Warehouse and industrial concrete floors in Des Moines carry forklifts, pallet racks and equipment every working day, and their joints and flatness decide how well the building runs.
We pour new interior slabs and replace failed sections in existing buildings.
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Industrial slabs are designed, not guessed. Thickness, concrete strength, reinforcing or fiber, vapor retarder and joint plan come from the structural engineer or the floor designer, and we build to that design. If you're replacing part of an existing floor and there are no drawings, we'll ask what loads run over it (forklift class, rack post loads, any machine bases) and bring in an engineer where the loads call for one.
Most industrial floors that crack early fail from below. We proof-roll the subgrade to find soft areas, cut out and replace them, and compact a stone base to grade. Under conditioned space, a vapor retarder goes down to protect flooring, coatings and stored goods from moisture coming up through the slab.
Joints in a warehouse do two jobs. They control cracking, and they become the edges that forklift wheels hit thousands of times. Before the pour, we lay the saw-cut pattern over the rack plan so joints don't fall under rack legs or in the middle of the main forklift lanes. Then we saw on time, the same day the slab can take the saw, because late cuts are a common cause of random cracks.
In older buildings the common problems are joints that have broken down along the edges, sections that have settled, and areas cracked under heavy equipment. We saw-cut out the damaged area, fix the base, dowel the new concrete to the existing slab where the design calls for it, and pour back. We schedule the work around your shifts and keep the rest of the floor working.
Heavy machinery may need a thickened base, an isolated pad or a pit poured into the floor. These are detailed by the equipment maker or an engineer, and we build them with the main slab or as standalone work.
Send the drawings or a description of the area, the loads and your schedule. Call (515) 585-4111 anytime or use the quote form.
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