Commercial floors are about planning
A commercial floor has to fit around a business: deliveries, staff, customers, and a hard reopening date. The featured Leggari video follows a crew coating a salon, and nearly every step shows planning ahead to keep the job moving.
Remove what the coating cannot go over
The salon floor had carpet glue along the edges. The crew grinds the rooms, gets as close to cabinets as possible, and takes extra time to clean the glue off the edges because, as they say, you do not want to coat over it. Warehouses have their own version: old sealers, oil, tape lines, and adhesive.
Small moves that save hours
The crew removes interior doors so they can move in and out freely and tapes door casings high. In a warehouse or shop, the same idea applies to racking, equipment, and anything that will slow the coating crew or trap edges.
Patch cracks and saw cuts first
They mix patch paste to a consistent color, push it tight into cracks and saw cuts, and feather the edges flat so the seal coat about a half hour later has no ridges. Commercial slabs with control joints need a clear plan for which joints are filled and which are honored.
Map coverage room by room
The installer measures each room, about 108, 66, and 100 square feet in the salon, and adds them up so each batch has a planned area. Their seal coat goes down at about 400 square feet per gallon, so a three-gallon batch covers about 1,200 square feet. Large facilities benefit from the same mapping.
Fix outgassing before the topcoat
Before the topcoat, the crew sands any outgassing bubbles, cleans them with denatured alcohol, and fills them with pigmented epoxy. A commercial proposal should explain how defects found between coats will be handled.
Schedule around cure time
The salon floor is coated over more than one day, with the topcoat on a later visit. Businesses should plan closure dates around the manufacturer’s recoat, foot-traffic, and full-cure times, not just application time.
Safety and slip resistance
Commercial owners should consider traffic, chemicals, cleaning methods, and slip resistance. Sherwin-Williams recommends site-specific system design for resinous flooring, and OSHA’s walking-working surfaces rules apply to many workplaces. Ask how the texture and topcoat will be selected for your use.
The Central Texas takeaway
Commercial epoxy succeeds when prep, patching, coverage, and cure times are planned around the business. Austin Epoxy Flooring Pro offers free on-site estimates for commercial spaces in Austin and surrounding cities, with office hours open 24 hours, 7 days a week.
Call 512-325-5434 (open 24 hours, 7 days a week) or request a free estimate.
Sources
Designer Salon Floor Coated Using Epoxy | Ultimate Guide — Leggari Products (YouTube, 5,577,656 views as reported 2026-10-14)
Sherwin-Williams: Epoxy Flooring — The Complete Guide
OSHA: Walking-Working Surfaces