Institutional Building Epoxy Flooring Installation
Building Cleanliness & Safety, Simplified
As a building manager for an educational, healthcare, government building, or other institution, you’re constantly looking for ways to help maintain excellent health and safety standards for your citizens. That’s where we can help!
Our 100% solid, commercial-grade epoxy is non-flammable and has zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs), making it perfect for your institution floor, and the hard, stain-resistant finish lasts for years, reduces dust, and is easy to keep clean.
At Toronto Epoxy Pros, we offer a range of institutional building epoxy flooring services including:
- New epoxy floor installation
- Epoxy floor refinishing
- Epoxy floor repairs
Epoxy School, Hospital, & Institutional Floor Essentials
Solid, Safe, & Clean Epoxy
Meet Health & Safety Guidelines
Our 100% solid commercial epoxy from PurEpoxy has zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs). This provides peace of mind, and ensures your school, hospital, government, or other institutional building floor meets food safety requirements and is environmentally safe.
Anti-Slip
Get Better Traction
Give your students, patients, staff, and citizens the traction they need with our anti-slip epoxy floor coating. This great feature prevents slips and falls when your floors become greasy or wet from spills, which improves safety standards and reduces liability, while allowing your citizens to keep up with the fast pace of the building.
Coving
Make Cleaning Easier
Prevent mold, bacteria, dirt, and mildew from finding a place to hide by eliminating the cracks and corners in your school, hospital, or government building. Coving continues your epoxied floor up the wall 4” to 6” so there’s a seamless transition. It effectively eliminates hard-to-clean nooks and crannies, making it an important flooring feature.
Superior Durability
Lower Long-Term Costs
Instead of solvent-based or water-based epoxies, we only trust and use 100% solid, commercial epoxy floor coatings. They produce thicker coverage for superior durability and do not require liquids to evaporate (so they do not contain VOCs). Our high-performance institutional epoxy floor coating will stand up to the constant wear and tear and intense cleaning regimens in your building.
Dust Reduction & Easier Maintenance
Reduce Cleaning Time
With an epoxy floor, you’ll save time on maintenance and cleaning by reducing dust which benefits the health and safety of your students, patients, staff, and citizens. Minimizing particles will make your regular vent cleaning routine much easier because there will be less dust/grease buildup to remove (which left unattended, could block your system and become fuel for a fire).
Safety Lines & Stickers
Reinforce Your Protocols
Want to kick your health and safety up a notch, and make the building a safer place for all? We can apply long-lasting safety lines or decorative stickers to your institutional epoxy floor as a reminder of your protocols, and how to best use the area. You’ll also have your choice of colour to create the best ambiance.
Why Work with Toronto Epoxy Pros?
Epoxy Experts
With more than 15 years of experience, our extensive knowledge will help you determine the right flooring specs for your needs. You’ll also be impressed by the superior quality our professional installation experts achieve with your institutional epoxy flooring.
Eco-Friendly Epoxy
We use 100% solid, commercial grade epoxy for all our projects. It’s eco-friendly, has zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and makes for a safer school or hospital floor surface to meet health & safety regulations.
Insured & WSIB-Certified
You’ll have added peace of mind working with our team. Our institutional flooring epoxy application experts are certified under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, as well as our $2-5 million liability insurance coverage.
Efficiency & Minimal Disruption
It’s difficult to shut down school or hospital operations to have your floors epoxied. You can count on us to develop a schedule that ensures minimal disruption, while completing the project on time - even if that means we work on weekends or outside of business hours.
Competitive Pricing
We know how to break jobs down to maximize effort and reduce installation time to create efficiencies. Using smart project strategies, professional equipment, and skilled institutional floor installers, you can expect the job done right at a competitive price.
Committed to Our Craft
We continuously strive for better, faster, and more economical service by researching, investing, and using the best machines, tools, products, and processes in the industry. We guarantee you’ll be happy with the final results of your institutional epoxy floor.
