A floor past the point where maintenance would fix it.
A regional grocery retailer needed a full floor recovery across a large-format sales floor. The VCT had reached the stage where recoating no longer produced results — finish had built up unevenly in traffic lanes and the floor no longer presented as maintained.
The constraint was that a grocery store cannot close. Whatever the work required, the floor had to be walkable and presentable for customers every morning.
Sectioned, overnight, and back open by morning.
The floorplate was sectioned so restoration progressed in stages across overnight windows, with each worked section fully cured and returned to service before the store opened. Work moved through the store rather than shutting any part of it down.
Because the finish was being rebuilt rather than patched, cure time between coats was honored on every section — the step most often compressed when a job runs behind.
- ✓Floorplate sectioned to keep the sales floor open throughout
- ✓Strip, scrub, and finish performed in overnight windows
- ✓Each section cured and returned to service before opening
- ✓Inspection-ready standard applied across the full floorplate
- ✓Zero days of store closure
Inspection-ready, with the doors open the whole time.
The full floorplate was returned to inspection-ready condition without a single day of closure. For a grocery retailer, that constraint is usually the reason floor recovery gets deferred year after year until the floor has to be replaced instead of restored.
Services used on this program.
VCT strip and wax, commercial floor care, and scrub and recoat.
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