Commercial Floor Epoxy in Lewisville, TX

Commercial floor epoxy in Lewisville covers a wide mix of businesses. Wikipedia lists automobile dealerships, boat sales and food distribution among the city's industries, with Sysco and Meadowbrook Meat Company running branches here, and I-35E and State Highway 121 lined with service bays, sales floors and warehouses. Each of those floors takes a different beating: lifts and jack stands, forklifts and pallet jacks, fuel and hydraulic fluid, or daily wash-downs with cleaning chemicals.

Matching the system to the floor

• Service bays and shops: a 100% solids epoxy base built thick for dropped tools and jack stands, with a chemical-resistant topcoat for brake fluid, coolant and fuel.
• Boat sales and marine service: coatings that handle fuel, gear oil and trailer traffic, with texture for wet floors after a wash.
• Sales floors: a cleaner decorative finish such as solid color, fine flake or metallic, with a topcoat that resists scuffing and UV through storefront glass.
• Warehouses: abrasion-resistant systems for forklift lanes, with line striping for aisles and walkways.
• Food and wash-down areas: seamless, cleanable surfaces with texture. Your inspector and the operator's rules set the final requirements, and we work to them.

Thickness and grade

Residential garage systems are often a few coats thick. Commercial floors usually need more build. Bob Vila notes that higher-grade, 100% solids coatings cost about 20 to 30% more than standard ones, and HomeAdvisor lists commercial and industrial 100% solid coatings at $12 or more per square foot. The extra material is what holds up under steel wheels, dropped parts and repeated chemical spills.

Scheduling around operations

Most businesses cannot close for a week. We phase large floors in sections, work nights or weekends where needed, and use fast-curing polyaspartic or polyurea coats when the floor has to return to service the next morning. Grinding is done with dust-collecting equipment. Before we start, we agree in writing on which areas are closed when, and how long each one stays closed.

Concrete condition in commercial buildings

Older commercial slabs often have sealers, curing compounds, oil saturation, wide control joints and earlier coatings in poor shape. All of it has to come off or be treated. We take moisture readings across the floor, since a large slab can vary from one end to the other. Joints are filled or honored depending on how much the slab moves, and we will tell you if a joint is likely to telegraph through the coating.

Safety and marking

Floors where people walk near equipment get anti-slip aggregate in the topcoat. Forklift lanes, pedestrian walkways, bays and hazard zones can be striped in contrasting colors. Coving at the wall base gives wash-down areas a continuous, cleanable edge.

Keeping a commercial floor in service

A coated floor needs routine cleaning with the right chemicals, and the topcoat eventually wears in traffic lanes. Recoating the topcoat before it wears through to the base is cheaper than redoing the floor. We can tell you what to watch for and when to call.