Garage, basement and commercial floors opened with a diamond grinder, tested for moisture and built to a written spec.
Orland Park Epoxy Flooring has spent 20+ years grinding and coating concrete in Orland Park, IL, from epoxy garage floors and basement floor epoxy to polyaspartic coatings, polished concrete, metallic epoxy and commercial and industrial floors. Every one of those jobs starts the same way: the slab is opened with a diamond grinder or shot blaster, tested for moisture and mapped for cracks before a price is written.
That order matters because most coating failures are decided before the first coat goes down. A coating rolled over a slick, etched or damp slab can look fine for a season and then lift in sheets, usually where a warm tire parks or where vapor pushes up through the concrete. We would rather tell you a slab needs repair, drying time or a mitigation primer than sell you a floor that will not last.
Our proposals spell out the product line, the number of coats and the finished thickness, so you can hold the finished floor up against the paper. Homeowners, property managers and business owners all get the same written scope, the same moisture test and the same plain explanation of what the warranty does and does not cover.
What we do
Epoxy flooring for Orland Park garages, basements and businesses
Ground, moisture-tested epoxy garage floors built for road salt, brine and hot tires on Orland Park's thick attached-garage slabs.
Ground, densified and polished concrete floors for Orland Park showrooms, offices, basements and garages, with the aggregate exposure set up front.
Fast-curing, UV-stable polyaspartic floor coatings for Orland Park garages, showrooms and shops, installed over a ground and tested slab.
Moisture-tested basement floor epoxy for Orland Park basements and split-level lower floors, detailed around sump pits and perimeter drains.
Marbled metallic epoxy floors for Orland Park basements, showrooms, salons and offices, poured over a ground, flattened and tested slab.
Diamond grinding and shot blasting for Orland Park slabs, removing old coatings and opening a measured profile so new floors bond.
Crack, spall, joint and scaling repair for Orland Park garage, basement and commercial floors, with an honest repair-or-replace call.
Commercial epoxy floors for Orland Park showrooms, dealerships, clinics and banquet halls, phased around business hours and built to a written spec.
Static-dissipative and conductive ESD epoxy floors for Orland Park electronics, server and lab spaces, grounded and tested after cure.
Full-broadcast vinyl flake epoxy floors for Orland Park garages, basements, mudrooms and commercial restrooms, sealed with a clear topcoat.
Shot-blasted, high-build industrial epoxy and urethane cement floors for warehouses, plants and shops that take forklifts and chemicals.
Seamless urethane cement kitchen floors with integral cove bases for Orland Park restaurants, bakeries and banquet kitchens, installed after hours.
For more than 20 years we have prepared and coated garage, basement, showroom and kitchen floors across the southwest suburbs. That time is why we test before we quote: we have seen what happens to a floor coated over a slab nobody checked, and the repair always costs more than the test would have.
Every slab is opened mechanically with a diamond grinder or shot blaster to a measured ICRI concrete surface profile, so the epoxy bites into sound concrete rather than sitting on a weak, acid-etched skin that lets go the first winter the way a rushed kit job does.
No price is final until the slab has been tested for moisture, whether it is a basement floor or an attached garage poured with nothing underneath to stop vapor, so vapor drive is found on paper rather than as blisters after a contractor guessed and coated anyway.
The village’s amended garage rule calls for a 5-inch reinforced slab sloped toward the overhead door, so we plan grinding, crack treatment and edge details for that thick, pitched floor and choose a system that stands up to the brine and rock salt riding in on tires all winter, rather than one meant for a flat interior room.
Illinois has no state flooring license, yet Orland Park requires a village contractor license before any permit, and each neighboring village sets its own license, bond and insurance rules. We confirm those before the job is booked, so the work never stalls at a building counter rather than learning the rule after the crew shows up.
Coatings go down only when the slab sits safely above the dew point at its surface, so amine blush, cloudy finishes and soft cure are avoided rather than scheduled into an unheated January garage just to keep a date on the calendar.
An epoxy garage floor starts with a slab check, a moisture test and a crack map, then moves through grinding, repairs, the base coat, any broadcast and the topcoat. We give you the cure time before you park on it, because driving on a soft topcoat is the fastest way to mark a brand-new floor.
Most garages here share a wall and a door with the house, so we run every grinder with a vacuum attached at the machine and keep the house door sealed while we work. Dust is captured rather than swept or rinsed toward a drain, and ventilation is planned so coating odor stays outside.
A coating rolled over sealer, paint or a glossy troweled surface has nothing to grip and peels in sheets. We diamond grind down to sound concrete and open a real profile, so the primer soaks into the slab instead of bonding to a film that was never built to hold anything.
The residential code allows a garage slab to be poured without a vapor retarder beneath it, so nothing may be stopping moisture from below. We start with a plastic sheet test under ASTM D4263 and move to calcium chloride or in-situ relative humidity testing when the first read calls for real numbers.