Institutional Building Epoxy Flooring Installation Process
The epoxy installation process involves four steps:
Patching
Patches are applied to any small or large cracks in the school, hospital, or building floor surface prior to the application of the epoxy to ensure a smooth surface.
Grinding
In order to ensure proper adhesion of the epoxy, we start by sanding or diamond grinding the institutional floor. This opens up the pores on the surface and helps remove the surface contaminants and failing previous coatings. If the surface is not level or has deep pitting, we may suggest parging the school, hospital, or building floor prior to the epoxy application to ensure a smooth finish.
Vacuuming
Before applying the epoxy coating, the floor must be completely clear of any debris (regardless of how small) because it can affect the adhesion and the epoxy’s final finish. Using industrial vacuums, we carefully remove all debris and dust particles to ensure nothing will get trapped between the institutional floor surface and the epoxy once it’s applied.
Epoxy Application and Drying
The final step is applying two coats of 100% solid, commercial-grade epoxy to the entire floor surface using squeegees and rollers. After installation, it takes about 24 hours before the school, hospital, or other institutional building floor can accommodate normal foot traffic, and 48 hours before heavy machinery can be placed on it. The coating will continue to harden over the next 7 days.
Patching
Patches are applied to any small or large cracks in the school, hospital, or building floor surface prior to the application of the epoxy to ensure a smooth surface.
Grinding
In order to ensure proper adhesion of the epoxy, we start by sanding or diamond grinding the institutional floor. This opens up the pores on the surface and helps remove the surface contaminants and failing previous coatings. If the surface is not level or has deep pitting, we may suggest parging the school, hospital, or building floor prior to the epoxy application to ensure a smooth finish.
Vacuuming
Before applying the epoxy coating, the floor must be completely clear of any debris (regardless of how small) because it can affect the adhesion and the epoxy’s final finish. Using industrial vacuums, we carefully remove all debris and dust particles to ensure nothing will get trapped between the institutional floor surface and the epoxy once it’s applied.
Epoxy Application and Drying
The final step is applying two coats of 100% solid, commercial-grade epoxy to the entire floor surface using squeegees and rollers. After installation, it takes about 24 hours before the school, hospital, or other institutional building floor can accommodate normal foot traffic, and 48 hours before heavy machinery can be placed on it. The coating will continue to harden over the next 7 days.
Institutional, School, & Hospital Epoxy Flooring Costs
Top 5 factors that affect the cost of an institutional building epoxy floor installation
The cost to epoxy a school, hospital, or other institutional building floor will depend on the type of epoxy you choose, the square footage to be covered, the amount of prep or repair work prior to installation, and aesthetic options.
The most common factors that affect the cost of your institutional epoxy floor include:
- The amount of patching, floor repair, grinding, and vacuuming to be done before the epoxy application
- Choosing to add colour or decorative flakes
- Adding coving
- Increasing the number of epoxy coats or thickness
- Requiring overtime hours to meet extreme installation timelines
How much does it roughly cost to epoxy an institutional building floor?
Our school, hospital, or other institutional building epoxy floor application typically starts at $3.00 per square foot, based on using 100% solid, commercial grade epoxy (however, the cost per square foot could be lower if the amount of square footage is higher).
There are many variables that can impact the price, so it's best to discuss your project with an epoxy professional who can assess your needs and provide an appropriate estimate.
Institutional Epoxy Floor Installation FAQs
Is Toronto Epoxy Pros insured?
Yes, our epoxy application experts are certified under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), and under our $2-5 million liability insurance coverage.
When is epoxy the right choice for an institutional building?
If you answer “Yes” to any of the following questions, epoxy is likely the right choice for your institutional building:
- Do the highest foot traffic area spots have deterioration or clear patterns where people are walking?
- Do you get a high volume of traffic (people constantly using the floor every day)?
- Do you have hospital floors that need to be cleaned on a regular basis, and to uphold rigorous medical industry standards?
- Do you have students / children that create high-mess areas within the building?
