Retail & Showroom Epoxy Flooring Installation

Cleanliness & Durability That Shines

As a retail space, dealership, showroom, or store owner or manager, you’re constantly looking for ways to brighten up your space, make it safer for workers & customers, and to highlight your range of products. 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 retail space. It also offers a hard, stain-resistant finish that lasts for years, reduces dust, and is easy to keep clean.

At Toronto Epoxy Pros, we offer a range of retail epoxy flooring services including:

  • New epoxy floor installation
  • Epoxy floor refinishing
  • Epoxy floor repairs
Retail Epoxy Flooring

Epoxy Retail, Showroom, & Dealership Floor Essentials

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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 retail, showroom, or dealership floor meets food safety requirements and is environmentally safe.

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Anti-Slip

Get Better Traction

Give your retail staff 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 staff to keep up with the fast pace of your retail space.

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Coving

Make Cleaning Easier

Prevent mold, bacteria, dirt, and mildew from finding a place to hide by eliminating the cracks and corners in your retail space. 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 in the retail industry.

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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 retail epoxy floor coating will stand up to the constant wear and tear and intense cleaning regimens in your retail space.

Clean epoxy floor in a school hallway

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 retail space, and the products you store and sell. 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).

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Safety Lines & Stickers

Reinforce Your Protocols

Want to kick your health and safety up a notch, and make the retail space a safer place for all staff and customers? We can apply long-lasting safety lines or decorative stickers to your epoxy retail floor to remind staff about 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 retail flooring specs for your needs. You’ll also be impressed by the superior quality our professional installation experts achieve with your retail 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 retail or showroom surface to meet health & safety regulations.

Insured & WSIB-Certified

You’ll have added peace of mind working with our team. Our retail 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 retail or showroom 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 retail 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 retail epoxy floor.

Retail & Showroom Epoxy Flooring Installation Process

The epoxy installation process involves four steps:

  1. Patching

    Patches are applied to any small and large cracks in the retail or showroom floor surface prior to the application of the epoxy to ensure a smooth surface.

  2. Grinding

    In order to ensure proper adhesion of the epoxy, we start by sanding or diamond grinding the retail floor. This opens up the pores on the surface and helps remove the surface contaminants and failing previous coatings. It should be noted that this process will not level the floor or correct imperfections. If the surface is not level or has deep pitting, we may suggest parging the retail or showroom floor prior to the epoxy application to ensure a smooth finish.

  3. 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 retail floor surface and the epoxy once it’s applied.

  4. 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 retail or showroom 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.

  1. Patching

    Patches are applied to any small and large cracks in the retail or showroom floor surface prior to the application of the epoxy to ensure a smooth surface.

  2. Grinding

    In order to ensure proper adhesion of the epoxy, we start by sanding or diamond grinding the retail floor. This opens up the pores on the surface and helps remove the surface contaminants and failing previous coatings. It should be noted that this process will not level the floor or correct imperfections. If the surface is not level or has deep pitting, we may suggest parging the retail or showroom floor prior to the epoxy application to ensure a smooth finish.

  3. 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 retail floor surface and the epoxy once it’s applied.

  4. 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 retail or showroom 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.

Retail, Showroom, & Dealership Epoxy Flooring Costs

Top 5 factors that affect the cost of a retail epoxy floor installation

The cost to epoxy a retail or showroom 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 retail or showroom epoxy floor include:

  1. The amount of patching, floor repair, grinding, and vacuuming to be done before the epoxy application
  2. Choosing to add colour or decorative flakes
  3. Adding coving
  4. Increasing the number of epoxy coats or thickness
  5. Requiring overtime hours to meet extreme installation timelines

How much does it roughly cost to epoxy a retail floor?

Our retail or showroom 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.

Retail & Showroom Epoxy Floor Installation FAQs

Yes, our epoxy application experts are certified under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), and under our $2-5 million liability insurance coverage.

If you answer “Yes” to any of the following questions, epoxy is likely the right choice for your retail space:

  • Do you need to create an aesthetically-pleasing space that can showcase products in a nice way?
  • Do you have a lot of dust in the space?
  • Do you need to attract people from outside the space, and entice them to come in?
  • Do you get a high volume of traffic (people constantly using the floor every day)?
  • Do your floors need to be cleaned on a regular basis to help maintain the aesthetic and appeal of the space?
  • Do you have heavy items that need to sit on the floor like vehicles or large products?
  • Do you have a lot of shelving or organization that puts strain on the floor?
  • Do the highest foot traffic area spots have deterioration or clear patterns where people are walking?
  • Do you have a high utility bill that could be offset by floor coatings that reflect light and keep spaces more well-lit?

You should choose epoxy flooring because it’s ideal for your retail space, showroom, dealership, or store by 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 retail space.

Here are some of the most common areas in a retail space or showroom that greatly benefit from epoxy flooring:

  • Product Display Area: Retail item floor, dealership floor, showroom
  • Staff Common Areas: Break room, office, customer service, back hallways, restrooms
  • Customer Self-Service Areas: Coffee/tea/water stations, snack areas, restrooms
  • Cleaning Stations & Facilities: Cleaning stations, cart storage, janitorial stations and rooms
  • Interior Waste Disposal Areas: Garbage, refuse, grease
  • Storage/Back Hallways: Basement, locker/cage, any hallway with regular foot traffic
  • Loading Dock: Platform, stairs, connecting hallways

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 retail spaces and showrooms 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.

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.

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 retail space floor.

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