Specialty Service
What an Industrial Shop Floor Needs
An industrial shop floor coating is a high-build resin system, shot-blasted into the slab and topped with a chemical- and abrasion-resistant coat, that carries forklift and point-load traffic, resists the chemicals a shop spills, and takes safety striping. The prep is what makes it last: a coating over an unprofiled slab lifts under the first pallet jack.
An industrial floor lives under abuse a garage never sees. It has to carry forklift and pallet-jack traffic and concentrated point loads from racking, presses and dropped tooling without cracking or gouging, so it needs a high-build system of 20 to 40 mils keyed into an aggressively profiled slab. It has to resist the oils, coolants, hydraulic fluid, acids and solvents a working shop spills, and take repeated abrasion from steel wheels and dragged pallets. And it usually needs line striping, aisle marking and safety zoning worked into the topcoat. The single biggest predictor of how long it lasts is the surface prep underneath it.
The System We Install and How Long It Takes
On an industrial slab we shot-blast to a CSP 3 to 5 profile rather than grind, so a thick coating mechanically keys into the concrete and holds under steel wheels. We cut and fill control joints with a semi-rigid, shore-A-hardness joint filler that supports wheel traffic across the joint edge, repair spalls, then build an epoxy base for film thickness with a polyaspartic or polyurea topcoat for cure speed, chemical and abrasion resistance. It is our own Duralast system. Fast-cure topcoats return the floor to service in about a day, and we can phase the work bay by bay so production keeps moving.
- Shot-blasted to a CSP 3 to 5 profile, rather than acid-etched.
- High-build system at 20 to 40 mils.
- Cures to forklift traffic in about 72 hours.
- Sized for rack-post point loads over 3,000 psi.
- Semi-rigid, shore-A joint filler supports wheel loads across the joint.
Built for Indiana Winters
Any unheated bay, and the concrete inside a shop's overhead and dock doors, takes freeze-thaw and road-salt tracking like an outdoor slab. Most industrial coatings are specified for a heated interior and fail at the doors, so we spec those zones for the cold and chloride specifically.
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 industrial shop 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.
