Garage, basement and commercial floor coatings, with every slab ground open and moisture tested before anything is applied.
Romeoville Epoxy Flooring has spent more than 20 years installing epoxy flooring in Romeoville, IL, from epoxy garage floors and basement coatings to polished concrete, polyaspartic and flake systems, metallic finishes and commercial floors for warehouses, kitchens and shops. Every one of those floors starts the same way: with the concrete underneath it.
A coating is only as good as the slab it grips, so we grind the surface open, test it for moisture and read every crack and joint before we write a number down. The proposal you get names the product, the build and the finished thickness, which means the floor that goes down can be checked against the floor that was quoted.
This page walks through what that looks like for a garage, a basement, a decorative finish and a commercial building, and where the answer changes because the floor is in Romeoville rather than somewhere else.
What we do
Epoxy flooring for Romeoville garages, basements and commercial floors
Ground, moisture-tested epoxy garage floors with flake and a polyaspartic topcoat, built for the salt and brine a Will County winter tracks in.
Polished concrete ground in stages and hardened with a lithium silicate densifier, for commercial spaces and homes that want the slab itself as the floor.
Fast-curing, UV-stable polyaspartic floor coatings over ground concrete, for garages, shops and commercial floors that need to return to service quickly.
Basement floor epoxy that starts with where the water comes from: moisture testing, efflorescence removal and primers matched to what the slab shows.
Marbled metallic epoxy floors for basements, showrooms, offices and garages, poured over ground concrete and protected with a clear, UV-stable topcoat.
Diamond grinding and shot blasting that strip sealers, paint and adhesive and open the slab to the profile a coating needs, with dust caught at the machine.
Crack, spall and joint repair for garage, basement and commercial slabs, plus a plain answer when a floor needs replacing before it can be coated.
Commercial epoxy floors for shops, plants, retail and offices, specified for the traffic and chemicals in each space and installed around business hours.
Full-broadcast vinyl flake epoxy floors in dozens of blends, with texture for grip and a clear topcoat that stands up to tires, salt and daily wear.
Static-dissipative and conductive epoxy floors for electronics assembly, data rooms and labs, installed with grounding and tested after the cure.
Seamless, coved urethane cement floors for restaurant and food-service kitchens, specified for health department plan review and hot daily washdown.
Warehouse floor coatings, densifiers, joint repair and line striping for distribution buildings, phased around shifts so the docks keep running.
We have been grinding, repairing and coating concrete for more than 20 years. That time is mostly what lets us look at a stained, cracked or previously painted slab and say with confidence what it will take to make a coating stay put, and when it simply should not be coated.
No slab gets coated until a diamond grinder or shot blaster has opened it, because a garage floor tracked with years of Will County road salt carries a weak, contaminated skin, so the epoxy bonds to sound concrete rather than peeling the way it does when a contractor rolls it over an acid-etched surface.
Every proposal carries moisture testing as its own line, using calcium chloride or in-situ relative humidity methods on garage, basement and warehouse slabs alike, so vapor coming up through the concrete is found before the coating goes down rather than discovered as blisters after a contractor has been paid.
Curing is planned around slab temperature and the dew point spread, not a date on the calendar. An unheated Romeoville garage in January cannot cure a coating properly, so we tell you to wait for spring rather than lay a floor that stays soft, clouds over or lets go at the first thaw.
Illinois licenses no flooring or coatings contractor, and Romeoville requires every contractor and subcontractor on a job to register with the village. We confirm registration, bond and insurance for the village a floor is in before scheduling, so a job is not stopped halfway rather than started on an assumption.
Warranty exclusions are read out before anything is signed, with moisture named first, so a homeowner or facility manager knows exactly what the coverage holds rather than learning about the fine print the first time a floor fails from below.
A garage job starts with a walk of the slab: cracks, old sealer, oil and the way water drains to the door. Then we grind, repair, test, coat, broadcast and topcoat. Most two-car floors take one to two working days, and parking waits for a cure measured against real slab temperature.
A coating rolled over sealed or painted concrete is only bonded to that old film, and when the film lets go the new floor goes with it. Diamond grinding removes both and leaves an open surface profile, so the epoxy locks into concrete instead of into whatever was there before.
The IRC’s garage vapor retarder exception means many garage slabs were poured with no vapor barrier underneath. We test before coating, with an ASTM F1869 calcium chloride kit, ASTM F2170 in-situ probes or an ASTM D4263 plastic sheet check, so moisture is a known number before the floor is quoted.
Hairline shrinkage cracks can be routed and filled, but a slab that has heaved, sunk or broken into plates needs repair or replacement first. Romeoville writes its own slab rules: a 4-inch slab with 6x6 wire mesh on compacted CA-6 gravel, which is what a replaced garage floor here gets poured to.
Most Romeoville homes went up between 1990 and 2009, after the I-55 and Weber Road interchange opened. Their garage slabs have seen twenty or more winters of salt, tire traffic and freeze-thaw, so we expect surface scaling, pitted control joints and old sealers worn to patches.
