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Commercial & Heavy-Civil Construction
Epoxy Flooring Contractor
Install resinous flooring systems over properly assessed and prepared concrete for the specified traffic, chemical, hygiene, and slip demands for industrial operators, warehouses, institutions, laboratories, food facilities, and commercial property managers.
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- 20 Years in Business
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Licensed, insured & WSIB-covered · Free, no-obligation quote & on-site assessment.
20 Years in Business
Licensed, Insured & WSIB-Covered Completed to code & Ontario requirements Completed on site and built to the drawings Performed & installed on site across Ontario
Why Harrowgate Group
What to expect from epoxy flooring contractor
Made to last
Durable materials and methods chosen for the load, traffic, and environment on site.
Quote-ready
Send specs, drawings, or photos and get a free, no-obligation site visit and estimate with no guesswork.
Code-conscious
Installation and site work completed in accordance with Ontario requirements.
Our Process
How the commercial and industrial epoxy flooring process works
Local Context
A closer look at epoxy flooring contractor
Scope
Understanding epoxy flooring contractor
Which epoxy flooring contractor method fits the condition?
Thin-film epoxy coatings provide colour, dust control, and light-duty chemical resistance on suitable concrete. Multi-coat broadcast systems add thickness, texture, and abrasion resistance. Trowelled epoxy or urethane mortars rebuild heavier-duty floors and transitions. Urethane-cement systems suit thermal cycling, washdown, moisture, and food or process exposure where specified. Methyl methacrylate and fast-cure chemistries reduce shutdown in compatible conditions. Polyaspartic or polyurethane topcoats can improve ultraviolet, abrasion, colour, or chemical performance. Slab condition, traffic, impact, heat, chemicals, hygiene, texture, drainage, and downtime select the complete system.
How We Deliver Epoxy Flooring Contractor
Step 1, Harrowgate installs epoxy flooring by controlling the slab before controlling the colour. Concrete soundness, contamination, moisture, profile, cracks, joints, edges, drains, temperature, and dew point are resolved first, then measured resin layers are installed within their mix, coverage, recoat, and cure limits.
Step 2, We start with the use profile: traffic, wheel type, impact, chemicals, washdown, temperature, hygiene, slip resistance, drainage, colour, downtime, and adjoining operations. The slab is surveyed for cracks, joints, laitance, curing compounds, coatings, contamination, moisture, flatness, and weak concrete. Harrowgate isolates the work zone, removes incompatible materials, and uses shot blasting, diamond grinding, scarifying, or localized removal to create the specified clean and open surface.
Oil and chemical contamination are treated through an approved remediation plan rather than coated over. Cracks, spalls, edges, drains, curbs, and transitions are repaired to the system detail. We verify substrate and ambient conditions, mix full units at controlled ratios, apply primer, body coat, broadcast aggregate or mortar, grout coat, and topcoat at the specified coverage. Joints are honoured or rebuilt as designed. Cure, ventilation, access, and reopening are controlled by area.
Step 3, Preparation equipment is selected by the condition and required profile. Shot blasting opens broad sound slabs, grinding details edges and removes selected finishes, and localized scarifying addresses heavier build or contamination. Dust extraction, clean separation, and inspection prevent prepared areas from being recontaminated by adjacent plant or construction activity.
Step 4, Harrowgate completes epoxy flooring contractor inspection, testing, records, protection, restoration, and turnover under the issued work.
Step 5, Harrowgate completes epoxy flooring contractor inspection, testing, records, protection, restoration, and turnover under the issued work.
Which materials and Ontario standards apply?
Resinous flooring follows issued architectural, process, hygiene, chemical-resistance, concrete-repair, drainage, and flooring documents, approved manufacturer criteria, and applicable local municipal requirements.
The underlying concrete and repairs follow CSA A23.1 and CSA A23.2, with structural design to CSA A23.3 where applicable. The 2024 Ontario Building Code applies where regulated building work falls within scope.
Primer, resin, hardener, aggregate, mortar, topcoat, cove, joint material, cleaner, and repair products follow approved submittals, compatibility data, batch controls, and mockups.
Acceptance includes slab and moisture tests, preparation profile, environmental logs, batch and coverage records, film and texture checks, joints and details, cure release, testing, and repaired deficiencies.