Cracks, spalls and surface pitting are mapped before we price anything, and most are filled with a rigid repair material and ground flush before coating. When a slab is heaving, crumbling across wide areas or settling in sections, we tell you it needs replacement first, because a coating cannot hold together concrete that is coming apart.
Rock salt and calcium chloride brine dripping off cars soak into bare concrete, and freeze-thaw cycles pop the surface into flakes and pits over a few winters. A dense, built-up coating with a chemical-resistant topcoat keeps that brine on the surface, where a squeegee can push it out the door.
Epoxy cures slowly and unevenly on a cold slab, and moisture condensing near the dew point leaves amine blush or a hazy finish. When an unheated garage in deep winter cannot hold a safe slab temperature, we book the floor for spring rather than coat it to protect a schedule.
A warm tire softens a thin or poorly bonded coating and pulls it up as the car drives off, leaving bare patches in the wheel tracks. A ground profile, a 100% solids epoxy base and a polyaspartic or polyurea topcoat built to the specified thickness are what keep the floor attached.
Retail kits usually pair a thin epoxy with an acid etch, which leaves little profile and little film on the slab. A professional floor is ground, primed and built up in coats to a stated thickness, and that difference is usually what separates a coating that lasts from one that peels in the tire tracks.
Price moves with the slab more than with the square footage alone. Crack and spall repair, removing an old coating, the system chosen and the size of the garage all change the number, and the moisture test can add a mitigation primer, which is why we quote after testing rather than over the phone.
Every coating warranty excludes something, and moisture coming up through the slab is the first exclusion we name. We also explain how impacts, chemical spills and driving on an uncured floor affect coverage, so you know where the warranty ends before you sign rather than after a blister appears.
Basement slabs sit against soil, so vapor and hydrostatic pressure push up on them constantly. Before quoting basement floor epoxy we test with ASTM F1869 calcium chloride kits or ASTM F2170 relative humidity probes and compare the readings to the product’s limits, because the answer decides which system can go down at all.
In a Cook County Assessor sample covering much of the village, partial basements outnumber full ones, largely because a split-level’s lower level is recorded that way. Those family rooms and laundry floors sit partly below grade, so we treat them like basements for moisture and like living space for finish and comfort.
Older basement floors often carry layers of paint, patching compound and black tile adhesive. We grind those layers off instead of coating over them, and when old adhesive could contain asbestos we stop and have it tested before any grinding, because dry grinding that material is not safe for anyone in the house.
Orland Park amends its plumbing code so the top of a sump pit sits 2 inches above the finished floor beside it. We detail the coating up to that raised rim and keep perimeter drain tile openings clear, because a coating sealed over a drainage path traps water instead of letting it reach the pit.
If a basement has taken on water, the coating waits. The source has to be fixed, the slab cleaned of silt and residue, and the concrete dried and retested, because a floor coated while it is still wet will blister and lift no matter how good the product is.
White powder on a basement floor is efflorescence, salts carried up by moisture and left behind as the water evaporates. It tells us water is moving through that slab, so we test it, grind the salts away and choose a system for that condition instead of coating over the warning sign.
When readings run above what a standard epoxy tolerates but the slab is otherwise sound, a moisture-mitigation primer can go down first. We specify it from the test numbers and the manufacturer’s stated limits, and we tell you plainly when even a mitigation primer is not the right answer for a slab.
A coated basement floor turns a laundry room, workshop or home gym into a surface you can mop. We match the system to the room, with chemical resistance near the washer, impact resistance under a workbench, and a broadcast texture where wet feet or damp shoes cross the floor.
Basement pricing moves with the moisture readings, the amount of paint or adhesive to remove, crack and patch work, and whether a mitigation primer is needed. A dry, bare slab costs far less to coat than one that needs removal and mitigation, which is exactly why the test comes before the quote.
A floor coating does not reduce radon and does not waterproof a basement. In Illinois radon mitigation is licensed work under IEMA, and water control belongs to drain tile, sump pumps and grading, so we never sell a coating as a substitute for either one.
Vinyl flake broadcast into a wet epoxy base gives a speckled finish that hides dust and small marks. Blend and chip size change the result: larger chips read bold, smaller ones read finer, and a full broadcast gives the most texture and the most even color across the floor.
Metallic epoxy uses pigments that drift and settle as the resin cures, leaving a marbled, pearl-like finish. It needs a flat, well-prepared slab, a dark base coat and an experienced hand working the material while it is wet, because ridges, roller marks and pooling all show on a metallic floor.
Polished concrete is the slab itself, ground and honed through finer and finer diamonds and hardened with a lithium silicate densifier. How deep the first grind goes decides how much stone shows, from a light cream finish to fully exposed aggregate, so we set that expectation on a test area first.
