Commercial tile floors stripped, sealed, and brought back without tearing anything out — schools, clinics, offices, and kitchens across the Kansas City metro. Licensed and insured, family-owned, free proposals within one business day.
If you manage a building, you know the floor we mean even if nobody ever called it VCT. Square vinyl tile, usually speckled, laid across corridors, classrooms, clinics, break rooms, and kitchens. It is everywhere in commercial buildings, and when it starts looking grey and tired, the first quote most people get is for tearing it out.
Strip-and-coat is the other option. The built-up old finish comes off, the tile underneath is cleaned and prepared, and a new finish goes down and seals it. The tile itself never moves. Nothing gets demolished, nothing goes in a dumpster, and whatever is underneath the tile stays undisturbed underneath the tile.
Used on VCT tile in schools, clinics, offices, retail floors, corridors, and commercial kitchens.
Corridors, classrooms, cafeterias, and locker rooms — usually miles of tile, usually on a maintenance budget that was set before anyone looked at the floor. This is the work we know best, and the summer window is the constraint that shapes everything.
Waiting rooms, exam rooms, back offices, and sales floors, where the floor is the first thing a visitor reads about how the place is run. These buildings rarely close, so the work goes in overnight or in phases.
Commercial kitchens, prep areas, serveries, and break rooms take grease, hot water, and constant cart traffic. A sealed floor is easier to keep clean here than an unsealed one, and it is the difference between mopping a surface and scrubbing a substrate.
There is no demolition, so the work can be sequenced wing by wing, room by room, or overnight. The schedule, the sequence, and the cure windows are written into your proposal before we start rather than negotiated on site.
This review describes exactly this service — a VCT strip-and-coat for the Orrick R-XI School District.
"We needed to work within a limited budget and encapsulate environmental contaminants without a massive, costly demolition. Surface Shield had the perfect solution."
They stripped and coated our VCT tile using the Dr. Schutz system. The finished product looks amazing, and their communication and professionalism made the project flow perfectly.
The district had a tile floor, a limited budget, and contaminants in the building they needed dealt with. The quote they were working against was for demolition — tearing the floor out, disposing of it, and putting a new one down, in a school that had to reopen.
We stripped and coated the existing VCT instead. The contaminants were encapsulated under the new finish rather than broken up and carried out, there was no demolition, and the building was handed back on the district's calendar. The specified system on that job was Dr. Schutz.
That is the whole argument for this service, and it is why the district's own words are worth more than anything we could write. Their review is above, and the finished floors are in the project gallery.
We take commercial and institutional projects across Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas.
We look at the tile, what is built up on top of it, what condition the floor is actually in, and when each area can be released to us. Free, and no obligation.
Scope, system, the sequence areas will be done in, cure windows, warranty, and itemized pricing — in a document you can take to a board or a purchasing office.
The old finish and built-up product come off and the tile is cleaned and prepared to take a new coat. This is the step that decides whether the finish bonds or lifts, and it is where the work actually is.
The new finish goes on in coats, building to a single continuous sealed surface across the floor.
We confirm the cure window before the area goes back into use, walk the floor with you, and leave the space 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.
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 ProposalNo. That is the whole point of strip-and-coat. The existing tile stays where it is: the old finish and built-up product are stripped off, the tile is cleaned and prepared, and a new finish is laid over the top and sealed. Nothing goes in a dumpster, the subfloor is never opened up, and what is under the tile stays under the tile.
Yes, and most of this work is scheduled that way. Because there is no demolition, the job can be sequenced wing by wing, room by room, or overnight rather than closing the building. We agree the window with you before the proposal is written, and the sequence and cure times go into that document rather than being worked out on site.
Yes. Every surface we coat carries a workmanship warranty, from 1 to 15 years depending on the surface and the system specified, and the exact term for your floor is spelled out in writing in your proposal. If our workmanship fails, we make it right.
Yes. We completed the flooring work at the Orrick R-XI School District, and we take commercial and institutional projects across Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. We are a licensed and insured LLC and can provide certificates as part of a bid package.
Request a proposal or call us. An owner comes out, walks the building, and you get a free, no-obligation written proposal within one business day, with pricing itemized so a purchasing office can read it.
The concrete floors in the same buildings — shops, warehouses, mechanical rooms, and back of house.
Gym floors and any other wood floor in the building, sanded back or recoated to preserve the finish.
Every coating and flooring system we install, in one place.
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