Auto shop floor coatings

Yes, with a degreased grind and a polyaspartic flake specced for shops, not a residential garage kit. Oil stays on top and wipes. Hot-tire peel is a prep miss. We work around hoist posts and drains. Metro Detroit bays that last were cleaned and profiled first. We will not coat a soaked slab and call it a shop floor.

Not if we grind and oil-test first. Peel is almost always prep or coating over old paint. Summer drop-offs and winter salt are normal use. We give you a park-on window so cars are not sitting on a green film. Honest prep is the whole product in a working bay.

Only if it is bonded. Failed coatings come off. We test adhesion first. Overlaying a peeling mechanic bay is how the next film fails at the first oil dump. Removal is part of the quote when we need it. You will hear a yes or a no on the walkthrough, not after we are already grinding.

Polyaspartic is often next-day light traffic. Full cure is typically 48 to 72 hours depending on temperature. We give the exact window at install. You phase bays so some lifts stay live. A whole-shop shutdown is a choice, not a requirement. Ops plans around the written window.

Flake hides dirt in daily bays. Quartz is for heavier chemical or wet wash zones. Many Metro Detroit shops run flake in general repair and quartz at the wash bay. Metallic is the wrong call under lifts. We spec by zone so you are not using a showroom floor as a drain pan.

Yes. We detail posts, trenches, and racks. We do not bury moving equipment. Masking and cut-ins take time and they are on the quote. If a lift pit is full of sludge, that is a clean-out conversation first. The floor should serve the shop, not fight the equipment.

No. Bay-by-bay is the default. You keep turning cars in the open bays. Nights and Sundays are common. Full closes are for tiny one-bay shops or new builds. The phasing map is part of the walkthrough. We schedule around your book, not the other way around.

A shop-spec topcoat takes the chemicals you actually use if you wipe instead of ponding them. Paint stripper and overnight solvent baths are a different story. We ask what is on the shelf. Care is still wiping spills. The win is the slab no longer looks permanently stained.

Waiting rooms can get a cleaner flake or metallic while bays stay practical. Same crew, two specs. Dealers in Metro Detroit often coat service and showroom as one project with a transition at the door. We sample both so they talk to each other without pretending a lift bay is a gallery.