Industrial Epoxy Flooring Is Chosen By Thickness
A thin roller coat suits an office. A plant needs more. Industrial epoxy flooring is usually laid as a thick self-levelling coat, a broadcast system built up in lifts, or a trowelled mortar for the toughest zones.
We set the build by the traffic. Forklift aisles and loading areas get the most material, while walkways and storage zones can run thinner. That keeps the total cost reasonable without cutting corners where the floor works hardest.
Industrial Epoxy Flooring For Hot Water And Wash Down
Mill floors get hosed with hot water and steam. Standard epoxy softens under steady heat, so for wash-down areas we often recommend urethane cement, which handles sudden temperature swings far better. WorkSafeBC's rules call for drains or another effective way to deal with water on a wet floor, and a sloped, sealed surface is part of that answer.
Where the floor sees acid, caustic or fuel, our chemical resistant floor coating uses a resin matched to the products on site.
Industrial Epoxy Flooring Around Shutdowns
A plant rarely stops for a floor. Large plant floors can go down in stages, on night shifts, over long weekends or inside a planned maintenance shutdown. We set those dates with you before we start, and every zone has its own return-to-service day on the estimate.
Safety Lines And Colour Coding
Plants often want colour coded zones as part of the floor, such as yellow walkways, red no-go areas around presses and grey work zones. We can build those colours right into the industrial epoxy flooring, so the markings wear with the floor instead of flaking off as paint.
Cold Floors Inside Big Loading Doors
Many Prince George plants have large doors that open onto minus twenty and colder. The slab just inside those doors runs much colder than the rest of the building, and it collects meltwater from every truck and loader that comes through.
Ordinary industrial epoxy flooring will not cure well on that cold strip, so we either heat the area during the install or switch to a fast-setting system made for low temperatures. Extra grit goes down inside each door. Joint edges chipped by steel wheels get cut out and rebuilt with semi-rigid filler, so the industrial epoxy flooring has a sound edge to finish against.