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    Industrial & Commercial Epoxy in Johannesburg

    Warehouse aisles, factory floors, food rooms and showrooms from Midrand to the East Rand. We test the slab, specify a system for your loads, heat and wash-down routine, and phase the work so the business keeps running.

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    Grey self-levelling epoxy floor with a high gloss in an empty commercial unit
    A commercial unit finished by our installation team in grey self-levelling epoxy.
    Gauteng's working floors

    Floors for the workshop of the country

    Ekurhuleni, the metro on Johannesburg's eastern side that takes in Germiston, Kempton Park, Boksburg and Bedfordview, has been described as “the workshop of the country”. It is also home to OR Tambo, the biggest and busiest airport in Africa. Add the distribution parks along the N1 at Midrand and the factories of the West Rand, and this part of Gauteng has a great many working floors: forklift aisles, loading bays and production rooms.

    Those floors fail for different reasons, so they are not all quoted the same way. A showroom or office wants a tough, good-looking coat. A pick-and-pack warehouse needs a thicker self-levelling build that takes pallet trucks without cracking or wearing through in the aisles. A food or beverage plant needs a seamless, coved wash-down floor that satisfies a food-premises inspection. A plating line, battery room or chemical store may need polyurethane or other specialist resins because standard epoxy will not survive the heat or the acids.

    We start every one of these jobs on the slab, not with a catalogue. Strength, oil, moisture and joint condition decide the prep and the system before colour or thickness come into it.

    On site

    A commercial unit, from bare slab to gloss

    Real photos and phone video from our installation team: the slab prepared, grey self-levelling epoxy spread out to the roller door, and a second job with floor drains set into the finish. Tap any picture to see it full size.

    Preparing the bare slab before coating
    Spreading the self-levelling epoxy with a trowel
    Coated right out to the roller-door threshold
    Grey self-levelling epoxy, finished to a gloss
    Grey self-levelling epoxy going down in a commercial unit
    Fresh gloss floor, walls still taped off
    A floor drain set into the gloss finish
    Light-grey gloss floor laid around floor drains

    More real jobs, including natural stone restoration, in the epoxy floor gallery.

    Before we specify anything

    Three numbers and one regulation

    Food premises: R638

    South Africa's food-hygiene regulations require floors in food-handling areas to have no open joints or seams and to be smooth, cleanable, non-absorbent, dust-proof and water-resistant. That is why food rooms get a seamless floor with coving, not a coated slab with open saw cuts.

    Slab strength: 25 and 1.5

    One South African floor-epoxy data sheet wants concrete of at least 25 N/mm² compressive strength and 1.5 N/mm² pull-off strength, with no more than 4% moisture and no rising damp. Old warehouse slabs are tested against those numbers before we quote.

    Heat: 50 °C dry, 80 °C occasional

    The same sheet rates the coating for 50 °C dry heat all the time and up to 80 °C wet heat only now and then, such as a steam clean. Kitchens, bakeries and wash bays that run hotter or wetter than that get a heat-rated system instead.

    Sources: GN R638 (2018), hygiene requirements for food premises · Epoxy floor coating product data sheet, South Africa (Sept 2026) · Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (Wikipedia).

    What a specified floor gives you

    Built around how the space is used

    Aisles that hold up

    Thicker self-levelling builds where pallet trucks and forklifts turn, so the wear path does not break through to bare concrete in a year.

    Spills stay on top

    Hydraulic oil, diesel, cleaning agents and many other chemicals sit on a cured resin floor until they are cleaned up, instead of soaking into the slab.

    Wash-down without seams

    Coved skirtings and a jointless surface leave nothing for water, grease or bacteria to sit in, which is what the R638 food-hygiene rules ask of a food-handling area.

    Grip and clear lanes

    Anti-slip aggregate where floors get wet, and painted walkways, forklift lanes and no-go zones set out with your safety officer.

