We work around your hours so the doors stay open
Warehouses, stockrooms, shops, kennels and offices. Coated in stages, at night or over a weekend, so you never have to close.
Commercial work
How a phased commercial job actually runs
The floor is rarely the problem for a business owner. The downtime is. Nobody wants to close a stockroom for a week or tell a kennel full of dogs to go somewhere else, and that fear is the main reason commercial floors stay bare far longer than they should. The way around it is not a faster coating, it is a properly phased schedule.
We split the floor into sections and take one at a time, so there is always a clear route through the space and always somewhere for your stock and equipment to sit. Grinding, repair, base and broadcast happen on a section, the topcoat goes on, and by the time your people are back through the door that area is walkable.
A lot of this work happens at night or across a weekend for exactly that reason. One of the reviews Jimmy is proudest of is from a dog daycare where the whole original finish came off and a new floor went in without the business closing for a single day. That is a scheduling achievement more than a coating one.
Return to service times matter here and they get quoted honestly. Foot traffic comes back sooner than vehicle traffic, and racking should not be reloaded until the system has properly hardened. Rushing that is how a brand new commercial floor picks up permanent indentations under pallet racking legs in the first week.
We show up, finish on time, and get it right. No hidden fees, no surprises.
Jimmy and Justyn, Cobra Epoxy
What a commercial floor has to survive
Pallet jacks, hand trucks, forklift wheels, dropped stock, spilled product, cleaning chemicals and constant foot traffic on the same paths. That is a completely different loading pattern to a residential garage, and the system gets specified for it rather than scaled up from a house.
Thickness goes up where the traffic concentrates. Chemical resistance matters more in a kitchen, a kennel or a workshop than it does in an office. Non slip specification becomes a genuine liability question in any area where staff carry things or where water lands on the floor.
Line marking, walkways, bay edges and safety zones can go in as part of the build rather than being painted on afterwards, which keeps them under the topcoat where they belong instead of wearing off the top of it.
What the price covers
Every one of these, every time
The build does not get trimmed to hit a number. If a slab needs more work than expected you hear about it at the walkthrough, not on the invoice.
What happens across the two days
Day one starts with clearing and masking, then grinding. The diamond grinders run with dust extraction attached, which keeps the mess to something reasonable and keeps silica dust out of the air. We work the slab until it is uniformly open and clean rather than until it looks clean.
Still on day one, the repairs go in. Cracks and divots are filled, pitting is levelled and the joints get treated. Then the base coat goes down and the flake is broadcast into it by hand, wall to wall, until the surface is saturated.
Day two is the scrape back, the vacuum and the topcoat. Scraping is what converts a rough chip surface into an even one, and skipping it is why some flake floors feel like sandpaper. Then the polyaspartic seals everything in.
You can normally walk on it that evening. Furniture and light use come back the next day, and a garage is ready for a car after about three days once the system has hardened enough to take hot tyres without marking.
OSHA certified equipment and a crew who has done this
All of the equipment is OSHA certified, which matters on a commercial site in a way it does not in somebody garage, because your insurer and your own health and safety obligations do not stop applying because a contractor is on site.
Dust extraction runs on the grinders throughout. Silica dust from concrete grinding is a real exposure issue and controlling it is not optional in an occupied building. It also means we are not filling your stock with concrete dust while we work.
Your doors stay open. We work in sections, at night, over a weekend, around you.
Cobra Epoxy and Flake Coatings, Boyertown PAWhat we need from you to quote it properly
Commercial quoting is more detailed than residential because the variables that matter are things only you know. The square footage and the condition of the slab we can see. What we cannot see is what runs across that floor, how often, on what wheels, and what gets spilled on it.
So the walkthrough is a conversation. What is the traffic, and is it foot, cart, pallet jack or forklift. What chemicals land on the floor and how often. Are there wash down areas, drainage falls, or zones with different requirements to the rest of the building. When can we have access, and how long can each section be out of use.
Those answers change the specification, sometimes substantially, and they are the difference between a floor that is right for the building and a floor that is simply thick. They also let us give you a scope in writing before anything starts, which for a business is usually more valuable than the number on its own.
On the map
Where we do this work
We run roughly fifty miles out from Boyertown, which covers Berks, Montgomery, Chester and Lehigh counties. The service areas page lists every town.
Not sure whether you are inside that? Call and ask. We would rather tell you honestly than send somebody on a two hour round trip.
Questions
Before you book
The things people ask on the phone before they book, answered the way Jimmy would answer them.
Do we have to close while you work?
Almost never. We split the floor into sections and take one at a time, and a lot of the work happens at night or across a weekend. One of the jobs Jimmy is proudest of is a dog daycare where the entire original finish came off and a new floor went in without the business losing a single day.
How soon can we use the floor again?
Foot traffic comes back first, usually the same evening on a section. Racking, pallet jacks and vehicles wait longer while the system hardens fully. We quote those times honestly, because reloading racking too early is how a brand new floor picks up permanent indentations under the leg plates.
Will it handle the chemicals we use?
Tell us what they are and we will specify for them. A kennel, a commercial kitchen and a workshop all put different things on the floor, and chemical resistance is a specification decision rather than a property every coating shares. It is one of the questions we ask at the walkthrough.
Can you tell why the last one failed?
Usually, and it is worth knowing because the fix differs. Coating that peels in flexible sheets with a smooth clean underside was never ground. Blisters and patches with a dusty residue underneath are moisture. Worn through to grey in the traffic lane means there was never enough material there. Send a photograph and we can often tell you before coming out.
What is the cleaning routine?
Sweep or dust mop it, and wash it with warm water and a neutral cleaner when it needs it. In a garage a hose does the job. What you should not use is anything acidic, any wax and any polish, because those either attack the finish or sit on top of it dulling the look you paid for.
Do you charge for the visit?
No. The walkthrough is free and there is nothing attached to it. A fair share of them end with somebody deciding to do it next year, or deciding the drainage needs sorting first, and that is a perfectly good outcome. Being small and local means a visit that does not turn into work costs us twenty minutes of driving rather than something we have to recover elsewhere.
What products do you use?
American made materials throughout, which is a deliberate choice rather than a marketing line. We use them because they have proved themselves on floors we can go back and look at. The equipment is OSHA certified and the company holds Pennsylvania home improvement contractor registration 177204.
Do you offer any discounts?
Yes. There are discounts for military, police, fire and hospital workers, which is something the company has done from the start. There is also a referral arrangement where both parties save if you send a neighbour our way. Ask on the call rather than assuming it has been applied.
Book a walkthrough
Get pricing on your commercial epoxy floor
Fill this in and Jimmy comes back to you within a business day to arrange a look. He measures up, checks what the concrete is doing, and you get a real number rather than a range that moves later.
Boyertown based, working a fifty mile radius. The service areas page lists every town we have written up.
If it is easier to talk, call (484) 942-3219. Photographs of the concrete are genuinely useful, so email jfaust@cobraepoxy.com if you have some. Everything also goes through the contact page.
Tell us about the floor
Tell us what you have got. Jimmy gets back within a business day and books a time to walk the space.
More of what we coat: commercial flake epoxy flooring, garage floor refinishing, flake epoxy flooring. See finished floors in the gallery, read about Jimmy and Justyn, or check the towns we cover. Ready to talk? Book a walkthrough.