Aircraft hangars · Fort Worth, TX
Hangar floor coatings in Fort Worth
Fuel, hydraulic fluid, a tug that parks in the same spot, and sunlight that beats down on the hangar floor every time the doors open. Our owner is a military and commercial pilot himself, so tell us what actually lands on your floor and we will tell you what holds up.
- Veteran owned and operated
- Our own crews install the floor
- Based in Fort Worth, out across DFW
The system
The system we put down here.
Weight on wheels running the same line, what gets spilled, and the light through an open door. Those three decide the system, and we settle them before we name one.
Flake goes on the shop side: the workbench, the parts room, the office end of the building. Metallic is a finish floor, not a work floor, so it doesn't go under an airplane.
- Built for
- Hangar floors and the shop side of the building
- Where
- Inside the building
- Surface
- Texture, not gloss
- The pick
- Settled on the walk, off what hits your floor
What it costs
What moves the number.
We stand by our quote. It moves only if you change something, or if the slab turns out to be hiding something nobody could see. You hear that before we start.
The slab, the prep, the system, the timing.
The slab
we start from
The prep
it needs
The system
you pick
The timing
you need
The written price comes after we see the floor.
The floor
What a hangar floor looks like.
Hangar floor
Two airplanes standing on the coated slab
Work bay
An empty bay, a tool chest, and the floor under them
Floor visualizer
See it on your own floor.
Upload a photo, pick a system and a color, and see your floor in about thirty seconds.
What customers say
Robert M.
“These guys are GREAT! Not easy finding this type of company in the DFW area. Mgmt and staff respond immediately and the onsite crews were extremely competent. VERY professional company!”
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Catherine P.
“I highly recommend General Striping for all your striping needs. Trip and his team are highly professional, responsive, and efficient. Great work and great customer service.”
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Charles J.
“Excellent veteran-owned striping company! They do great work. Highly recommend.”
Google reviewVeteran owned Robert M.
“These guys are GREAT! Not easy finding this type of company in the DFW area. Mgmt and staff respond immediately and the onsite crews were extremely competent. VERY professional company!”
Google reviewCommercial Catherine P.
“I highly recommend General Striping for all your striping needs. Trip and his team are highly professional, responsive, and efficient. Great work and great customer service.”
Google reviewCommercial Charles J.
“Excellent veteran-owned striping company! They do great work. Highly recommend.”
Google reviewVeteran owned Robert M.
“These guys are GREAT! Not easy finding this type of company in the DFW area. Mgmt and staff respond immediately and the onsite crews were extremely competent. VERY professional company!”
Google reviewCommercial Catherine P.
“I highly recommend General Striping for all your striping needs. Trip and his team are highly professional, responsive, and efficient. Great work and great customer service.”
Google reviewCommercial Charles J.
“Excellent veteran-owned striping company! They do great work. Highly recommend.”
Google reviewVeteran owned
Reviews of General Striping, LLC, the Fort Worth company behind Gilded Surfaces.
How a job runs
Photos, grind, coat.
What a hangar floor asks
Three questions a hangar floor asks.
A hangar floor asks different questions than a warehouse floor, starting with what happens when fuel or hydraulic fluid hits it. Wheels are the easy part. Spills, point loads and sunlight are the rest.
What gets spilled.
No floor coating is chemical proof. Coatings resist specific chemicals, at specific concentrations, for a specific amount of time, and that comes off the manufacturer's chart. Some of the hydraulic fluids used in aviation are hard on coatings, and which one is in your airplane changes the answer. So we won't claim ours shrugs it off. Tell us what you run, what gets spilled, and how long it sits before somebody wipes it up. That answer shapes the whole system.
What stands on it.
Point loads come next. We want to know what stands on the slab and where: the airplane, the jack, the tail stand, the tug.
What the light does.
A hangar door is a wall of light. An epoxy top coat ambers under that much sun, and the aliphatic clear coats do not. So the clear coat gets picked for the light in your building.
Sun means a polyaspartic clear coat. No sun means an epoxy clear coat.
Who you are hiring
Our founder is a Marine aviator and a pilot.
He's still on site for the big jobs.
When we walk your hangar, you're not explaining your building to a flooring contractor.
Trip Littleton
Founder, General Striping and Gilded Surfaces
The schedule
Where the airplane goes while we work.
What you're really buying is the days the airplane is somewhere else. The floor is the simple part to schedule. The airplane is not.
We grind first and coat behind it. How a hangar gets split into pieces depends on the building, and we settle that before we put a date on the calendar.
Grinding concrete makes dust, and it makes it in a building with an airplane in it. We run extraction on the grinders, and on a decorative coating the prep is diamond grinding.
A hangar is a roof over a slab, so the season does not decide your date. What it does decide is the hour. A concrete slab runs behind the air, and a slab that is warming pushes air up through a wet coating. That's why a summer job gets scheduled around the slab.
The walk
What we look at on site.
We come out, take measurements, and check the condition of the concrete. Where it needs repair, how much grease has to come out, how much prep it takes.
Old coating comes off here.
We grind failed coatings down to bare concrete before anything new goes down.
A hangar slab is a big sheet of concrete lying on wet ground.
Vapor that cannot escape through the top of it gathers under a closed coating and lifts it. That failure is settled on the walk, not in the bucket.
So we meter the whole slab by hand first, and then we set relative humidity probes in the concrete. If there is no vapor barrier under the slab we recommend one, and that does not affect the price by much, if any.
Joints and cracks are their own job.
A coating does not bridge a crack that still moves. That is physics. You want to know that before we start. A control joint keeps working after we coat it, so the trade answer is a semi rigid filler in the joint that carries the edge when a wheel crosses it, and we tell you which joints need it before we grind.
And we ask how you use the floor.
Wheels, weight, spills, and how you clean it.
Send photos and rough measurements first if you want a direction before anyone drives out, or put this hangar in writing.
Our area
Where our crews drive.
We work out of Fort Worth. Hangar work takes us across Tarrant County, and larger projects take us further out across DFW.
Fort WorthBenbrookAledoWeatherfordKellerNorth Richland HillsArlington
2205 Wenneca Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76102 · (682) 224-0240
Two terms, and which one you get
Interior flake and quartz floors carry the 10-Year Limited Workmanship Warranty. Everything else, including all exterior work, carries the one-year workmanship warranty.*
*Terms and conditions apply, and our share of a repair steps down over the ten years. You get the full warranty in writing before you sign.
Straight answers
Questions we get on hangar floors.
That depends on the size of the floor, the state of the slab, and whether the work has to go down in pieces. It comes off the site walk, and you get the days in writing with the price.
A wet floor by an open door is slick on any resin system. What you stand on is the aggregate we broadcast, plus whatever grip goes into the last coat. Flake and quartz floors have texture and do not require an anti-slip additive.
Three different times, and they're not the same day. You can walk on it after 8 to 10 hours. You can put weight on it after 48 to 72 hours. Full chemical cure comes last, at seven days. Walking on a floor and spilling something on it are two different days.
It changes the schedule and it changes the number. It doesn't change the questions. Spills, point loads, and how much prep the concrete needs. Those three we walk in every hangar.
General Striping, LLC, in Fort Worth since 2012. Gilded Surfaces is the coatings division. The contract and the paperwork run under the LLC.
Get my written price
Tell us about the hangar.
COI and W-9 on request.
The budget field can stay empty.
Or call (682) 224-0240. Weekdays 7am to 4pm.
Financing
You can pay over time.
Ask for it when we send your written price.
Prefer to talk?
(682) 224-0240Weekdays 7am to 4pm. After hours, leave a message and we call you back.