- Do you have a lot of dust in the space?
- Do you have a high utility bill that could be offset by floor coatings that reflect light and keep spaces more well-lit?
- Do you need markings on the floors for safety or to remind building users of protocols?
Why should you choose epoxy for your institutional building floor?
You should choose epoxy flooring because it’s ideal for your institutional building, school, hospital, or government building offering a hard, durable finish that will last for years to minimize long-term costs.
You’ll love the added health and safety features epoxy flooring can offer you such as:
- Anti-slip coating for better traction and fall-prevention
- Coving for easier cleaning by eliminating corners and cracks where harmful bacteria and mold can grow
- Dust reduction for less buildup and cleaning time
- Rich colour or decorative flakes for added ambiance
- Safety lines or stickers to reinforce safety protocols
- Easy-to-clean surface
The easier your floor is to clean, the more likely it is to be cleaned regularly and correctly, which will avoid long-term damages or other upkeep issues in the institutional building.
What other areas in my institutional building would benefit from epoxy flooring?
Here are some of the most common areas in an institutional building that greatly benefit from epoxy flooring:
- Cleaning Stations & Facilities: Cleaning stations, cart storage, janitorial stations and rooms, laundry rooms
- Interior Waste Disposal Areas: Garbage, refuse, grease
- Self-Service Areas: Coffee/tea/water stations, breakfast areas, restrooms
- Staff Common Areas: Break room, office, customer service, uniform change room, back hallways, restrooms, lockers
- Dining Areas: Cafeteria serving and seating area, buffet serving area, dining room, bar (employee side)
- Kitchen: Food prep areas, dishwashing station, storage, food handling & packaging areas, handwashing areas
- Refrigerator / Freezer: Walk-ins, inside & out
- Storage/Back Hallways: Basement, storage locker/cage, any hallway with regular foot traffic
- Loading Dock: Platform, stairs, connecting hallways
- Schools, Students, & Teacher Areas: Classrooms, hallways, gym, staff break room, supply storage rooms, office/entranceway
Hospitals, Patients, & Medical Staff Areas: Triage, waiting area, hallways, patient rooms, medical procedure rooms
How much institutional building downtime should I expect for installation and drying?
After patching, grinding, and vacuuming is complete, the length of installation depends on the amount of square footage to be epoxied. The application typically involves 2-3 coats depending on the system chosen. Once applied, it takes about 24 hours before the floor can accommodate normal foot traffic again, and 48 hours before vehicles can be placed on it. We generally suggest waiting up to 72 hours for best results.
In situations like institutional and government buildings where you have tighter windows to complete the flooring because you can’t shut down, we have proven strategies to minimize disruption to your business to get the job done.
What exactly is epoxy?
Epoxy is a resin that is used as a floor coating solution because of its chemical resistance, durability, and strength. Epoxy coatings are normally used on floor surfaces in commercial buildings because it’s economical and ideal for large square footage surfaces.
Are all commercial-grade epoxies the same?
There are a variety of commercial epoxies, and they’re not all created equal. The differences between them will dictate the price of the product and its durability.
The three mains types of epoxy currently available on the market are:
- Water-based epoxy – Water-based epoxy is water soluble and does not contain solvents. This epoxy is one of the most environmentally friendly, however its finish will not last as long as other types of epoxy.
- Solvent-based epoxy – This epoxy contains solvents and is the oldest form of epoxy. The solvents evaporate during the drying process which results in a much harder finish compared to that of a water-based epoxy. Since this type of epoxy contains solvents, it can often be very smelly and is not suggested for areas that are not well ventilated.
- 100% solid epoxy – This type of epoxy produces thicker coverage for superior durability and does not require liquids to evaporate (so it does not contain volatile organic compounds). It’s environmentally-friendly, non-flammable, low-odor, and produces a surface that is stain resistant and incredibly hard.
With so many benefits to 100% solid epoxy, it’s the only one we use for every project, and the one you can feel good about choosing for your institutional building floor.