Commercial Flooring in Warrenville, IL

Seamless resin floors for the office-and-warehouse units on Warrenville's business parks, with a finish chosen for the front of the building and a harder one for the bay behind it, laid as one floor from the reception desk to the roller door.
Commercial office floor with a seamless resin coating

One resin floor from the front office to the back bay

A commercial resin floor is a coating system bonded into the concrete slab of the building, laid as one continuous surface and finished under a clear topcoat that takes the traffic. It comes in four forms, epoxy flake, solid color, metallic, and grind and seal, and the useful thing about a unit with an office at the front and a workshop or warehouse at the back is that all four can go into the same building on the same slab. The finish changes at the door between the two halves; the floor underneath does not.

That is the floor most businesses on a business park actually need. The reception, the offices and the meeting room are seen by customers and staff every day and want a finish chosen for how it looks. The workshop, the stores and the loading bay behind them take pallet trucks, forklifts, dropped parts and whatever is being made or shipped, and want a finish chosen for what it can take. A coated floor gives both halves the right surface without a change of trade, a change of contractor or a strip of trim where they meet.

We quote the whole job from what we see at the visit. Commercial floors we have finished, front of house and back, are on the gallery.

Coated warehouse floor in the back of a commercial unit
Office floor with a seamless resin finish

What one floor across two kinds of space gives you

The front half is cheap to keep presentable. There is no carpet to shampoo, no vinyl to strip and re-polish and no grout to darken along the corridor, so a reception and a run of offices are swept and mopped in minutes and look the same at the end of the year as they did at the start. In a building where customers walk in through the office, that consistency is part of how the business presents.

The back half stands up to the work. Pallet trucks, hand trucks, forklift wheels, dropped tooling and the grit that comes in through the roller door all land on the topcoat, which is built to take them without dulling or scuffing through. Oil, coolant, cleaning chemicals and winter salt sit on the sealed surface and wipe up rather than soaking into the slab, and there is no joint or seam for any of it to collect in.

Both halves are cleaned by the same person with the same equipment, which is a real saving in a unit where one facilities contractor covers the whole building. And because the floor is one system from end to end, the door between the office and the workshop is a flush line on the floor rather than a step, a threshold strip or a change of material that catches every wheel that crosses it.

Reception, offices, showroom, workshop and stores

The reception and the offices want a floor that reads as finished. A solid color in a quiet tone, or a fine flake blend that sits under the desks and the lighting, gives a continuous surface with no seams to draw the eye and nothing for a chair castor to catch on. A meeting room or a small showroom off the reception is where a metallic finish earns its place, as the one floor in the building chosen to be looked at.

The workshop and the assembly area want a hard, sealed, plain floor that shows what has been dropped on it and confirms at a glance that it has been swept. Solid color epoxy in a light tone is the standard there: it takes the tooling, the parts trolleys and the fluids, it is easy to keep clean, and it makes a bay with limited natural light feel far brighter than the bare slab did.

The stores, the racked area and the loading bay want the floor that takes wheels. A flake floor with grip broadcast into the topcoat, or a solid color with an anti-slip additive where the bay runs wet in winter, gives pallet and forklift traffic a hard flat surface that does not dust, does not crumble at the joints and hoses clean at the door. Where the floor is racked and stock sits on it for months, the surface underneath stays sealed and does not shed fines onto the lowest shelf.

Where each of the four floors goes in a flex unit

Epoxy flake is the front-of-house floor for a unit where customers walk in, and the storage floor where grip matters. Colored flake is broadcast into the body coat and sealed under a clear topcoat, so the surface is textured, slip-resistant and forgiving of the grit and marks that a working day leaves behind. A polyaspartic topcoat can be specified over the flake where a harder-wearing, fast-cure finish suits the job.

Solid color epoxy is the plain, uniform floor: one color across the area under a clear topcoat. It is the standard for the workshop, the assembly bay and the stores, because it shows what is on the floor and takes tooling, fluids and wheels, and in a light color it lifts a deep bay with no windows more than any lighting scheme can. It is also the simplest floor to specify, since a color is a color.

Metallic epoxy is the one floor in the building chosen to be looked at. It is poured and worked by hand so the color moves in depth across the surface, and it belongs in the reception, the meeting room or the showroom, where the floor is part of how the business presents itself. It cleans exactly like the other coatings because the wearing layer is the same clear topcoat.

Grind and seal is the one of the four that is not a coating. The slab is ground back to expose the concrete and sealed under a hard clear finish, so the floor is the building's own concrete, dust-free and cleanable, with a plain industrial look. It suits an office that wants the warehouse character kept, and it adds no height at the threshold between the two halves.

Preparing one slab that has been two different floors

A flex unit's slab was usually poured as one industrial floor and then divided. The front got carpet tiles, vinyl or ceramic over it when the offices went in; the back got forklifts, racking bolts, oil and paint lines. So the preparation is two jobs on one slab. At the front, the adhesive, the vinyl residue, the tile bedding and the screed patches come off by diamond grinding down to clean concrete. At the back, the same grinding takes off the surface wear, the old paint and the laitance, and opens the slab so the new system keys into it.

Cracks, control joints and the holes left by racking feet, machine bolts and old partition tracks are opened out, cleaned and filled flush before any coat goes on, so they do not track through the finished floor. Where the office floor was built up to meet the old covering and the workshop floor was not, the two are ground and filled to one plane at the door, because a coating follows the slab it is laid on and the whole point of the floor is that it runs through.

Edges and thresholds are detailed for what is around them. The floor is terminated cleanly at the shopfront, under the reception counter, at the roller door and against the racking legs that are not moving, and where the workshop or the wash-down area wants a cove at the wall, that is an option we talk through at the visit.

Solid color epoxy floor across a workshop and storage area

Walking the whole building before we quote it

We come out and walk the unit with you, front to back, and look at what is on the slab in each part of it, how sound it is and what each area actually has to cope with. The floor is specified from that: which of the four finishes goes where, which colors, what happens at the door between the two halves and at the roller door, and where grip matters.

How the work fits around the office and the workshop is talked through at the visit, because a business park unit rarely empties for a floor, and most of the practical questions are about what can be moved and what cannot.

We quote the whole job once we have looked at the slab. If part of the floor needs more than a straightforward coating, we say so at the visit rather than once the front half is finished.

Diamond grinding a commercial slab before the coating goes down

Business-park units along the tollway in Warrenville

We cover Warrenville and the neighboring DuPage suburbs from our shop in Roselle, and the people who come out to walk the unit are the people who install the floor.

Much of the commercial building around Warrenville is the business-park unit built along the tollway corridor: offices at the front, a workshop or a warehouse behind, one slab under all of it, and a tenant whose customers come in through the office and whose work happens out the back. That is exactly the building a coated floor is designed for, with a finish chosen for each half and one continuous floor running between them.

Get your Warrenville unit floored from front to back

We work throughout Warrenville and the surrounding 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 what the business does in each part of the building, what is on the slab now and where the customers walk, and we will 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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