Auto shop floor coating for Dallas Fort Worth service bays and dealerships
The Floor Fathers Epoxy Flooring Co coats floors in auto shops, service bays, detail shops and dealership service areas around Dallas Fort Worth, scheduled around the bays you need open. Call to talk it through, or send the basics and ask for a walkthrough of the shop before the quote.
Auto shop and service bay floors: example floors
Example photos of finished commercial floors, shown for the look. Not photos of a specific past job. Ask for photos of comparable work on the walkthrough.
What matters on a shop floor?
Oil, heat, impact and keeping bays open. The floor takes fluids, hot tires, jacks and dropped tools every day.
A shop floor that is easy to clean also makes the shop look professional to the customer standing at the service counter.
Oil, coolant and brake fluid
A sealed floor keeps fluids on top where they wipe up, instead of soaking into the concrete.
Hot tires and jacks
A system chosen for vehicle traffic, jack stands and rolling equipment.
Dropped tools
Flake and heavier builds hide small marks better than a thin film.
Grip around the lifts
Texture in the coating gives grip where fluids get on the floor around lifts and wash bays.
Bay by bay
Bays can be done one or two at a time, or over a weekend, so the shop keeps working.
Which system fits an auto shop?
Usually broadcast flake for service bays, a heavier quartz or mortar build in the hardest-working bays, and a decorative finish where customers walk.
Wash bays and detail areas get more texture. The fluids you use and how you clean the floor are the questions that decide it.
How is a shop floor priced?
Per project, after a walkthrough. The existing floor, the system the space needs and when the work can happen change the cost more than the size does.
Ask for the price and the schedule in writing before anything is booked, so you know when each area is back in use.
The existing floor
Old coatings, tile, adhesive or oil-soaked concrete all add removal and prep.
The bays
Heavy-use bays and wash bays need more build and texture than the customer area.
Scheduling
After-hours, weekend or phased work changes the labor plan.
How does the project run?
Walkthrough
Someone walks the space with you, asks how it is used and cleaned, checks the slab and talks through the schedule. Ask for the price and the schedule in writing before anything is booked.
Moisture test
The slab is tested before a system is chosen, because moisture coming up through concrete is the most common reason coatings lift.
Prep
Old coatings and adhesives come off, and the surface is diamond-ground with dust collection so the system bonds into the concrete.
Repairs, drains and edges
Cracks and joints are repaired, and coving and drain details are built where the space needs them.
Coating system
The base, the texture or color and the topcoat go down, zone by zone if the schedule calls for it.
Handover
You walk the floor and get care instructions and the times when each area can take people, equipment and full use.
Tell us the color you like when you ask for your quote. We ask for a photo of your garage and send back a preview of your own floor in that color, before anyone starts work.
- Your garage, your color, before you decide
- Flake, metallic or solid
- Free with your quote
Questions owners and managers ask
Can you coat the shop while we keep working?
Usually, yes. Bays are done one or two at a time, after hours or over a weekend, while the rest of the shop keeps working. Cure times decide when each bay takes foot traffic, jacks and cars again, so ask for that schedule in writing before anything is booked.
Will hot tires lift the coating?
Hot tire pickup happens when a coating is too soft for the heat or the slab was not ground open enough to bond. The system is chosen for vehicle traffic, and the concrete is diamond-ground before coating so it bonds into the slab instead of sitting on top.
Is a coated shop floor slippery with oil on it?
Texture is broadcast into the coating where fluids get on the floor, around lifts, in wash bays and at the doors. More texture means more grip and a little more work to clean, so the amount is set bay by bay on the walkthrough.
