ServicesCommercial floors
A commercial buyer is buying downtime, not looks.
Polyaspartic topcoat
Protects against scratches, nicks, and wear and tear.
Vapor barrier
Stops ground moisture from ruining the floor over time.
Showrooms, gyms, light industrial. The specification conversation is different here: how long the space is closed, what the floor has to survive, and who is actually on site doing the work.
Different buyer, different argument.
A homeowner is deciding whether the garage stops embarrassing them. A property manager is deciding how many days the space is out of service and whether the floor will still look acceptable after three winters of traffic and salt. The photography that sells a residential job is close to irrelevant here; the schedule and the spec are everything.
What we don’t do, said plainly.
Flake and metallic are the only two finishes we install. Commercial kitchens, breweries and food processing usually need urethane cement — it handles thermal shock and hot wash-down that an epoxy floor won’t survive — and that isn’t something we do. Better to say it here than on your job site.
How the slab gets prepared
The same four steps, on a slab that has usually seen a great deal more abuse.
Grind with 30-grit diamonds
The slab gets ground — not acid-etched — to scratch the surface open so the epoxy has something to adhere to. This is the step the hardware-store kit skips.
Vacuum out all the debris
Grinding leaves dust sitting in the profile that was just opened. It comes out before anything is mixed, because resin bonds to concrete, not to what is lying on top of it.
Patch every crack
Cracks get filled rather than coated over, so they do not telegraph back through the finished floor the first time the slab moves.
Lay a vapor barrier
To stop moisture coming up from the ground and ruining the floor over time. Vapor driving up through a slab is the one condition that defeats any coating.
The top layer
Sealed with a polyaspartic topcoat.
The last coat is the one your floor actually lives with — so it’s polyaspartic, to protect against scratches, nicks, and everyday wear and tear.
Call or text Chris.
(908) 812-3925. The owner does the estimate and the owner does the install.