Commercial Epoxy Floors, Phased Around Your Opening Hours
On your floor the coating is rarely the expensive part. The closed room is. We sequence the work around when you actually trade, so you get a floor that takes a mop and a chemical spill on the same day without losing the days you needed to be open.
Free, no obligation, and nothing to sign. We answer the same day, weekends included.
Commercial Floor Coating Downtime
That depends more on the system we use than on the size of your floor, which is the opposite of what most people expect.
Cure time is the constraint
Grinding is a day's work. Waiting for coats to cure is what takes your calendar. A fast-cure top coat turns an overnight wait into a few hours, and across three coats that changes your whole schedule.
Working in sections
We can often phase your floor so part of the space stays open. It costs more in mobilisation and it is usually worth it against the trade you would have lost.
Nights and weekends
Worth asking us about. We work Monday to Friday 8am to 5:30pm and Saturday 8am to 3pm, and we take weekend appointments on request rather than as a standing offer.
Commercial Epoxy Flooring Requirements
Your cleaning regime, your inspections, and traffic that never stops.
Wash-down and hygiene
Your kitchen gets cleaned daily with hot water and chemicals. That points us at quartz, and usually at cove base up the wall so there is no joint at the floor edge.
Line marking
We put your walkways, bays and hazard markings down as part of the floor rather than taping them on afterwards.
Traffic that does not stop
Your retail floor is walked on every trading hour. The top coat is what wears, so it is the part we specify hardest.
Every floor on this page is one we poured
Commercial Floor Coating by Sector
What we specify changes more between a restaurant and a showroom than it does between two houses.
Restaurants and food premises
We use quartz with cove base up the wall, so there is no joint where your floor meets it. Grease and water together are the hardest combination a floor deals with, and hygiene inspection is usually what drives the specification.
Retail and showrooms
Appearance carries most of the weight here. We specify metallic and high-build gloss systems, with a top coat chosen for foot traffic rather than for wheels.
Warehouses and storage
Solid colour with line marking. Your floor is a working surface and we lay the markings into it rather than taping them on afterwards.
Auto shops and workshops
Chemical and oil resistance, plus the ability to take a dropped tool. This is where the aggregate-built system we use earns its cost.
Gyms and studios
Impact and cleaning. A dropped weight is a point load, and we specify your floor expecting it.
How a floor goes down
Three stages. You get your walk-on and park-on dates at the quote, not on the day.
- Tell us what you have gotCall, text, or send the form. Tell us the room and roughly how big it is and we will talk you through the range, then book a time to come and look. Same day, weekends included, and nothing to sign.
- We look at your concrete, you pick your finishBrad checks your slab for cracks, old coating and moisture, measures up, and you choose your flake blend or metallic against your own floor instead of a brochure. Your written quote follows that visit.
- We grind it back, then build your floor upYour slab goes back to bare concrete with a diamond grinder running dust extraction. Then the primer, the body coat carrying your flake or metallic, and the top coat. Brad tells you your walk-on and park-on times when he quotes, so you can plan around it.
Working Around a Business That Cannot Close
Your floor is rarely the hard part on a commercial job. Your calendar is.
Phasing the work
We can usually work in sections so part of your space keeps trading. It costs more in mobilisation and it is frequently cheaper than the days you would lose.
Fast-cure systems
A polyaspartic top coat lets us recoat in hours rather than overnight. Across three coats that is the difference between your weekend and your week.
Out of hours
Nights and weekends are a conversation with us rather than a standing offer. Ask early, because it changes how we plan the job rather than just when we start it.
What has to be moved
Racking, fixtures and stock all need to move. Anything you leave in place leaves an outline, and working around it costs you more than moving it.
Compliance, Marking and Cleaning Regimes
What your floor has to satisfy that a domestic one does not.
Slip resistance where it is wet
Kitchens, wash-down areas and entrances. We specify traction into your surface rather than adding it as a mat.
Cove base and coving
In food areas we turn your floor up the wall, so there is no 90 degree joint to collect anything. It is normally part of the same job.
Line marking and hazard areas
Your walkways, bays and keep-clear zones go down as part of the floor and wear at the same rate as it.
Cleaning that will actually happen
A floor built for daily hot wash-down is a different floor from one that gets swept. Be honest with us about your real cleaning regime at the quote. It matters more than a specification sounding impressive.
What customers wrote
4.7 from 15 Google reviews. We publish every one of them on the reviews page, including the one star and what came of it.
