Workshop Flooring Perth
Floor coatings built for mechanical and fabrication workshops. Oil, coolant and degreaser resistant, hot tyre proof, and easy to find a dropped socket on.
A Workshop Floor Has A Harder Life Than Most
Workshops throw more different kinds of punishment at a floor than almost any other building we work in. Oil and coolant soak in. Degreasers and brake cleaner attack whatever is on the surface. Hot tyres come in off the road. Steel gets dragged, tooling gets dropped, and hoists put point loads down in the same spots every day.
Bare concrete loses that fight quickly. It goes dark and blotchy with oil, breaks down around the hoist bases and the wash bay, and sheds dust into everything on the benches.
A properly specified coating takes all of it, and it changes how the workshop feels to work in. A sealed light-coloured floor reflects the lighting, so you can actually see what you are doing under a car, and a dropped circlip is findable instead of gone.
What Goes Into A Workshop Floor
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Chemical resistance for what you actually use
Engine oil, gearbox oil, coolant, brake fluid, diesel, petrol, degreaser and brake cleaner. The coating has to take all of it without softening, staining or lifting.
Hot tyre resistance
A car coming off a Perth road in February brings tyres in hot enough to lift a thin coating straight off the slab. The systems we install are specified for it. This is the single most common failure we get called out to look at.
Non-slip in the wet zones
Wash bays, around the compressor, near the parts washer and anywhere water pools. We lift the slip rating in those areas specifically rather than making the whole floor harder to sweep.
Hoist bases and point loads
Hoist mounting areas take concentrated load and vibration. They get detailed properly rather than coated over and left to crack.
Bay marking and zoning
Service bays, walkways, hazard areas and equipment footprints, marked as part of the coating so it stays legible.
Service pits and drains
Pit walls, edges and drain surrounds are where workshop coatings fail first. They get coved and detailed as part of the system.
Dealing With Twenty Years Of Oil
This is the part that separates a workshop floor from an ordinary industrial one. Oil that has been soaking into a slab for years does not sit on the surface – it is in the concrete, sometimes several millimetres deep, and it will push a new coating straight back off if it is not dealt with.
So the first thing we do at a workshop site visit is find out how bad it is. Sometimes grinding back far enough gets you to clean concrete. Sometimes it needs chemical treatment first. Occasionally a badly contaminated area needs cutting out and replacing.
We will tell you which of those it is before you commit, because coating over contaminated concrete is the fastest way to waste money on a workshop floor.
We Work Around Your Jobs
A workshop with cars on hoists and jobs booked cannot clear the whole floor. Most of our workshop work is staged bay by bay, or done over a weekend or a shutdown period.
We work out the staging at the site visit around your bookings and your hoist positions. Fast-curing systems mean a bay can usually be back in service the next morning.
What To Expect
- Site visit
We check the oil contamination, test for moisture, look at the hoist bases, the wash bay and the drains, and talk through your booking schedule. - Specification and quote
System, build, slip ratings by zone, marking layout and staging. In writing within 48 hours. - Preparation
Diamond grinding or shot blasting, oil treatment, crack repair and detailing around pits, drains and hoist bases. - Coating
Bay by bay or in one hit over a shutdown, whichever suits you. - Marking
Bays, walkways and hazard zones applied as part of the same programme. - Handover
Data sheets, cure times and a cleaning rundown.
2+ Year Product & Workmanship Warranty
We offer a 2-year warranty on commercial and a 5-year warranty on residential projects for your lasting peace of mind.
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Workshop Flooring Questions
Our floor is soaked in oil. Can it still be coated?
Usually yes, but it depends how deep the contamination goes. Grinding back often reaches clean concrete. Where it does not, the area gets chemically treated, and in bad cases a section may need cutting out. We assess it at the site visit and tell you before you commit.
Will it lift under hot tyres?
Not with a system specified for it. Hot tyre pickup is the most common workshop coating failure we get called to, and it happens with thin products and DIY kits rather than with properly built systems.
Can we keep working while you do it?
Yes, in most cases. We stage it bay by bay around your bookings, or work a weekend or shutdown if you would rather have it done in one go.
What about the wash bay?
It gets a higher slip rating than the rest of the floor, and the drain surrounds and any coving get detailed as part of the system. Wash bays are where workshop floors fail first if they are treated the same as the rest.
Will it survive dropped tooling and dragged steel?
Yes. The build gets set against what happens in the space. A fabrication shop dragging steel needs more than a light service workshop, and it gets specified accordingly.
Can we have the bays marked out?
Yes, and it is worth doing at the same time. Bay outlines, walkways, hazard zones and equipment footprints applied as part of the coating stay legible far longer than paint over the top.
What colour should we go?
Lighter floors reflect the workshop lighting and make it much easier to see under a vehicle and find dropped parts. Most workshops go light grey or a light tone with flake, which also hides marks between cleans.
Do you work outside the Perth metro?
Yes, across regional WA and into remote sites.
Get A Price On Your Workshop Floor
Tell us how many bays, what work you do and how bad the oil is. We will come out, assess the slab and put a written scope and price in front of you within 48 hours.
