Industrial Flooring Questions From Halifax Facilities

The market range for a high build industrial epoxy system runs roughly eight to fifteen dollars a square foot installed, urethane cement nine to eighteen, and polished concrete six to fifteen. Preparation and repair move those numbers more than the resin does, and moisture mitigation adds another two to five where testing says it is needed. Your actual industrial flooring price comes after we have walked the slab, and it comes in writing.

It depends entirely on the industrial flooring you choose. Some coatings take foot traffic in hours and wheeled traffic the next day. A trowelled urethane cement mortar can need two to three days before forklifts go back on it. Joint filling in polyurea is back under traffic inside an hour. Tell us the window you have before we settle on a material rather than afterwards.

Yes, on every industrial flooring job. Most slabs in this city were poured before under slab vapour barriers were standard practice, so they pull ground moisture upward continuously. Seal the top with an impermeable coating and that moisture collects at the bond line until the floor blisters. We take relative humidity readings inside the slab and quote a vapour barrier primer if the numbers call for one.

Because of thermal shock. Epoxy expands about three times as much as concrete for the same temperature change, so hot wash water makes the coating try to move further than the slab will allow and the shear lands on the bond. Organic acids from food production attack the resin as well. Urethane cement is the industrial flooring for those rooms.

Yes, and most of our warehouse industrial flooring and line marking work runs that way. Line painting in particular is usually a Friday night job with forklifts back on the lines Monday morning.

A sealant is soft and is designed to move and keep water out. A joint filler is hard, is installed full depth and shaved flush, and its job is to support the concrete shoulder so a forklift wheel rolls across the joint instead of hammering the edge. Using a sealant in an interior control joint is a very common mistake and it is what causes the edges to break away.

No. We install industrial flooring in industrial and commercial buildings only. There are several good residential coating companies in Halifax and this is not what we do.

A thin ten to twenty mil coating gives three to six years in a warehouse. A high build twenty to forty mil system runs seven to twelve. A broadcast system at an eighth of an inch or more can pass fifteen. A screen and recoat at around year six or eight costs a fraction of new industrial flooring and buys several more years, which is worth planning for rather than waiting for.