McKinney Commercial Epoxy
A hundred-year-old building on the square and a new medical suite off US-380 are two completely different floors, even if the coating bucket says the same thing. Cody walks the space, reads the slab, and puts down a system that survives your actual traffic. Most McKinney jobs go in at night or over a weekend so you open on time.
What McKinney Buildings Ask of a Floor
McKinney is really two commercial towns sharing a zip code. There is the historic core around the downtown square, where the shops, bars and restaurants sit in brick buildings that have been standing since long before anyone thought about vapor barriers. Then there is everything that grew up along US-75 and out east: the retail centers, the medical and office suites stacked along US-380, the Adriatica Village storefronts, and the taprooms and event spaces in the Tupps Brewery district. Same city, two very different slabs under your feet.
That difference decides the whole job. A square-building slab was often poured straight on grade with nothing underneath it, so it wicks moisture up out of the ground year round. You can grind it beautifully, coat it on a dry week, and watch it bubble loose eight months later, because the problem was never the product. We take moisture readings on those older floors before anyone quotes a color. If the numbers come back high, the floor gets a moisture-mitigating primer first. That step costs a little more on day one and it is the reason the floor is still down in year fifteen.
The newer buildings off US-75 have the opposite issue. The concrete is clean and flat, which tempts people into skipping prep, but a fresh power-troweled slab is polished so tight that nothing bonds to it. It still gets diamond ground open. New construction can also hold curing moisture for months, so we test those too.
Picking a System That Matches the Work
A restaurant kitchen behind the square needs grip more than it needs looks. Wet tile and a cook moving fast is how people get hurt, so those floors get a quartz broadcast or a heavier grit in the topcoat, plus a cove base curved up the wall so there is no seam collecting water at the joint. It hoses down clean and passes inspection without a fight.
A boutique or a tasting room wants the other end of it: a flake or metallic finish that reads as part of the design, smooth enough to mop in five minutes at close. Medical and office suites along US-380 usually want a solid color, seamless and easy to disinfect, in something that does not glare under ceiling lights. Shops and small warehouse bays out toward the highway need real build thickness, because a pallet jack wheel or a dropped tool finds the weak spot in a thin floor immediately.
Chemical exposure is worth saying out loud during the walkthrough. Brewery floors take sanitizer, caustics and constant standing water. Auto and equipment bays take oil, brake fluid and battery acid. Those are not the same resins, and putting a retail-grade coating in a brewery drain lane is how you end up recoating in two years. Tell Cody what actually hits the floor and the spec follows from there.
Straight Talk About Downtime
Nobody wants to hear how long their floor will be out of service, so here is the honest version. Grinding is loud and dusty, though we run vacuums on the machines to keep it contained. Coatings have a smell while they cure. And a floor you can walk on is not the same as a floor you can roll a rack across. Foot traffic usually comes back the morning after the topcoat. Heavy equipment and rolling loads want a couple more days, and full chemical cure takes about a week.
So we build the schedule backward from your slowest stretch. Restaurants and bars near the square typically close Sunday night and reopen Tuesday. Retail runs Friday close to Monday open. Offices and medical suites off US-380 go in over a weekend with nobody in the building. If the space is big enough, we split it and coat half at a time so you keep operating. What we will not do is promise a one-day turnaround that forces a soft floor back into service, because that floor prints every cart wheel that touches it and you paid for a floor that lasts.
Tell us what happens on your floor.
Square footage, what gets spilled, and when you can close. Cody comes out and walks it with you before anything gets committed.
McKinney Commercial Epoxy FAQ
Our building on the square is old. Is the slab even coatable?
Almost always, yes. Older downtown slabs need more prep and a moisture check first, since many were poured with no vapor barrier under them. If readings come back high we put down a moisture-mitigating primer before the build coats. Cracks and patched areas get filled during prep. We would rather tell you a floor needs mitigation than coat over a problem and have it lift a year later.
Can you work at night so we do not close?
Yes, and most McKinney commercial work happens that way. Restaurants and bars usually go in on a Sunday night into Monday. Retail and office spaces run over a weekend. For a smaller space, a fast-cure polyaspartic build can go down overnight and be walkable when you open. We set the plan around your hours at the walkthrough, not after we start.
Will a kitchen floor pass health inspection?
Yes. Kitchens and prep areas get an NSF and FDA compliant system with an integral cove base where the floor meets the wall, so there is no joint holding water or debris. It washes down clean, handles daily kitchen chemistry, and gets a slip-resistant texture in the topcoat so the line stays safe when the floor is wet.
How slippery is epoxy when it gets wet?
That is a choice we make, not something the product decides. Smooth topcoats look sharp in a showroom or a boutique but get slick with water on them. Anywhere there is spillage, a wash-down routine or a drain, we broadcast grit into the topcoat for traction. You can also run a smoother finish in the dining room and a heavier texture behind the line in the same install.
What holds up to brewery and taproom conditions?
Taproom and production floors take sanitizer, standing water and constant washing, so they get a chemical-resistant resin rather than a general retail coating, usually with a quartz broadcast for grip and slope worked toward the drains. The front-of-house side can run a nicer finish since it sees drinks and foot traffic instead of caustics. Same visit, two different specs.
Service Area: McKinney, TX
We cover commercial spaces across McKinney, from the historic square and the Tupps Brewery district to Adriatica Village, the retail strips along US-75, and the medical and office suites spread east and west on US-380. Sherwoods works out of Dallas, and McKinney sits inside our regular Collin County run alongside Frisco, Allen, Prosper, Celina and Melissa.