Industries · Dealerships & service shops
Service floors that take tires, oil and a lift base
A service floor is judged twice: by the technicians who work on it every day, and by the customer who can see it from the lounge. It has to survive fluids and tire traffic and still read as a finished surface.
What the floor has to take
Tire traffic and the marks it leaves
Tires drag black across a plain coating and it never fully comes up. A chip broadcast ground back and sealed hides tire marks, dust and future patch repairs, which is why service floors get texture rather than a flat sheet of color.
Oil, fluids and whatever comes off a vehicle
Everything drains onto the floor before it reaches the wash — oil, coolant, brake fluid, road salt in winter. A seamless, non-porous surface is the difference between wiping a floor and scrubbing a stain out of open concrete.
Lift bases, drains and bay lines
None of these move for the floor, so the floor is detailed around them in place. Bay lines get laid out to the shop's own layout rather than to a standard grid.
Point loads and dropped tools
A dropped wrench and a jack stand load the same floor. A double broadcast builds a surface thick and dense enough to carry that without telegraphing every impact, and it holds traction when a bay is wet.
What we specify for it
- Quartz broadcast
- Colored quartz broadcast to refusal — usually two full broadcasts — then ground back and sealed. Thick, dense and slip-resistant, and still an architectural surface.
- Flake systems
- Vinyl chip broadcast into wet epoxy, ground back and sealed with urethane. The blend hides tire marks and wear, and the ground texture holds traction without feeling rough underfoot.
- Solid color epoxy
- For parts departments, storage and back-of-house, where a seamless floor that wipes clean and takes striping is the whole requirement.
Placed, not rendered
Bob Rohrman dealership — 24,000 sq ft of two-broadcast quartz
A full service floor ground to bare concrete and rebuilt with a two-broadcast quartz system, finished in under a week around the shop's own schedule. Lift bases, drains and bay lines detailed in place.
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Tell us what the floor takes
Square footage, traffic and the downtime window. Estimates are free.