Restaurants and commercial kitchens · Fort Worth, TX
Commercial kitchen floors in Fort Worth
Hot water every night, grease that finds every joint, and a restaurant crew moving fast between the line and the walk-in. Tell us how the kitchen runs and we will tell you what system your floor needs to survive.
- Veteran owned and operated
- Our own crews install the floor
- Cove base is measured in, not added on
The system
The system we put down here.
Heat, what gets spilled, and how the floor is cleaned. Those three decide the system, and we settle them before we name one.
Quartz is the one that goes behind the line. Flake goes where the floor stays dry: the office end, dry storage, the front of the house. Metallic is a finish floor and not a work floor, so it does not go in a kitchen at all.
- Built for
- The line, the dish end, and the walk-in floor
- Where
- Inside the building
- Surface
- Texture, not gloss
- Cove base
- Standard, measured in with the 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.
What comes off the floor first, the slab, 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 kitchen floor looks like.
The cook line
A range, a flat top, and the floor running under all of it
The dish end
Where the hose comes out at close
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
Clear, grind, coat.
What a kitchen floor takes
Three things a kitchen floor has to survive.
A kitchen floor gets asked questions a warehouse floor never gets asked, and grease is not the hardest one.
Heat, and the swing.
The floor runs hot under the fryers and then the hose comes out at close. That swing is what pulls a resin floor off concrete, because the coating moves at a different rate than the slab underneath it. Every system has a temperature the manufacturer publishes, and a wash-down near boiling is past what most of them are built for.
So tell us how you clean at close, how hot the water runs, and whether steam ever touches the floor. That answer decides what goes down, and it decides whether we are the right contractor for the back of your house.
Grease and water, at every joint.
Grease and water do not sit on a floor, they look for a way in. On a tiled kitchen floor the way in is the grout, and once they are through it they are under the tile where nobody can reach them. What we broadcast goes down wall to wall and runs unbroken to your drain, so there is no joint to find.
Grip, when the floor is wet.
Flake and quartz floors have texture and do not require an anti-slip additive. We use an additive upon request, and typically in an industrial environment where slip resistance is a requirement.
Back here that texture is the point, and a kitchen is that environment. Which one, and where, comes off the walk before anything is ordered.
The schedule
How many services you lose.
What you are really buying is the nights the kitchen is dark. The floor is the simple part to schedule.
Three different moments, and they are not the same day. Foot traffic comes back at 8 to 10 hours. Weight and wheels at 48 to 72 hours. Full cure is seven days, and in a kitchen that last one is the one that counts, because full cure is when the floor can take what you spill on it.
A kitchen does not empty itself either. The line, the racks, the walk-in shelving and the mats all have to come off the floor before we grind. Who moves that, and on which night, goes on the calendar before we put a date on it.
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.
Trip still walks the big jobs himself.
The first question is what is down there now.
Quarry tile with grout is its own job before it is a floor job: it comes up, the bed comes up with it, and what is underneath decides the rest.
Old coating comes off the same way. We grind failed coatings down to bare concrete before anything new goes down.
Grease is the part that surprises people.
In an old kitchen it is not only on the floor, it is in the slab, and a coating will not bond through it. That is settled on the walk and it is priced on the walk.
Drains and joints are their own job.
A coating does not bridge a joint that still moves, so a control joint gets a semi rigid filler that carries the edge, and we tell you which ones need it before we grind.
Where your floor meets the drain, and where it meets the wall, are the two places a kitchen floor fails first.
And we ask how you use the floor.
What gets spilled, how hot the water runs, and what the crew is standing on when it is busy.
Send photos and rough measurements first if you want a direction before anyone drives out, or put this kitchen in writing.
Our area
Where our crews drive.
We work out of Fort Worth. Kitchen 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 kitchen floors.
That comes off the walk, and you get the days in writing with the price. What drives it is not the coating, it is what has to come off the floor first and what we find under it.
No. Tile and its bed come up, and then we look at the concrete underneath. That is a real part of the number and it is the first thing we price.
Every system has a published limit, and a wash-down near boiling is past what most resin floors are built for. Tell us how you clean at close and we will tell you straight whether our floor belongs in your kitchen.
Sometimes. It depends on the size of the kitchen and whether it can be split into pieces that stand on their own. We settle that before we put a date on the calendar, not after.
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 kitchen.
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.