Halifax Industrial Coatings installs industrial epoxy flooring throughout manufacturing plants, machine shops, maintenance bays and process buildings in Halifax, Dartmouth and Burnside. Industrial epoxy flooring is the most widely used industrial flooring system there is, and the most widely mis-specified. Every job we take on is fully insured. Slabs get tested ahead of the quote, the film thickness is named on it, and you are given the day your forklifts get the floor back.
Industrial epoxy flooring is a two component resin that cures by chemical reaction and keys into a mechanically profiled slab. Done properly, industrial epoxy flooring is a hard, seamless, washable surface that keeps dust down and stops spills soaking into the concrete. Done over an unprepared floor it is a film waiting to lift.
Industrial epoxy flooring is sold by the square foot but it is bought by the mil. Two industrial epoxy flooring quotes that both say epoxy can differ by a factor of eight in how much material ends up on your floor.
A thin roll applied coating runs ten to twenty mils and suits dry storage, stockrooms and light pedestrian areas. A high build coating at twenty to forty mils is the usual answer for warehousing with light forklift traffic. A broadcast quartz or flake system at sixty to a hundred and twenty five mils is what goes into a manufacturing area with real impact and wheel loading. An epoxy mortar, trowelled at a quarter of an inch or more with aggregate through it, is for heavy engineering and waste handling floors.
Solids content decides how much industrial epoxy flooring you get in one pass. A hundred percent solids epoxy has nothing in it to evaporate, so the wet film and the dry film are close to the same thickness and ten mils or more goes down in a single coat. Water and solvent borne products lose more than half their thickness as they dry, which is exactly why a cheap quote can honestly say two coats and still leave you with six mils of floor.
We will tell you when it is. Industrial epoxy flooring is not the answer for hot washdown, steam cleaning or thermal shock, because it expands roughly three times as much as concrete does and the shear from that lands on the bond line. In those buildings the material is urethane cement flooring instead.
It is also not the answer where organic acids are part of production. Lactic, acetic, citric and hop acids will break down a standard epoxy over a season of exposure, which rules it out of dairy, brewing and meat processing. Where aggressive chemistry is confined to a bunded area rather than the whole floor, a novolac system on the chemical resistant floor coatings page is usually the better buy.
Standard industrial epoxy flooring also ambers and chalks under ultraviolet light within a year or so, so anything in direct sun through a skylight or inside a dock door needs a urethane or polyaspartic topcoat over it rather than clear epoxy.
Industrial epoxy flooring bonds mechanically, so the profile has to be at least as deep as the system is thick. A quarter inch mortar over a lightly ground slab has nothing to key into and will come off in sheets. A twelve mil roll coat over a scarified floor will telegraph every ridge and sit under thickness on the high points.
We shot blast the open field and diamond grind the perimeters, the column bases and the corners a blaster cannot reach. Oil and grease come out chemically before any of that starts, because blasting an oil soaked slab drives the contamination deeper and grinding smears it across the floor.
Tell us the square footage, what the building is used for, and roughly how old the slab is, and we will get out to see it. The industrial epoxy flooring quote that follows names the system, the mils, the profile and the return to service times, and it is written down.
Call (782) 201-5688 or send us the details. If you are still working out which system your building needs, the industrial flooring overview on our home page sets out how we work through it.
If this is not quite the industrial flooring your building needs, one of these usually is.
Halifax Industrial Coatings applies warehouse floor coating across distribution centres, storage buildings and logistics facilities in Burnside, Bayers Lake, Woodside and the rest of HRM. Warehouse floor coating is the industrial flooring most Halifax buildings need first. The work is fully insured. Most of it runs on weekends or across a shutdown, because a racked building cannot give up its aisles during the week.
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Halifax Industrial Coatings lays out warehouse line painting, aisle marking, pedestrian walkways, keep clear zones and floor level bay numbers for buildings across Halifax, Dartmouth and Burnside. Warehouse line painting is the fastest industrial flooring improvement you can buy. The work is insured and it is usually done overnight. Lines go down Friday evening and the forklifts are back on them Monday morning.
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Halifax Industrial Coatings carries out concrete floor resurfacing on worn, spalled and contaminated industrial slabs across HRM. Concrete floor resurfacing is the industrial flooring step that has to come before any coating goes down. All of our work is insured. Concrete floor resurfacing is what happens when a slab is structurally sound but its surface is not, which describes most fifty year old warehouse floors in this city.
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Halifax Industrial Coatings carries out concrete joint repair, joint filling and shoulder rebuilding in warehouses and plants across Halifax, Dartmouth and Burnside. Concrete joint repair is the smallest line on an industrial flooring quote and the one that decides how the floor ages. Insurance covers the work. Concrete joint repair is the least visible line on an industrial flooring quote and usually the one that decides how the floor looks in ten years.
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Halifax Industrial Coatings installs urethane cement flooring in seafood processing plants, food production areas, breweries, dairies, cold stores and commercial kitchens across Halifax and the surrounding region. Urethane cement flooring is the industrial flooring for rooms that are washed hot. All of the work is insured. Urethane cement flooring is what goes down where the floor is hosed hot, cleaned with caustic, and walked on wet every single day.
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Halifax Industrial Coatings grinds and polishes concrete floors in distribution buildings, showrooms, facility entrances and the office areas attached to plants across HRM. Polished concrete flooring is the one industrial flooring option with no coating on it at all. The work is fully insured. Polished concrete flooring is mechanically ground and refined concrete rather than anything applied on top, so there is no film on the floor that can blister, peel or lose its bond.
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Halifax Industrial Coatings installs chemical resistant floor coatings and secondary containment linings for tank farms, bunded stores, battery charging rooms, plating areas, laboratories and process floors across Halifax and Dartmouth. Chemical resistant floor coatings are the most closely specified industrial flooring we install. The work is insured. Chemical resistant floor coatings are specified against the chemistry that is actually stored, not against a general promise of resistance.
View Chemical Resistant Floor CoatingsTell us about the building and a site visit gets booked. Nothing is charged for the visit and the quote that follows names every part of the scope.
Fill in the form and we will come back to you with a time to walk the building and look at the industrial flooring you need. If you would rather talk it through, call +1 782-201-5688.
