Industrial epoxy flooring is the general purpose industrial flooring for a dry production area, a machine shop or an assembly bay, and it is what most Woodstock and Ingersoll plants have in mind when they call. We install it over a mechanically prepared slab at a specified film thickness, with the slip resistance and the chemical exposure settled before anything is ordered. All of our work is fully insured and every scope is written down before it starts.
The word epoxy names the chemistry and tells you nothing about the performance. Two floors can both be industrial epoxy flooring and differ tenfold in service life, because what separates them is how much material ended up on the slab.
Roller applied industrial epoxy flooring at ten to twenty mils amounts to a maintenance finish. The bay looks brighter, sweeping gets easier, and a working warehouse sees three to six years out of it. Twenty to forty mils of high build industrial epoxy flooring behaves like a different product altogether and lasts seven to twelve. Broadcast work at an eighth of an inch upward has run beyond fifteen years under traffic.
A system engineered at twenty mils delivers its published abrasion and impact figures at twenty mils and nowhere else. Spread that material thinner to cover more ground and nothing has been saved, only shortened. Film thickness is the single most useful question to put to any quote you are comparing.
Industrial epoxy flooring is the wrong answer in three situations, and we would rather say so than sell it to you.
It is wrong wherever hot water is used, because the resin expands far more than concrete and hot washdown pulls it straight off the slab. Those rooms want urethane cement flooring. It is wrong where the slab is still pushing moisture and no vapour barrier primer sits in the scope, because it will blister from underneath. And it is wrong as a high gloss finish anywhere that gets wet, because Ontario's Industrial Establishments Regulation is specific about floor finishes likely to make a surface slippery.
Industrial epoxy flooring preparation has to leave clean, sound, open concrete behind it, and on the older plant floors around Pattullo Avenue and Beards Lane that means mechanical preparation every single time.
We diamond grind or shot blast to the surface profile the system calls for, lift the contamination out with it, then repair the spalls and cracks the grinding uncovers. On a plant floor the degreasing matters more than any other step, because twenty years of oil sitting in the pores will reject industrial epoxy flooring however good the resin is.
Where something has already been coated, a test patch gets cut so the material can be identified and its bond assessed, and if it has to come off the removal is priced honestly.
Send us the square footage, what the area is used for and the window you can hand over, and we will come and assess the slab for industrial epoxy flooring. The visit is free of charge.
Telephone (647) 360-2388 or send us the details of the building. Where industrial epoxy flooring is not the obvious answer, the full range of industrial flooring we install shows what each system is for.
If this is not quite what your building needs, one of the systems below usually is.
Warehouse floor coating seals and protects the slab in a distribution centre, a storage building or a dispatch area, and it is the industrial flooring priced and phased most differently from a plant floor, purely because of the size. The work is insured, the areas are quoted individually, and the cure times are written into the quote so the shutdown can be planned around them.
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Wet processing, washdown rooms, coolers, freezers and every floor that meets hot water want urethane cement flooring, and Oxford County holds a great many buildings of exactly that kind. We carry full insurance on every job, and the thickness we quote is matched to the wash temperature you actually run rather than to a price point.
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Warehouse line painting sets out the aisles, walkways, bay outlines, hatched exclusion zones and staging areas on finished industrial flooring, and it is usually the cheapest safety improvement a building can buy. Insurance covers the work. Most of it is done overnight or on a weekend so the forklifts are back on the lines at the start of the next shift.
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Industrial painting covers everything in the building that is not the floor. Warehouse and plant walls, structural steel, mezzanines, racking, ceiling decks, pipework, guarding and plant equipment all fall under industrial painting, and booking it into the same shutdown as the floor is far cheaper than bringing two trades in twice. Every job is fully insured and the industrial painting scope is written down before we start.
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Industrial floor cleaning covers deep scrubbing, degreasing and the preparation wash that has to happen before any coating goes down. All of the work we do is insured. Sometimes it is a service in its own right, and sometimes it is the step that saves a customer the cost of a floor they did not need.
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Concrete joint repair rebuilds broken joint shoulders and fills the joints properly, so forklift wheels roll across industrial flooring instead of hammering the edges apart. The work carries full insurance, and in a warehouse it is very often the highest value thing that can be done to a floor for the money.
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Concrete floor resurfacing takes a worn, spalled, dusting or patched slab and puts a sound, flat surface back on it, ready for industrial flooring to go over the top. Our work is fully insured throughout. It is what we recommend when the concrete is structurally fine but the top of it has stopped doing its job.
View Concrete Floor ResurfacingOutline what the building does and a site visit goes in the diary. Nothing is charged for it, and the industrial flooring quote that follows itemises the whole scope.
Complete the form below and you will get a reply with a proposed time for us to visit, walk the building and work out what the industrial flooring has to deal with. Speaking to somebody is often quicker, and the number is +1 647-360-2388.
