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Showroom Flooring, Seattle Washington

Showroom Flooring, Seattle Washington

Location: Seattle, WA Rubenstein’s is proud to introduce Quartz Carpet – a revolutionary brand of seamless flooring and wall systems for use all around the home and business place – inside and out. Quartz Carpet is the result of 30 years of development in Europe and is widely embraced as the modern alternative to wood,...
Showroom Flooring

Showroom Flooring

Alternative Surfaces installs a wide variety of floor coatings that are proving more and more popular for retail showrooms, restaurants, car dealerships with solutions to suit all budgets and tastes.  Our clients range from National Chains to local bike shops. AlternativeSurfaces’ floor coatings are always specified to meet the individual need of our clients. These needs...
Commercial Floor Coating, Safelite Auto Glass

Commercial Floor Coating, Safelite Auto Glass

Safelite Auto Glass was looking for an impervious, hardwearing floor surface, with separate walkways and demarcation areas for the vehicles.   The existing 4,000 square foot old shop floor was worn, damaged, dirty and had heavy oil contamination after years of hard use.  Commercial flooring often needs additional attention because of it’s day to day use. We...
Modern, Seamless Flooring

Modern, Seamless Flooring

Modern Seamless Surface – Covering Ceramic Tile Our client required a long-term aesthetically pleasing, durable and cleanable surface, in full compliance with Health and Safety requirements for public-use wet areas. We were able to offer and install a custom colored Semco overlay over their existing white tile. This installation is a bespoke polymer modified overlay...
Commercial Kitchen Flooring, Portland Oregon

Commercial Kitchen Flooring, Portland Oregon

Hotel Kitchen Steps Up To Seamless Epoxy Commercial Flooring The kitchen at a local hotel had an existing vinyl floor which was 5 years old but was continually failing on the joints.  Once floors begin to fail in these high traffic areas they quickly become a hazard to the staff and negatively reflect the appearance of...
Quartz Carpet Flooring, Portland Oregon

Quartz Carpet Flooring, Portland Oregon

A recently completed job on a 1940′s home in Northwest Portland had old vinyl tiles that were lifting in places.  The owners wanted to convert the space to a multi-use workout, office and ‘man-cave.’ After testing for asbestos and determining that none was present we prepared the floor by grinding any and all residue from the...
Commercial Flooring, Portland Oregon

Commercial Flooring, Portland Oregon

We received a call from a tanning salon from Portland who had been in his newly fitted  practice less than a year.  The owner wanted to upgrade to some high traffic commercial flooring.  The 1,500 square foot floor was acid stained concrete, covered with a clear acrylic coating. Unfortunately they did not like the acid stain,...
Commercial Flooring Portland Oregon

Commercial Flooring Portland Oregon

Hair Raising Floor in West Linn Alternative Surfaces transformed this heavily damaged concrete slab in an old building in West Linn, to a hard wearing, durable, easy to clean floor for an expanding hair salon in West Linn, OR.  Alternative Surfaces installed the modern commercial flooring for this busy new facility using a hand troweled texture...
Garage Floor Resurfacing

Garage Floor Resurfacing

Improved Curb Appeal by resurfacing your Driveway Your driveway is your home’s first impression to the neighborhood and an often neglected project on the remodeling list due to the effort and expense of removing and replacing the concrete or asphalt. Concrete Driveways are likely something you use every day but you don’t notice until there’s...
Anti Slip Flooring

Anti Slip Flooring

Non-Slip Flooring Pool Deck Resurfacing Heavy preparation was the key to success on this job. In order for our overlay to have proper adhesion the multiple layers of epoxy paint had to be completely removed. We shot blasted and diamond ground the surface to leave a flat, contaminant free surface.  A multilayered coating system with...
Recycled Glass Wall, Seattle Washington

Recycled Glass Wall, Seattle Washington

Dale Chihuly residence – Seattle, WA Innovative Recycled Glass Wall – Beautiful, Colorful, Sustainable Recently we were asked to design a custom recycled glass wall for the internationally renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly’ residence in Seattle.  After several on site visits and consultations we choose a custom blue glass with a slight white tint. Made...
Polished Concrete Portland Oregon

Polished Concrete Portland Oregon

Dreamy Floor for Dream Dinners –  Polished Concrete Restaurant floor As an alternative to the tiling that covered the floor of their other franchise locations, Dream Dinners opted to utilize their existing concrete base by choosing an HTC Polished Concrete Floor. HTC diamond grinding and polishing achieves an incredible finish that is impossible to beat...