Industrial coatings
Industrial Epoxy Coatings
Tough, high-build systems designed for factories, warehouses, and production environments.
Chapter 01
Where a light-duty coating gives out on a production floor
A factory or warehouse floor is not a garage floor. Forklifts run the same lanes all day, parts get dropped, pallets get dragged, and whatever spills sits there until somebody has time to deal with it. A light-duty coating, the kind that suits a two-car garage, wears through in those traffic lanes first. Then it lifts at the edges where the slab was never properly repaired.
That is the problem the industrial side of Columbia River Coatings is built around. Craig McConathy describes it in his own words: tough, high-build systems designed for factories, warehouses and production environments.
Most coating failures on a working floor start underneath the coating, not in it. A hairline crack that was only painted over opens up again, and a pitted joint edge breaks away under the first set of hard wheels.
Grey flake epoxy coating across a large steel-framed shop building
Slab repair first, then a system built up for the traffic
Every industrial job starts with the slab as found. Craig walks it with the owner or the shop foreman, marks the cracks, the spalled joint edges and the worn patches, and repairs them before any coating goes down. Anything laid over a bad slab inherits its problems, and on a production floor those problems show quickly.
From there the system is built up thicker for the traffic it has to carry, heavier where the forklifts turn and the loads sit. The finish is chosen to suit the building. Flake gives a textured, slip-resistant surface that hides wear, as in the big steel-framed shop pictured below. A solid color suits a floor that needs to read clean and bright.
Craig does every step himself, from the first consultation to the final coat. The person who looked at your slab is the person who coats it.
Chapter 03
Keeping a coated floor working once the operation is back on it
A coated floor is scheduled around the business that runs on it. Craig plans the work with the owner so lanes, bays and loading areas come back into use in a sensible order, instead of shutting a whole building down for longer than it needs to be.
After that the upkeep is simple, and it is mostly habit. Keep the surface swept, because grit under a pallet jack or a set of tires acts like sandpaper on any coating. When a traffic lane starts to dull, ask about a re-coat before it wears through to the slab.
If you run a shop, a warehouse or a production floor in Pasco or anywhere in the Columbia Basin, call Craig on (509) 492-8403. He is a licensed, bonded and insured Washington contractor, licence COLUMRC781K6, and he will tell you plainly whether your slab suits a high-build system or whether a lighter coating would do the job for less fuss.
Laid by Craig McConathy, owner and installer. Licensed, bonded and insured, WA #COLUMRC781K6.
Two big floors, coated edge to edge
These are open, steel-framed buildings finished in chip flake, a textured surface that suits a shop or a production space. If your building needs something different, a solid color or a flake system can be specified to match. Read about Craig or send him a message about your slab.
Grey and white chip flake across a large steel-framed shop, glossy under the ceiling lights.
Chip flake carried right up to the steel columns and the wall of an open building.