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Shop Floor Epoxy & Coating in Granbury, TX
Epoxy floor coating for mechanic shops, auto body shops, equipment sheds, and metal buildings across Granbury, Weatherford, Stephenville, Glen Rose, Aledo & the southwest Fort Worth area. Oil, hot tires, dropped tools, jack stands, and a floor you cannot take out of service for a week.
Why shop floors are harder
Why shop floors are hard on coatings
Most floors face one problem. A working shop stacks four of them on the same slab.
Oil and chemicals. Bare concrete drinks oil and never gives it back, which is also why a contaminated slab is harder to coat later. A sealed floor lets you wipe up what would have been a permanent stain.
Hot tires. A car that has been driven comes in hot enough to grab a weak coating and pull it off the slab when it cools. That is hot tire pickup, and it is a failure of the system rather than the color.
Point loads and impact. Jack stands, dropped tools, and rolling boxes concentrate weight in small spots and hit hard.
Moisture from underneath. This is the one that quietly kills shop floors, and metal buildings are the worst offenders. More on that below.
The one people miss
The metal building moisture problem
Shop and equipment building slabs are often poured on grade without a vapor barrier under them. Water vapor moves up out of the soil, through the concrete, and stops when it reaches a coating. With nowhere to go it collects underneath and pushes the coating off the slab.
You do not see it coming. The floor looks right for months, then lifts in sheets. It is the most common reason a shop floor coating fails around here, and it is not a product problem so much as a testing problem.
So we grind first and meter the concrete before we commit to a system. The reading decides the build, because coating systems have published moisture limits and heavier builds tolerate substantially more vapor than thin ones. On a shop slab that step is not optional.
What goes down
Our shop floor epoxy system
- Diamond grind the slab. Opens the concrete so the coating keys into it instead of sitting on top, and takes off whatever the floor has absorbed. Contaminated areas get extra attention, because a coating will not bond through old oil.
- Meter the concrete for moisture. The reading picks the system. We write it down.
- High-build epoxy base. Bonded into the ground slab, and the layer that handles vapor coming up from below.
- Full flake or quartz broadcast. Flake for most shops. Quartz where the floor stays wet or takes heavier rolling loads.
- Polyaspartic topcoat. The wear surface. UV stable so it will not amber, and the layer that takes the hot tires, the oil, and the traffic.
We coat around lifts, posts, and fixed equipment, and we can run the job bay by bay so you keep working. Give us a bay clear enough to grind and enough cure time before the lift goes back into service.
Picking a finish
Shop floor finishes: flake, quartz, or stain
Epoxy flake
The default for shops. Hides wear and dirt, gives you footing, cleans easily, and brightens a dark building considerably. See colors, and note that darker blends hide tire scuffs better than light ones.
Quartz broadcast
Harder mineral grain, heavier build, more grip underfoot. Worth it for wash bays, wet areas, and shops with heavier rolling equipment. Quartz colors and builds.
Stain & seal
Grind, stain, seal. Least expensive, stops the dusting, and finishes the concrete without a built-up film. Better suited to storage and equipment sheds than to a bay that sees oil and hot tires. stained concrete floors.
Tell us about the shop
Bays, square footage, what gets spilled, and how many days you can give us. We walk shop floors across Granbury, Weatherford, Stephenville, Glen Rose, Aledo & the southwest Fort Worth area and put the system and the schedule in writing before you commit.