Plain answers on warehouse floors, food premises, slip resistance, line marking and cost, from the team at Sealing Solutions Australia in Melbourne's north.

Commercial epoxy in Melbourne runs $45 to $90+ per m². What decides where a job lands in that range, and what a written scope should include.

Pedestrians and forklifts do not mix. What WorkSafe Victoria says about exclusion zones and marked travel paths, and how to make the lines last.

Epoxy is not slippery or safe by default. How AS 4586 P and R ratings work, and how to pick grip for kitchens, docks and workshops.

Councils want food premises floors that are smooth, graded and easy to clean. What the Victorian guides say, and how a coved epoxy floor ticks those boxes.

A warehouse that stops dispatching loses money by the hour. How zone staging, weekend work and fast-cure systems keep a floor job from becoming a shutdown.

Grit, spills and the wrong cleaner do most of the damage. A practical sweep, scrub and inspection schedule for commercial epoxy floors, including ESD.

Polished concrete hardens the slab. Epoxy adds a protective film. How they compare for slip, spills, forklifts and slab quality in a commercial building.

Chemical resistance is a rating against a named chemical and a contact time. How standard and novolac epoxy compare for workshops, factories and bunded areas.

Most commercial floor failures start under the coating. What moisture testing, grinding and crack and joint repair involve, and what a scope should say.

Yes, but the air temperature is the wrong number to watch. Slab temperature, humidity and dew point decide whether a winter commercial install works.

Light traffic, full traffic and full chemical cure are three different dates, and cold slows all of them. How to plan a shutdown around them.

The wall junction is where wash-down floors fail first. What coving does, how high it should go, and what councils expect in food areas.

Oil in the slab, hoist point loads and stormwater rules all shape a workshop floor. Why preparation matters more than the colour.

Car parks and loading docks need more than floor paint. Crack movement, wet weather, tyre loads and slip risk all shape the right system.

Cold rooms and wash-down food plants hit a floor with thermal shock. Why epoxy alone is not always the answer, and what to ask an installer.

Clinic floors are chosen by how they are cleaned. What Victorian and national guidance says about floors, detergent, disinfectant and drying.

A peeling commercial floor can sometimes be recoated and sometimes has to be stripped. How adhesion is tested and how to decide.

Some slab joints are meant to move, and some cracks are not. How to tell them apart before an epoxy coating goes over a large industrial floor.

Dealership floors need gloss, grip and tyre tolerance at once. What coating sheets say about heat, slip ratings and low odour, and what to ask first.

Anti static and ESD floors are tested by resistance, not by colour or name. What gets measured, what the slab must provide and what to ask first.