Specialty Service
What a Commercial Kitchen Floor Needs
A commercial kitchen floor coating is a seamless resin system, usually an epoxy or urethane-mortar base with a chemical- and heat-resistant topcoat, that turns porous concrete or old quarry tile into one cleanable, non-slip surface with no grout lines to trap grease. It is built to pass a health inspection, shrug off thermal shock, and grip a wet, greasy floor.
A kitchen floor is one of the hardest working surfaces in any building. It has to be seamless and non-porous so grease, food and bacteria cannot soak into grout lines or a porous slab, which is what a health inspector looks for. It has to survive thermal shock, roughly 212 degrees F boiling water, hot grease and a nightly steam-clean hitting concrete that may sit at freezer-line temperature, without cracking or debonding. And it has to stay non-slip when wet and greasy: we finish to a wet dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) at or above 0.42, the ANSI A326.3 threshold for a safe wet floor. We also form an integral cove base 4 to 6 inches up the wall, a coved, seamless transition that kills the 90-degree dirt-trap corner where a tile floor meets the wall.
The System We Install and How Long It Takes
For most kitchens we build a urethane-mortar base, typically 1/4 inch (about 6 mm) thick, for impact and thermal-shock resistance, then finish with a chemical-resistant polyaspartic or urethane topcoat and a broadcast non-slip aggregate. The system is our own Duralast system, installed seamless with the cove base. A polyaspartic topcoat is tack-free in 1 to 2 hours and typically back in service within about a day, so we can work an overnight or a slow day and have you cooking on the next shift.
Every floor gets the same six-step process: we grind the slab to a CSP 1 to 3 profile, patch cracks and spalls, moisture-test and prime the concrete, apply the base coat, broadcast the chips and seal it with a clear topcoat.
Built for Indiana Winters
Kitchens with a back door, a receiving area or an unheated prep room take Fort Wayne's freeze-thaw and tracked-in road salt right where the coating meets the concrete. We spec the entry and any unheated zone for the cold and the chloride, not just the interior, so the floor does not scale and lift at the threshold.
What It Costs
We price every floor in person with a free on-site estimate. The cost depends on the square footage, the slab's condition and moisture, the coating system and build, and any off-hours scheduling. You get a straight, written price before any work starts.
Where We Work
We install commercial kitchen floor coating across Fort Wayne, Northeast Indiana and adjacent Northwest Ohio, including Fort Wayne, New Haven, Huntertown, Auburn and the surrounding communities. (See all service areas)
Our General Manager Is on Every Job
Founded in 2014, Duration keeps general manager Dan Diven on-site for every job, with a crew of 10 and 4,500 projects across Fort Wayne and Northeast Indiana, holding a 5.0 rating from 102 Google reviews. This service is part of our commercial floor coating work.