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What Goes Wrong, and How We Prevent It
Peeling, blistering, soft spots, fisheyes, pinholes, and early wear each point to a specific preparation or application failure. Harrowgate verifies moisture and contamination, exposes sound concrete, holds environmental limits, measures every coat, and prevents traffic or washdown until the full system reaches its release condition.
Resin floors peel, blister, fisheye, soften, discolour, wear early, or become dangerously smooth when the substrate is weak, damp, contaminated, or poorly profiled, when mix ratios drift, or when coats miss their recoat window. Harrowgate prevents these problems by testing and exposing the actual slab condition, removing contaminants, repairing defects, and matching preparation to the complete system.
We monitor temperature, humidity, substrate condition, and dew point through installation. Full kits are mixed with timed procedures, coverage is measured by area and material use, and each coat is inspected before the next. Movement joints are not buried beneath rigid resin. Traffic remains out until cure criteria are satisfied.
Floor joints are classified before coating. Construction and dormant cracks receive the specified repair, while active movement and isolation joints are honoured through the resin build. Drains, curbs, door thresholds, equipment legs, and dissimilar floors receive detailed transitions so liquid and wheel loads do not attack a thin feather edge.
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FAQ
Epoxy Flooring Contractor FAQ
How thick should an industrial epoxy floor be?
Thickness follows service conditions and the specified system. Thin films often build roughly 0.5 to 1 millimetre, broadcast systems about 2 to 4 millimetres, and trowelled mortar systems about 6 to 9 millimetres. Harrowgate selects and installs the issued build for traffic, impact, chemicals, slope, hygiene, and downtime.
Why is concrete preparation more important than the topcoat?
The coating bonds to the prepared concrete, not to the floor’s appearance. Laitance, weak paste, oil, curing compounds, old coatings, dust, and moisture defeat adhesion. Harrowgate mechanically exposes sound concrete, repairs defects, cleans the surface, verifies conditions, and applies primer within the accepted window before installing the resin build.
Can epoxy flooring go over cracked concrete?
Cracks must be evaluated before coating. Harrowgate identifies whether each crack is dormant, moving, structural, leaking, or tied to a joint, then follows the consultant and system detail. Rigid repairs suit selected dormant cracks. Active movement requires a flexible or joint detail. Coating over an unexplained crack simply transfers it through the finish.
How long does epoxy flooring take to reopen?
Reopening depends on resin chemistry, build, temperature, ventilation, traffic type, chemical exposure, and the specified cure criteria. Harrowgate phases areas around operations and posts access controls until each coat and the complete system reach the required condition. Dry-to-touch is not the same as ready for forklifts, washdown, or chemicals.
How is slip resistance controlled?
Slip resistance is designed through aggregate type, size, broadcast rate, texture, topcoat, contaminants, drainage, cleaning, and the users’ footwear and wheels. Harrowgate builds an approved sample or mock-up, measures material use, and maintains a consistent broadcast and finish. More texture also changes cleanability, so the operating requirement controls selection.
What causes bubbles or blisters in resinous flooring?
Bubbles and blisters result from slab moisture, vapour drive, outgassing, rising substrate temperature, air introduced during mixing, excessive film build, contamination, or unsuitable application conditions. Harrowgate tests the slab, schedules work around temperature movement, uses the specified primer and tools, and monitors conditions through every coat.
What information is needed for an epoxy flooring quote?
Provide area drawings, slab age and history, current finishes, traffic and wheel loads, chemicals, washdown, temperature, drains and slopes, joints, desired build and texture, colour, operating schedule, and downtime. Harrowgate inspects the substrate because preparation and repair quantities cannot be established reliably from floor area alone.
Why can epoxy flooring blister over concrete?
Moisture vapour, osmotic pressure, contamination, trapped air, pinholes, weak concrete, or application outside environmental limits can contribute. Investigation and system selection address the slab mechanism before another coating is placed.
When is urethane cement used instead of a standard epoxy?
Urethane cement is often selected for thermal cycling, hot washdown, moisture tolerance, impact, and food or process environments where its performance fits the exposure. Thickness, substrate, texture, cure, and topcoat still follow the specified system.
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Related Harrowgate Services
Industrial Floor Coatings, Industrial floor coatings selected for process exposure
Surface Preparation And Grinding, Mechanical surface preparation and coating removal
Concrete Repair Contractor, Concrete substrate repairs before resin installation
Joint Sealing, Joint sealing within floor systems
Concrete Sealing And Densifying, Alternative concrete surface treatments for suitable areas
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