Epoxy flooring offers a wide range of benefits in a commercial or industrial space. These hold true whether you’re looking for the right option for a new build or you’re refurbing an existing area.

Reasons Epoxy Resin Tops the Leader Board for Flooring Choice

Epoxy floors don’t just look good, they bring a whole bundle of other advantages…

  1. Epoxy flooring can be installed over virtually any surface: While concrete is the most usual base level, you can install epoxy resin over virtually any hard surface. Tiles, cobbles, stone – even metal and wood can be upgraded with epoxy. If the surface is porous or has any holes (small or large), it’ll need a bit of simple prep. But one of the great things about this advanced flooring is that it has self-levelling properties. Because it’s applied in liquid form, it takes the path of least resistance – making getting a level finish a synch!
  2. Epoxy flooring is really quick to install: Once any necessary preparation has been carried out, the installation can usually be done in a few hours (depending on the area to be covered). It’ll be dry enough to walk on within 24 hours and after 36-72 hours you can bring in the big guns and return to the heaviest of traffic use.
  3. Epoxy flooring is durable and resistant: Harsh chemicals, boiling liquids, cleaning fluids, paint, oil, fuel… There isn’t much that epoxy can’t cope with. A simple wipe and it’ll be looking as good as new. And, while we’re talking about how it looks…
  4. Epoxy flooring looks fabulous: Not only is it incredibly attractive, but it can be tailored to any colour, shade or finish. You could add your company logo in the middle of a showroom, add demarcation to a parking area or safety zones on a factory floor. How about adding a walkway through a department store or marking out prep and washing up areas in a kitchen? The choices are, quite literally, endless.
  5. Epoxy flooring is easy to clean: In most cases, a daily sweep and a mop with warm water will be all that’s necessary. In a location where spills and splatters occur, then you can rest easy that epoxy resin can withstand even the most robust of cleaning products and chemicals. For serious spillages, such as paint, oil, diesel, petrol etc, wipe them away soon after they occur (using a cleaning product if needed) and you’ll never know they’d been there.
  6. Epoxy flooring is chemical resistant: The properties of epoxy mean that it shrugs off chemical exposure like no other flooring can. It’s a leading choice for pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing facilities, where it’s essential that a floor can withstand these harsh elements.
  7. Epoxy flooring offers great value for money: Sure, you might have to spend a little more on the initial outlay, but when you compare this with years of use it soon becomes clear that it’s one of the best value-for-money flooring products on the market. A good quality, well-installed epoxy floor lasts for many years (and carries on looking great throughout). Plus, you won’t have to spend money on cleaning, polishing and other general refurbishment over time either.
  8. Epoxy flooring is kind to the planet: Epoxy uses minimal manufacturing processes to produce, contains no harmful substances and removes the need for harsh chemicals or planet-killing cleaning products to keep it looking fab. Another benefit that many people don’t know about is its reflective properties. This means that you’ll need less artificial lighting (meaning it’s both environmentally friendly and reduces electricity bills…). With companies having to go the extra mile for eco-awareness – plus customers keen to spend their cash with those that do – an epoxy floor combines aesthetics and practicalities with a clear message that your business is taking the climate crisis seriously.

Epoxy resin is fast becoming the optimal flooring choice in any commercial or industrial location. Of course, you’ll demand the highest level of product, and no one does this better than leading Australian-run company, Shimicoat.

With decades of experience in the surface coating industry, an extensive range of products and information about every type of commercial and industrial application, no one does epoxy better than Shimicoat.

Think epoxy – think Shimicoat. Contact us today to discuss your commercial flooring needs.