Commercial Flooring in Schaumburg, IL

Seamless epoxy and polyaspartic floor coatings for leased retail, restaurant and office units in Schaumburg: a floor that looks right on opening day, costs almost nothing to keep, and hands back clean at the end of the lease, installed by our own crew.
Clothing store interior with a continuous coated floor

What is a commercial resin floor?

A commercial resin floor is a coating system bonded into the slab of the unit and laid as one continuous surface from wall to wall. It goes on in layers, a primer that fuses into the concrete, a pigmented base coat, the finish, and a clear polyaspartic topcoat that takes the traffic, and it adds almost nothing to the finished floor height.

We install it for businesses fitting out leased space in Schaumburg: retail units, restaurants and cafes, fitness studios, salons, clinics, and the office and business-park suites above and around them. A fit-out floor has to meet a standard a head office will recognize and look right on opening day with nothing on the punch list, and a coated floor is specified down to the color, the finish and the edge detail before anything goes down.

The finished floor is hard, seamless and sealed, in a finish chosen to sit under the fixtures and the lighting scheme, and it reads the same from the storefront to the back wall. Retail, restaurant and office floors we have finished are on our gallery.

Metallic epoxy floor in a restaurant front of house
Commercial kitchen floor, seamless and washable

Why a fit-out floor should be a coating

Tile has to be cut, laid, grouted and sealed, and then the grout darkens along the route to the counter. Vinyl plank goes down quickly and lifts at the seams just as quickly. Carpet tile stains under the first spilled drink. A coating is one sealed surface with nothing to darken, lift or stain, and it goes in as one stage of the fit-out rather than a long trade on its own, with fast turnaround and minimal downtime.

It goes onto the slab that is already there. The last tenant's floor and its adhesive are ground off, the concrete is repaired, and the coating bonds straight into it. There is no demolition, no subfloor and no build-up at the storefront or the doors.

And at the end of the lease the floor is an asset rather than a liability. It comes off nothing and hides nothing, so there is nothing to rip out at handback, and a landlord tends to prefer it for that reason. In between, it is the cheapest floor in the unit to keep presentable.

What the finished floor does for the business

Costs almost nothing to keep. The floor is seamless and non-porous, so the daily clean is a sweep and a mop, there is no grout to darken and no wear strip to renew at the entrance, and it looks as it did on opening day well into the lease. In a branded unit that consistency is part of the brand.

Stands up to a trading unit. Carts, chairs, stock cages, wet umbrellas, winter salt and cleaning chemicals every night all land on the topcoat, and industrial-grade epoxy and polyaspartic take them without dulling or scuffing through. Spills sit on the surface and wipe up rather than staining the slab underneath.

Safe, hygienic and good under the lights. A flake floor's texture gives grip where the floor runs wet, an anti-slip additive can be broadcast into the topcoat of any finish, and the surface has nowhere to trap grease, mold or bacteria. The topcoat is UV-stable, so the color does not yellow under the storefront glazing, and a properly prepared floor is one you can look at in 15 to 20 years and still be pleased with.

The four floors, and where each goes in a fit-out

Epoxy flake. Colored flakes broadcast into the base coat and sealed under the clear topcoat, textured, slip-resistant and forgiving of the grit a trading day leaves behind. It is the front-of-house floor for a busy unit, in a flake blend or a color chosen to suit the brand, and it can be refreshed with a new topcoat later rather than replaced.

Solid color epoxy. One color across the area under a clear topcoat. It is the standard for kitchens, prep rooms, clinics and back-of-house, because it shows what is on the floor and confirms at a glance that the clean has been done, and it is the easiest finish to specify, since a color is a color.

Metallic epoxy. A self-leveling resin mixed with metallic mica pigments and worked by hand, so the color moves in depth across the surface under a high-gloss finish that suits artificial light. It belongs in a reception, a salon or a boutique where the floor is part of the design rather than the background to it, and it cleans exactly like the other coatings.

Grind and seal. The one of the four that is not a coating. The slab is ground back to expose the concrete and sealed with a clear sealer, so the floor is the building's own concrete, dust-free and cleanable, with the plain industrial look a lot of current retail and food design asks for. It adds no height at a threshold and it is the lowest-cost of the four.

Getting the slab ready for a new tenant's floor

A slab in leased space carries the history of every fit-out before yours: tile adhesive, carpet glue, vinyl residue, paint, patches and the holes from old fixings. Diamond grinders take all of it off across the whole area and open the concrete so the primer can bond into it, in the same pass.

Cracks, control joints and fixing holes are opened out, cleaned and filled flush before any coat goes on, so they do not track through the finished floor. Where an old storefront line or a removed wall has left a step or a patch, it is ground and filled level, because a coating follows the slab it is laid on and a fit-out floor has to be flat under the millwork.

Edges and thresholds are finished cleanly at the storefront, under counters and fixtures, and where the floor meets a different finish. Where a kitchen or a wet area wants a cove, it is an option formed as part of the system so the wall and the floor are sealed together.

Resin flooring through an open-plan office

How the floor is built, layer by layer

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

Then the finish you specified. For flake the flakes are broadcast into the wet base coat 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 the pattern. For grind and seal the clean concrete takes the clear sealer instead of a base coat.

Every coated floor is sealed under the clear polyaspartic topcoat. It carries the sheen, takes the traffic and the nightly clean, and keeps the color true for the life of the lease and beyond.

Office floor with a seamless resin finish

Retail, hospitality and office space around Schaumburg

Schaumburg carries one of the largest concentrations of retail, restaurant and office space in the northwest suburbs, and most of it is leased, branded and refitted on a cycle. That is the unit a coated floor is built for: it has to open looking right, meet a standard, cost nothing to keep presentable, and hand back cleanly at the end of the term. We coat retail units, restaurants, studios, clinics and office suites across Schaumburg and the surrounding northwest suburbs.

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

Get your Schaumburg unit specified and quoted

The visit is free and commits you to nothing. Bring the drawings and the brand standard if you have them, tell us what the business does on the floor, and we will look at the slab, 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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