Urbandale Epoxy Flooring has more than 20 years behind it, and our approach to epoxy flooring in Bondurant begins with a question most coating quotes skip: who is allowed in the building while the work happens? In a school, that answer is settled before anyone talks about color, flake size or thickness.
The floors themselves get the same groundwork we give every slab. We open the surface with a diamond grinder or a shot blaster rather than an acid wash, we write a moisture test into the scope before the number is final, and we map cracks, spalls and old coatings so the price reflects the slab that is actually there.
This page is about floor work inside Bondurant schools: kitchens, custodial rooms, locker rooms and the other hard-use spaces that get a resin system instead of sheet goods. It covers the screening, the calendar and the way a crew moves through a building that stays open.
Bondurant-Farrar’s Intermediate School Flooring Job
A recent district request shows how school floor work is framed here. It is not a coating job, and we had no part in it, but its terms describe the conditions any contractor working inside a Bondurant school should expect.
What the district put out for proposals
On September 8, 2026, the Bondurant-Farrar Community School District issued a request for proposals titled Intermediate Schools Flooring Replacement, with proposals due September 29. The district describes itself as a PK-12 public district in Polk County with two elementary schools, one intermediate school, one junior high and one high school, serving around 3,000 students.
The scope is resilient flooring from Tarkett and Shaw Contract, not epoxy. Even so, the prep reads familiar to anyone who coats floors: remove and dispose of the old flooring, remove old adhesives, and do whatever else is necessary to prepare the subfloor. Old baseboard and wall adhesive come off, and new 4-inch and 6-inch baseboards go on.
A finish date that falls inside the school year
The request says the intermediate project must be completed by December 31, 2026, or by mutual agreement. A job awarded in the fall and finished by year’s end runs while classes are in session. There is no long summer break to hide the work in, so the crew shares the building with students and staff.
That changes the planning more than the materials. A coating crew working a school during the school year needs a sequence that keeps hallways usable, a cure schedule that fits weekends and evenings, and a clear line between the closed work zone and the rooms still in use. We plan cure windows from slab temperature and dew point, not from the calendar.
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Background Checks Before Anyone Starts
The item in that request that matters most to a flooring trade is not about the floor at all. It is about the people who will be standing on it.
What the request asks for in writing
Item 11 says the contractor will run background checks on all personnel assigned to the job, including state and federal sex offender registries and child and adult abuse, before any work is performed. Results of every check go to the school before work starts. The district cites Iowa Code 692A.113 for owners, managers, employees and subconsultants alike.
For a school owner, that turns screening into the first line of the schedule. A start date is not real until the paperwork is in, and a crew member added halfway through is a crew member who has not been checked. When we price school work, we treat the district’s screening requirement as a fixed step that comes ahead of mobilization, not a form to file later.
What Iowa Code 692A.113 says about contractors at schools
The statute restricts sex offenders convicted of an offense against a minor. Under subsection 3(c), such a person shall not operate, manage, be employed by, or act as a contractor or volunteer at a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school, child care facility, or public library. Subsection 1(a) also bars that person from school property without written permission from the administrator.
The law restricts who may work at a school; it does not, by itself, order every contractor to run background checks. The checks come from the district’s own contract terms, which is where Bondurant-Farrar put them. A school owner who wants that protection on a coating job writes it into the scope, and the contractor answers it before the first day on site.
Working Through an Occupied School: One Foreman, Set Areas, Clean Transitions
Once the screening is settled, the job becomes a question of how a floor crew coexists with a full building. The district’s request answers part of that directly, and the rest follows from how coatings cure.
A single foreman the school can find
Item 9 of the request asks for one English-speaking foreman on the job. That is a practical rule: the custodial staff, the principal’s office and the facilities director need one person to call when a door must stay open, a fire drill lands mid-shift, or a room needs to come back early. A rotating lead turns every small question into a delay.
We run school-style jobs the same way we run tenant-occupied flex spaces. The phasing plan names which rooms close on which nights, which corridors stay open, and who on our side signs off each area before it is handed back. Night and weekend windows carry the noisiest steps, so grinding does not compete with a classroom down the hall.
Dust, odor and closed-off areas
Grinding dust is captured at the machine by vacuum rather than swept or washed toward a floor drain. In a building where students return the next morning, that matters as much as the coating itself. Work zones are sealed off, and the finished floor stays roped until it has cured enough for foot traffic.
Odor is the other daytime concern. We offer low-odor products as a comfort and re-entry choice for spaces near occupied rooms, and we say plainly that this is a choice, not something Iowa law demands. The cure schedule and ventilation plan are written down before the job starts, so the school knows when each room can reopen.
Transitions between new and existing floors
The Bondurant-Farrar request calls for appropriate transitions between new and existing floors, and the same detail decides whether a coated room looks finished. A resin floor that stops at a doorway has to meet tile, sheet vinyl or carpet without a lip that catches a cart wheel or a toe.
We plan the termination before the first pass: a saw-cut keyway so the coating ends flush, a matched threshold where heights differ, and an edge that will not peel under a mop bucket. Where an old coating runs under a doorway, we decide in the mapping stage whether it comes up entirely or gets ground back to a clean line.
School Kitchens, Custodial Rooms and Locker Rooms That Get Coated
Resilient flooring covers most classrooms and halls. The rooms that see standing water, chemicals and grease are where a seamless resin floor earns its place, and each one has its own rules.
Kitchens and serving lines
Food establishments in Bondurant are licensed and inspected by the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing directly, because Polk County has no contracted local health department. We plan kitchen floors to the 2017 FDA Food Code that Iowa adopts, with coved floor-to-wall junctures and a texture chosen for wet areas.
Slip resistance comes from the broadcast and the topcoat, so we name both in the proposal instead of promising a grippy floor. A quartz aggregate broadcast under a chemical-resistant topcoat holds up to hot water and degreasers. Because a school kitchen feeds students every weekday, the coating usually goes in over a break or a long weekend.
Custodial rooms, locker rooms and wet areas
Custodial closets take spilled cleaners, mop sinks and wheeled buckets every day. Locker rooms take water, body wash and foot traffic. Both are spaces where a coved base keeps water from wicking under the wall and where bare concrete stains and holds odor long after cleaning.
These rooms usually sit on older slabs that have carried sealers, paint or adhesive. We map those layers first and say when a slab needs repair before anything goes down. A floor drain stays open and working, and the coating is pitched to it rather than built up around it.
Moisture, warranties and what the proposal shows
Every coated school room starts with a moisture test, typically ASTM F2170 in-situ relative humidity probes or ASTM F1869 calcium chloride testing, written into the scope before the price is final. If readings call for a moisture-mitigation primer, that shows up on the quote rather than as a change order.
The proposal names the product line, the number of coats and the finished thickness, so a facilities director can check the installed floor against what was bought. Before anything is signed, we explain what the coating warranty excludes, and moisture vapor transmission is the first exclusion we name.
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