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Commercial Floor Coatings

Warehouses, showrooms, service bays, retail, and light industrial across the Des Moines metro.

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The part that actually costs you money is downtime

For a commercial floor, the coating is rarely the hard part. The scheduling is.

Every hour that floor is unusable is an hour you’re not operating. So we scope commercial work around your calendar first:

  • Night and weekend work where that’s what it takes.
  • Phased sections so part of the space stays running while another part cures.
  • Fast-return systems. Polyaspartic cures far faster than epoxy. When downtime is the constraint, that’s the answer even though it costs more per square foot.

You get the schedule in writing, with return-to-service times, before anything starts.

What we coat

Warehouse & distribution

Forklift traffic, racking loads, high-traffic lanes.

Service bays & shops

Oil, coolant, and hot tire traffic all day.

Showrooms & retail

Where it has to look expensive as well as last.

Light manufacturing

Chemical exposure and equipment loads.

Back of house

Kitchens, storage, and utility areas where cleanability is the whole point.

Downtime is the number that matters.

Tell us the square footage and the quietest week you’ve got, and we’ll build the schedule around it rather than around us.

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What we’ll want to know

  • Square footage, and whether it can come offline in sections
  • What rolls across it, and how heavy
  • What gets spilled on it
  • Whether you need slip resistance rated for a wet area
  • Whether you need line striping or zone marking
  • Your hard deadline, if you have one

Why owners choose us over a national outfit

You’re dealing with an owner, not an account manager. Your quote, your schedule, and your walkthrough all go through the two people who own the company, and both of them are local.

We also scope honestly at the estimate stage. If your floor needs less than you were expecting, we’ll tell you — and if it needs more, you’ll hear that before the work starts rather than as a change order halfway through.

Doing it right the first time, every time costs less than doing it twice around your operation.

What the floor is rated to take

Everybody says “heavy duty.” Here is what it is measured at:

We quote test results rather than a number of years, because a test result is something you can hold us to.

If the building is new

Most commercial coating work lands on concrete that was poured last month, and the schedule usually cannot absorb a delay.

A standard system wants 28 days of cure — the manufacturer’s condition, not ours. Under that, moisture still coming out of the concrete will push a coating off from underneath, and it will do it after your general contractor has gone home.

There is a system built for green concrete, rated for floors under 28 days and for humidity up to 100 percent. It costs more and it is specified deliberately. Bring us in while the concrete is still being planned and we can tell you which way your building is going before it becomes a problem on a punch list.

One thing it does not fix: hydrostatic pressure. Water being pushed up under a building by a drainage failure or a leak beats every membrane made, ours included. If that is what is happening, the answer is drainage — and we will say so rather than sell you a floor that is going to lose.

What we will not do to hit your date

The product literature says a full system can be installed in a single day. We do not sell that.

Our own schedule, written into the scope before anything starts, runs two days for a residential garage and three for a 4,400 square foot shop. Phasing and night work move when we are in your building. They do not compress what the coating needs between coats.

If somebody has quoted you a floor in a day, ask them what happens between the base coat and the topcoat. It is a fair question and the answer tells you a lot.

Questions

Can you work while we’re operating?

Usually, in sections. What we cannot do is have people walking through wet product — the hardener is an isocyanate and the work area belongs to the crew in respirators until it has cured. We phase the space so your operation keeps moving somewhere else in the building.

Once it’s cured, is it safe around staff and product?

Yes. A cured floor is inert. The precautions are about the wet product and the grinding dust, both of which are finished and cleaned up before anybody comes back in.

What about line striping and safety markings?

They go into the floor rather than on top of it, so a pallet jack does not scrub them off. Tell us the layout at the estimate and it gets scoped in.

Our floor already has a coating that’s failing. Now what?

It depends how much of it is still bonded. Sometimes it comes off, sometimes it can be prepped and built over. We will tell you honestly which one you are looking at — including when a full removal is the better spend and we are not the cheapest number you get.

Who actually shows up?

An owner. Your walkthrough, your quote and your schedule all go through the two people whose name is on the company, and both of them are local.

Want a number before you commit to anything?

Tell us what you’ve got and we’ll come back with a straight answer — no visit, no pressure, and we’ll say so if it’s something you don’t need yet.

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Phased scheduling and night or weekend work available. Serving the greater Des Moines metro.

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