    What it costs

    Industrial & commercial epoxy pricing in Johannesburg

    Working floors are priced per m² by build thickness and duty. Our 2026 guide:

    • Industrial, self-levelling and heavy-duty systems: about R300 to R800 per m²
    • Showrooms, offices and dry stores: towards the lower end
    • Forklift aisles, thick self-levelling and coved food-room floors: towards the upper end
    • Oil removal, weak concrete, joint rebuilds and line-marking: priced as separate lines

    A big open floor usually works out cheaper per m² than a small room, because setting up the grinders and extraction is spread over more area. Night or weekend phasing can add to the labour line. The quote covers the slab tests, mechanical prep, primer and every coat. For every system side by side, see the epoxy flooring price guide.

    How it's delivered

    From slab test to handover

    1

    Survey and specify

    We test moisture and surface strength, map the cracks and joints, and ask about loads, chemicals, temperatures and cleaning. The system and thickness follow from that.

    2

    Strip it back

    Diamond grinding or shot-blasting takes off oil, old coatings and the weak top skin. Spalled joints and cracks are rebuilt before primer.

    3

    Lay it in sections

    Primer, body coats or self-levelling build, coving, anti-slip and line-marking, laid one zone at a time so the rest of the site keeps working.

    4

    Cure, then load

    At 20 °C, roughly a day to foot traffic, about four days to light traffic and about a week to full load and chemicals. Cold winter sheds take longer.

    You get a written zone-by-zone schedule, with return-to-service dates, before work starts.
    Areas we serve

    Industrial & commercial floors across Johannesburg

    Site surveys are free across Johannesburg and the East and West Rand. Three areas with their own pages:

    MidrandRoodepoortBedfordview

    Industrial and commercial floors: your questions

    Cost, food-premises rules, heat, specialist resins, downtime and old slabs.

    Our 2026 guide is about R300 to R800 per m². A thin, hard-wearing coat on a showroom or dry store sits near the bottom. A thick self-levelling build for forklift aisles, or a coved wash-down floor in a food room, sits near the top. An old slab that needs oil removed, joints rebuilt or a weak top layer ground off adds to that, and we price that work separately so you can see it.

    The national hygiene regulations for food premises (R638 of 2018) say floors in a food-handling area must have no open joints or seams and be smooth, non-toxic, cleanable, non-absorbent, dust-proof and water-resistant. A properly laid, seamless resin floor with coving at the walls is built to tick those boxes. You apply to your local authority for the certificate of acceptability and an inspector checks the premises, so involve them early. We will give you the system details they ask for.

    It depends on how hot and how often. One South African floor-epoxy data sheet rates its product for dry heat up to 50 °C permanently and for wet heat up to 80 °C only where that exposure is occasional, such as steam cleaning. Daily hot wash-downs, ovens, fryers and boiling spills are beyond that, which is when we specify a polyurethane cement or another heat-rated system instead.

    When standard epoxy is the wrong tool. MMA (methyl methacrylate) cures much faster than epoxy, which matters when a site can only close for a short window. Vinyl ester resists a wider range of strong acids and solvents. Both cost more, so we only specify them where the chemicals, heat or shutdown window call for it. For most warehouses and factories a properly specified epoxy does the job.

    Usually. We split the floor into sections or work weekends and nights so production, picking or trading carries on next door. Plan for each section to take foot traffic after about a day, light traffic after about four days and full load and chemicals after about a week at 20 °C, longer in a cold winter warehouse. Where that is too slow, faster-curing systems can shorten it.

    Often, yes, but we test it first. A coating is only as strong as the concrete it grips, and one South African data sheet asks for at least 25 N/mm² compressive strength and 1.5 N/mm² pull-off strength. We grind or shot-blast off the oil and weak surface, check moisture, repair spalled joints and cracks, and tell you honestly if a section needs rebuilding before anything goes on top.

    Get your working floor specified and priced

    Book a free site survey. We will test the slab, ask how the floor is used and give you a per-m² price with a phasing plan. For a showroom that has to look good as well as wear well, look at a metallic epoxy finish, or start from the Johannesburg epoxy flooring overview.

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