Epoxy & Urethane Coatings
Ground and shot-blasted off the slab to a bondable profile, not skimmed. Grinder tracks left flat so the next coating actually keys in.
Floor demolition →Warehouse & Industrial · Arkansas
Your Warehouse Floor,
Stripped To Bare Slab — Racking Back In On Schedule.
Epoxy, VCT, glued rubber, mastic, tile, sealer. We grind it, chip it, cut it and haul it. Owned and operated by Ricky Ray, who walks the building before anyone quotes a number — and who is on the slab when the work runs.
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
Owner-OperatedRicky Ray prices the job and runs it. No salesman, no handoff.
Tear-Out & Haul-OffOne crew, one trip, one bill. Nobody waits on a second contractor.
InsuredInsured for general liability. Certificate available on request.
Floors Are The JobNot a sideline we price as an afterthought. It is the whole business.
A Warehouse Floor Goes Wrong Four Ways
Downtime costs more than the tear-out does. Every one of these has cost a facility manager a week he did not have.
The dates slide
Racking is booked, the coating crew is booked, and the tear-out guy stops answering his phone. Your whole sequence moves and every trade behind you bills for the wait.
The number moves
A quote written off a floor plan turns into a change order the day the grinder hits mastic nobody looked for. Ricky walks the building first for exactly that reason.
The dust goes everywhere
Concrete dust in a running warehouse means product covered, forklifts down, and staff sent home. Containment is not an add-on we mention at the end.
The slab is unusable
Debris gone, adhesive ridges left behind. Then the coating fails, or the epoxy will not bond, and somebody comes back to grind it a second time on your dime.
Why Contractors Sub This Out To Us
Straight facts. Nothing here we cannot back if you ask at the walkthrough.
- Ricky owns the company and is on the job. The man who prices the work is the man who runs it.
- Tear-out and haul-off are one job. You are not left standing over a pile of debris.
- Insured for general liability. Certificate available on request, before we mobilise.
- We work around occupied buildings. Containment goes up. The other half keeps trading.
- Fixed written scope and price. Quoted after the walkthrough, not off a drawing.
- Floor demolition is the whole business. Not a sideline bolted onto general demo.
What Comes Off An Industrial Slab
Warehouse and industrial floors carry the toughest coverings in the trade — thick, bonded, and glued down to last. Each one comes off a different way, with a different machine.
VCT, Tile & Quarry
Tile broken out and the mastic beneath it removed in the same pass. Old warehouse offices and break rooms are usually two layers deep, not one.
All building types →Glued Rubber & Sheet Goods
Rolled rubber, welded vinyl and sheet flooring in production areas and locker rooms. Cut, pulled, and the adhesive scraped and ground behind it.
See what we tear out →Concrete Cutting & Trenching
Saw-cut and remove slab sections for new drains, pits, conduit or equipment pads. Clean edges, spoil hauled the same day.
Interior demolition →Warehouse Office Strip-Out
Mezzanine offices, partitions, ceilings and carpet taken back to studs and slab so the buildout crew starts on a clean shell.
Office buildings →Debris Haul-Off
Loaded and gone as we go, not stacked in your dock for a week. Tear-out and haul are the same contract and the same bill.
Occupied buildings →Occupied Facilities
Half The Building Keeps Working
Most industrial floor work in Arkansas happens in a building that cannot close. Plastic and zip-wall seal the work area at the doorways. Negative air pulls the dust toward the machine instead of toward your inventory. Shifts get worked around, including nights, if that is what keeps your lines running.
Say it plainly: there will be dust and there will be noise. The job is to keep both inside the containment and off your product.
The Superior Slab Standard
Two halves. Ricky prices the first before anyone touches the second, and the price does not move once it is written.
Before the machines
Walkthrough & Written Scope
Walk the buildingRicky comes to the site. Test patches in three or four places to find out what is actually bonded down and how many layers there are.
Check for asbestos riskOlder mastic and 9x9 tile get flagged before anything is disturbed. Testing is arranged through a licensed lab and billed at cost — we do not open a suspect floor first and ask later.
Fixed written scope and priceSquare footage, layers, containment, disposal, dates. One number, in writing, with what is and is not included spelled out.
Sequence with your other tradesWe book around racking, coating and inspection dates so nobody behind us is standing still.
On the slab
Tear-Out, Haul, Handover
Containment upDoorways sealed, dust routed to the machine. Occupied areas stay open unless we agree otherwise.
