Welcome To Specialty Surfaces

About Us

Thanks for visiting our website! Specialty Surfaces offers a wide range of surfacing options for schools and commercial spaces, including sustainable commercial sheet and tile floor solutions, outdoor playscapes and coatings for tennis and school yards, and indoor/outdoor epoxy/urethane coatings for industrial/commercial spaces. Based in the Okanagan, Specialty Surfaces provides supply and installation services to the Okanagan Valley, Western Kootenays, and Thompson regions.

Flooring solutions 

Sustainable Commercial Surfaces

Sheet linoleum – Linoleum is the most sustainable commercial flooring on the market.  Made from 99% natural, renewable products, linoleum is a dynamic, attractive, hard wearing and low emitting surface for classrooms and commercial spaces. 

Feature Product: “Landscape Collection” by Gerflor DLW

Textile Composite Tile – This revolutionary new product offers the durability of a sheet flooring and the comfort of carpet.  With each square foot of textile composite flooring containing just over 6 plastic water bottles, this surface is highly sustainable, and offers many other desirable qualities, including comfort, stain resistance, water resistance, sound dampening and extreme durability.  

Feature Product: “Kinetex” Hybrid by J+J Flooring

Bio based sheet PVC – Made from 75% renewable or recycled materials with a 100% bio based plasticizer,  bio based sheet PVC is a modern replacement for traditional sheet flooring.  Phthalate free, recyclable and non-emitting, bio based sheet flooring is ideal for occupied spaces including schools, health care facilities and offices.   

Feature Product: “Mipolam Symbioz” Homogeneous Floor by Gerfloor

Hard Flooring Solutions

SPC Resonate Flooring –  SPC flooring is an engineering marvel.  Extreme resistance to scratches and water, easy to install, maintain and available in a multitude of realistic looking wood and stone colors and textures, there is resonate SPC product for almost every space in your home, office or commercial space.  resonate is FloorScore certified, and contributes to healthy, sustainable design.

Feature Product: “Impact” SPC by Responsive

Engineered Hardwood Flooring – Engineered hardwood is extremely stable, highly resistant to moisture, and can be installed on, above or below grade, nailed, glued or floating. Hardwood has many redeeming qualities, it is an amazing looking floor while having the capacity to withstand over an entire lifespan if taken care of properly. Not only does hardwood look and hold up great, but it is an amazing sound deadener and can be refinished back to its original state after wear.

Feature Product: “Engineered Flooring” by Preverco

Industrial Epoxy & Urethane Decorative Coatings – Specialty Surfaces offers a wide range of trowel and roll on decorative coatings that will provide a long lasting, durable and aesthetically pleasing upgrade to an existing surface or new substrate.  Indoor or outdoor, decorative coatings can be enhanced with paint chips and anti slip additives to provide safe and hard wearing solutions for garages, warehouses, patios, decks, showers, change or classrooms. 

Feature Product: “IG Series” by Action Herculan

 Playscapes

Poured In Place Playground Surfacing – By Marathon, Specialty Surfaces can supply a full range of recycled and EPDM surfaces for safe and and functional play.  Choose from a wide range of fall ratings, colours and design features to customize your play surface to meet your needs.

Feature Product: “Landsafe” Poured Rubber by Marathon

Rubber Tile Surfaces – For outdoor play, interlocking rubber tiles are available in a variety of colours and thicknesses for playground or recreational areas.  Easy to install, durable and sustainable, outdoor tiles are a great option for many different applications.

Feature Product: “PlayFall” Tiles by NWR

Acrylic Tennis Coatings – Acrylic coatings are a popular option for tennis, pickleball and outdoor basketball or play areas.  Easy to install and maintain, acrylic surfaces are a simple way to improve your outdoor aesthetic and surface performance. Available in a wide range of colours, acrylic coatings can be applied over top of old coatings, new asphalt or concrete and can modified to provide ideal cushion and speed for any level of performance.

Feature Product: “Laykold” Advantage System

Outdoor Play – Let us improve the functionality of your schoolyard with one of our many game stencils.  Accessible, traditional or snail (yes, snail) hopscotch, 4 square and beanbag toss are just a few examples of the many games you can add to your school yard surface to challenge or engage your students!

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