Bare concrete soaks up oil, dusts constantly and cannot be cleaned properly. Coating it protects the slab and gives you a floor you can actually wash.
A coated floor is easier to clean, brighter to work under, and no longer absorbing everything that gets spilled on it. On a shop or warehouse slab that is the difference between a floor you sweep and a floor you scrub.
This job is prep, and almost nothing else. A slab has to be mechanically profiled before anything is applied, because a coating needs a rough surface to key into. Rolling coating onto a smooth, sealed or dusty floor is how you get a finish that peels off in sheets under the first forklift turn.
The second thing that kills floors is moisture coming up through the slab from underneath. That has to be checked before a system is chosen, not discovered afterwards. If a floor has failed before, that is usually why.
Large open slabs under forklift and pallet traffic. Coating keeps the dust down and makes line-of-sight cleaner.
Oil, fuel and solvent exposure. A sealed floor stops the slab drinking it and lets you clean up properly.
Machine sheds and equipment barns where the floor takes tracked-in dirt, salt and chemicals all winter.
Bays, wash areas and back-of-house concrete that has to be washable.
Concrete that dusts constantly and puts that dust on everything stored above it.
Old coating lifting or peeling. It has to come off before anything new goes down, and that is a bigger job than a first coat.
Age, condition, what is on it now, what it has absorbed, and what traffic it takes. This decides the system, not a catalogue.
Moisture coming up through the slab and oil driven into it are the two things that make a coating fail. Both get checked before anything is chosen.
The surface is opened up so the coating has something to grip. No profile, no bond, no matter how good the product is.
Damage gets filled and joints treated. A coating laid over a moving crack telegraphs it straight back through.
Applied onto clean, profiled, dry concrete. This is the coat that decides how long the floor lasts.
Built for the traffic the floor actually takes, with grip added where the floor gets wet or oily.
Floors need time before foot traffic and longer before vehicles. You get the window in writing before we start so nothing gets driven on too early.
Call or text (613) 715-0103, or email contact@maxpaint.work with the square footage, the traffic it takes, and whether it has been coated before.
