Industrial Epoxy Flooring in Bensenville, IL

Chemical-resistant industrial epoxy floors for Bensenville freight terminals, fleet workshops, wash bays and production units: a seamless floor that oil, fuel, coolant and road salt sit on instead of soaking into, installed by our own crew.
Industrial epoxy floor in a freight and storage building

How does an industrial epoxy floor work?

An industrial epoxy floor is a resin system bonded into the concrete, not a paint laid on top of it. The slab is ground open, a primer fuses into the concrete, an industrial-grade epoxy base coat is built up over it, and a clear topcoat seals the surface. The finished floor is one continuous layer with no joints in the finish and nothing to lift at an edge.

We install it for Bensenville businesses whose floors get wet and dirty for a living: trucking terminals, cross-dock buildings, fleet maintenance shops, vehicle service businesses, wash bays and light production units. It suits a slab that takes fluids every shift as well as one that takes wheels.

The finished floor is hard, closed and easy to read. A drip of fuel or a coolant leak shows up on it and wipes off it, where on bare concrete it would be another dark patch. Industrial floors we have coated are on our gallery.

Industrial epoxy floor inside a working unit
Solid color epoxy floor across a production area

Why Bensenville operators coat the slab, not patch it

Bare concrete is porous. Every spill of diesel, hydraulic oil, coolant or detergent goes into it and stays there, the surface dusts under traffic, and de-icing salt carried in off the yard slowly eats at it. Painting it buys a season at best, because paint sits on a contaminated surface and peels where the trucks turn. Replacing the slab means emptying the building.

A coated floor goes onto the slab you already have. Once the concrete is ground clean and repaired, the system is built straight onto it, so there is no breaking out, no disposal and no new pour. For a working terminal or shop that is usually the deciding point.

It is also a fast turnaround with minimal downtime compared with taking a floor out, and the build is chosen for the duty. A standard solid color epoxy where the floor sees ordinary traffic, a high-build coating where fluids and forklifts are constant, and grind and seal where the slab only needs closing up.

What a chemical-resistant floor does for a busy building

Chemical and oil resistance. The epoxy resists oils, fuel, coolant, cleaning chemicals, road salt and the hot tire pick-up that strips weaker coatings in a service bay. What lands on it stays on the surface until it is cleaned up, so the slab underneath stops absorbing years of spills.

Easy to clean and hygienic. The floor is seamless and non-porous, so dirt, water, oil, mold and bacteria have nowhere to get trapped. A wash bay or a workshop is cleaned with a scrubber or a mop and soap and water, with no stripping and no waxing.

Long life and a safer surface. The coating takes abrasion, impact and dropped tools that would chip bare concrete, and a well-prepared floor can look good fifteen to twenty years on. An anti-slip additive can be broadcast into the topcoat for wet areas, and a light color brightens a dark bay so spills and hazards are easier to see.

Three industrial finishes, and which one suits fluids

High-build epoxy. A thicker build of industrial-grade epoxy, installed where forklift traffic and chemical duty are part of every shift. It is the floor for wash bays, fueling and fluid-handling areas, maintenance pits and the routes the heaviest wheels run, because it gives the slab the most material between it and what is spilled on it.

Solid color epoxy. One uniform color under a clear topcoat, the standard floor across most of a workshop, terminal or production unit. It shows what has been dropped or leaked, it cleans up quickly, and in a light tone it reflects the lighting in a building with few windows. Safety markings can be added as an option where a building wants them.

Grind and seal. The slab is ground back to clean concrete and closed with a clear sealer, so the floor stays your own concrete but stops dusting and absorbing. It suits stores, parts rooms and dry areas where the duty is light and a full coating is more than the floor needs.

Getting oil and fuel out of the concrete before we coat it

Every floor starts with mechanical grinding. Diamond grinders take off the oil-darkened surface, old paint and coatings, tire marks, laitance and contamination, and open the pores of the concrete so the primer can bond into it. On a slab that has taken fuel and oil for decades, the contaminated areas are ground back until the concrete underneath is clean.

Cracks, holes and spalls are opened out, cleaned and filled flush, along with the holes left where equipment or racking was bolted down and later moved. Control joints are treated so the finished floor runs clean across them and wheels do not catch on the edges.

Edges are taken right to the walls, columns and drains so the coating finishes cleanly and liquid has no edge to get under. A cove at the wall is an option we talk through for wash bays and other wash-down areas.

Diamond grinding a contaminated slab back before coating

The layers that go down, from primer to topcoat

We roll a primer that fuses directly into the ground concrete. That bond is what stops an industrial coating from peeling under hot tires and spills, and it is laid across the whole floor before anything else.

The pigmented epoxy base coat goes on next, built heavier in the high-build areas and to a standard thickness elsewhere. For a solid color floor a second coat of color follows. For grind and seal there is no coating stage: the clear sealer goes onto the cleaned concrete instead.

Every coated floor is finished with a clear, industrial-grade topcoat. It is the layer that takes the traffic, the chemicals and the cleaning, and where the floor runs wet it is the layer the anti-slip additive is broadcast into.

Coated floor with bay and walkway lines marked into the finish

Freight, fleet and production floors around Bensenville

Bensenville's industrial buildings sit alongside the airport and the freight corridors that serve it: trucking terminals, cross-dock buildings, fleet maintenance shops, vehicle service businesses and light production units. Most of them stand on slabs that have taken oil, fuel and de-icing salt for years, which is exactly the duty an industrial epoxy floor is built for. We coat floors across Bensenville and the neighboring DuPage and Cook County suburbs.

We work out of our shop in Roselle, a short drive away, with our own installers rather than subcontracted labor. We are licensed and insured, and the people who come out to look at your floor are the people who will lay it.

Ask for a Bensenville industrial floor quote

The visit is free and commits you to nothing. We come out, look at the slab, the fluids it takes and the traffic that runs on it, recommend high-build, solid color or grind and seal for each part of the building, 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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