Metallic Epoxy Flooring in Schaumburg, IL

Owning a showpiece floor that is also a working one

The wearing layer is a clear topcoat, and everything that happens to the floor happens to that. Foot traffic, chair legs, trolleys, dropped scissors and the nightly clean all land on a hard sealed surface rather than on the metallic coat beneath it, so the depth in the floor stays as it was poured for years, and when the topcoat eventually shows its age it can be renewed without disturbing the effect under it.

Cleaning is the same as any other coated commercial floor: a sweep, a mop or a pass with a scrubber, with no grout to darken, no seam to trap hair or grit and no porous joint for spills to settle into. Dye, ink, coffee and cleaning chemicals sit on the surface and wipe up. In a room where the floor is the feature, the fact that it looks the same on a Saturday night as it did on opening day is the whole point.

It also does not date. There is no printed pattern, no repeat and no motif tied to a season, so the floor does not need replacing when the fixtures are refreshed or the brand is updated. A metallic floor tends to outlast several refits of the room around it, which for a leased unit is a real saving as well as a design choice.

Base, movement and sheen, decided under your lights

The base color is the first decision and it sets whether the floor reads light or dark overall, because the metallic layer is poured over it and reads against it. For a commercial room the base is usually chosen against the brand palette and the fixtures, and in a room that trades in the evening it is chosen against how the room is lit, since a dark base under warm spotlighting behaves very differently from the same base under daylight.

How strongly the movement is worked is the second. The pigment can be left to drift so the floor reads almost as a textured single color, or worked hard so the contrast is high and the floor is plainly the feature of the room. A busy salon with a lot of product on display usually wants the quieter end so the floor does not compete; a showroom with sparse fixtures can carry more. Saying which end suits the room is part of the job.

Sheen is the third, and under artificial light it matters more than anywhere else. A high gloss returns every spotlight and downlight and deepens the effect, but it also shows every footprint between cleans in a room with a lot of traffic. A lower sheen keeps the depth while calming the reflections and hiding the day. Which one suits depends on the lighting scheme and how often the floor can be mopped during trading hours, and both are settled in the room rather than from a photograph.

Schaumburg businesses this floor suits

We cover Schaumburg and the surrounding northwest suburbs from our shop in Roselle, and the people who come out to look at the room are the people who pour and work the floor.

Locally the demand for this floor is commercial more than residential: salons, studios, boutiques, showrooms and hospitality units in one of the busiest retail districts in the suburbs, where a room has to stand out from the unit next door and is lit and traded in the evening as much as the day. That is the condition a metallic floor is designed for, and it is why the sheen and the base are chosen under the room's own lighting rather than in daylight.

Price a metallic floor for your Schaumburg business

We work throughout Schaumburg 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 is, how the room is lit and roughly how bold you want the floor to be, and we will talk through the base colors worth considering from experience with rooms like yours, settle the movement and the sheen in the room and put the whole specification in writing with a fixed price. Call (630) 206-5602 or email info@evolveconcretecoating.com to arrange a visit. We answer Monday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM.