Irving Commercial Epoxy
Commercial floors handle traffic, take chemistry, look good. Irving commercial businesses (DFW corridor retail, restaurants, light industrial near Las Colinas) benefit from properly-spec'd epoxy or polyaspartic. Sherwoods installs commercial coatings across Irving.
Irving Commercial Epoxy
Commercial floors have a job to do. They carry traffic all day, take spills and chemistry, and still have to look presentable when a customer or a health inspector walks in. Irving sits right in the middle of the DFW commercial corridor, so we see a wide range of spaces: Las Colinas office remodels, retail along Belt Line Road, restaurants near the Toyota Music Factory, and light industrial and warehouse floors on the west side near DFW Airport. Each one asks a different thing of the coating, and the mistake most people make is picking a product before they understand the load.
Showrooms and studios usually want metallic epoxy or a heavy flake broadcast for the look. Retail and restaurant floors lean toward a polyaspartic flake system because it cleans easily and shrugs off foot traffic. Gyms want a build with some give and grit underfoot so members are not sliding around under weights. The warehouse and light-industrial floors near the airport need real thickness, often 80 mils or more, so forklift wheels and pallet jacks do not gouge through to the slab. Cody walks the space, reads the concrete, and specs the system to that use, not to whatever package is easiest to sell.
Prep is where a commercial floor is won or lost. Every layer downstream, the primer, the body coats, the color, the topcoat, only performs if the concrete underneath is opened up and clean. On an existing Irving building the slab has usually seen years of oil, cleaner residue, and old sealer, and all of that has to come off with a diamond grinder before anything new goes down. Spec it right and prep it right, a commercial floor here runs fifteen to twenty-five years. Skip the prep to save a day and the same floor can peel inside of two.
Spec'ing the Right System
Most Irving commercial jobs cannot afford to lose a full week of business, so the schedule drives the plan almost as much as the product does. Retail and restaurant floors usually go in over a weekend, closing Friday night and opening Monday, which gives the coating enough time to cure hard before the doors reopen. Where the space is bigger, like a Las Colinas office floor or a warehouse near the airport, we phase the work so part of the building stays in use while the rest gets coated. If timing is tight, a faster-curing polyaspartic build can get a smaller floor back in service overnight instead of over a weekend.
Cody would rather tell you honestly that a job needs two nights than promise one and hand you a floor that is still soft when your staff walks in. Rushing the cure to hit a schedule is how commercial coatings fail early, and on a floor that is going to see this much traffic, that shortcut always costs more than it saves. We build in the real cure windows for the DFW climate and work the schedule around them.
Irving weather also factors into how we plan a job. Summer afternoons here run past 100 degrees, and a slab that has been baking all day changes how the coating flows and sets. On the airport-side buildings that are not climate controlled during a remodel, we often start early or run temporary conditioning so the product goes down at the right temperature. That kind of detail does not show up in a quote, but it is the difference between a floor that lays out flat and one that sets uneven.
Slab moisture is the other thing we check before committing to a system, and it matters more on commercial floors than most owners realize. A concrete slab, especially a ground-level one over Irving’s clay soils, can pull moisture up from below, and if that vapor has nowhere to go it will push a coating loose over time no matter how good the prep was. We test for it up front, and where the readings call for it we put down a moisture-mitigating primer so the finished floor stays bonded. Skipping that step is a common reason a commercial floor blisters a year in, and it is exactly the kind of shortcut a rushed installer takes to hit a price.
Property Manager Coordination
A lot of Irving commercial work runs through a property manager or a general contractor rather than the business owner, and that side of the job needs its own attention. We provide certificates of insurance up front, signed warranties on completion, and photos of the prep and each install stage so there is a paper trail on what was actually done under the color coat. You get one point of contact from the first walkthrough to the final sign-off, not a rotating crew and a phone tree.
In a multi-tenant Las Colinas building there is more to coordinate than the floor itself. We work with the building on HVAC and airflow while solvents are curing, on freight elevator and after-hours access, and on keeping the coated area sealed off from neighboring tenants until it is walkable. Permits get pulled through the City of Irving and Dallas County where the scope calls for them. The goal is a floor that goes in cleanly, on the schedule everyone agreed to, without becoming the property manager’s problem.
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Irving Commercial Epoxy FAQ
Irving Commercial Epoxy FAQ: After-hours?
Yes. 25-40 percent labor premium for nights/weekends.
Irving Commercial Epoxy FAQ: Health-code?
NSF/FDA-compliant epoxy for restaurant kitchens. Cove base detail.
Irving Commercial Epoxy FAQ: References?
Yes. Dallas County retail, restaurant, gym, industrial installs in our portfolio.
Do you have to grind our existing floor first?
Almost always, yes. Most Irving commercial slabs carry years of oil, cleaner residue, and old sealer, and a coating will not bond to any of that. We diamond-grind the surface open, fill the cracks and joints, and start from clean concrete. It is the single biggest reason a commercial floor lasts instead of peeling.
Can you coat around forklift and pallet-jack traffic?
Yes, that is what the thicker builds are for. Warehouse and light-industrial floors near DFW Airport get a heavier system, often 80 mils or more, so wheel loads and dropped pallets do not chip through to the slab. We spec the thickness to the actual equipment running on the floor.
Will the coating meet health-code for a restaurant kitchen?
Yes. Restaurant back-of-house 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 seam for water or debris to sit in. It washes down clean and holds up to daily kitchen chemistry.
Do you test the slab for moisture first?
Yes, on every commercial floor. Irving slabs sit on clay that can push moisture up from below, and if that vapor is not addressed it will lift a coating over time. We test the readings before we spec the system and put down a moisture-mitigating primer where it is needed, so the floor stays bonded. It is a step that quietly prevents the blistering that ends a lot of commercial floors early.
Service Area: Irving, TX
We serve commercial spaces across all of Irving, from the office towers and corporate campuses of Las Colinas to the retail and restaurant strips along Belt Line Road and MacArthur, out to the warehouse and light-industrial corridor on the west side near DFW Airport. Sherwoods is Dallas based, so Irving is a short run for us, and we cover the surrounding Dallas County suburbs and the rest of the DFW metro from the same shop.