Industrial and commercial epoxy flooring in Montreal
Induscoat installs industrial and commercial epoxy floors in Montreal: plants, warehouses, commercial kitchens, shops and indoor parking. Our crews leave from LaSalle and work at night or zone by zone to keep your operations running. Send photos and the floor area and you receive a quote within 24 business hours. Residential garages are not part of our offer.
What kinds of buildings do you coat in Montreal?
Buildings where the floor works hard. In a plant, it takes forklifts, dropped parts, oils and cleaning products. In a warehouse, repeated pallet truck traffic wears down the aisles and docks. In a commercial kitchen or a food plant, it faces hot water, grease, food acids and daily washdowns.
We also coat maintenance shops, process rooms, laboratories, mechanical rooms and indoor parking, where de-icing salts carried in by vehicles attack the concrete. Work is carried out by our crews and qualified subcontractors, under one quote.
How do you prepare the concrete before the epoxy?
Mechanically, never with acid. An epoxy holds by anchoring into the concrete: laitance, old sealers, oils and paint have to go. Shot blasting opens up large areas quickly and leaves an even profile. Diamond grinding is used along walls, around equipment and on slabs that need correcting.
The target roughness is expressed as a CSP profile, the ICRI scale: a thin film calls for a light profile, a thick mortar for a heavier one. Cracks and joints are then repaired, holes filled and dust vacuumed. A floor that lifts almost always comes from insufficient preparation, not from the product.
Why measure the moisture in the slab?
Because a sealed coating traps the water vapour rising from the concrete. If the slab is too damp, pressure blisters and lifts the floor, sometimes months after installation. It is common on slabs on grade with no vapour barrier, which are widespread in Montreal's older industrial buildings, and on recently poured concrete.
We therefore measure moisture before selecting the system: in-slab relative humidity probes (ASTM F2170) or the calcium chloride test (ASTM F1869). The result is compared with the limit on the manufacturer's data sheet. Above it, a moisture-barrier primer goes down first, or a system that tolerates vapour.
Epoxy, urethane cement or polyaspartic: which system?
Epoxy suits most dry floors: warehouses, shops, production areas. It goes down as a thin film, a self-leveller or a mortar, depending on expected wear. Urethane cement is the choice for commercial kitchens and food processing: it withstands the thermal shock of hot washdowns, constant moisture and organic acids, where an epoxy eventually cracks or lifts.
Polyaspartic cures very fast and resists ultraviolet light. It is used as a topcoat when the floor has to return to service quickly, or near doors and storefronts where epoxy would yellow. Often the right floor combines two of these products. Our protective coatings reference page explains how a system is selected.
Anti-slip, cove base, line marking: which finishes should you plan?
The ones the use dictates. Anti-slip texture comes from broadcasting an aggregate into the resin: fine for a dry pedestrian area, coarser for a wet or greasy floor. The heavier the texture, the more effort cleaning takes: the grade is decided zone by zone with you.
A cove base carries the coating up the bottom of the walls with a rounded corner. There is no angle left where water and dirt collect, which is what commercial kitchens and food processing rooms require. Slopes to drains, joint treatment, aisle and safety zone marking and colour selection are added as needed.
Can the floor be redone without closing the building?
Yes, in most cases. The floor is divided into zones, treated one after the other while the rest of the building keeps operating. Night and weekend work suits kitchens, retail spaces and loading docks, which have to reopen in the morning or on Monday.
The schedule accounts for cure: every product has a waiting time before foot traffic, then before forklift traffic, stated on its data sheet and lengthened by cold. Fast-cure systems shorten the downtime when the window is tight. Preparation dust is captured at the source by vacuum.
Do you do residential garages, and where do you travel?
No to residential garages. Induscoat does not do home garages, basements, balconies or condos: our equipment and systems are sized for industrial and commercial floors.
For those buildings, we travel across the Island of Montreal (LaSalle, Lachine, Saint-Laurent, Dorval, Anjou, Saint-Léonard, Montréal-Est, Pointe-aux-Trembles, downtown) as well as to Laval, Longueuil and the surrounding suburbs.
Regions served
- LaSalle, Lachine, Dorval and Saint-Laurent
- Anjou, Saint-Léonard, Montréal-Est and Pointe-aux-Trembles
- Downtown and Sud-Ouest
- Laval, Longueuil and the surrounding suburbs
Industries served
- Manufacturing plants
- Warehouses and distribution centres
- Commercial kitchens and food processing
- Maintenance shops and process rooms
- Indoor parking
Services & solutions
- Concrete preparation: shot blasting and diamond grinding
- Slab moisture testing
- Epoxy floors: thin film, self-levelling, mortar
- Urethane cement for wet and food areas
- Fast-cure polyaspartic topcoat
- Anti-slip, cove base and line marking
Brands distributed
- Induscoat, own brand (Canada coatings)
Operational mobilization
Our crews leave from LaSalle, on the Island of Montreal. The floor is divided into zones and work is done at night or on weekends when needed, with a schedule that respects the cure of each coat before return to service.
Frequently asked questions
Do you have a shop or showroom in Montreal?
No. A floor is built at your site: there is no shop or showroom to visit. Our mobile crews leave from LaSalle, on the Island of Montreal, with preparation and application equipment. Texture and colour samples can be shown at your site.
How much does a commercial epoxy floor cost in Montreal?
Pricing is by quote. It depends on area, concrete condition, preparation, slab moisture, the system and its thickness, finishes (anti-slip, cove base) and the schedule. Our industrial epoxy flooring cost guide details these factors. Send photos and the floor area: quote within 24 business hours.
Do you do residential garage floors?
No. We only do industrial and commercial floors: plants, warehouses, commercial kitchens, shops, retail spaces and indoor parking in buildings.
Can epoxy be applied over an old coating?
Sometimes. If the old coating is well bonded and compatible, sanding and a new coat may be enough. If it blisters, flakes or sounds hollow, it is removed down to sound concrete. An adhesion test on site settles the question.
When can the new floor take traffic?
It depends on the product and the temperature. Each data sheet gives one waiting time for foot traffic, another for forklifts and a last one for chemical exposure. The quote states these times for the proposed system.
Explore our solutions
A floor to redo in Montreal?
Send photos, floor area and how the space is used: we propose the preparation, the system and the work schedule. Quote within 24 business hours.
Induscoat is the Quebec-Ontario subsidiary of Induscoat Group, an industrial group active in Canada and Morocco.
Induscoat, the Group's Quebec-Ontario subsidiaryAreas we serve
- Industrial coatings and maintenance in Quebec
- Industrial coatings and maintenance in Montreal
- Industrial coatings and maintenance in Ontario
- Industrial coatings and maintenance in Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Industrial coatings and maintenance on the Côte-Nord
- Industrial coatings and maintenance in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
- Industrial coatings and maintenance in Mauricie and Centre-du-Québec
- Industrial coatings and maintenance in Montérégie