Seamless, high-gloss floors for Burlington stores, showrooms, restaurants and commercial spaces. Polished concrete, metallic epoxy and overnight MMA installs that have you open the next morning.
Free on-site assessment, usually within days because we are based here in Burlington. Written scope, fixed price, no obligation.
Retail flooring gets judged on price per square foot, which is the wrong number. The right number is how many trading days it takes and what it does to the room afterwards.
Every day the unit is shut for flooring is revenue gone. That is the figure that should drive the system choice, and it is the one most quotes never mention.
Customers read a floor before they read a sign. Cracked tile, patched vinyl and grey grout say something about the business standing on top of it.
Grout lines and seams take longer to clean and never quite come clean. Going seamless is a permanent reduction in that bill, every week, for years.
Brine and slush tracked onto an untextured entrance is where slip claims come from, and entrances are the cheapest part of the floor to get right.
The Burlington version is usually a second-generation unit: something else last year, opening as your business in six weeks, with an unknown slab under whatever was glued to it. The floor is the item most likely to move your opening date, and the one nobody checks until it is late.
The floor is the one fixture every single customer makes contact with.
Mapleview Centre and Burlington Centre anchor the enclosed retail, with big-box strung along Fairview Street, Brant Street and Appleby Line, and independent storefronts through the downtown core and Aldershot. Two very different briefs come out of that. Mall and big-box work is scheduled around landlord fit-out windows and judged on how fast we can hand the unit back. Downtown Burlington storefronts are judged on how the floor looks, and increasingly on whether it photographs well, which is a real consideration for a business that lives on Instagram.
Most requested in Burlington: metallic feature floors and fast fit-out turnarounds.
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.
The Burlington retail work that comes to us most often is a second-generation space: a unit that was something else last year and is opening as something new in six weeks. That means demolition dust, an unknown slab under whatever was glued to it, and a hard opening date. The way to protect the date is to get the floor uncovered and tested early in the fit-out rather than at the end, because a moisture problem discovered two weeks before opening is a much more expensive problem than the same one found on day three.
Retail floors are judged on two things: how they look under store lighting and how many trading days they cost you. That pushes the specification toward fast-cure systems and toward finishes that hide cart traffic instead of showing every scuff.
| System | Where it goes | Why it gets specified |
|---|---|---|
| MMA (methyl methacrylate) | Occupied stores, food courts, anywhere closure is expensive | Manufacturer data has MMA ready for normal operations in as little as an hour after installation, with full installs in one to two days. It also cures in extreme temperatures, including well below freezing, which matters for entrances and unheated back-of-house. |
| Polished concrete | Big-box, grocery, showrooms, industrial-look retail | Low maintenance, no coating to peel, and a high-gloss surface that reflects store lighting. The right call where the existing slab is sound and flat. |
| Metallic epoxy | Feature areas, showrooms, boutique retail | Marbled, seamless and genuinely unique per pour. High impact for a feature zone, and it photographs well, which matters more than people admit. |
| Solid colour epoxy with urethane topcoat | Back of house, stockrooms, corridors | Clean, durable, easy to keep and far cheaper than carrying the sales-floor finish into areas nobody sees. |
| Quartz broadcast at entries | Vestibules, entrances, wet zones | Where road salt, slush and rain get tracked in, texture is not decoration. |
We work after close, section the store so half stays trading, protect fixtures and racking, and use fast-cure systems where the calendar demands it. MMA in particular is ready for normal operations in as little as an hour from finishing, which is what makes an overnight turnaround real rather than optimistic.
Book a ConsultationANSI A326.3 sets a 0.42 wet DCOF minimum for interior wet areas and 0.55 where oils and greases are present. We build entrances and vestibules to that, using broadcast aluminum oxide or quartz rather than a texture additive that scrubs off. We also tell customers what the standard itself says: DCOF does not predict whether a person will slip. Mats, drainage and housekeeping still carry half the load.
Read the GuidesShopping carts, pallet jacks, stock trolleys and winter grit are harder on a retail floor than foot traffic ever is. We choose gloss level and topcoat chemistry for how the floor will look in month eighteen, not on opening day, and we will talk you out of a mirror finish in a high-traffic entrance.
See the GalleryWe 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.
Golden Horseshoe winters mean brine tracked in from November to April. Entry zones get the heavier build and the more chemical-resistant topcoat.
No grout lines, no tile joints, no edges for a scrubber to skip. Cleaning labour is the running cost most retail floors are actually judged on.
Transitions into tile, carpet or an existing slab are detailed properly. Accepted practice keeps untreated changes in level to a quarter inch, bevels a quarter to a half inch, and ramps anything more.
Solid colours, metallic blends and aggregate mixes matched to the brand palette, sampled before we commit.
There is currently no AODA standard governing flooring inside buildings, so anyone quoting you an AODA floor requirement is guessing. We build to the recognised slip and level-change practice instead.
The stockroom takes more abuse than the sales floor. It gets a system chosen for that, at a price that reflects it.
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.