Dealership showrooms, service bays, body shops, specialty garages and fleet buildings. We have put floors in CarMax, Middletown Honda, Hoffman Auto Group, Ford, REV Industry and the CT Transit and U-Haul fleet buildings. Free on-site slab check, and 4.9 stars across 225 Google reviews.
Why dealership and shop managers call us
An automotive floor fails in ways a warehouse floor never does. Hot tires are the big one. A car driven in off I-91 in August parks on a cheap coating and the plasticizer in the tire pulls the coating straight off the slab, which is why so many shop floors have dark rings in the bays nearest the door. Add brake fluid, power steering fluid, battery acid and road salt dragged in all winter, and a coating that was never rated for it starts lifting at the edges inside a season.
Then there is point load. A four-post lift, a transmission jack and a stack of wheels on a dolly concentrate more weight on a few square inches than any forklift does. The slab has to be sound under the anchor points, and the coating has to be flexible enough not to chip around them.
We spec for that, not for a garage floor catalog. The system goes on after a moisture test and a mechanical grind, so it is bonded into the concrete rather than sitting on top of it, and the topcoat is chosen for the fluids that actually hit your floor.
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Dealership showrooms, service bays, body shops, specialty garages and fleet buildings. We have put floors in CarMax, Middletown Honda, Hoffman Auto Group, Ford, REV Industry and the CT Transit and U-Haul fleet buildings. Free on-site slab check, and 4.9 stars across 225 Google reviews.
A showroom floor sells the car. It wants a high-gloss finish with even color under the lighting, no seams running through the display line, and a surface that still looks right after a thousand people walk across it on a wet Saturday. Polished concrete or a metallic finish both do that, and both clean with a scrubber.
A service bay floor sells nothing and takes everything. It wants chemical resistance, traction when it is wet, and enough body to handle lift anchors and dropped tools. That is a different system, usually a thicker build with a broadcast and a chemical-resistant topcoat.
Most dealerships get quoted one system for the whole building. We quote the building the way it is used, so you are not paying showroom money for a wash bay or putting a showroom finish where brake cleaner lands. See epoxy flooring for the coating systems and polished concrete for the showroom side.
You cannot send the cars home for a week, so we work in zones. Half the bays stay open while the other half cure, then we swap. On a dealership we normally take the service drive and the bays in sections overnight and over a weekend, and the showroom in one hit when the floor is clear.
The sequence is the same every time: moisture test, diamond grind to open the concrete, fill cracks and the joints around lift anchors, then build the system up in coats. Lift anchor points get detailed by hand, because that is where a sprayed floor fails first.
Two systems, both priced per square foot after we have seen the slab. The standard build runs $7 to $7.50. The premium build runs $8 to $9 and carries a 10-year warranty backed by an insurance carrier rather than by our promise, which is the one most fleet and dealership buyers take. Call 860-241-2887 and say which you want priced.
