Industrial Epoxy Flooring in Vancouver
Industrial floors live a hard life. Forklifts running loaded all shift, steel wheels, dropped castings, thermal cycling near ovens and freezers, oil, solvents, and washdown that would strip a lesser coating in weeks. A bare or worn slab in that environment dusts, cracks, and turns into a maintenance problem that never quite goes away. We build industrial resin floors across Vancouver and the Lower Mainland to take that load and keep taking it.
A floor failure in a plant is not a cosmetic issue. It is a trip hazard, a contamination risk, and a line that has to stop while a patch cures. The job on this page is to route you to the right system and the right process for your operation, whether that is a distribution warehouse, a production line, a cold storage bay, or a parkade under a building.
Below you will find the systems we install, the industries we serve, how we assess a slab before quoting, and how we phase the work so we do not shut your operation down to do it.
Systems We Install
Industrial system choice is driven by load, chemistry, and temperature more than looks. A packaging line that stays dry needs something different than a wet processing floor that gets hosed down at the end of every shift, and a floor near a freezer has to cure and hold in cold that would stop a standard coating from bonding at all. These are the systems we reach for most on industrial jobs, matched to how the floor gets used rather than sold as one answer for everything.
If you are not sure which system fits, that is what the assessment is for. We look at the slab, the equipment, and the chemistry in the space, then recommend the build that holds up without paying for durability you will never use.
Epoxy Broadcast Systems
Thick, aggregate-filled epoxy floors for warehouses and production areas that take heavy rolling loads and impact.
Polyaspartic Coatings
Fast-curing topcoats that return a bay to service in about a day, with strong abrasion and UV resistance.
ESD Epoxy Flooring
Static-dissipative floors for electronics production, battery work, and areas where a static discharge is a real hazard.
Traffic and Parkade Coatings
Waterproofing and wear-course decks for parkades and ramps that carry vehicle traffic and protect the structure below.
Concrete Sealing and Densifying
Hardening and sealing treatments that stop dusting and stains on plant slabs where a full coating is not required.
Microconcrete Overlays
Cementitious resurfacing that rebuilds a worn floor surface without the height or weight of a new pour.
Industries We Serve
Each industrial sector puts its own demands on the floor. A food plant washes down with hot water and answers to inspectors. A warehouse cares about impact resistance and clear line striping for racking and forklift lanes. A manufacturer needs a surface that survives dropped tooling and chemical spills without pitting. A cold storage bay needs a coating that will actually cure and stay bonded at temperature. We build to the standard your operation has to meet, and each of these areas has its own page as it goes live.
The cards below cover the industrial buyer types we work with most. As each dedicated page publishes it links out from here, so you can go straight to the systems, standards, and phasing notes that apply to your kind of facility.
Warehouse and Distribution
Impact-resistant floors with striping for racking, forklift lanes, and high-traffic pick paths.
Manufacturing
Heavy-duty resinous systems for production lines and machine bays that take constant mechanical load and spills.
Food and Beverage
Washdown-ready systems that handle hot water, thermal shock, and the standards processing plants have to hold.
Cold Storage
Coatings engineered to cure and hold up in freezer and cooler environments where standard systems fail.
Chemical Processing
Chemical-resistant floors for areas exposed to acids, solvents, and aggressive cleaning agents.
Parkades and Ramps
Waterproof traffic decks for structures where water has to stay off the concrete and rebar below.
How We Assess an Industrial Slab
Industrial quotes start on the floor, not on a spreadsheet. We test the slab for moisture, because a concrete floor pushing vapour will delaminate a coating that was not built with a mitigation layer, and in a plant that failure spreads fast. We check for oil saturation, old failing coatings, cracks, and joints that need to be honored or filled. In a working plant we also look at what the floor is actually exposed to: the chemicals in use, the wash cycle, the temperature swings near ovens or refrigeration, and the wheel type on your equipment.
Preparation carries the whole job. On an industrial floor that usually means diamond grinding or shot blasting to open the concrete so the resin bonds mechanically, not just sits on top. Skip that and the best material in the world peels. We would rather spend the extra shift on prep and moisture testing than come back for a warranty failure because the surface was not ready.
You leave the assessment with a written scope: the system, the prep, the phasing plan, the return-to-service window, and the price. If the honest answer is that a repair buys you three more years and a full system is not worth it yet, we will tell you that.
Phasing the Work to Keep You Running
For most plants the real cost of a floor is the production you lose while it goes down, not the coating. We plan around that from the first visit. On a lot of industrial jobs that means splitting the floor into zones and working one section at a time, so racking, lines, and equipment keep operating while another area cures. It can also mean night shifts, weekend work, or scheduling around a planned maintenance shutdown you already have on the calendar.
System choice ties straight into the schedule. A polyaspartic build can carry traffic the next day, which suits a bay that cannot sit idle. A thick epoxy broadcast gives you more durability and chemical resistance but needs more cure time, so we phase it or run it into a shutdown window. We give you the honest tradeoff for your floor, including the realistic return-to-service time for each option, before you commit to anything.
What Drives the Cost
Industrial pricing comes down to the square footage, the state of the existing slab, the system the environment demands, and how the schedule has to work. A sound slab that needs a grind and a coating sits at the low end. A floor that needs crack repair, oil remediation, coating removal, or a moisture mitigation layer costs more because there is genuine work to do before the finish goes down.
The system is the other big lever. A single broadcast epoxy is one number. A full build with a chemical-resistant topcoat, coved base, and heavy aggregate for forklift traffic is another. Phased work and off-hours labour to keep you running carries a premium, but it is usually far less than the cost of stopping production during a normal shift. We put all of it on the written quote so you can see exactly where the money goes and decide what the operation actually needs.
What Backs the Work
WorkSafeBC Covered
Our crews are covered under WorkSafeBC, so that liability does not land on your site.
$5 Million Insured
We carry $5 million in liability insurance on the work we perform.
Warranty on Every Floor
Three year written warranty on commercial and industrial installs, and fifteen years on residential garage floors.
Get an Industrial Floor Quote
Tell us your facility type, square footage, and timeline. We will schedule a site assessment and give you a straight quote with a realistic phasing and return-to-service plan.
Industrial Epoxy Flooring Across Vancouver
Our industrial flooring crews serve warehouses, plants, and facilities throughout the city. Find epoxy flooring in your Vancouver neighbourhood: Downtown • West End • Fairview • Mount Pleasant • Kitsilano • Oakridge • Marpole • Shaughnessy • Kerrisdale • Dunbar-Southlands • West Point Grey • Arbutus Ridge • South Cambie • Riley Park • Sunset • Victoria-Fraserview • Killarney • Renfrew-Collingwood • Hastings-Sunrise • Grandview-Woodland • Kensington-Cedar Cottage • Strathcona.
Industries we serve and recent industrial projects
We install industrial floors for manufacturing plants, warehouses, food and beverage facilities, cleanrooms and labs, automotive shops and parkades. Recent industrial work includes a 100% solids epoxy system for BC Ferries in Richmond, about 6,000 sq ft of solid white epoxy at Sky Helicopters, and 10,000 sq ft of production and packaging flooring for Herbaland.