Forklift-rated coatings, dust control and aisle marking for Burlington warehouses, distribution centres and 3PL facilities. Large-area pricing from $1.50 per square foot, installed in phases so the building keeps shipping.
Free on-site assessment, usually within days because we are based here in Burlington. Written scope, fixed price, no obligation.
A warehouse floor rarely fails dramatically. It just gets slowly more expensive, in places that never get attributed back to it.
Weak surface paste ground off by wheels lands on inventory, in conveyor bearings and in your HVAC filters. You pay for that in sweeping labour, in filter changes and occasionally in a rejected shipment.
Abrasive concrete dust works into wheels, bearings and seals. The floor is the cause and the forklift budget takes the invoice.
Once a joint edge starts to spall, every pallet jack crossing it makes it worse, and the repair moves from a filler to a saw-cut and pour.
Customer audits, insurers and prospective tenants all read the floor first. It is the largest single surface in your building and the easiest thing to judge you on.
The Harvester Road and Mainway stock is the classic case: a hard-troweled slab from the seventies that has never been sealed, dusting steadily into everything stored on it. It is also the cheapest problem on this page to solve, and the one that pays back fastest.
Sealing the slab is usually the cheapest operational improvement available to you.
The QEW Corridor between Guelph Line and Burloak Drive is Burlington's established industrial spine, while Bronte Creek Meadows and the 407 Corridor between Dundas Street and Appleby Line are the city's newest employment inventory. In practice that means we are quoting two very different buildings in the same week: a 1970s Harvester Road unit with a dusting, hard-troweled slab, and a recently completed 407 Corridor building where the concrete has not finished drying. The Harvester Road and Mainway stock in particular tends to dust badly, and sealing it is usually the cheapest operational improvement in the building.
Most requested in Burlington: sealing dusting slabs and coating dock aprons.
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.
One Burlington-specific detail worth planning for: many of the Harvester Road and North Service Road buildings have low clearances and tight dock aprons, which limits the equipment we can get inside and how big a section we can pour at once. That is a scheduling issue rather than a technical one, but it is the kind of thing that turns a three-night job into a five-night job if nobody checks it first. We measure access on the site visit and put the resulting phasing plan in the written quote rather than discovering it on the first night.
The most common mistake in a warehouse is a thin roll-applied coating sold into a heavy forklift application. It looks identical on day one and it is gone in eighteen months. Thickness bands are not marketing, they are the spec.
| System | Where it goes | Why it gets specified |
|---|---|---|
| Thin-mil roll coat, 11 to 25 mils | Mezzanines, storage bays, light pedestrian and pallet-jack areas | Honest description from the manufacturer: basic protection in light traffic. Fine where it belongs, wrong under a counterbalance forklift. |
| High-build epoxy, 20 to 250 mils | General racking aisles, staging, pick and pack | The working band for most distribution floors. Multi-coat build with a chemical and abrasion resistant topcoat. |
| Aggregate-filled mortar, 1/4 in and up | Dock aprons, battery rooms, turn zones, heavy machinery | 375 mils and up is the standard call for heavily laden forklift traffic. Published urethane mortar data runs about 7,800 psi compressive on ASTM C579 with 30 mg loss on ASTM D4060 Taber abrasion at 1,000 cycles. |
| Moisture mitigation primer | Slab-on-grade with no vapour retarder | The difference between a ten year floor and a delaminated one. Not optional on older stock. |
| Line striping and safety marking | Aisles, walkways, hazard zones, dock positions | Applied as part of the system so the lines wear at the same rate as the floor instead of peeling off it. |
A bare or worn warehouse slab dusts because the top few millimetres of paste are weak: bleed water worked into the surface, curing cut short, then carbonation. Forklift wheels and pallet jacks grind it into powder that lands on your inventory, gets into conveyor bearings and racking, wears forklift components and loads your HVAC filters. Sealing it is usually the cheapest operational fix in the building.
Request a Site VisitWe run ASTM F1869 calcium chloride and ASTM F2170 in-situ relative humidity before specifying. Most resinous manufacturers want under 3 lb per 1,000 sq ft per 24 hours on F1869 and under 80% RH on F2170, with probes at 40% of slab depth and service conditions set 48 hours ahead. Those two tests do not correlate and cannot be converted into each other, which is why we run both on questionable slabs.
Read the GuidesWe coat in bays and aisles, protect racking, and schedule around inbound and outbound windows including nights and weekends. Fast-cure polyaspartic topcoats bring equipment back onto the floor in as little as 4 hours, so a Saturday section can be racked again by Sunday.
Get Large-Area PricingWe 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.
Prep is selected against ICRI 310.2R concrete surface profiles CSP 1 to 10. Thicker system, coarser profile. Shot blasting and diamond grinding, never acid etching.
Trucks track brine and slush inside all winter. The apron and the first twenty feet of drive aisle take the abuse, so they get the heavier build.
Colour convention follows ANSI Z535.1, where red reads as danger and yellow as caution. Note that OSHA is US law and does not apply here: Ontario sites sit under the OHSA and O. Reg. 851.
We coat around installed racking, cove into post bases and seal the interface rather than stopping the coating short.
Saw-cut and construction joints are filled with semi-rigid filler where forklift wheels need support, and left to move where they need to move.
Not every warehouse needs a full system. Sometimes densifying and sealing the slab is the right answer, and we will say so.
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.