Winery Flooring in Solvang

Most winery floors we install around Solvang come down to three systems: polished concrete in the tasting room, solid color epoxy through the cellar and barrel room, and urethane cement on the crush pad. Which one belongs in which room depends on how much water, weight and acid that room sees, and we will tell you plainly which one yours needs.

Commercial Polished Concrete Floor

Which Floor Your Winery Actually Needs

Start with the room, not the price list. A tasting room needs a floor that looks finished and shrugs off spilled wine, so polished concrete is usually the answer. A cellar or barrel room needs a sealed, seamless surface that washes down and takes barrel carts, which is solid color epoxy. A crush pad takes hot water, acid and a fork truck every harvest, and that is urethane cement. Put the cheaper system in the harder room and you will be paying for it again in two seasons.

What all three give you is the same thing in different strengths. You get a sealed surface with no open joints for wine, water or debris to sit in, so a wash down actually removes what you are rinsing off instead of driving it into the slab. You get a floor that does not shed grit near open vessels. And you get something that can be repaired in one area rather than torn out across the building.

Restaurant with Urethane Cement Flooring
Industrial Epoxy Flooring

Polished Concrete for the Tasting Room

Polished concrete is the slab you already have, ground and densified until the surface is hard and closed. There is no coating sitting on top, so there is nothing to chip at a threshold or peel where a keg gets dragged across it. It takes all day foot traffic, it takes spilled wine, and it cleans with a mop rather than a machine. For a room that has to look finished and still be a working floor, it is the least fussy thing we install.

It also keeps its height. Because we are refining the existing slab rather than building on top of it, doors, thresholds and drain heights all stay where they are, which matters in an older building. You choose the sheen and how much aggregate shows, and that choice changes both the look and the price. Years later it gets refreshed rather than replaced, so the floor never becomes a project again.

Solid Color Epoxy and Urethane Cement for the Working Side

Through the cellar and barrel room we specify solid color epoxy. It goes down seamless and comes up the wall at the base, so there is no joint collecting lees and rinse water, and a light color makes a real difference in a space with no daylight. It handles barrel carts, pallet jacks and racking loads, it takes a wash down, and the floor can be zoned by color so walkways and work areas read clearly. For most of the building it is the right balance of cost and life.

The crush pad is where we stop recommending epoxy and move up to urethane cement. It is trowel applied and several times thicker, it does not soften when the wash water is hot, and it is untroubled by the acid coming off fruit and juice. That extra cost buys a floor that survives the six weeks a year which would finish off a thinner system. We will tell you where that line falls in your building rather than quoting the heavy system everywhere.

Gloss Concrete Polishing
Grind And Seal Concrete Flooring

Serving Solvang and the Santa Ynez Valley

Rise Coatings works throughout Solvang and across the Santa Ynez Valley, from the Alisal and Ballard Canyon roads out to Buellton and Los Olivos. Production work is booked to finish well clear of crush, because that date does not move, and you get the return to service time for each area before anything is mixed. See our work in Santa Barbara, Goleta and Carpinteria. Read more about polished concrete, solid color epoxy and urethane cement flooring.

If you are weighing a new crush pad, a cellar that has started shedding, or a tasting room you want to open on a floor that will not date, we will walk the building with you, tell you which system each space needs, and price it area by area.

Contact Rise Coatings

Give us a call if you have any questions related to our flooring services, if you would like to inquire about a large flooring project or would like to receive a complimentary onsite estimate.

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