Mission · Since 2001
Epoxy and industrial floor coatings in Mission.
A hillside city above the Fraser, new industrial parks along the Lougheed Highway and Dewdney Trunk Road, and a waterfront planned for industry.
Mission
New industrial parks, and a lot of young concrete
Mission is building an industrial base. Silver Creek Industrial Park is opening lots along the Lougheed Highway, Cade Barr Business Park is adding large industrial buildings on Dewdney Trunk Road, and the city’s Waterfront Revitalization Master Plan covers riverfront land beside the rail line that is zoned for manufacturing, warehousing and barge loading.
New buildings bring new slabs, and new slabs carry construction moisture for months. The failure we are most often asked to explain on a new-build floor is a coating laid on concrete that was still giving up its own water: it lifts in patches and looks like a product fault when it is a timing one. An in-situ relative humidity test settles it before the floor is coated, not after.
The older city on the hill above the river holds the other half of the work: commercial buildings, trade shops and strata stock where the first coating is worn out and the real question is surface preparation, not which product goes on next.
- Industrial parks
- Silver Creek · Cade Barr
- Waterfront
- Planned for industry
- Also serving
- Maple Ridge · Abbotsford
Services
What we install in Mission
Industrial floor coatings
Epoxy and urethane systems for Mission warehouses, plants and shops.
Learn more →Parkade waterproofing
Traffic-bearing membranes for Mission parkades, ramps and roof decks.
Learn more →Local conditions
A city on a slope, above a river
Mission climbs steeply from the Fraser to the ridge, and most of the city drains across or down that slope. Buildings cut into the hillside often take groundwater against their uphill walls, and parkades on sloping sites tend to have long ramps — the zone that takes the heaviest wear and the most water in any parkade. Both are worth diagnosing before a membrane is priced, because a drainage problem is not fixed by a coating.
Down on the flats by the river and the rail line the conditions are the Fraser’s: a high water table under slabs on grade, and vapour rising into whatever is laid on top. That is a moisture-test-first floor, with a vapour-tolerant primer where the reading calls for one.
Inland of the coast, Mission’s winters are colder than Vancouver’s, with frost and snow on exposed slabs and decks more often. Exterior systems here are specified to stay flexible in the cold, and exterior work is scheduled for the season that lets it cure.
Where the work is
Light industry, workshops and the strata stock
Mission’s floors fall into the same three groups as its neighbours’. New warehouse and industrial units on the highway corridor need aisles, docks and joints specified for hard-wheeled traffic, covered on our warehouse floors page; trade and vehicle shops need resistance to hot tyres, hydraulic fluid and point loads from hoists; and strata buildings with suspended parking decks need traffic membranes, not rigid floor coatings — the difference is set out in our article on suspended slabs.
Our nearest published projects are across the river in Abbotsford — the Costco prep room and two parkades — and Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge to the west. They are on the projects page.
Questions
What Mission clients ask us.
We are fitting out a new industrial unit in Mission. When can the floor be coated?
When the slab passes a moisture test, not on a date. Ask about the curing compound as well: some are designed to stay on the surface and must be ground off before a coating will bond. If we are involved before the unit is handed over, we can test early and plan the preparation so the floor is not the item that holds up the fit-out.
Our building is on a slope and water comes in at the uphill wall of the parkade. Is that the membrane?
Usually not. Water arriving at an uphill wall is normally groundwater finding its way through the wall or the joint where the wall meets the slab, and a deck membrane will not stop it. We look at the drainage, the wall and that joint first, then decide whether the deck needs work at all.
What does a floor coating cost in Mission?
We do not publish a per-square-foot rate, because the price is set by the slab: how much preparation and repair it needs, what the moisture reading is, and which system the use calls for. A site assessment with a moisture test gives a number worth comparing; a price without one is a guess.
Do you cover Mission from North Vancouver?
Yes. Mission is part of our Fraser Valley service area, with Abbotsford across the river and Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows to the west.
Site assessments
Have a slab in Mission you're worried about?
Photographs and a rough area are enough to start. We'll come out, test moisture, and scope it properly.
Main (604) 968-2040
Second (604) 230-0256
estimating@westpacificcoatings.com