Commercial · Light industrial

Commercial floors, installed around your operating hours.

A warehouse aisle cannot close for a week. Most of the skill in a commercial coating is sequencing the work so the business keeps running while the floor gets built.

Where these floors go

Different traffic, different failure mode.

Vaughan's employment lands run heavily to warehousing, distribution and automotive service. Each puts a distinct kind of stress on a floor.

Warehouse and distribution

Forklift wheels concentrate enormous point load and shear on turns. Build thickness and topcoat hardness matter more than looks, and joints need filling with a semi-rigid filler so wheels do not spall the edges.

Concord · Hwy 7 · Keele

Automotive service bays

Oil, brake fluid, coolant and battery acid on a daily basis, plus hot tires and hoist posts. Chemical resistance in the topcoat is the spec that matters, and the floor gets sloped detailing around drains.

Repair · Body · Detailing

Showrooms and retail back-of-house

Metallic or polished-look finishes out front, a hard-wearing solid colour behind the counter. The visible transition line has to be deliberate, so it gets set at a door or a joint.

Front · Back · Transitions

Mechanical, electrical and storage rooms

Small square footage, high value. A sealed floor stops concrete dust circulating into equipment, and coved edges make washdown and containment straightforward.

Dust control · Washdown

Food, beverage and wet processing

These floors usually need urethane cement rather than epoxy, because of thermal shock from washdown and steam. It is a different material, a different installer skill set and a different price band. If that is your building, ask early so nobody wastes time on the wrong spec.

Scheduling

The install is planned backwards from your downtime.

We start from the hours the area can be off limits and work back to a sequence, rather than quoting an ideal-world schedule that ignores your operation.

Phased bays. Half the floor at a time, with a hard containment line and a walkable route maintained through the space.
Nights and weekends. Fast-cure systems make an overnight turnaround realistic on a moderate area.
Containment. Grinding runs on vacuum extraction with poly barriers, so adjacent product and equipment stay clean.
Written cure gates. You get the exact hour racking can be reloaded and the exact hour forklifts can run. Reloading early is the most common way a good floor gets ruined.

Specifying a commercial build
Requirement	What it drives
Forklift or pallet traffic	Higher build thickness, harder topcoat, semi-rigid joint filler.
Chemical exposure	Topcoat chemistry. Novolac epoxy for aggressive exposure; standard epoxy is not equivalent.
Wet or greasy underfoot	Aggregate broadcast for slip resistance, graded to how the floor gets cleaned.
Line marking and zoning	Coated-in lines rather than tape, laid out and confirmed before the topcoat goes down.
Static-sensitive work	An ESD system with a grounding grid. Confirm this at quoting stage, not after.
Washdown and containment	Integral cove base up the wall and detailing to drains.

Scope a commercial floor.

Send the area, the traffic type and the window you can give up. We will come back with a system, a sequence and a range.

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