Industries · Aviation & hangars
Hangar floors, coated around live aircraft operations
A hangar is the largest uninterrupted slab most contractors will ever be asked to coat, and it is almost never empty. The floor has to go down in the gaps the operation leaves, and it has to be ready to take an aircraft when the doors open.
What the floor has to take
Area without a seam to hide behind
Fifty thousand square feet is not a room, it is a field, and a resin floor across it is one continuous placement. Batching, crew size and working time all have to be planned around the fact that a cold joint in the middle of a hangar bay is permanent and visible.
Point loads and tow traffic
Jacks, stands, tugs and ground equipment concentrate weight on very small footprints, then move it. A thin rolled coating spreads that load onto whatever the slab underneath will bear; a broadcast system carries impact and point loads better and stays intact where equipment is set down.
Line work that has to be read from above
Aircraft positioning, equipment zones and safety markings are all line work, and they have to be laid out and cut in around fixtures rather than painted over them. Equipment cutouts get detailed in place.
A schedule set by the operation
The building does not stop being a hangar while the floor goes down. We run day and night shifts to hand a bay back on the date it was promised, which is usually the constraint that decides the specification.
What we specify for it
- Solid color epoxy
- Seamless and non-porous, it brightens a dark building and takes line striping and safety markings cleanly — which is most of what a hangar floor is asked to do.
- Quartz broadcast
- Colored quartz broadcast to refusal, ground back and sealed. Thicker and denser than a rolled coating, and it carries impact and point loads where ground equipment lives.
- Surface prep
- Dust-collected diamond grinding and joint work across the whole footprint before anything is placed. On a slab this size prep is most of the job.
Placed, not rendered
United Airlines hangar — 50,000 sq ft
A commercial coating over 50,000 sq ft of hangar slab, run day and night to hand the space back on schedule. Line work and equipment cutouts detailed around live aircraft operations.
"Veteran coatings came in ended a 50,000 ft.² commercial coatings. They worked today and night in order to finish the job and at the end the floor looks amazing. This is a airplane hanger at an airport."
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Tell us what the floor takes
Square footage, traffic and the downtime window. Estimates are free.