Whistler · Since 2001
Epoxy and industrial floor coatings in Whistler.
Hard freeze–thaw winters, road salt carried in on every car and intense summer ultraviolet — the most demanding environment we work in.
Whistler
Freeze–thaw is a movement problem
Whistler puts concrete through something the Lower Mainland does not: repeated freezing and thawing, night after night through the winter. Water that has entered a crack expands as it freezes and levers the crack wider every single time, so a hairline that would sit stable in Vancouver for years opens quickly here.
That means flexibility matters more than hardness. A membrane specified for Whistler has to stay elastic at low temperature and keep bridging cracks while the slab moves, which rules out several products that perform perfectly well at sea level.
Then there is the summer. Resort decks take intense ultraviolet at altitude, so the wear coat has to be fully aliphatic or it will amber and chalk within a season or two. And the resort calendar is unforgiving — work windows are shoulder season, which we plan around rather than negotiate.
- Freeze–thaw
- All winter
- Wear coat
- Fully aliphatic
- Work window
- Shoulder season
Services
What we install in Whistler
Parkade waterproofing
Traffic-bearing membranes for Whistler parkades, ramps and roof decks.
Learn more →Our work in Whistler
A pumpkin-orange urethane floor
In 2014 we laid a urethane floor in pumpkin orange through a commercial interior in Whistler: along the glazed partitions, through the open rooms and round every wall, masked with tape so the colour stops on a clean line against the grey concrete of the floor beyond. The finish is high gloss, with the fine texture of the urethane showing where the light catches it.
Whistler, 2014: the pumpkin-orange urethane across an open room, the walls still masked (left), and the gloss and texture of the finish close up (right). More on the projects page.
- Setting
- Commercial interior
- System
- Urethane, pumpkin orange
- Completed
- 2014
Our work in Whistler
A hotel pool deck, repaired and recoated
At a hotel in Whistler we repaired and recoated the pool deck with ResinTech products while the pool and the hot tub stood drained. The old coating was ground under dust extraction, the cracks and damaged areas were filled and patched, and the new coat was rolled out across the deck, carried to the tile line at the pool edge and round the ladders and handrails.
A hotel pool deck in Whistler: the crew preparing the deck round the drained pool, grinding under dust extraction (left), and the cracks and damaged areas filled and patched in grey (right).
The new ResinTech coat rolled out to the tile line at the pool edge (left), and the recoated deck along the pool and the hot tub (right). More on the projects page.
- Setting
- Hotel pool deck
- Work
- Repair and recoat
- System
- ResinTech
Questions
What Whistler clients ask us.
Whistler has serious freeze-thaw. What does that mean for a parkade?
It means the membrane is doing harder work than the same membrane in Vancouver. Repeated freeze-thaw cycling opens cracks in concrete, and the winter salt and traction grit that arrives on every vehicle drives chlorides into the slab. Crack bridging, drainage that actually clears meltwater, and thorough detailing at joints and turn-ups matter more here than anywhere else we work.
Can work be done during ski season?
It is possible but rarely sensible for exterior and exposed work — temperature limits, occupancy at its peak, and no tolerance for disruption in a hotel or resort strata at that time of year. Most Whistler projects run in the shoulder or summer season, which is also when the substrate conditions are right. That means booking well ahead, because the workable window is short and everyone wants it.
Our resort strata has heavy short-term rental turnover. Can you work around it?
Yes, with phasing and a lot of advance communication. Buildings with nightly turnover need certainty about which stalls are available on which dates, further ahead than a residential strata does. We issue phase plans early for exactly this reason, and we would rather commit to a conservative area per phase and hit it than promise more and slip.
Do you handle heated ramps and snowmelt systems?
We work on decks that have them, and the important point is that a heated slab changes the thermal cycling the coating experiences, which affects system selection and detailing. If your ramp has a snowmelt system, tell us at the assessment — it is exactly the kind of detail that decides whether a specification is right or wrong.
Site assessments
Have a slab in Whistler you're worried about?
Photographs and a rough area are enough to start. We'll come out, test moisture, and scope it properly.
Main (604) 968-2040
Second (604) 230-0256
estimating@westpacificcoatings.com