Epoxy Flooring In Cambridge, Ontario

Bare Concrete Garage Floors Soak Up Road Salt

We seal them. Our garage floor coating locks the surface so salt and slush cannot soak into the concrete. About 48 inches of snow lands on Cambridge in a typical season, and the plows on Hespeler Road and Franklin Boulevard coat every wheel well in brine.

Bare concrete drinks that brine in. Each freeze inside that top layer pries a little more loose, and the slab begins to scale. With a coating in place the brine stays up top, and one pass with a squeegee clears it.

Hard Water Leaves Salt On Basement Floors

Basement floor coating stands up to softener salt. The city's wells deliver very hard water, rated from 17 to 38 grains per gallon, so a softener tank sits in nearly every Cambridge utility room. The pellets and brine that escape it slowly chew through bare or painted concrete.

Our basement floor coating seals the utility room and laundry area so spills wipe up. Around the softener we can turn the coating up the wall about four inches, which keeps brine off the slab edge.

Auto Parts Plants Need Industrial Epoxy Flooring That Holds Up

Cambridge has a large manufacturing base, from car assembly to automation builders and parts suppliers. Those floors carry pallet jacks, coolant, hydraulic oil and dropped steel every shift.

Our industrial epoxy flooring is built thicker than a garage system and chosen for the chemicals in your building. We can phase the work by bay or by line so production keeps running in the rest of the plant.

Distribution Buildings Along The 401 Need Tough Floors

Forklift traffic wears a path into bare concrete within a few years. Our warehouse floor coating puts a hard, sealed surface down the aisles and dock doors where the wear is worst.

Lanes and walkways come next. Warehouse floor marking shows drivers and pickers where to travel and where to stop. We can lay the lines into a new coating or paint them onto an existing floor over a weekend.

Cold Garages Need A Faster Coating

Polyaspartic cures quickly and handles cooler slabs better than standard epoxy. That matters in October and November, when many people decide they want the garage done before the snow.

Our polyaspartic floor coating can often be walked on the same day and driven on soon after. A thermometer reading on the slab comes first, since any coating laid on frigid concrete is a gamble.

Stores, Clinics And Offices Need Commercial Epoxy Flooring

Retail units, clinics and offices need a floor that looks clean every morning. Commercial epoxy flooring gives you a seamless surface that mops up easily and holds up under carts and chairs.

We can work evenings and weekends so your doors stay open. Units along Hespeler Road, downtown Galt and the Preston core all have different hours, and we plan the job around yours.

Cracked Slabs Need Repair Before Epoxy Flooring

Epoxy flooring will show every crack and hole underneath it, so we fix them first. Concrete floor repair fills cracks, rebuilds broken joints and levels low spots before any coating goes down.

Older slabs in East Galt and Preston often have years of patches and paint on them. We grind all of that away so the new floor starts on solid concrete.

Plain Grey Is Not The Only Epoxy Flooring Finish

Colour flake is the most popular finish for garages and basements. Epoxy flake flooring hides dust and small marks and adds grip under your feet.

For rec rooms, bars and showrooms, metallic epoxy floors give a swirled, glossy look that no two floors share. We show you samples before you choose.

Older Homes In Galt And Hespeler Need More Floor Prep

Houses in West Galt and along Queen Street in Hespeler can be more than a hundred years old. Their basement slabs are often thin, uneven and patched, and some sit close to the Grand or Speed River where the ground stays damp.

We test for moisture on these floors before we quote. Newer homes in East Hespeler and Silver Heights have smoother slabs, though most carry a factory cure sealer, and epoxy flooring only sticks once that layer is ground away.

What Epoxy Flooring Costs In Cambridge

Expect residential epoxy flooring in Ontario to land somewhere from $5 to $10 a square foot installed. Flake lands mid-pack and metallic near the ceiling. Plant and warehouse systems tend to price from $8 up to $15 a square foot once thickness and slab repairs are counted.

Treat those figures as the provincial going rate rather than your number. Your written quote comes after we see the slab, and it lists every coat and every repair. The estimator lower down gives a rough figure, and a free visit gives the firm one.

Store-Bought Epoxy Kits Peel Within A Few Years

Kits from the hardware store are very thin and go down over etched concrete instead of ground concrete. Hot tires lift them, and salt gets under the edges.

Professional epoxy flooring goes on many times heavier and anchors into a slab that has been diamond ground. Where a kit is lifting already, every flake of it comes off before our primer goes down.

Garage Gyms And Workshops Need Grip

Home gyms and workshops in Cambridge garages and basements take dropped weights, rolling toolboxes and spilled oil. Epoxy flooring with a textured topcoat gives grip under running shoes and cleans up after a spill. Rubber mats can still sit on top in the lifting area.

A pale floor also makes it easier to find a dropped screw. We can mark a lifting zone or bench area in a contrasting colour as part of the same epoxy flooring job.

Epoxy Flooring Is Easy To Look After

Most epoxy flooring needs only a sweep and a damp mop. In winter, push salty melt out with a squeegee and rinse now and then so a salt film does not build up. Skip harsh acid cleaners. On plant floors, an auto-scrubber with a neutral cleaner keeps the surface bright. If the topcoat dulls after many years, it can be scuffed and recoated without starting over.