Port Coquitlam · Since 2001
Epoxy and industrial floor coatings in Port Coquitlam.
The Tri-Cities’ working end: warehouses and trade units along Kingsway Avenue, flat ground between two rivers, and strata parkades north of the highway.
Port Coquitlam
The Kingsway Avenue corridor runs on forklifts
Port Coquitlam’s industrial land, much of it along Kingsway Avenue in the south of the city, is warehouse, distribution, manufacturing and trade floor space. Those floors are judged by what runs across them every shift, not by how they look on handover day.
Floors like these fail at the wheels. Steel-wheeled pallet jacks and loaded forklifts turning in the same places wear a thin coating through at aisle ends, dock approaches and turning areas while the open floor still looks new, and saw-cut joints spall wherever hard wheels cross them. Specifying the floor in zones — a heavier system where the traffic concentrates, joints rebuilt and filled across the aisles — usually costs less than coating the whole building to its worst spot.
Trade and vehicle workshops are the other large group. Hoists, jacks and hot tyres put point loads and plasticiser on a floor, and that is a different specification from a warehouse aisle.
- Main corridor
- Kingsway Avenue
- Typical floors
- Warehouse · workshop
- Also serving
- Coquitlam · Port Moody
Services
What we install in Port Coquitlam
Industrial floor coatings
Epoxy and urethane systems for Port Coquitlam warehouses, plants and shops.
Learn more →Local conditions
Two rivers and a high water table
Port Coquitlam sits between the Pitt River to the east and the Fraser to the south, with the Coquitlam River running through the middle of the city. Much of the industrial south is low, flat ground protected by dikes, and slabs on grade there can sit close to the water table.
That matters more than the brand on the pail. Moisture rising through a slab on grade pushes against whatever is laid on top of it, and a coating that cannot tolerate it blisters and lifts. The first step on a Port Coquitlam floor is a moisture test; where the reading is high, the answer is a vapour-tolerant primer or a system made for damp concrete, not a heavier coat.
North of the Lougheed Highway, the city’s residential neighbourhoods and newer strata buildings bring parkades and podium decks into the mix — traffic membranes rather than rigid floor coatings, and the same depreciation-report questions as the rest of the Tri-Cities.
Where the work is
Warehouses, workshops and plants
Most of what we are asked to look at in Port Coquitlam is one of three floors: a distribution floor worn through in the aisles, a workshop floor lifting under hoists and hot tyres, or a manufacturing floor attacked by whatever the process drops. We ask what runs on the floor before we name a system, because that answer decides more than the price does.
Our nearest published projects are in Coquitlam — the Hard Rock Casino floor and an 80,000 square foot slab at the new Coquitlam transfer station — on the projects page.
Questions
What Port Coquitlam clients ask us.
Our warehouse joints are breaking up. Can they be fixed without redoing the floor?
Usually. Spalled joint edges are cut back and rebuilt with a repair mortar, then the joint is filled with a semi-rigid filler that supports the edges under hard wheels; in the heaviest aisles, armoured joints are worth considering. Fixing the joints first also stops a new coating cracking along them.
Can you coat over oil-stained concrete in a shop?
Not directly. Oil and hydraulic fluid soak into concrete and stop a coating bonding. The slab is degreased and the contaminated surface removed by grinding or shot blasting until clean concrete is reached; deeply soaked areas may need to be cut out and patched. The floor is tested before anything goes down.
Our building is on the flats near the river. Does that change the floor?
It can. Slabs on grade near the rivers often sit over a high water table, and moisture coming up through the concrete is what blisters a coating from below. We test before we specify, and where the reading is high we use a vapour-tolerant primer or a system designed for damp slabs.
Do you also work in Coquitlam and Port Moody?
Yes. The Tri-Cities — Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam and Port Moody, with Anmore and Belcarra — are one service area for us, worked from our North Vancouver base.
Site assessments
Have a slab in Port Coquitlam 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