Service bays, dealership showrooms, wash bays and body shops across Burlington. High-solids epoxy and polyaspartic systems that hold up to hot tires, dropped tooling and everything that leaks out of a vehicle.
Free on-site assessment, usually within days because we are based here in Burlington. Written scope, fixed price, no obligation.
A shop floor that is coming apart does not wait for a quiet week. It takes bays down when it feels like it, and it takes them down at the worst possible time.
A failing floor decides when it comes up, not you. Every day a bay is dark is billable hours you never get to invoice.
Once a low-solids film starts lifting under warm tires it spreads across the bay, and there is no patching your way back out of it.
Oil, brake fluid and coolant going into an uncoated slab means your next floor starts with a contamination problem, and the preparation price goes up to match.
Customers judge a service department by what it looks like. A stained, patched floor is not the signal you want sitting under a premium invoice.
Burlington shops are mostly in mature buildings, which means the bay floors carry thirty or forty years of oil, brake fluid and transmission fluid down inside the concrete. That contamination is the job. A quote that does not mention degreasing has not accounted for it.
A bay that goes down unplanned costs more per day than the floor does per square foot.
Burlington's dealership cluster runs along the QEW and the North Service Road, with independent shops, collision centres and aftermarket operations spread through Harvester Road, Mainway and Appleby Line, and WeatherTech among the automotive-adjacent manufacturers in town. The buildings are mostly mature, which means the bay floors have thirty or forty years of oil, brake fluid and transmission fluid soaked into them. That contamination is the job. Grinding the surface makes it look clean and leaves the problem underneath, so we degrease and bond test before we specify anything.
Most requested in Burlington: bay floor rebuilds over heavily contaminated slabs.
Harvester Road and the North Service Road stock dates to the 1960s through 1980s, which usually means a hard-troweled slab with no vapour retarder under it and decades of soaked-in product. The 407 Corridor and Bronte Creek Meadows are Burlington's newest inventory, where green concrete and slab moisture are the risk instead.
Independent shops in Burlington almost always ask the same question first, which is whether they can afford to do it at all. The useful answer is that you rarely need to do the whole building. The work zone under the hoist and the drive lane take the punishment, and those can get the proper system while the perimeter and storage areas get something lighter. Zoning the job this way often brings a shop floor into budget without pretending a thin coating will survive where it will not.
A dealership needs a floor a customer walks across in dress shoes and a floor a technician drops a caliper on, twenty metres apart. Running one system across both is how showrooms end up looking tired and bays end up peeling.
| System | Where it goes | Why it gets specified |
|---|---|---|
| High-solids epoxy with polyaspartic topcoat | Service bays, lube bays, technician floors | High-solids and 100% solids builds, fully cured, are what resist hot tire pickup in practice. Polyaspartic on top adds abrasion resistance, UV stability and a fast return to service. |
| Metallic or solid epoxy | Dealership showrooms, delivery bays | Seamless, high-gloss and photographs well under showroom lighting. No grout lines to scrub, no tile to crack under a vehicle. |
| Quartz broadcast or urethane cement | Wash bays, detail bays, undercoating areas | Constant water, soap and road salt is a washdown environment. It gets specified like one, with texture and slope to drain. |
| Novolac epoxy | Battery rooms, acid storage, charging areas | Published data covers inorganic acids including concentrated sulfuric, which is the relevant question in a battery or charging room. |
| Line striping and bay marking | Bay numbers, walkways, hoist zones, customer routes | Applied into the system so it does not lift under tire scrub. |
There is no standardised test method for hot tire pickup, and anyone quoting you a temperature or a psi figure for it is making it up. The mechanism is simple: a warm tire is soft and tacky, and if the film is low-solids or has not fully cured, the tire grabs it as it cools and lifts it off the slab. What actually prevents it is mechanical prep, a high-solids system and a full cure before vehicles come back in. We do all three and we will not pretend there is a certification behind it.
Book a Site VisitLift anchors, trench drains, oil separators and pit edges are where shop floors fail first. We terminate and seal around anchor bolts rather than coating up to them, cove into drain throats, and re-establish falls in wash bays where the slab has settled. It is unglamorous work and it is the difference between a five year floor and a fifteen year floor.
See the WorkThere is no EV-specific floor coating requirement, standard or dielectric spec for service bays. What exists is IEC 61111 insulating matting, rated by class from 1,000 V up, and CSA Z462 workplace electrical safety governing the work practice. The floor's job is cleanability, marking and, where you need it, a properly grounded static-control system, which is a separate specification. Any contractor selling you an EV-rated coating is selling you a story.
Read the GuidesWe are local, so the assessment is normally days away rather than weeks. We test the slab, write the scope and give you a fixed price, and you are not committing to anything by finding out.
Brake fluid, ATF, gasoline, coolant and battery acid all behave differently. We match the system to your actual exposure using the manufacturer's resistance chart, not a blanket claim.
Polyaspartic topcoats bring vehicles back onto the floor in as little as 4 hours, so a bay can go down Friday night and be earning Saturday.
Gloss level and topcoat chosen for how the floor looks after a winter of salt and delivery traffic, not just on handover day.
Slope to drain re-established, texture built into the system, drain throats rebuilt where they have been eaten out.
We take one or two bays at a time so the shop never fully stops. Most dealerships lose no billable hours at all.
Vehicles bring the road inside for five months a year. Entry bays and the first stretch of drive aisle get the heavier build.
Burlington is our home base, which in practice means a shorter lead time and easier site visits than anywhere else we work. The industrial stock along Harvester Road, Mainway and the North Service Road is mature and generally straightforward to get into, with real dock access and room to stage. What catches people out here is the slab, not the schedule: a lot of these floors have been sealed, patched, painted and re-sealed over forty years, and all of that has to come off before anything new goes down.
Being based in Burlington means we can usually get eyes on the floor within days rather than weeks, and take moisture readings on the same visit.
Old coatings, sealers and shake-on hardeners are removed mechanically to the profile the new system needs. This is the step that decides whether the floor lasts.
We work in sections around your hours, then hand over data sheets, a maintenance sheet and a 5-year warranty on the installed system.
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This is not a sales call with a clipboard. Burlington is our home base, so the assessment is quick to arrange and we already know the building stock: Harvester Road and North Service Road floors that have been sealed, patched and re-sealed for forty years, and 407 Corridor buildings where the concrete is still green. Both are workable. Both need testing first.
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.
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We are based in Burlington, so the assessment itself is usually days away rather than weeks. What takes real time is materials on a specialist system, and the mitigation step if the slab tests wet. Getting the testing done early does not commit you to anything, it just means the date you eventually pick is a date we can actually hold.
Also see our industrial & commercial overview, epoxy flooring in Burlington and published pricing.
We are based in Burlington, so a site visit is usually days away rather than weeks. Tell us the square footage and what the floor has to survive, and we will test it and price it properly.
Free, no obligation, and you keep the written scope whether you use us or not.