Is an epoxy floor slippery when it is wet?

That depends entirely on what was specified, which is why the slip rating is set per area and written on the quote rather than treated as a property of the material. Entrances and anywhere else that gets wet are specified for that condition. Elsewhere a smoother finish is usually the better floor, because it is easier to keep clean and there is nothing for dirt to sit in.

Our cleaners are a contractor. Will they look after it properly?

They do not have to do anything particular, which is the point of specifying it this way. A neutral cleaner and water covers it, there is no sealer or wax to reapply, and nothing goes wrong if a week gets missed. You get the routine in writing and it is short enough to hand over as it is.

Can you work while the building stays open?

Yes. Almost every public building we coat carries on running while we are in it. We take one area at a time and hand it back before opening the next, and the hours for each area are on paper at quote stage, so nobody is deciding on the morning whether a door can be used.

Something heavy has damaged one area. Does the whole floor come out?

No. The damaged area is taken back to sound material and re-laid in the same specification so it keys into the floor around it. That is one working area closed for a short time rather than the building shutting down, and the record of what was originally installed is what lets the repair match.

What should we expect a public building floor to cost?

Three things move the figure: the floor area, what state the concrete is in, and how much of the building needs the higher slip rating. Public buildings vary most on that last one, because a single reception door is a different proposition from four street entrances feeding one lobby. You get one fixed price, itemized by area.

Commercial Epoxy Flooring Oakland CA

Safe when it is wet · Cleans on someone else's schedule · Nothing to keep up

Oakland Commercial Epoxy Flooring Overview

A great deal of Oakland's commercial floor area is public: civic and institutional buildings, community and service premises, ground floor retail, and the front half of a good many offices. What they have in common is that the people who own the floor and the people who walk on it are not the same people, and the ones walking on it are not being careful.

That changes what a good specification looks like. It has to be safe on a wet day at the door rather than only when dry. It has to take carts, deliveries and furniture dragged rather than lifted. And it has to stay acceptable while being cleaned at six in the morning by a contractor working to a schedule nobody in the building sets. What actually goes down, and how the options differ from each other, is set out on our commercial epoxy flooring page.

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Seamless light gray resin floor with a coved base in a commercial food preparation corridor

What a Public Floor Has to Put Up With

These are the things that decide whether a floor in a building open to the public still reads as a well-run building a few years in.

Wet feet, every winter

Rain arrives on shoes and comes off them a few feet inside, and that is where a hard, smooth floor stops being a finish and becomes a problem. The slip rating is set for those areas specifically and named on the quote, so the floor is specified for the worst day of the year rather than the day somebody looked at it.

Nothing here ever gets lifted

In a building anyone can walk into, furniture gets dragged, carts get pushed through doorways and deliveries cross the floor rather than going around it. The surface is specified to take that and keep its appearance, and the places where it happens every day are identified at the survey rather than discovered afterward.

Cleaned by someone you do not employ

Most public buildings are cleaned out of hours by a contractor using whatever is on the cart. A floor needing a particular product, a particular dilution or a particular machine will not get any of them. Ours needs a neutral cleaner and water, which is what the cart already has on it.

No regime to fall behind on

There is no sealer to reapply, no wax, no annual program and nothing to fall out of. That matters most in buildings where the money for looking after a floor is the first thing to disappear, because a floor that performs only while it is maintained is a floor that stops performing.

Damage in one place, not everywhere

Public buildings take their damage locally: one doorway, one corner, one spot where something heavy went down hard. The floor is built so that area can be taken back and re-laid into the surface around it, rather than the whole space being committed to a shutdown over six feet of it.

It still has to look like a decision

A public floor gets read as a statement about how the building is run, whether or not anybody meant it that way. The color and the finish are chosen for the space and named on the quote, so what you end up with looks specified rather than like whatever was available that week.

How an Oakland Commercial Install Runs

Survey, including the wet day. We walk the building and note the doors, the routes people actually take, everywhere anything gets wheeled, and which areas are open to the public rather than to staff. Those are the areas the specification starts from.
A system named per area, slip rating included. You get the build, the color, the finish and the slip rating written against each area rather than one line covering the whole building, because the public side and a back corridor are not the same floor.
One fixed quote, with the working dates. Areas, systems, sequence and dates go into the quote as one number. Nothing in the scope is left to be agreed once the work has started.
What you clear, and what stays. Furniture, stock and anything on castors leaves the working area ahead of us, and the quote names what that includes. Reception desks, columns and anything screwed down are not moving, so the floor is cut in cleanly against them. The slab is then ground back to bare concrete and the repairs are made.
Coating, and handing the building back. Each area is coated and handed back before the next one starts, so a way through the building stays open the whole time. You are left with the hours before foot traffic and before furniture goes back, a two-line cleaning note for whoever cleans it, and the warranty document covering each area.

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Blue and gray flake floor finished on a clean edge against a checker plate threshold

Gray flake floor in a small commercial room with a coved wall base and daylight across it

Why Oakland Buildings Choose Us

This is ordinary work for us. Oakland sits inside the service area named at the top of every page on this site. Your building gets the survey, the fixed quote and the warranty document that any other job gets.
The cleaning instruction fits on a card. If a routine cannot be handed to a cleaning contractor in two sentences it will not be followed, so we do not write one that needs following. A neutral cleaner, water, and nothing else to remember.
Specified for how the building is used. The slip rating, the color and the build follow what actually happens in each part of the building, and they appear against named areas on the quote rather than as one line covering the lot.

Our other commercial pages cover Fairfield, Vallejo, Concord, Benicia and Sacramento. We also cover Oakland for industrial epoxy flooring.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is an epoxy floor slippery when it is wet?
That depends entirely on what was specified, which is why the slip rating is set per area and written on the quote rather than treated as a property of the material. Entrances and anywhere else that gets wet are specified for that condition. Elsewhere a smoother finish is usually the better floor, because it is easier to keep clean and there is nothing for dirt to sit in.
Our cleaners are a contractor. Will they look after it properly?
They do not have to do anything particular, which is the point of specifying it this way. A neutral cleaner and water covers it, there is no sealer or wax to reapply, and nothing goes wrong if a week gets missed. You get the routine in writing and it is short enough to hand over as it is.
Can you work while the building stays open?
Yes. Almost every public building we coat carries on running while we are in it. We take one area at a time and hand it back before opening the next, and the hours for each area are on paper at quote stage, so nobody is deciding on the morning whether a door can be used.
Something heavy has damaged one area. Does the whole floor come out?
No. The damaged area is taken back to sound material and re-laid in the same specification so it keys into the floor around it. That is one working area closed for a short time rather than the building shutting down, and the record of what was originally installed is what lets the repair match.
What should we expect a public building floor to cost?
Three things move the figure: the floor area, what state the concrete is in, and how much of the building needs the higher slip rating. Public buildings vary most on that last one, because a single reception door is a different proposition from four street entrances feeding one lobby. You get one fixed price, itemized by area.

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