Floor coating services by environment, system and finish

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A quick way to narrow it down

If you already know what matters most on your project, this points you at the right page.

• Customer-facing space, cleaning routines and downtime — commercial flooring
• Rolling traffic, equipment, chemicals or a shutdown window — industrial flooring
• A residential garage — garage floor epoxy
• A hard-wearing decorative finish that hides marks — flake systems
• A flowing, reflective, one-off decorative finish — metallic systems
• Questions about return-to-service timing or the exposed finish coat — polyaspartic flooring
• An existing floor, damaged concrete or unknown slab condition — concrete preparation

By environment

Where the floor has to work

These three start from what the space does every day. The system gets chosen around traffic, cleaning, exposure and how much disruption the work can cause.

By system and finish

How the floor is built and how it looks

These describe the build rather than the building. Any of them can turn up in more than one environment, so it usually works better to settle the space first and the finish second.

Before any coating

Everything above depends on the concrete

Whichever service fits, the system is applied to a slab, and the slab decides how well it holds. Preparation is where old coverings come off, repairs happen, and the real condition of the concrete becomes known.

Professional concrete coatings usually need mechanical preparation. Washing, acid etching, or light sanding may not be enough.

How these fit together

Start with the space, not the product

The pages above are not interchangeable. Commercial and industrial are driven by operating conditions. Garage is a project type. Flake, metallic and polyaspartic describe how the floor is built and finished. Preparation sits underneath all of them.

Most projects end up combining two or three: an environment, a system, and the preparation that makes it possible. A medical office may care most about cleanability and low disruption; a restaurant about traction and frequent cleaning; a service bay about oils and hot tyres; a warehouse about abrasion. The same finish can be right in one and wrong in the next.

Next step

What to include when you request an introduction

We are not the installer, we do not employ crews, and we do not price or specify your floor. When a request comes in we read the details, and where it is a fit we pass it to one contractor who works in that area and takes on that kind of project.

The more of this you can describe, the more useful the first conversation is.

• Project type and location.
• Approximate area, and what the space is used for.
• Slab condition, and what is on the floor now.
• Any exposure worth knowing about: traffic, chemicals, water or heat.
• The finish you have in mind, if you have one.
• Your timing, and any period the space cannot be closed.