Dark-stained hardwood being laid over underlayment across an open main floor in Liberty Village, with the rows worked around a double-sided fireplace in the middle of the room.
Industrial concrete was poured to carry load and to drain, not to sit flat for flooring. It commonly has a fall built into it, patches where machinery was bolted down, and surface hardeners that affect how adhesives and primers bond. None of that is a problem once it is known. All of it is a problem when a click floor is laid straight onto it and the joints start separating over the low spots within a year. On a Liberty Village unit we expect to quote levelling and a primer matched to the slab surface, and we check for old surface treatments before choosing an adhesive.
Levelling and priming, then engineered, plank or tile over industrial concrete.
Flat but young slabs, tested for cure before a glue-down floor goes on.
Hard-wearing surfaces and coated concrete where the space takes real use.
Industrial floors were often poured to drain. That is a slope, not a dip, and it needs a different levelling approach.
These affect adhesive bond and have to be ground off or primed over, which is a separate line.
Patched areas cure and behave differently to the surrounding slab, and they telegraph through a thin floor.
A converted building still has a unit below yours, and the declaration still governs.
A slab poured for machinery has been patched, drilled, bolted into and sealed over more times than any record shows. Those patches cure differently to the surrounding concrete and they telegraph through a thin floor within a year. Surface hardeners applied decades ago still affect how an adhesive bonds today. We grind a test patch and check what comes off before committing to an adhesive system, because the slab in one unit here tells you very little about the one next door.
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We chose Ontario Flooring for luxury vinyl plank installation in our basement. They prepared the subfloor properly, explained the process clearly, and delivered an even, durable finish.
The team refinished our existing hardwood floors and brought them back to life. The colour looks great, and the final finish is smooth and consistent.
Because the concrete was poured for a factory. A tolerance that was perfectly good for machinery is well outside the 3/16 of an inch over 10 feet that a floating floor needs. We measure it rather than assume it, but in this neighbourhood it is usually needed.
Sometimes, and it suits a loft. It depends on the slab's condition, what was spilled on it over decades of industrial use, and how much patching is visible. A coating at $7 to $14 per square foot is the more predictable version of the same idea.
Yes, and sometimes stricter ones. Older slabs transmit impact noise more readily, so a converted building's declaration may set a higher IIC minimum than a new-build next door.