Commercial Epoxy Flooring in Oak Brook, IL

Seamless epoxy and polyaspartic floors for Oak Brook lobbies, showrooms and office floor plates: a floor that reads as one finished surface under the lighting you actually have, installed by our own crew.
Commercial office floor with a seamless finish

Commercial epoxy flooring, explained

Commercial epoxy flooring is a resin system bonded into the concrete slab of the building. It is built up in layers: a primer that fuses into the concrete, a pigmented base coat, the finish you choose, and a clear polyaspartic topcoat that takes the traffic. The result is a single unbroken plane across the whole floor plate, with no grout lines, no tile joints and no transition strips cutting it up.

We install it in the corporate and professional buildings that make up most of Oak Brook's commercial space: lobbies and receptions, showrooms, office floor plates, and the stores, corridors and plant rooms behind them. Where the floor is part of how a building presents, the finish is chosen for the look. Where it is not, the same system goes down in a plainer finish.

The finished floor is hard, sealed and seamless, and its sheen is chosen to suit the light in the room: high gloss where a space wants to feel larger and brighter, a lower sheen under hard directional light. Lobby, showroom and office floors we have finished are on our gallery.

Office epoxy flooring in an open interior
Commercial office flooring with an even tone

Why an epoxy floor over carpet tile, stone or vinyl

Carpet tile wears a visible path from the door within a year and stains where the coffee goes. Stone and porcelain tile are cut up by grout lines that darken, and one cracked tile is a matching problem. Vinyl plank lifts at the seams and dulls along the walking line. An epoxy floor is one sealed surface with none of those joints, so nothing wears a path and nothing has to be matched.

It goes onto the slab that is already there. Once the old covering and its adhesive are ground off and the concrete is repaired, the coating bonds straight into it. There is no demolition and no new subfloor, which in an occupied building means fast turnaround and minimal downtime for the tenants.

And the same floor can be specified differently across one floor plate and still be one continuous surface. A metallic pour in the lobby, a quiet solid color across the offices, flake at the goods entrance where the carts come in, and no threshold strip where one meets the next. That is what makes a large open floor read as finished rather than assembled.

The benefits of a coated floor in a corporate building

Looks deliberate, and stays that way. The topcoat is UV-stable, so a floor under a wall of glazing does not yellow or fade, and a high-gloss finish returns the light and makes a lobby feel bigger and brighter than it is. Because the floor is seamless there is no grout to darken and no pile to wear, so it holds its appearance on the routes people actually walk.

Cleans on the routine you already have. The surface is non-porous, so spilled coffee, tracked-in water and winter salt sit on top and wipe up rather than soaking in. A sweep and a mop, or a pass with the scrubber your cleaning contractor already runs, brings it back the same every night. There is no stripping, no waxing and no grout to scrub.

Hard-wearing and safe underfoot. Industrial-grade epoxy and polyaspartic resist the abrasion of chair casters, stock cages and carts, and an anti-slip additive can be broadcast into the topcoat at an entrance where the floor runs wet in winter. The finish is low odor and low VOC, which matters in an occupied building, and prepared properly it is a floor you can look at in 15 to 20 years and still be pleased with.

Four finishes for Oak Brook lobbies, showrooms and offices

Epoxy flake. Colored flakes broadcast into the base coat and sealed under the clear topcoat, giving a lightly textured, forgiving surface. In a corporate building it belongs where the traffic and the weather come in: the goods entrance, the service corridors, a staff entrance, a cafeteria. The texture holds grip when the floor is wet and hides the marks of a busy day.

Solid color epoxy. One even color across the whole area under the clear topcoat, with nothing in it to catch the eye. It is the quiet office floor: calm under the lighting, easy to keep, and the simplest finish to specify across a large floor plate. In a light tone it lifts an internal room 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 the look of marble, granite, stone or liquid metal. Its high-gloss reflective finish suits a space lit artificially, which is why it is the lobby and showroom floor: the floor is part of how the building presents itself, and no two pours are alike.

Grind and seal. The only one of the four that is not a coating. The slab is ground back to expose clean concrete and sealed with a clear sealer, so the floor is the building's own concrete, non-porous and dust-free, with the look of polished concrete at a lower price. It suits an office or a showroom going for a plainer, more architectural look, and it adds no height at an elevator door or a threshold.

What happens to the slab before it is coated

The old covering comes off first, and so does everything under it. Diamond grinders take off carpet adhesive, tile bedding, vinyl residue, paint and laitance, and they open the pores of the concrete so the primer can bond into it. On an appearance floor this is the step that decides everything, because the coating follows whatever surface it is laid over.

Cracks, control joints, and the holes left by partition tracks, old fixings and floor boxes are opened out, cleaned and filled flush before any coat goes on. On a lobby floor a joint that reads back through the finish is visible from one end of the space to the other, so this is done properly rather than quickly.

Thresholds, elevator openings and the edges against glazing are cut in by hand, because those are the lines a floor is judged on. Where two areas of slab sit at different levels they are ground and filled to one plane, and a cove at the wall is an option we talk through for a kitchen or a wash area.

Solid color epoxy floor in a dental office

The layers, in the order they are applied

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

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

Every coated floor is then sealed under the clear polyaspartic topcoat. It carries the sheen you chose, it takes the traffic and the cleaning, and it is what keeps the color true for the life of the floor.

Grind and seal concrete floor inside a business

Corporate floors around Oak Brook

The commercial building stock in Oak Brook is corporate and largely low-rise: wide, open floor plates, often with a run of glazing along one side, and a lobby that everyone crosses. That is exactly the floor a coated system suits, with the sheen chosen against the light in the room and one continuous surface from the entrance to the back corridor. We coat lobbies, showrooms, offices, clinics and restaurants across Oak Brook and the neighboring DuPage business districts.

We work out of our shop in Roselle with our own installers, not subcontracted labor. The company is owned and operated by a Marine Corps veteran, and we stand behind the work with an extended warranty on craftsmanship.

Arrange a site visit and a quote in Oak Brook

The visit is free and commits you to nothing. We come to the building, look at the slab and at the room in its own light, recommend flake, solid color, metallic or grind and seal for each area, 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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