Commercial, industrial, and basement floors built to take traffic and stay sealed. Licensed and insured, family-owned, free proposals within one business day.
This is our workhorse floor, the one that goes down in basements, commercial spaces, shops, warehouses, and retail floors alike. We mechanically profile and moisture-seal the concrete so damp, below-grade slabs stay dry instead of sweating, then build a finish that shrugs off forklift traffic, foot traffic, and dropped tools for years.
Where a garage floor is one room and one owner, a commercial floor has to answer to a building. It has to survive pallet jacks and cleaning chemistry, it has to keep looking presentable in a space customers walk through, and it has to go in around a business that is still operating. Those three constraints drive every decision we make on a commercial specification, and they are the reason the same product is not the right answer in a warehouse aisle and a front-of-house retail floor.
Used in basement floors, commercial spaces, shops, warehouses, retail floors, and utility rooms.
We moisture-test concrete before we quote it. On a commercial or below-grade floor that test is not a formality — it is the difference between a floor that holds and a floor that has to come back up.
Basement and slab-on-grade concrete sits against wet ground. Seal the top of it without accounting for what is pushing up from underneath and the vapour collects at the bond line until it lifts the coating away. Moisture-tolerant systems exist precisely for this, but only a reading tells us whether yours needs one.
We grind the slab open so the resin keys into the concrete rather than sitting on a sealed, troweled surface. On a floor that already carries an old coating, curing compound, mastic, or adhesive residue, that layer comes off first. Nothing bonds reliably to somebody else's failed finish.
Control joints, floor drains, dock edges, thresholds, and cove bases are where commercial floors actually fail. They get detailed deliberately as part of the prep rather than coated over and left to reopen under traffic.
There is no demolition and no tear-out, so a commercial floor can be sequenced bay by bay or wing by wing. The schedule, the sequence, and the cure windows are written into your proposal before we start.
The same prep supports several very different looks. What the space is for decides which one we recommend.
Clean, uniform, and the easiest to keep visibly clean. The default for mechanical rooms, utility spaces, kitchens, and warehouse floors where safety striping and traffic lanes need to read clearly against the background.
Flake broadcast into the base coat and sealed under a clear topcoat. It hides dirt and wear between cleanings and adds texture underfoot, which is why it is the usual answer for restrooms, hallways, locker rooms, and anywhere the public walks.
A poured, marbled finish with real depth to it. It belongs in showrooms, lobbies, retail floors, and open-plan spaces where the floor is meant to be part of the design rather than just the surface people stand on.
More finished work in the project gallery.
A recent office flooring project in the Kansas City metro.
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Their communication was top notch and I highly recommend their services. We are already under contract with them for an over 30,000 sq ft project next year. Thanks!
We measure, moisture-test the slab, look at what the floor has to survive, and talk through when the space can be released to us. Free, and no obligation.
System, finish, phasing plan, schedule, cure windows, warranty, and itemized pricing — all in writing before anything is committed.
Old coatings, mastic, and adhesive residue come off, the slab is mechanically ground, and joints, cracks, and spalls are cut out and rebuilt.
Base coat, then flake or metallic work where the finish calls for it, then the clear topcoat that carries the traffic.
We confirm the cure window before the space goes back into service, walk the floor with you, and leave the site clean.
Every surface we coat carries a workmanship warranty, from 1 to 15 years depending on the surface and the system specified. The exact term for your floor is spelled out in writing in your proposal. If our workmanship fails, we make it right.
Coating a surface typically saves 50 to 70% against a full tear-out and replacement, and coating projects generally start around $1,500 and up. Exact pricing is itemized in your written proposal. Payment plans are available on residential projects — see payment options.
We are a licensed and insured, family-owned LLC based in the Kansas City metro, and we take commercial and institutional work across Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. The owners are the people who walk the building, write the proposal, and answer the phone. Completed work includes the Orrick R-XI School District, commercial office flooring, and warehouse projects.
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Request a ProposalOften, yes, but only after we know what we are dealing with. We moisture-test the slab before quoting, and the reading decides whether the floor needs a moisture-tolerant specification. Coating a damp below-grade slab with the wrong system is the fastest way to end up with a floor that bubbles and lifts within a season.
There is no demolition, so most commercial floors can be phased bay by bay, wing by wing, or after hours instead of closing the building. We plan the sequence with you before the proposal is written, and the schedule and cure windows are part of that document rather than a conversation on day one.
Old coatings, curing compound, tile mastic, and adhesive residue all come off during prep. Nothing bonds reliably through somebody else's failed finish, so removing it is part of the scope rather than an add-on we discover later. On the Orrick R-XI School District job we stripped and coated existing VCT tile using the Dr. Schutz system.
That is what the system is specified against. We ask what actually crosses the floor and what gets used to clean it, then build to that rather than to a generic square-foot number. A retail floor and a warehouse aisle get different answers on purpose.
Yes. Striping and traffic markings are laid in and sealed under the topcoat so they wear with the floor instead of off it, and cove bases and thresholds are detailed as part of the prep. Tell us what the space needs when we walk it and it goes in the proposal.
The residential side of the same craft: garages, workshops, and shop bays.
Court and training floors for schools, rec centres, and home gyms.
Exterior slabs, aprons, walkways, and loading pads sealed against salt and freeze-thaw.
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