Epoxy and Resin Floor Coating Jobs, from Grinding to Topcoat
Surface prep, each coat and each cure planned as its own stage, with slab readings and resin batches kept against the floor.
Preparation is most of the job
Resin floors fail at the bond, and the bond is made during preparation. Grinding or shot blasting, crack and joint repair, removing old coatings and dealing with damp slabs take longer than the coating itself, and they are what the customer does not see.
Coats run on the clock
Two-pack resins have a pot life once mixed and a recoat window after application. Too early and the next coat traps solvent or moves; too late and it needs abrading before it will bond. Multi-day systems put the crew on site at times set by chemistry, not convenience.
Working around the customer's business
Warehouses, workshops and commercial kitchens cannot stop for a week. Resin work is squeezed into weekends, holidays and planned closures, often in sections so part of the building stays in use.
When a floor fails
Peeling in a garage, blistering in a basement, hot tyre pick-up, discoloured topcoat: resin floor complaints arrive months later. The installer needs to know what was done on the day.
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What epoxy flooring software needs to handle
Epoxy flooring software has to understand that one floor is several visits. A garage floor may be ground and primed on day one and finished on day two; a warehouse may be done in four sections over three weekends. Each stage depends on the one before it, and each has its own conditions, materials and crew.
Residential and commercial work mix on the same schedule. Garage coatings are short jobs booked a few weeks ahead; industrial floors are planned around closures months in advance. Both have to fit on one board without the big job pushing the small ones off it.
Flake, quartz and colour choices
Decorative systems add decisions the crew must get right on the day: flake blend and density, quartz grade, colour of the body coat, anti-slip additive in the topcoat. Writing the agreed choice on the job, with a photo of the sample board the customer picked, avoids the most awkward kind of redo.
Jobs also slip for ordinary reasons: a slab that reads too wet, a customer who has not cleared the garage, a resin delivery that arrives short. Each of those belongs on the job with the new date.
Floor coating software and the paper trail
Floor coating software that stores readings, batches and photos per stage gives the installer something to show a customer, a main contractor or a resin supplier when a floor does not behave. It also shows which crews take longest on prep and which jobs ran over, which is how pricing improves.
What Shifton Field Service does
It plans prep, coats and cure periods as stages on one board, puts checklists and condition forms on the crew's phones, and keeps photos, batches, hours and signatures per job. Installers working alone or with a single helper pay nothing, now or later, for the board, app, forms and reports; invoicing, inventory, GPS location control and the customer portal are paid modules.
It is not a coverage or mix calculator, it does not store manufacturers' data sheets, and it does not measure moisture itself. It keeps the stages in order and the evidence in one place.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can we record grinding and slab moisture before the primer goes down?
Yes. Prep is a stage with its own form: method, area, moisture reading and photos, completed on the installer's phone before the primer stage is started.
Can a multi-day job show which coat is on which day?
Each coat is a separate stage with its own date and crew on the board, so moving the topcoat because of a cold night takes one change.
Is it free for an installer and one helper?
It is. Two people use the schedule board, the app, forms and reports without paying and without an expiry date. Invoicing, inventory, GPS location control and the customer portal are paid extras.
How do we tell the customer when they can drive on the floor?
The return-to-traffic date is written on the job and included in what you send the customer. With the paid customer portal, they can see it themselves.
Can we record resin batch numbers for warranty claims?
Yes. Batch numbers are entered per coat on the job, next to the temperatures and photos, so a later complaint can be traced to the materials used.
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