Miami’s Veterinary Clinic Epoxy Flooring
Exam rooms, treatment, the boarding wing, and the hallway where a scared dog finally lets go. A vet clinic floor takes urine, disinfectant and rolling tables all day, and it has to mop clean every time. We coat clinics across Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and the Keys.
Exam Rooms to the Boarding Wing
Exam Rooms
Nervous animals have accidents on the floor. A seamless floor with a cove at the wall mops clean, with no grout line holding urine.
Treatment and Prep
Carts, rolling tables and dropped instruments. A hard topcoat takes the casters and wipes down between patients.
Boarding Wing
Runs that get hosed every day. That part of the building usually needs a different system than the front of the clinic.
Lobby
Wet paws, leashes and the occasional accident by the scale. Flake hides scuffs and looks clean between moppings.
Phased So the Clinic Keeps Seeing Patients
Walk the Clinic
We walk every room with you, test the slab for moisture and note where carts, tables and kennel banks sit.
Plan the Phases
We split the work by area so you keep seeing patients in the rooms we are not in. You get the order and cure windows in writing.
Grind Under Vacuum
Diamond grinding with vacuum collection keeps dust out of the rooms still in use. Cracks and old anchor holes get filled.
Coat, Cove, Cure
Primer, body coat, cove base and topcoat. The room stays closed until it has cured enough for carts and paws.
What a Vet Clinic Floor Takes in a Day
A general practice floor sees more than most commercial floors we coat. Dogs come in nervous, and some of them mark the exam room or the lobby before they ever reach the table. Cats get carried in, set down, and sometimes slip the carrier. Staff mop each room between appointments with a disinfectant, then mop again at close. Tables on casters roll from exam to treatment, and kennel banks, scales and carts get pushed around all day.
Bare concrete can’t keep up with that, and sheet vinyl and tile don’t last long either. Vinyl seams open and let fluid run under the sheet. Grout soaks up urine and holds the smell no matter how often you mop it. A coated floor is one continuous surface with nothing for fluid to get under, and that’s why clinics call us.
Urine, Disinfectant and Bare Concrete Pores
Concrete is porous. Urine soaks into it, and the ammonia comes back out every time the floor gets warm and wet. No mop reaches into the pores. Once the slab is sealed under a coating, urine sits on top until somebody wipes it up.
Disinfectants are the other daily load. Quats, bleach mixes and hydrogen peroxide cleaners used at label strength are fine on a cured epoxy or urethane topcoat. What hurts any floor is concentrate spilled and left to sit, so mix at the sink, not on the floor. If your treatment area uses something unusual, tell us at the walk and we’ll match the topcoat to it. On an older slab that has been taking urine for years, we clean and grind, then watch how the concrete takes primer. If a section is saturated deeper than grinding reaches, we tell you before we coat it, because sealing over it traps the problem.
Flake Up Front, Urethane Cement in Boarding
Most clinics don’t need one system everywhere. Exam rooms and the lobby usually get flake broadcast over 100% solids epoxy with a urethane or polyaspartic topcoat. Flake hides paw prints and wear, and the topcoat takes the scuffing from casters. Treatment and surgery support areas, like prep and the sterilization room, often get a solid color with a fine texture, so a dropped needle cap is easy to spot and the floor still grips when it’s wet.
The boarding wing is a different animal. Runs get hosed every day, sometimes with hot water. Urethane cement handles hot washdowns and slab moisture better than standard epoxy, so that’s what we usually put back there. In every room we run an integral cove base a few inches up the wall, so there’s no corner seam for fluid, hair or disinfectant to collect in.
Quiet Work Around Anxious Animals
Diamond grinding is loud, and a building full of boarded dogs will hear it. We grind with vacuum collection so dust stays out of the rooms you are still using, and we schedule the loud work for days the clinic is closed or when that wing is empty. If you board animals, we plan the boarding wing around a time they can be housed somewhere else.
Every coating has some smell while it cures, and some have more than others. We pick materials with your patients and staff in mind, keep air moving, and keep animals off the floor until it has cured. Before we start, you get the walk-on time and the time before carts and kennel banks can roll back in, in writing.
Moisture Testing, Daily Mopping and the Warranty
South Florida slabs carry moisture, and you can’t tell from the surface whether there’s a working vapor barrier underneath. We test before we pick a primer, and where the reading calls for it, we use a moisture-tolerant primer under the system. Skipping that step is how coatings bubble and peel a year later.
Day to day, mop with your normal disinfectant at label strength, wipe up accidents when they happen, and rinse if the cleaner leaves a film. No wax, no stripping. The rolling paths wear first, and a fresh topcoat brings them back without redoing the floor. Every 343 Epoxy floor carries a 5-year warranty on materials and installation. The company is owned by Zach, a firefighter, and named for the 343 firefighters lost on 9/11. Book a walk-through or call (305) 409-9022, or (305) 310-2827 en español.
Before the First Room Gets Ground
What practice owners and clinic managers ask before they book the work.
Will the floor hold up to our disinfectants?
Can you get the urine smell out of our old concrete?
Do you run the coating up the wall?
Will rolling tables and carts mark the floor?
How do you keep the noise from stressing our patients?
Can the clinic stay open while you work?
What does the warranty cover?
Clean, Neat and Meticulous
“They did a beautiful professional job on my floor I would highly recommend to any one to use this company. They’re very clean, neat and professional.”
“Extremely happy with the way my project turned out. The guys at 343 were very professional and meticulous with everything. I spoke with the owner Zach about exactly what I was looking to do and he made it happen. Would definitely use again for any other epoxy related projects!”
One Walk, One Price for the Clinic
Zach walks every room, tests the slab and writes one fixed price for the whole plan, phased so you keep seeing patients.