Strip and grindCovering off, adhesive off, slab ground flat to the profile the next coating needs. Door frames and jambs protected — that damage is ours to avoid, not yours to accept.
Load as we goDebris out of the building the same shift it comes up. No pile left in the dock.
Swept slab handoverYou walk it with Ricky before he leaves. If something is not right, he is the one standing there — and he fixes it.
What A Finished Slab Looks Like
Tear-out is judged by what is left behind, not by the size of the pile. Flat, bare, swept, and ready for the next trade.
The Awkward Questions, Answered First
These are the three things every facility manager is thinking and most contractors dodge until the invoice.
Objection 01Will the dust reach the rest of the building?
There will be dust. That is the honest answer. It stays inside the containment because the doorways get sealed and the air gets pulled toward the machine, not toward your racking. In an occupied facility we agree the containment line with you before day one, in writing.
Objection 02Will the price move once you open the floor?
The number is written after Ricky walks the building and cuts test patches, so the surprises are found before you sign, not after. If you change the scope, we re-price it and tell you before we do the work. No change order lands on your desk unannounced.
Objection 03What about asbestos, and who pays for the test?
Old mastic and 9x9 tile get flagged at the walkthrough before anything is disturbed. Testing goes through a licensed lab, arranged for you and billed at cost. If it comes back positive, that abatement is a licensed abatement contractor's work and we say so — we do not pretend it is ours.
How An Industrial Floor Gets Priced
We do not publish a square-foot rate, because a rate quoted before anyone sees the floor is a guess that turns into a change order. Here is what actually moves the number, so you can see it coming.
LayersOne covering or three, plus whatever adhesive is under them
Bond strengthEpoxy and urethane fight back harder than VCT
AccessDock height, door width, how far the machines have to travel
Occupied or emptyContainment, night shifts, and working around live operations
Disposal weightConcrete and quarry tile haul heavy; sheet goods do not
Finish profileBroom-clean bare slab, or ground to a spec the next coating needs
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
Where The Trucks Go
Based at 29 Mill Creek Rd in Higden, and working the entire state of Arkansas plus the western half of Tennessee. Distribution corridors, plants and warehouse parks are most of the work — the buildings are big, the floors are thick, and the schedules are tight.
Outside that footprint we say no rather than pretend. If your building is a long way past Memphis, call anyway and Ricky will tell you straight whether it makes sense.
Warehouse & Industrial: Straight Answers
The questions people actually type in before they call a floor demolition contractor.
Are warehouse and industrial the same thing?
No — warehouse is storage, industrial covers production too.A warehouse stores and ships. An industrial building makes or processes something. Both sit on thick concrete, but industrial slabs usually carry heavier coatings, machine pads and pits, so the tear-out is a different job.
Is a warehouse considered industrial?
In zoning and construction terms, usually yes.Warehousing normally falls under industrial use, which is why we quote them together on this page. For our purposes the question that matters is simpler: what is glued to the slab, and how many layers of it.
What qualifies as industrial for a floor tear-out?
Heavy slab, heavy coating, live operations.Plants, distribution centers, cold storage, food processing, plate shops, mechanical rooms. Thick concrete, bonded epoxy or urethane, sometimes trenching and equipment pads, and almost always a building that cannot fully shut down.
What is another name for a warehouse?
Distribution center, DC, fulfillment center, depot.Names change, floors do not. A DC in Little Rock and a depot in West Memphis both hand us the same problem: acres of coating or tile that has to come off without stopping the trucks.
Do I have to pay money up front?
No deposit before the walkthrough and the written scope.Ricky walks the building, cuts test patches, and gives you a fixed written scope and price first. Payment terms are agreed on that document, in plain language, before any machine comes off the trailer.
Can you work nights or around our shifts?
Yes — hours are set at the walkthrough, by appointment.Plenty of industrial floor work only makes sense between shifts or over a weekend. Tell Ricky the operating window when he walks it and the schedule gets built around your production, not around ours.
Free On-Site Quote
Show Ricky The Floor.
Get A Number You Can Build A Schedule On.
Call and Ricky walks the building before anyone quotes anything. You get a fixed written scope and price, dates that fit your other trades, and a slab your next contractor can actually work on.
(501) 259-7997Free, no-obligation on-site quote. Site visits by appointment. Insured for general liability — certificate available on request.