Basement Floor Coating in Winfield, IL

Family room, mudroom end, gym and the door to the patio

The family room or lounge end of a walk-out is where the floor is chosen for how it looks as well as how it works. It has the windows and the daylight, it is furnished like an upstairs room, and a flake floor in a warm blend or a quiet metallic makes it read as one. Where the level is open plan, one continuous floor across all of it is what makes it read as a single room.

The stretch inside the patio door is the mudroom end, whether or not it was designed as one. Boots, the dog, bikes, garden tools and pool towels all pass through it, and a flake floor in a mid-tone with grip broadcast into the topcoat hides the grit between cleans, gives wet feet something to stand on and does not care what is dropped on it.

A home gym, a playroom or a workshop at the closed end of the level wants a hard floor that takes weights, toys, dropped tools and the odd spill, and the laundry and utility corner wants a plain, sealed surface that shrugs off water and detergent and is easy to see is clean. Solid color epoxy belongs in those, and it runs under the appliances and around the floor drain as one surface with nothing for water to get under.

Flake, solid color and metallic chosen in daylight

Epoxy flake is the most practical floor for a walk-out. Colored flake is broadcast into the body coat and sealed under a clear topcoat, so the surface is textured, slip-resistant and busy enough to hide the mud, grit and small marks that a door to the yard brings in. In daylight a flake floor reads as a finished surface with some life in it, and the blend can be picked against the walls, the trim and what is outside the windows. A polyaspartic topcoat can be specified over the flake where a harder-wearing, fast-cure finish suits the room.

Solid color epoxy is one color across the area under a clear topcoat, plain and uniform. It suits the working end of the level, the gym, the laundry and the storage bays, because it shows what is on the floor and confirms at a glance that the room is dry and clean. In a light color it also lifts the closed end of the level, the part the windows do not reach.

Metallic epoxy is the floor for the finished room, worked by hand while the coat is wet so the color moves in depth across the surface. It belongs in the daylit end of a walk-out that has been properly finished, where the floor is meant to be looked at and the windows give the movement something to catch. It is an indoor finish, it wants a slab that has been brought flat, and it is the one of the three that is most worth choosing in the room under the light it gets.

Winfield houses and the level that opens to the yard

We cover Winfield and the neighboring DuPage suburbs from our shop in Roselle, and the people who come out to look at the lower level are the people who lay the floor.

Winfield is a village of houses rather than businesses, and where a house sits on ground that drops toward the back of the lot, the lower level is often built to open onto the yard, with windows on the low side and a door to the patio. That room is the one this floor is written for: a daylit lower level that is lived in like the rest of the house, takes the yard in through the door, and wants a finished floor that can be chosen in the light it has and mopped clean at the end of the day.

Have your Winfield lower level looked at and priced

We work throughout Winfield and the surrounding DuPage suburbs from our shop in Roselle, with our own crew rather than subcontracted labor. The visit is free and commits you to nothing. Tell us how the level is used now, where the door and the windows are and what the slab has been through, and we will recommend flake, solid color or metallic for each part of the space, explain how the slab will be prepared and quote the job. Call (630) 206-5602 or email info@evolveconcretecoating.com to arrange a visit. We answer Monday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM.