Hangars, MRO shops, component facilities and aerospace suppliers in and around Oakville. Seamless, non-shedding, fluid-resistant floors specified around FOD control, hydraulic fluid exposure and hangar drainage.
Free on-site assessment anywhere in Oakville, written scope, fixed price. No obligation, and no pressure if the answer is not this quarter.
In an aviation facility the floor is a contamination source and an audit item before it is a wearing surface, which changes what a failure actually costs.
Bare and worn concrete sheds continuously. In an aircraft environment that is not a housekeeping complaint, it is a risk item with your name on it.
Phosphate ester fluids will destroy an unsuitable coating. Recoating a hangar deck means clearing the bay, and clearing the bay is the real cost of getting it wrong.
Floor condition, contamination control and drainage all get looked at. Fixing them inside a corrective action window is the most expensive way to do this work.
A dark, patched, dusty floor turns every dropped fastener into a search, and every search into a delay.
Oakville's aerospace work is mostly component and supplier facilities rather than hangars, so the risk is contamination and housekeeping rather than fuel and drainage. The exposure is a customer audit, and a shedding floor is the easiest thing in the building for an auditor to point at.
Clearing a hangar bay twice costs considerably more than specifying it correctly once.
Collins Aerospace runs an Oakville operation that Invest Oakville's 2024 employer data put at roughly 1,500 people, making it the town's fifth largest employer, and aerospace sits alongside automotive, machinery, food and nuclear on the town's advanced manufacturing sub-sector list. Practically, that means most of the aerospace work we quote in Oakville is component and supplier facilities rather than hangars: clean, controlled production floors with tight tolerances, strict housekeeping and a low appetite for anything that sheds. Those buildings sit in Winston Park and the QEW districts, on slabs that need testing before anyone specifies over them.
Most requested in Oakville: seamless non-shedding floors in component and supplier plants.
South Oakville's employment districts are mature and close to fully built out, so we see a lot of 1970s to 1990s slabs poured before under-slab vapour retarders were standard. North Oakville and the Highway 407 lands are the opposite problem: new concrete that is still giving off moisture. Either way we test before we quote.
Aerospace supplier work in Oakville also tends to come with a documented change control process, which is a good thing and worth planning around. Flooring in a controlled area is often a change that has to be raised, reviewed and closed out with evidence, and the evidence your quality team needs is not the same as a normal warranty letter. We will tell you at quote stage exactly what documentation the manufacturer provides so that your change record can be built around something real rather than around a promise.
In an aerospace facility the floor is a contamination source before it is a wearing surface. Bare or worn concrete dusts, tile lines trap debris, and both put foreign object debris where it should never be. A seamless, monolithic, coved system removes the source rather than managing it.
| System | Where it goes | Why it gets specified |
|---|---|---|
| High-build epoxy, hydraulic fluid resistant | Hangar decks, MRO bays, component shops | Phosphate ester hydraulic fluids such as Skydrol are aggressive to many organic coatings. Purpose-made hangar systems are marketed as resistant, and we insist on a written immersion statement from the manufacturer for your exposure before we specify one. |
| Static dissipative system | Fuelling areas, avionics, component assembly | FAA guidance for fuelling areas sits above 1.0 x 10⁶ ohms and below 1.0 x 10⁹ ohms. The system is a grounded assembly with a conductive grid, not just a coating. |
| Urethane cement | Wash bays, parts cleaning, thermal areas | Where washdown, solvent and temperature swing are routine, cementitious urethane outlasts epoxy by a wide margin. |
| Seamless coving and terminations | Wall junctions, hangar door thresholds, pit edges | No grout lines, no open joints, nothing for debris to sit in and nothing for a wash-down to drive under. |
| Line marking and jacking point layout | Aircraft positioning, walkways, hazard zones, jack points | Marked into the system so the layout stays legible under towing and tire scrub. |
Skydrol and other phosphate ester hydraulic fluids will destroy the wrong coating. Manufacturers market hangar systems as Skydrol resistant, but that claim is usually marketing copy with no public immersion data attached. Before we specify anything for an MRO bay we require a written resistance statement from the manufacturer covering your actual fluids and dwell times. If they will not put it in writing, we do not use it.
Book a ConsultationNFPA 409 classes hangars by door height and fire area, with Group I covering doors over 28 feet or fire areas over 40,000 square feet and Group II covering 5,001 to 40,000 square feet. It requires aprons adjacent to access doors to slope away from the hangar, a trench drain running parallel to the access doors to catch spilled fuel before it reaches the apron, and drainage sized so nothing builds up when every fire protection system and hose stream is discharging at design rate. We detail the coating into that drainage rather than around it.
Read the GuidesA static dissipative floor is a grounded assembly: a conductive grid bonded through the coating, earth points installed with redundancy, and cabling specified by a qualified electrical engineer. Product data commonly puts a two to three millimetre system at foot traffic in 24 hours, heavy traffic at 48, and full cure at 7 days. We hand over resistance test results at completion.
See PricingBook the free on-site assessment. We test the slab, write the scope and give you a fixed price. Finding out costs you an hour and commits you to nothing.
Seamless, monolithic, coved. The argument for FOD control is mechanical: remove the joints and the dusting paste and there is nothing to shed.
Aircraft gear and jack loads come from the type's maintenance manual, and the slab needs an engineer's review before a mortar system is specified over it.
A high-reflectance floor in a hangar is a working benefit, not a cosmetic one. Dropped hardware is far easier to find on a light seamless surface.
Parts washing, degreasers and aviation cleaners all go on the chemical list before the system is chosen.
Hangar doors open, temperatures drop. Some systems install below freezing, most do not, and that determines the schedule.
Data sheets, resistance results where static control is specified and warranty paperwork, in a form your quality system can file.
Oakville splits into two working realities. South of Dundas the buildings are older, tenanted and busy, so access, parking and elevator or dock time drive the schedule as much as the coating does. North of Dundas and out toward Highway 407 the buildings are newer, easier to work in, and the constraint is usually concrete that has not finished drying. We quote them differently because they are different jobs.
We come out, measure, take moisture readings and look at what the floor has been through. On south Oakville stock we assume no vapour retarder until testing says otherwise.
The quote states the system, the build thickness, the preparation method and the phasing plan, so you know which areas go down on which nights before you sign anything.
Nights, weekends and shutdown windows, sectioned so the building keeps working. Fast-cure topcoats put traffic back on a finished section in as little as 4 hours.
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This is not a sales call with a clipboard. An Oakville building is either mature south-end stock with a slab poured before vapour retarders were standard, or a newer north-end build where the concrete has not finished drying, and those need opposite answers. The assessment is how we find out which one you have before anybody quotes a number.
Free. No obligation. Usually within the week.
Prefer to talk it through? Call (905) 876-6957, Monday to Saturday, 6am to 6pm.
Tell us where the floor is and what runs on it. We will come out, test it and put a fixed price in writing.
Same service nearby: Aerospace in Burlington · Aerospace in Hamilton
Shutdown and long-weekend windows across Oakville's industrial districts get spoken for well ahead, so if you are aiming at a particular weekend, start the conversation early rather than late. And if the slab tests wet, moisture mitigation adds material lead time. Neither is a reason to rush a decision, both are reasons to get the testing done now while it costs you nothing.
Also see our industrial & commercial overview, epoxy flooring in Oakville and published pricing.
Tell us the square footage, what runs on the floor and when the building can be quiet. We come out, test the slab and put the scope and the sequence in writing.
Free, no obligation, and you keep the written scope whether you use us or not.