Hampton Park dates from 1957, built on former wetlands along Route 53, and its garage slabs are among the oldest in the village. Concrete of that age often shows deeper scaling, patched sections and settled edges, so these floors get a closer look at repair before any coating is priced.
Calcium chloride brine and rock salt ride into the garage on tires all winter, soak into bare concrete and recrystallize as it dries, slowly breaking the surface apart. A fully bonded epoxy with a chemical-resistant polyaspartic topcoat keeps that brine on top, where a squeegee can push it out the door.
Epoxy needs warmth to cure, and polyaspartic is sensitive to condensation when the slab sits near the dew point. A heated, attached garage can often be coated through the winter. An unheated one usually waits for spring, and we say so at the estimate rather than at the failure.
A hardware-store epoxy garage floor kit is a thin, water-based coat over an acid-etched slab, and hot tire pickup lifts it within a season. A professional floor is a ground slab, 100% solids epoxy, a full flake broadcast and a polyaspartic topcoat, built thick enough to carry a car.
We price per square foot for the system we propose, not from a national per-garage figure. The number moves with crack repair, the removal of old coatings, whether a moisture-mitigation primer is needed, the flake blend and the topcoat. Every item that changes the price is listed on its own line.
Coating warranties nearly always exclude failures caused by moisture vapor or hydrostatic pressure from below, and many exclude hot tire pickup on systems the installer did not choose. We walk through the exclusions with you before the job is sold, moisture first, so nobody is surprised later.
A basement floor coating starts with one question: is water or vapor coming up through this slab? We test before quoting, and the answer decides between a standard epoxy system, a moisture-mitigation primer underneath it, or a plain statement that the floor should not be coated yet.
When groundwater rises around a foundation it presses up on the underside of the slab, pushing water through cracks and the cold joint at the wall. That hydrostatic pressure is enough to blister and lift a coating, which is why we treat drainage as a separate problem rather than painting over it.
The white, chalky powder on many basement floors is efflorescence: salts carried up by moisture and left behind as it evaporates. It is a sign of water moving through the concrete. We grind it off, test the slab, and decide whether a moisture-mitigation primer is needed before the epoxy goes on.
Sump pits, perimeter drain tile and floor drains have to keep working after the floor is coated. We terminate the coating cleanly at pit lids and drain rims, keep slopes toward drains intact, and leave access for the sump pump, so the system that keeps the basement dry is not sealed over.
A moisture-mitigation primer is an epoxy formulated to tolerate higher vapor emission than a standard primer, applied to a ground slab before the color coats. It extends where a coating can work, but it is not a cure for active leaks, so we only specify one once testing says the slab is a candidate.
Romeoville sits on the Des Plaines River, and summer storms have put water in local basements before. After a flood, a slab has to dry out, be tested again and be cleaned of silt and residue before coating. We would rather wait a few weeks than coat a floor that is still wet inside.
FEMA Technical Bulletin 2 lists materials that can survive contact with floodwater and be cleaned afterward, and concrete with a bonded, non-porous coating fits that description better than carpet or wood. A coated floor can be hosed and disinfected after water recedes, though the coating itself does not keep water out.
A coated basement floor handles a washer leak, a dropped wrench or a loaded barbell far better than bare or painted concrete. For a laundry area we keep the surface easy to wipe, for a workshop we add broadcast texture, and for a home gym we plan around rubber mats and the weight of the racks.
Basement prices are quoted per square foot like any other floor, but they move most with what testing finds. A dry slab with light efflorescence prices very differently from one that needs a moisture-mitigation primer, crack repair at the wall joint and careful work around a sump pit and floor drain.
A floor coating is not radon mitigation, and we never sell one as radon reduction. In Illinois, radon mitigation is licensed work under the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. If you are worried about radon, test first and talk to a licensed mitigator; we can coat the floor after their system is in.
A vinyl flake broadcast is the most popular garage finish because it hides dust, adds texture and comes in dozens of blends. Larger chips read bold and busy, while smaller chips give a tighter, more granite-like look. We bring physical samples, since screen colors rarely match a lit garage.
A metallic epoxy floor uses pigment that moves while the resin is wet, creating a marbled, almost liquid look. It takes a perfectly prepared slab, careful timing and an experienced hand, because every movement shows. We recommend it for basements, showrooms and offices more than for working garages.
Polished concrete is the slab itself, ground in stages and hardened with a lithium silicate densifier. How deep the grinding goes decides what you see: a cream finish with little stone showing, a salt-and-pepper look, or full aggregate exposure. The depth is agreed before we start, since it cannot be undone.
A high-gloss topcoat looks striking but shows dust, scuffs and tire marks in a garage. Satin hides more of that day-to-day wear, and matte hides the most while looking closest to stone. We usually show a sample board of all three in your own lighting before choosing.
A quartz aggregate broadcast puts colored sand into the epoxy, building slip resistance and color in one step. It is a common choice for commercial kitchens, locker rooms and ramps where people walk on wet floors. The texture is set by the grade of quartz and the thickness of the topcoat.
