've seen a friend's epoxy garage floor lift in two years, that was prep, not product.
Call (605) 323-5350 or visit decorfloorsandsurfaces.com to start the project conversation.