Janesville Epoxy Flooring installs commercial epoxy flooring in Janesville, WI, serving surrounding cities including Milton, Edgerton, Beloit, South Beloit and Evansville. For more than 20 years we have coated floors in storefronts, offices, clinics, schools, showrooms and restrooms, where the floor has to look professional, clean easily and stand up to steady public traffic. Most of those buildings cannot simply close for a week, so our schedules are built around yours.
A commercial floor carries more weight, more cleaning chemicals and a tighter timeline than a home garage. That changes how we scope the job, which systems we recommend and how we sequence the work. It does not change the basics: every slab is opened with a diamond grinder or shot blaster, moisture is tested, and cracks and joints are repaired before anything is applied.
The proposal names the products, the system build and the finished thickness for each area, so facility managers can check what went down against what was quoted. Warranty exclusions are read before the contract is signed, with moisture first. The sections below cover the commercial spaces we coat and how we plan each job.
Commercial Spaces We Coat
Retail Stores, Showrooms and Offices
Retail floors and showrooms need to look sharp under bright lighting while handling foot traffic, carts and the grit that customers track in from parking lots. We often use a 100% solids epoxy base with a decorative flake, metallic or solid color finish and a hard, UV-stable topcoat. Brand colors and logos can be built into the floor during installation.
Offices and service counters get similar systems in calmer finishes. A lower sheen hides scuffs from rolling chairs, while a higher gloss brightens a lobby and makes a small space feel larger.
Clinics, Schools and Campus Buildings
Healthcare and education buildings need floors that clean easily, resist disinfectants and cannot be out of service for long. Seamless epoxy and polyaspartic systems leave no grout lines to trap dirt, and they hold up to daily mopping and scrubbing. Corridors, classrooms, labs and mechanical rooms each get a system matched to their use.
These buildings rarely close completely, so we phase the work by wing, floor or room, and use school breaks, evenings and weekends where they are available. Fast-curing products help us return each area to use quickly.
Restrooms and Locker Rooms
Commercial restrooms and locker rooms are wet, heavily cleaned and prone to slips. A quartz aggregate broadcast system gives color and texture in one step, adding grip without making the floor hard to mop. We can run a coved base up the wall so the floor-to-wall junction has no seam for water and grime.
Floor drains, toilet flanges and partitions all get careful detailing. A seamless, textured floor is easier to keep sanitary than tile and grout in a high-use restroom.
Planning a Commercial Floor Job
Scoping Around Traffic and Cleaning
We start by learning how the floor is used: foot traffic, carts, pallet jacks, cleaning chemicals, auto-scrubbers and anything that gets spilled. Those details decide the system, its thickness and the texture in each area. A busy entrance and a quiet back office rarely need the same floor.
We also read the slab for cracks, old coatings, adhesive residue from removed flooring and moisture. Commercial buildings often have years of tile mastic or carpet glue to remove before the concrete is ready for coating.
Plan Review and Permits
Commercial alterations in Janesville go through the city’s own plan review under the 2021 International Building Code as Wisconsin adopted it in SPS 361. Neighboring cities and villages have their own processes. Whether a coating-only project triggers review depends on the scope and the jurisdiction.
Rather than guess, we ask the local building department before scheduling. If replacement of a slab section is involved, that question matters even more.
Overnight, Weekend and Phased Work
Plant, kitchen and shop floors are often scheduled around the hours the building has to keep running, and retail and office floors are no different. We work overnight, over weekends or in phases so customers and staff can keep using the space. Dust collection on our grinders keeps the rest of the building clean during preparation.
We coordinate odor control, ventilation and signage with your team. The goal is a floor upgrade that your customers barely notice happening.
Systems, Safety and Compliance
Choosing the Right Commercial System
Most commercial spaces are well served by a 100% solids epoxy base with a polyaspartic or urethane topcoat. Where a space needs to reopen within hours, a full polyaspartic system may be the better choice. Where hot water washdown or thermal shock is part of daily cleaning, urethane cement handles conditions that would break down a standard epoxy.
We explain the trade-offs in plain terms and put the recommended system in writing. That way your budget goes toward the performance the space actually needs.
Joints and Slip Resistance
Control joints in commercial slabs are filled with a semirigid filler before coating where carts and pallet jacks cross them, so the edges do not chip and crack the coating. Expansion joints are honored so the slab can still move. Slip resistance is built in with quartz, flake or anti-slip additives, zoned to wet and dry areas.
Good texture planning keeps entrances and restrooms safer without making dry areas hard to clean. We show samples so you can feel the finish before choosing it.
Wisconsin and Illinois VOC Rules
Wisconsin jobs follow the federal 40 CFR 59 Subpart D architectural coatings rule, which binds the manufacturer. Illinois sets its own VOC limits in Part 223, Subpart C of Title 35 of the Illinois Administrative Code, and those limits bind the applicator as well. We select compliant products for every job in the state where the building stands.
Low-odor products also make overnight and occupied-building work more practical. Grinding dust and slurry are collected on site and never washed toward a street drain or the Rock River.
- 20+ Years in Concrete Coatings
- Moisture Testing in Every Scope
- Free Written Estimates