Floors came out great and the countertops too!
thank you Brad for the wonderful job on my garage floors
my floors look amazing
What a Commercial Flooring Quote Should Contain
Comparing quotes on a single number is how businesses end up buying a floor twice.
Preparation method, named
Grinding, shot blasting or neither. If a quote does not tell you, that is the line most likely to have been cut.
System build by layer
Primer, body, broadcast, grout, top coat. A quote that names a product family and nothing else is not telling you what you are buying.
Moisture plan
What happens if your slab tests wet, and who carries that cost. Better agreed with you in writing before than argued after.
Return to service dates
Your foot traffic, wheeled traffic and full load are three different dates, and all three should be in the quote you sign.
Phasing and hours
What we are doing when, and whether the price assumes normal hours.
Epoxy or polyaspartic
How the two differ on what buyers ask about. Most Atlas floors use both. We are not selling you one of them.
| What you are deciding | Epoxy | Polyaspartic |
|---|---|---|
| Cure time before you can walk on it | A day or more, and longer when it is cold | Hours, which is what makes a fast turnaround possible |
| Working temperature | Wants a warm slab, so winter work gets scheduled around it | Goes down in cold weather when epoxy will not |
| Colour under direct sun | Ambers over time in a doorway or a south-facing bay | UV stable, which is why it goes on patios and pool decks |
| Build and depth of finish | Thicker build, and the depth metallic pours need | Thinner film, applied as the top coat over an epoxy body |
| Cost per square foot | The lower of the two, and where most garages land | Higher, and worth it where speed or sunlight decide it |
| How Atlas usually uses it | Body coat and the flake or metallic layer | Top coat for abrasion, chemical and UV resistance |
Budgeting a Commercial Floor Against Downtime
The arithmetic most businesses skip, and the one that usually decides what we specify.
Cost the closed days
Your revenue per trading day multiplied by the days you lose. On a busy restaurant that number is frequently larger than the gap between two flooring quotes.
Then compare systems on time, not price
A faster system that costs you more per square foot can be the cheaper project once you count the lost trade.
Phasing has a price too
Extra mobilisations, more edges and more setup. Ask us to quantify it rather than assuming it is free.
And a floor done twice costs everything again
Including your downtime, which is the argument for preparation.
Retail and Showroom Floors
Where appearance carries the weight and your floor is part of the fit-out rather than part of the building.
Fitting the brand rather than the catalogue
Colour, gloss level and pattern are design decisions here, and we will sample them in the lighting your space actually uses.
Foot traffic wears differently from wheels
Grit walked in from outside is the abrasive. Entrance matting does more for your floor's life than any coating specification we could sell you.
Working around a fit-out programme
We usually go in before your fixtures and after first fix. Getting that sequence right with your main contractor saves protecting a finished floor through the rest of the works.
Phased around your opening hours
The coating is rarely the expensive part of a commercial floor. The closed room is. Work gets sequenced so the room comes back when you need it.
Get my free quoteQuestions people ask
Do you work out of hours?
Ask us. It depends on your job and the calendar.
Can you do a floor in phases?
Often yes, so part of your space stays open. It costs more and it is frequently worth it.
Do you do line marking?
Yes, we lay them as part of your floor.
Is commercial priced differently?
Our rate bands are the same for you. Larger floors land in the lower bands because they are bigger.
How long will my business be closed?
It depends on the system far more than on the size of your floor. A fast-cure top coat can turn an overnight wait into hours, and we can often phase the work so part of your space stays open.
Do you do commercial kitchen floors?
Yes. We normally use quartz with cove base, built for your wash-down rather than for sweeping.
Can you work nights or weekends?
Ask. It depends on the job and the calendar, and it is better raised early because it changes how the work is planned.
Is commercial priced differently from residential?
The rate bands are the same. Larger floors land in the lower bands simply because they are bigger.
Can you coat over an existing commercial floor?
If yours is sound, often. If the existing coating is lifting, we take it off first, because recoating over a failed bond repeats the failure.
What should a commercial flooring quote include?
Your preparation method, the system build layer by layer, a moisture plan, three return-to-service dates, and whether the price assumes normal hours.
How do I compare commercial flooring quotes?
Not on the total. On what each one includes: preparation, system thickness, top coat, and what happens if your slab tests wet.
Do you do retail and showroom floors?
Yes. Colour and gloss are design decisions there, and we will sample them in the lighting your space actually uses.
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