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Warehouse and shop epoxy floors for Houston businesses

Commercial floors need to survive forklifts, chemicals, hot water, and constant traffic. We spec the system to the space and phase larger floors so part of it stays in use while the rest gets coated.

Specced to the traffic, not a garage kit

Commercial floors need to survive forklifts, chemicals, hot water, and constant traffic. We spec the system to the space: high-build epoxy where impact matters, chemical-resistant topcoats for shops and kitchens, and a clean solid-color finish for showrooms. Larger floors go in phases so part of the space stays in use.

Warehouses, auto shops, restaurant kitchens, retail spaces, and offices all end up on this page, and none of them get the same spec by default. The floor tells us what it needs during the walkthrough.

A garage-grade finish put down on a warehouse floor tends to fail fast under a forklift, which is the actual reason a commercial job gets its own spec instead of a smaller version of a residential one.

Walk, spec, phase, open

Every commercial job follows the same four stages no matter the size of the floor. A small shop bay and a full warehouse both go through walk, spec, phase, and open, the difference is how many zones the floor gets split into.

  • Walk: square footage, current floor, moisture, traffic, and the hours we can have it
  • Spec: the system matched to the floor, from high-build epoxy to chemical-resistant topcoats to polished concrete
  • Phase: the floor split into zones and scheduled around your operation
  • Open: cure windows planned so you open on time

Nights, weekends, zone by zone

A typical zone is out of service for two nights: grind, repair, and base coat the first night, topcoat the second. The rest of the floor keeps running while that zone cures.

Foot traffic is fine the next morning, carts and pallet jacks after a day, and forklifts and racking back after about 48 hours once the topcoat has hardened through.

Every seam between zones ties in so the finished floor reads as one surface, not a patchwork of jobs done on different nights.

The zone count depends on how much square footage you can give us at once. More zones spreads the work over more nights, fewer zones finishes faster but takes a bigger piece of the floor out of service at a time.

What holds up

High-build epoxy takes impact and point loads, a chemical-resistant polyaspartic topcoat takes hot water, oil, and cleaners, and polished concrete takes the most traffic with the least upkeep.

The warehouse and shop floors already on this site show two different answers to the same question: a solid grey epoxy floor with safety lines for a warehouse, and a glossy solid-color floor for a shop, both specced to what actually rolls or drips across them.

A commercial room in grey flake, coated the same way as a residential garage but scaled up, is on the site too, for spaces where hiding dust and tracked-in dirt matters more than showroom shine.

One contact, start to handover

Victor walks it, writes the bid, and runs the crew. No sales layer between you and the person on the grinder.

That is the whole pitch on the commercial side: a written bid within 48 hours, a phased schedule, and the same person on site from the walkthrough to the day you reopen.

It also means one phone number for the whole job. If something changes mid-project, you are calling the person running the crew, not a dispatcher.

You get a cleaning sheet at handover too: what to mop with, what to avoid, and when a recoat makes sense down the line. Most commercial topcoats go years between recoats under normal traffic.

How to get a bid

Send the square footage, what is on the floor now, and the hours we can have it. Victor walks the space or scopes it from plans and photos, then sends a written bid with the system, the phasing, and the schedule within 48 hours.

A spec sheet, a set of drawings, or a walkthrough video all work if getting Victor on site before the bid is not practical. He will say so up front if the spec calls for something the slab cannot support.

The polished concrete page is worth a look too if upkeep matters more to you than color, since a lot of the same warehouses and shops that land here end up choosing between the two.

Warehouse floor in solid grey epoxy with a yellow safety line running down it
Warehouse, solid grey epoxy with safety lines
Shop floor in solid grey epoxy under a gloss topcoat
Shop, solid grey epoxy
Commercial room coated in grey flake
Commercial space, grey flake
Warehouse floor, Solid grey epoxy, safety lines, beforeWarehouse floor, Solid grey epoxy, safety linesBeforeAfter
Before: Bare concrete, buckets and dust. After: Solid grey epoxy, safety lines.

How we keep you open

  1. Before we start

    Walkthrough and zones

    Victor walks the floor with you, splits it into zones, and books the nights around your shifts.

  2. 1
    Night 1

    Zone A: grind and coat

    Racking moved, slab ground and repaired, base coat down. Zone B keeps working.

    Zone B open
  3. 2
    Night 2

    Zone A sealed, Zone B ground

    Topcoat on A. B gets its grind, its repairs, and its base coat.

    Keep off
  4. 3
    Night 3

    Zone B sealed

    Topcoat on B. Every seam ties in so the floor reads as one surface.

  5. Next morning

    Foot traffic on both zones

    Crew walks, carts roll, the doors open on time.

    Walk on
  6. 48 hours later

    Forklifts and racking back

    Full load once the topcoat has hardened through.

    Forklifts

I am extremely satisfied with the epoxy flooring service provided by Somar Epoxy Flooring and their crew, led by Victor. Victor demonstrated excellent communication throughout the project, taking the time to clearly explain the process.

Michael S.

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Awesome job and punctual. Went above and beyond to make sure we were happy. Matched our floors that was previously epoxied and Somar floors layed cleaner with crisp appearance and durability. More floors to come! Thanks for the awesome job!

Brian R.

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If you're looking for a hard worker, fair prices and floors that will last then you're in the right spot! Hit up Victor and thank yourself later.

Mario M.

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Questions about this floor

Usually. The floor gets split into zones and each zone goes in over a night or two while the rest keeps running. Nights and weekends are the normal schedule for commercial work.

A typical zone is out of service for two nights. Foot traffic the next morning, carts and pallet jacks after a day, forklifts and racking after about 48 hours. The bid comes with a zone-by-zone schedule.

High-build epoxy takes impact and point loads, a chemical-resistant polyaspartic topcoat takes hot water, oil, and cleaners, and polished concrete takes the most traffic with the least upkeep. Victor specs the system to the floor after the walkthrough.

Send the square footage, what is on the floor now, and the hours we can have it. Victor walks the space or scopes it from plans and photos, then sends a written bid with the system, the phasing, and the schedule within 48 hours.

Have a floor that can't close?

Tell us the square footage and the hours you can give us. Victor phases it and sends a bid.