The warehouse corridor
Upper Macungie is one of the biggest distribution areas in the north east, and those buildings have floors that never stop working.
Trexlertown, Lehigh County
What Trexlertown concrete is like
Trexlertown sits in Upper Macungie Township on Route 222, in what has become one of the largest warehouse and distribution corridors in the north east. The interchange with Interstate 78 and the flat, developable land either side of it turned this area into a logistics hub within a couple of decades.
Those buildings are the work here. Big slabs, racking on point loads, forklifts and pallet jacks on defined lanes, line marking, and operations that run long hours or continuously. The specification is about traffic loading and return to service rather than about how the floor looks.
Alongside the industry there is a large amount of newer residential development that came with it, modern houses on modern slabs with big attached garages. Those are the clean, quick jobs, and they are usually people who moved here for work and want the garage sorted before winter.
For the distribution buildings, the thing that decides whether a job goes smoothly is who we are talking to. Site managers know the traffic patterns and the quiet windows, and facilities managers hold the access. Getting both in the same conversation at the walkthrough is worth more than anything else we can do, because the schedule is the hard part and the coating is not.
The person who quoted your job is the person holding the grinder.
Cobra Epoxy, Boyertown PAServices here
What we get asked for in Trexlertown
Everything we do is available in Trexlertown. These three come up the most, and the full list is here.
Warehouse Epoxy Flooring
Specified for racking point loads and forklift lanes, not scaled up from a garage.
Commercial Epoxy Flooring
Phased into sections at night or over a weekend so the doors stay open.
Garage Epoxy Flooring
Ground back to clean concrete, repaired, then built in flake under polyaspartic.
Nearby in Lehigh County: Emmaus·Macungie·Alburtis·Allentown·Coopersburg
Same method, different diagnosis
The build does not change from job to job. Grind, repair, base, full hand broadcast, scrape back, polyaspartic. What changes is everything decided before that starts.
Whether the slab needs a moisture tolerant primer, which comes from a measurement rather than a guess. How much repair is in front of us. Whether an old coating has to come off first. Which blend suits the light in that particular room, and how much texture the surface needs for what happens on it.
That is why nobody can price a floor properly over the phone and why the walkthrough is not a sales visit. It is the diagnosis, and the diagnosis is most of the skill.
Indoors and outdoors are different problems
Interior slabs never get cold enough to go through the freeze and thaw cycle. Their problem is moisture arriving from below as vapor, which is a measurement question rather than a weather one, and it is why every basement we quote gets tested.
Exterior slabs have the opposite issue. Moisture from below is irrelevant and everything comes from above: rain, snow, salt, ultraviolet light and forty freeze cycles a winter.
That is why the two get built differently. An outdoor system uses an ultraviolet stable topcoat, a coarser texture for wet traction, and joints cut and treated so the slab can move. Using an indoor specification outdoors is one of the more common ways a coating fails early.
On the map
Trexlertown is 18 miles from the shop
We are based in Boyertown and run roughly fifty miles out, so Trexlertown is comfortably inside the normal working radius. Local reference points around here include the Route 222 corridor, the Interstate 78 interchange and the velodrome.
Nearby towns we also cover include Allentown, Macungie, Fogelsville. If you are on the edge of that and not sure, call and ask rather than assuming. It costs nothing to find out.
Questions
Questions from Trexlertown
What people here tend to ask before they book a walkthrough.
Can we phase the reopening?
That is normally exactly how it works. Each section comes back into service as it reaches the right point, so you are never waiting on the whole floor. The order the sections run in is planned around which areas you need first, which is part of what the walkthrough establishes.
How disruptive is this to a working building?
Manageable, if it is planned properly. The floor gets divided so there is always somewhere for your stock and your people, the grinders run with extraction so dust is not going through the building, and each section comes back into use as it finishes. The scheduling is usually a bigger conversation than the coating.
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 I still get into the garage while you work?
Not while a section is curing, no, and that is worth planning for. On a single garage the floor is out of use for the two days on site plus the evening of the second. Anything you need out of there, tools, bikes, the lawnmower, wants to come out on the first morning along with everything else.
Do you come out this far?
We run roughly fifty miles out from Boyertown, which covers Berks County and good parts of Montgomery, Chester and Lehigh. If you are not sure whether you are in range, call and ask. We would rather tell you honestly than send somebody on a two hour round trip.
What goes into the number?
Square footage, the condition of the concrete, how much repair it needs, how many edges have to be cut in by hand, whether anything has to come off first, and what the moisture reading says. Those last four are why two rooms of the same size are frequently not the same price, and why the walkthrough exists.
What about silica dust from the grinding?
Controlled at source, which is not optional. Dry grinding concrete without extraction throws respirable silica, and it is a genuine health exposure rather than a nuisance. Our equipment is OSHA certified and the extraction runs the whole time the grinders do. In an occupied commercial building that matters even more than it does in a garage.
Are you insured?
Yes, and the company holds Pennsylvania home improvement contractor registration 177204, which is on the truck and on the paperwork. The equipment is OSHA certified, which matters on a commercial site and matters in a house because it is your air the grinding dust goes into.
Book a walkthrough
Book a walkthrough in Trexlertown
Describe the floor and the state it is in. A callback comes within a business day and the walkthrough usually follows inside the week.
American made materials, OSHA certified equipment and Pennsylvania registration 177204. Residential interiors are covered for life, in writing.
Happier on the phone? (484) 942-3219. Happier writing it out? jfaust@cobraepoxy.com, or use the form on the contact page. All three land in the same place.
Tell us about the floor
Send it over and Jimmy will be in touch within a business day to arrange a look at the concrete.
Trexlertown sits in Lehigh County, one of four counties on our patch. See the full service area, browse what we coat, look through the gallery, or get in touch.