Industrial Floor Coating in Hanover Park, IL

Epoxy floor coatings for Hanover Park storage, light manufacturing and distribution buildings: a sealed, hard-wearing floor that stops the slab dusting and takes pallet trucks and heavy loads, installed by our own crew.
Yellow and black safety markings on an industrial floor

What an epoxy coating is, for a racked storage building

An epoxy floor coating is a resin system bonded to the concrete you already have. We grind the slab, roll a primer that fuses into it, build up an industrial-grade epoxy base coat and seal it all under a clear topcoat. The layers cure into one seamless surface with nothing to peel and no seams for dirt to collect in.

We install it in the storage and light industrial buildings around Hanover Park: racked warehouses, distribution units, light manufacturing, trade storage and the workshops that sit alongside them. It suits a sound slab that has never been treated and is starting to show it.

The coated floor is hard, even and easy to keep clean, and it stops the concrete shedding dust onto racking and stock. Industrial and storage floors we have coated are on our gallery.

Solid gray industrial epoxy floor in a warehouse
Solid gray epoxy floor with a high-gloss finish

Why coat a storage floor instead of leaving it bare

Many storage buildings have never had anything done to the floor beyond sweeping it. Bare concrete gives off dust under wheels, soaks up every leak from a forklift or a pallet truck, and wears into hollows along the routes the traffic runs. Painting it covers that up for a while, then wears through in the same places.

A coating is laid on the existing slab once it is ground and repaired, so there is no breaking out and no new concrete. Racking that stays in place can be coated around, with the floor finished neatly up to the uprights.

And because the build can change across the floor, the money goes where the wear is. High-build in the main routes and loading areas, solid color across the rest, grind and seal in the dry stores. It is a fast turnaround with minimal downtime against any job that means emptying the building.

The everyday benefits under load and on the move

Stands up to heavy loads and wheels. Industrial-grade epoxy resists abrasion, impact and the concentrated loads of pallet trucks and stackers. It also resists oil, hydraulic fluid and the road salt tracked in through the doors in winter, so the slab underneath stops wearing and staining.

Dust-free and easy to clean. Sealing the concrete under the coating stops the fine dust a bare slab gives off, which keeps it off stock, packaging and the tops of racking. The floor is seamless and non-porous, so a sweep, a mop or a pass of a scrubber keeps it clean.

A brighter floor that lasts. A light solid color reflects the lighting down long runs of racking, so the building is easier to work in and anything on the floor is easy to spot. On a well-prepared slab the floor can still look good fifteen to twenty years on.

Which coating suits a storage and light industrial floor

Solid color epoxy. One uniform color under a clear topcoat, and the standard floor across most of a storage building. It is hard-wearing, simple to keep clean and easy to see on. Safety markings can be added as an option.

High-build epoxy. A thicker build of epoxy for the floor where forklift traffic and chemical duty are heaviest: the main runs, turning areas, loading points and battery charging areas. It is laid where the wear concentrates, not across the whole footprint, which keeps the cost where it does the most good.

Grind and seal. The slab is ground back and closed with a clear sealer, with no coating on top. It suits dry storage and back-of-house areas that need the dust stopped and the concrete protected, at a lower cost than a coating.

Readying the concrete: grinding, joints and rack damage

We start every floor with mechanical grinding. Diamond grinders take off dirt, oil, tire marks, laitance and any earlier paint or coating, and open the pores of the concrete so the primer can bond. Where years of leaks have soaked in, the concrete is ground back until it is clean.

Cracks, holes and spalls are opened out, cleaned and filled flush. That includes the anchor holes and damaged concrete left where racking has been moved or re-laid over the years. Control joints are treated so the edges hold and wheels roll smoothly across them.

The grind runs right up to the walls, columns and racking feet so the finished floor is continuous. Low spots and old patches are brought up to one level, and a cove at the wall is an option we can discuss for wash-down areas.

Ground and sealed concrete floor in a large open building

From primer to clear topcoat, step by step

Step one is a primer that fuses into the ground concrete. It forms the bond that keeps the coating on the slab, and it is why a properly laid floor does not peel where the pallet trucks turn.

Step two is the pigmented epoxy base coat, built heavier in the high-build areas and at standard thickness across the rest, followed by a second coat of color on solid color floors. A grind and seal floor has no coating stage: the clear sealer is applied to the clean slab instead.

Step three, on every coated floor, is a clear, industrial-grade topcoat. It carries the wear, the spills and the cleaning, and where the floor runs wet an anti-slip additive is broadcast into it.

Diamond grinding an industrial slab before the coating goes down

Storage and light industrial floors around Hanover Park

Much of the industrial stock in Hanover Park is single-story storage, light manufacturing and distribution, a lot of it built at a time when floor treatment was rarely part of the specification. The result is a sound slab, a lot of square footage, racking that has been in place for years and a floor that has never been protected. That is exactly the floor a coating is for, and we work across Hanover Park and the surrounding suburbs.

We run our crews from our shop in Roselle and do the work ourselves, with no subcontracted labor. We are owned and operated by a Marine Corps veteran, we are licensed and insured, and we back every floor with an extended warranty on our craftsmanship.

Have your Hanover Park floor quoted

The visit is free and there is no commitment. We come out and walk the building, look at the slab, the racking and where the traffic runs, recommend solid color, high-build or grind and seal for each part of the floor, 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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