A single solid color is the right answer more often than people expect. In a workshop it makes dropped screws easy to find, in a commercial space it reads clean and bright, and it is the simplest system to repair later. We still add a fine slip additive where the floor gets wet.
Epoxy tends to yellow, or amber, when sunlight hits it through an open garage door or window. Polyaspartic and polyurea topcoats are far more UV stable, so we put one over the epoxy on any floor that sees daylight. That keeps a light gray floor from drifting toward tan.
Decorative saw cuts, contrasting borders and inlaid logos turn a plain coated floor into something custom. We plan cuts around existing control joints so cracks follow the design rather than crossing it, and mask logos in layers so edges stay crisp under the topcoat.
A commercial floor carries forklifts, pallet jacks, chemicals and inspections that a garage never sees. It is usually bigger, thicker and built to a specification, with joint treatment, coving and slip resistance spelled out. It also has to fit around a business that cannot simply close for a week.
Industrial property is a large part of Romeoville’s tax base, and the I-55 and Weber Road distribution parks hold some of the biggest floors in Will County. Warehouse coatings there need abrasion resistance under constant traffic, clear line striping, and a schedule that keeps the docks running while work moves bay by bay.
Food plants need floors that are smooth, non-absorbent and easy to clean, as the FDA Food Code asks, while standing up to hot water, sanitizers and food acids. That usually means urethane cement rather than standard epoxy, with coved bases and slopes to drains built into the system.
Open control joints chip at the edges when forklift wheels cross them, and the chipping spreads fast. We fill joints flush with a semi-rigid polyurea joint filler that supports the edges while allowing a little movement. That keeps the floor smooth enough for hard wheels and stops the joint from tearing apart.
Romeoville sits entirely in Will County, so a restaurant floor goes through Will County Health Department food plan review, which approves finish materials before a building permit is issued. We specify the floor system, its texture and its coving for that review, so the permit is not held up by a vague flooring line.
Hot water and steam cleaning soften standard epoxy and shock it loose from the slab. Urethane cement handles thermal shock and continuous washdown, and a coved base runs the floor up the wall so there is no seam where water and debris can collect, as FDA Food Code 6-201.13 describes.
Retail and office tenant spaces often turn over with a short window between leases. A polished concrete floor or a fast-curing polyaspartic system can be finished in that gap, removing old adhesive and patching tile scars so the next tenant moves onto a clean, durable floor rather than a patchwork.
Service bays take oil, coolant, brake fluid and dropped tools all day, plus the anchor points of vehicle lifts. We degrease and grind contaminated concrete, coat around lift anchors without compromising them, and add broadcast texture so a bay stays safe when fluids hit the floor.
Electronics assembly, data rooms and some manufacturing lines need floors that bleed off static before it damages components. An ESD or static-dissipative system uses conductive layers and a grounding connection to hold the floor inside a specified resistance range, and we test that range after installation.
Illinois limits the VOC content of floor and industrial maintenance coatings under Part 223, Subpart C of Title 35 of the Illinois Administrative Code, which matters in the Chicago 2015 ozone nonattainment area. The rule binds anyone who applies these coatings, not just the manufacturer, so we choose compliant products for every floor.
Warehouses, shops and kitchens often cannot stop for days. We schedule commercial floors around the hours the building has to run, including overnight and weekend windows, and we collect grinding dust at the grinder so nothing is washed toward a floor drain or storm inlet.
Romeoville Epoxy Flooring provides epoxy-flooring throughout the greater Romeoville area, with the same crews and the same standards on every job.
Good to know
Most two-car garages are ground, repaired, coated and topcoated over one to two working days, depending on the system and the cracks we find. Foot traffic usually follows within a day, and parking waits until the topcoat has cured for the temperature the slab is actually at.
No. We open every slab mechanically with a diamond grinder or a shot blaster, which removes the weak surface layer and old sealers that acid leaves behind. Etching is the usual reason a kit floor peels in its first winter.
We quote per square foot for the specific system we are proposing, after we have looked at the slab. Crack repair, old coating removal, a moisture-mitigation primer and the choice of broadcast all move that figure, and each one is listed separately on the proposal.
Illinois issues no state license for flooring or coatings work. Instead, villages run their own contractor registration with bond and insurance requirements, so we confirm the rules of the village a job is in before we put it on the schedule.
Epoxy is the body of most systems: thick, strong and well bonded to ground concrete. Polyaspartic is usually the topcoat, because it cures fast, holds its color in sunlight and resists the abrasion and chemicals a garage or shop throws at it.
No. A floor coating is not waterproofing, and it can blister or lift if water is pushing up from below. We start a basement job by finding where the water comes from, and say plainly when drainage has to be fixed before any coating is worth installing.
Only when the slab and the air above it stay warm enough for the material to cure and the dew point is well clear of the slab surface. In an unheated garage that often means waiting for spring, and we say so rather than risk a soft or cloudy floor.
Every residential job gets a written contract naming the product, the system build and the finished thickness, along with the Home Repair: Know Your Consumer Rights pamphlet, as the Illinois Home Repair and Remodeling Act requires before work starts.
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