Pflugerville Epoxy Flooring installs epoxy flooring in Lakeway, an incorporated city where the utility answering a power question or a floor-drain question changes at a creek. The authority on a job here is a per-address fact rather than a city-wide one, and that is unusual enough to lead with.
We have been coating concrete across Central Texas for more than 20 years, and split service territories are normally something you meet at a city limit. Here the electric boundary runs through the middle of the city, which means two customers a few streets apart deal with entirely different companies for anything involving power.
The commercial floors here are unusual too. There is no business park, plant, distribution center or warehouse cluster inside the city limits at all, and what exists instead is hospitality, healthcare, clubs and marinas, which is a different set of specifications from the industrial work this trade is usually written about.
Which Utility Answers Your Address
A Boundary Running Through One City
The city states that residents south and east of Hurst Creek, as it flows through Lakeway and The Hills, are served by the City of Austin and Austin Energy, while the remaining residents are served by Pedernales Electric Cooperative. That is a genuine split rather than an edge case.
Naming one provider for the whole city would be wrong on roughly half the addresses. We establish which side of the creek a job sits on before anything involving power is planned, because the two utilities have different processes and different lead times.
When It Actually Matters
For a straightforward garage floor coating it usually does not come up, because the work runs off an existing outlet. It comes up as soon as a job needs a temporary service, a meter pull, a service upgrade or coordination around a disconnect, which happens more often on commercial work than residential.
A cooperative and an investor-owned utility also handle those requests differently, and the difference is measured in days rather than hours. Establishing the right one at the estimate is a five-minute question that prevents a week of confusion.
It is also worth asking on a residential job where the garage has no convenient outlet. Grinding equipment draws real current, and a circuit that runs a light and a door opener is not necessarily a circuit that will run a shot blaster, which is a question best answered before the truck is loaded.
Floor Drains and a District With Its Own Rules
There is a parallel split on the water side that reaches our work more directly. Lakeway Municipal Utility District publishes its own plumbing code, grinder pump installation specifications, grease interceptor requirements and wastewater backup relief valve requirements.
Any job touching a floor drain, a trench drain or a garage sink in that district answers to those documents as well as to the city. On a commercial kitchen or a wash bay that is not a footnote, it is part of the specification, and we would rather read it before quoting than be corrected afterward.
Where a floor drain is being added or altered, the coating detail at the drain matters as much as the plumbing. We carry the system down the throat and terminate at a mechanical key rather than feathering to a thin edge, because a feathered termination at a drain is the first place a floor starts to lift.
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What the City Does and Does Not Require
The City Permits, and the County Does Not
Lakeway is incorporated, so the City of Lakeway issues the permit and performs the inspection. There is no Travis County step for work inside the city limits and no county inspector to schedule, which is simpler than the position in the unincorporated communities nearby.
Contractors must register in the city’s self-service portal before a permit is issued or an inspection can be requested. That registration validates licensing requirements, which in a state that licenses no coatings trade means insurance and identity rather than a trade license.
Where a Floor Coating Usually Falls
Simple cosmetic work with no structural, electrical, mechanical or plumbing alteration is generally outside the permit requirement, and a floor coating over an existing slab normally falls on that side of the line. The determination belongs to the city rather than to a contractor’s confidence about it.
So we ask rather than assume, and we say in the proposal what was asked and what the answer was. Where a project does cross into permitted work, the portal registration has to be in place first, which makes it a lead item on a first job in this city.
Saying that in writing serves the customer as well as us. A proposal that records the question asked and the answer given is a document you can point at later, which is worth considerably more than a verbal assurance from whoever happened to be on site.
A Fire Code That Is Not the Plain Model Code
One detail worth knowing on commercial work. The city adopted a 2021 code set effective September 1, 2023, and its fire code is not the plain model document. It is the 2021 International Fire Code as amended by Travis County Emergency Services District No. 6.
So a commercial job with any fire-code touchpoint has to be checked against the district’s amendments rather than against the model code alone. That is exactly the kind of detail that produces a comment cycle when it is missed and costs nothing when it is not.
Hospital, Hotel, Clubhouse and Marina Floors
The Commercial Stock Here
Inside the city limits the commercial floor stock is a hospital and medical cluster, five lodging properties, three golf and country club properties, three marinas, an airpark and a franchised dealership. There is no plant, warehouse or data center at all.
Those are wash-down, chair-and-cart traffic, food service and outdoor-exposure conditions rather than forklift and rack-load conditions. It is a genuinely different half of this trade from the one most contractor pages describe.
What Each of Them Needs
Healthcare floors are cleanability and chemical-resistance problems with infection-control requirements attached, and they are bought on shutdown windows that do not move. Hotel and clubhouse back-of-house is food service, which means an integral coved base at wall junctures and a surface built to the health code’s smooth, durable and easily cleanable requirement.
Marina and cart-barn floors are permanently wet or permanently exposed. Anything outdoors or daylit gets a polyaspartic or polyurea topcoat because epoxy is not ultraviolet stable and ambers under sun, and traction is built in as a broadcast aggregate rather than hoped for from a sealer.
Phasing Around an Operation
None of these buildings can simply close. We install in sections so a hotel, a club or a clinic keeps running, splitting the work at joints or saw lines and matching seams into the layout rather than leaving a floor that reads as a series of patches.
That costs more time than a single continuous installation, because every phase carries its own edge preparation, containment and cure window. We price it openly at the estimate rather than discovering it in the second week.
Return-to-service time is the other number that matters on these buildings. Fast-cure polyaspartic systems can put an area back into use within a day where a conventional epoxy build would need several, and on a hotel or a clinic that difference is frequently what decides the specification.
The Ground, the Watershed and the Slabs
Slope Rather Than Shrink-Swell
USDA’s limiting features for small commercial buildings here are slope, on about 84.9 percent of the mapped area, and depth to soft bedrock, on roughly 47.2 percent. Shrink-swell does not appear among them at all.
Brackett, a shallow loamy carbonatic soil, covers around 43.6 percent of the city’s mapped area. So the hub’s Blackland Prairie clay argument does not describe this city, and a crack in a slab here is more likely to be settled than actively working. We still read it rather than assuming, and where a crack is live we detail it as a flexible joint and say so before the job.
A Housing Stock With Real Age Range
Roughly a quarter of the housing stock here dates from the 1970s and 1980s, so a garage slab in this city cannot be assumed to be recent construction. We establish the build year for the specific address rather than working from a citywide impression.
That matters because the two ends of the range are different jobs. An older slab may carry a sealer, a prior coating, penetrated oil or a patched trench, while a newer one is generally clean and simply needs a hard, closed builder finish opened up mechanically. Moisture testing goes into the scope as a priced line item either way.
Where Wash Water Goes
The city sits in the Highland Lakes watershed, and the Lower Colorado River Authority’s watershed ordinance is the governing water-quality instrument on this side of the Hill Country rather than the Edwards Aquifer rules.
Our practice does not change with the instrument. Grinding runs with vacuum-shrouded equipment and HEPA-rated extraction so the byproduct is bagged dust rather than a slurry, and any wash water or solvent rinse is contained and taken off site. And as everywhere in Texas there is no flooring or coatings license to hold, so what we show is general liability cover, workers compensation and a sales and use tax permit.
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