Commercial Flooring in Elk Grove Village, IL

Seamless epoxy and polyaspartic floor coatings for Elk Grove Village trade counters, service businesses and food production units: a floor that takes grease, water and hand trucks at the back and looks right at the front, installed by our own crew.
Trade counter floor with a resin coating

What a coated commercial floor is made of

A coated commercial floor is a resin system bonded into the slab of the unit. It goes on in layers: a primer that fuses into the ground concrete, a pigmented base coat, the finish you choose, and a clear polyaspartic topcoat that does the wearing. What that makes is one sealed, continuous surface from the customer side of the counter through to the working area behind it, with no seam or threshold strip where the two meet.

We install it for the service businesses that sit alongside Elk Grove Village's industrial parks: trade counters attached to warehouses, repair and service shops with a customer front, commercial kitchens and food production units, and the stockrooms and prep areas behind them. The front and the back of those units do different jobs, and the same system serves both with a different finish on each.

The finished floor is hard and sealed, smooth where it is mopped every night and textured where it runs wet, and it resists the oil, grease, product and detergent that a working business puts on it. Counters, kitchens and service floors we have finished are on our gallery.

Textured commercial kitchen floor with grip underfoot
Service bay floor with a polished coated finish

Why a coated floor instead of tile or painted concrete

Tile in a kitchen or behind a counter fails at the grout: it darkens, it holds grease, and one cracked tile is a matching job. Painted concrete peels within a season wherever a hand truck turns or water sits. Bare concrete soaks up oil and dusts. A coated floor is one non-porous surface with no grout, no paint film and no open pores, so there is nothing to hold grease and nothing to peel.

It goes onto the slab you already have. Once the old finish and any contamination are ground off and the concrete is repaired, the coating bonds straight into it, with no demolition and no new subfloor. For a business that trades six or seven days a week that means fast turnaround and minimal downtime.

And the finish changes where the use changes. Flake or solid color with an anti-slip additive where the floor runs wet, a plain solid color in the workshop and the stockroom, a smoother finish out front where customers stand, and the concrete itself ground and sealed where a plain industrial look suits. One crew, one slab, one continuous floor.

What the floor does for a service business

Resists what the work puts on it. Industrial-grade epoxy and polyaspartic stand up to oils, coolant, grease, cleaning chemicals, road salt and hot tire pick-up where a vehicle comes inside, and to the abrasion of hand trucks, dragged metal and dropped tools. Impact that would chip bare concrete leaves a coated floor as it was.

Cleans properly, and can be seen to be clean. The surface is seamless and non-porous, so there is nowhere for grease, water, mold or bacteria to get trapped, and it takes hot water and detergent every night without breaking down. That matters most in a kitchen or a food production area, where the floor has to pass an inspection as well as a mop.

Safe underfoot where it is wet. A flake floor's orange-peel texture gives grip on its own, and an anti-slip additive can be broadcast into the topcoat of any finish where water, grease or wash-down reaches the floor. Stairs and edges can include safety markings where a business wants them. A properly prepared floor is one you can look at in 15 to 20 years and still be trading on.

Four finishes, and which side of the counter each suits

Epoxy flake. Colored flakes broadcast into the pigmented base coat and sealed under the clear topcoat, with a texture that grips when wet and hides the marks of a working day. It is the usual floor for the customer side of a trade counter, a walk-in door approach and any area that runs wet, and a flake floor can be refreshed with a new topcoat rather than replaced.

Solid color epoxy. One uniform color under a clear topcoat, and the standard floor for the working side: the workshop, the prep area, the stockroom and the service bay. It shows what has been dropped on it and confirms at a glance that the clean has been done, and in a light tone it brightens a bay with no daylight.

Metallic epoxy. A self-leveling resin mixed with metallic mica pigments and worked by hand, so the color moves in depth with a high-gloss finish that suits artificial light. It is an indoor floor for the part of the unit that is meant to be seen, a showroom or a customer-facing front, and not for behind the counter.

Grind and seal. The one finish that is not a coating. The slab is ground back to clean concrete and sealed with a clear sealer, so the floor is the building's own concrete, dust-free and non-porous, with the look of polished concrete at a lower price. It suits a unit going for a plain industrial look, and it keeps the height at a door, a walk-in or a drain exactly where it is.

Preparing a slab that has been worked on for years

Most commercial units have had a floor down before, and what is under it decides how the job starts. Diamond grinders take off tile adhesive, old paint, sealers and laitance and open the concrete so the primer can bond into it. Grinding is what decides whether the floor lasts, so it is done on every job.

Around a kitchen, a wash point or a service bay the concrete has usually soaked up years of grease and oil, and those areas are ground back until the concrete is clean, because a coating laid over contamination lets go exactly where the business is busiest. Cracks, holes and spalls are opened out, cleaned and filled flush, and control joints are treated so the floor runs clean across them.

Edges are finished cleanly at the counter, the door and the walk-in. Falls to a drain and a cove where the floor meets the wall are options we talk through for a kitchen or a wash-down area, so there is no joint to clean out.

Commercial kitchen floor, seamless and washable

Installing the floor, layer by layer

A primer is rolled into the ground concrete first. It fuses into the slab and forms the bond that stops a coating from peeling. Once it has cured, the pigmented base coat goes on across the whole area.

Then the finish. Flakes are broadcast into the wet base coat for a flake floor and the excess scraped back once it has cured. For solid color a second coat of color follows. For a metallic floor the tinted resin is poured and worked by hand. For grind and seal there is no coating stage: the clean concrete takes the clear sealer instead.

Every coated floor is sealed under the clear polyaspartic topcoat, with the anti-slip additive broadcast into it wherever the floor runs wet. It is the layer that takes the hand trucks, the grease and the nightly wash-down, and it keeps the color true for the life of the floor.

Seamless coated floor running through a commercial interior

Service and trade floors around Elk Grove Village

Much of the commercial space we are asked to look at in Elk Grove Village sits alongside the industrial parks: a trade counter on the front of a warehouse, a repair business with a customer front, a food production unit with a small showroom at one end. What they share is one slab serving a customer space and a working space at once, and that is the floor a coated system is made for. We coat counters, kitchens, workshops, service bays and showrooms across Elk Grove Village and the neighboring suburbs.

We work from our shop in Roselle with our own installers rather than subcontracted labor. The company is owned and operated by a Marine Corps veteran, we are licensed and insured, and we stand behind the work with an extended warranty on craftsmanship.

Get a quote for your Elk Grove Village premises

The visit is free and commits you to nothing. We come out, look at the slab and at what the business does on the floor, recommend a finish for the front and one for the back, 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.

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