Mount Prospect Epoxy Flooring installs commercial epoxy flooring in Mount Prospect, IL, serving surrounding cities including Prospect Heights, Wood Dale, Bensenville, Schiller Park and Deerfield. With more than 20 years on concrete, we approach a commercial floor as a working surface first: what rolls over it, what spills on it, how it is cleaned, and how long the business can afford to have it closed.
Every commercial proposal names the system for each area, the product line, the coat count and the finished thickness. A building often needs more than one system, and spelling that out lets an owner or facility manager compare quotes on equal terms.
We phase the work around shifts and opening hours, with overnight and weekend windows when the building cannot stop. The schedule is set before the first grinder starts.
Floors for Different Commercial Spaces
Offices, Lobbies and Showrooms
Offices, lobbies and showrooms need a floor that looks good, cleans easily and handles steady foot traffic. A solid color or decorative flake system under a polyaspartic topcoat suits those spaces and holds its color near windows. We schedule these areas for evenings or weekends so customers and staff are not disrupted.
Retail and Service Businesses
Storefronts, salons, clinics and service counters see foot traffic, rolling carts and frequent mopping. A seamless coating with no grout lines is easier to keep clean than tile and stands up to daily wet cleaning. We add antislip texture at entries where snowmelt comes in on boots through the winter.
Flex Buildings and Business Parks
Business parks such as Kensington Business Center on Business Center Drive are home to flex buildings that combine office, showroom and warehouse space. One building can need three different floors. We specify each area for what it carries, from a decorative finish up front to a heavy-duty build where pallet jacks and forklifts run.
Systems for Commercial Traffic
Thick-Build Epoxy for Wheel Traffic
Forklift and pallet jack wheels grind and gouge a thin coating, especially at turns, ramps and dock plates. A thicker 100% solids epoxy build, often with a quartz broadcast, stands up to that wear. We identify the traffic lanes during the survey and build them thicker than the areas that see only foot traffic.
Polyaspartic Topcoats
Polyaspartic topcoats cure fast, resist abrasion and hold their color in sunlight. They suit showrooms and offices where downtime is short and appearance matters. Under heavy wheel loads, we pair them with a thicker base rather than relying on the topcoat alone.
Urethane Cement for Wet and Hot Areas
Areas with hot water, steam cleaning or harsh cleaners can soften a standard epoxy. Urethane cement is built for that thermal shock and chemical exposure. We use it in break-room kitchens, wash areas and any zone where the cleaning routine would defeat an epoxy.
Prep and Moisture on Commercial Slabs
Grinding and Shot Blasting
Large open floors are often prepared with a shot blaster, which leaves an even profile quickly, while edges and smaller rooms are diamond ground. Every machine runs with dust collection at the head. We never wash grinding waste toward a floor drain or into the parking lot.
Moisture Testing
Commercial slabs can carry high moisture, especially slabs on grade without an effective vapor retarder underneath. We test with calcium chloride kits or in-situ relative humidity probes before the price is final.
Where the reading is high, a moisture-mitigation primer goes down first. Coating warranties almost always exclude moisture failures, so this test protects the owner.
Joints, Cracks and Old Coatings
Commercial floors carry control joints, cracks, old coatings, adhesive and patches from past tenants. We map them all, remove failed material and repair the slab before coating. Joints under wheel traffic get a filler firm enough to support a wheel edge.
Scheduling and Working Around the Business
Phasing the Floor
We divide the floor into sections that can close one at a time while the rest of the business runs. Each phase is grind, repair, coat and cure before traffic returns. The phasing plan is part of the proposal, with dates and the areas closed on each.
Nights and Weekends
When a business cannot close during the day, we work overnight or over a weekend. Fast-cure systems help an area return to service by the next shift where the use allows. We coordinate access, alarms and deliveries with you ahead of time.
Odor, Ventilation and VOC Limits
Coating work in an occupied building has to account for odor and air quality. We plan ventilation and choose products inside the Illinois VOC limits for floor coatings, which apply to the person applying them. We tell you which areas should be unoccupied while each coat is applied and curing.
Paperwork and Village Rules
Registration, Bond and Insurance
Illinois has no state flooring license, so each village’s own registration, bond and insurance rules apply. We confirm them before the job is booked and can supply certificates of insurance to landlords and property managers.
Permits and Landlord Approval
We ask the Building Division whether a coating needs a permit rather than assuming either answer. In leased space, we also recommend confirming the landlord’s approval and any floor requirements in the lease before work is scheduled.
What Moves the Price
Commercial pricing follows the square footage of each area, the system chosen for it, the condition of the slab and the schedule. A floor coated in one continuous push during the day costs less to install than the same floor split into night and weekend phases, because every phase means another setup, another cleanup and another cure window.
Old coating removal, joint and crack repair, a moisture-mitigation primer and safety striping are listed as separate lines. That makes it clear which choices drive the number and where an owner can trade cost against downtime.
Warranty and Long-Term Care
We explain what the coating warranty excludes before the job is sold, starting with moisture coming up through the slab and including damage from impact or chemicals left to sit. A floor maintained with the right cleaners lasts far longer than one scrubbed with whatever is on hand. At handover, we leave written care instructions for your cleaning staff or janitorial contractor, along with the recoat signs to watch for in the heaviest lanes.
- 20+ Years on Concrete
- Moisture Tested Before Pricing
- Written Itemized Proposals