High gloss looks sharp but shows dust, scratches and tire marks, while satin and matte sheens hide them and read calmer. We show sheen samples under your own lighting, since a garage lit by one overhead fixture looks very different from a showroom under track lights.
Colored quartz aggregate broadcast into epoxy and locked in with a clear topcoat gives color and grip in one system. It suits wet rooms, commercial kitchens and locker rooms, where the slip resistance comes from the aggregate and the topcoat specified rather than from a promise in a brochure.
A solid color floor is the simplest system, and sometimes the right one, for a workshop where dropped parts and spills need to be seen or a utility room where easy cleaning matters more than looks. We tell you when a plain floor will serve you better than a decorative one.
Epoxy yellows, or ambers, where sunlight reaches it through an open garage door or a storefront window. Where a floor sees daylight we finish it with a UV-stable polyaspartic or polyurea topcoat, so the color stays true instead of turning yellow in the bright strip by the door.
Control joints can be filled, kept open or turned into design lines, and borders or logos can be set into the coating with color changes. We plan those details before the base coat goes down, because joints left untreated tend to telegraph through any finish laid over them.
Commercial floors add heavier traffic, stronger cleaning chemicals, health and safety rules and a schedule built around the business. We plan phasing, access and cure times with the owner or facility manager first, then pick the system for forklift and pallet jack wheel loads, carts or foot traffic.
Automotive sales were the village’s largest sales-tax category in 2022, and dealership service drives take hot tires, oil and coolant drips and winter brine dragged in from the lot. Those floors need a ground profile, a chemical-resistant topcoat and a texture that stays safe when wet.
Retail and furniture showrooms have to look finished and be open the next morning. We phase the floor in sections, often overnight, and use fast-curing polyaspartic topcoats where the schedule calls for them, so displays go back in place instead of waiting out a long cure.
Banquet hall service corridors, kitchens and back-of-house floors take loaded carts, dropped food and constant mopping. We schedule those floors around booked events, using weekend or overnight windows when a hall cannot close, and coat them with a seamless system that resists grease and cleaners.
Kitchen floors need to be smooth, durable and easy to clean, and FDA Food Code section 6-201.13 calls for coved, closed floor and wall junctures in many food areas. We run the coating up the wall as an integral cove base, so there is no open seam for grease and water at the edge an inspector checks.
Standard epoxy can soften under repeated hot water washdowns, steam and thermal shock. Urethane cement handles hot water and strong cleaners far better, so we specify it for kitchens, breweries and food prep rooms that would wear through an epoxy in a short time.
Gyms see dropped weights, sweat and daily disinfecting. We put a tough, textured coating in walkways, locker rooms and wet areas and leave lifting zones to rubber matting, because no floor coating absorbs a dropped barbell on its own.
Clinics and medical offices clean with strong disinfectants every day, which can dull or soften the wrong finish. We choose chemical-resistant topcoats, seamless coved edges and textures that still clean thoroughly, and we phase the work around patient hours so the practice keeps seeing people.
Electronics assembly areas and server rooms need floors that bleed static charge to ground within a specified resistance range. Static-dissipative and ESD systems rely on conductive primers and grounding points, and we test resistance after cure rather than assuming the product reached the range.
The Chicago area falls inside the 2015 ozone nonattainment area, and Illinois limits VOC content for floor and industrial maintenance coatings under 35 Illinois Administrative Code Part 223. Those limits bind whoever applies the coating, so we choose products inside them rather than leaving compliance to the customer.
When a business cannot close, we work after hours and on weekends, phase the floor in sections and plan cure times so staff and customers walk on finished floor in the morning. Dust is vacuumed at the machine and ventilation is planned, so a working space is not left with grit and odor.
Orland Park Epoxy Flooring provides epoxy-flooring throughout the greater Orland Park area, with the same crews and the same standards on every job.
Good to know
Angi lists concrete coating in the Orland Park area at $3 to $15 per square foot. Where a floor lands in that range depends on slab condition, crack and spall repair, whether an old coating has to be ground off, the system chosen and the size of the space. We price after the moisture test and crack map, not before.
Grinding, repairs and coating on a typical home garage usually fit into a short window of days, but the date the car goes back in is set by the cure, not the crew. Slab temperature, dew point and the system used decide that cure time, and we give it to you in writing before we start.
Orland Park lists painting, tiling and similar finish work as exempt from permits, and a floor coating usually reads as finish work, though the Building Division has the final word. Illinois has no state flooring license, but the village requires a contractor license before any permit, and neighboring villages set their own rules, which we check before booking.
Epoxy builds thickness and bonds deeply into ground concrete, which is why we often use a 100% solids epoxy as the base. Polyaspartic and polyurea topcoats cure faster, resist ultraviolet light and hold up well to abrasion, so they are common as the top layer where sun, hot tires or a tight schedule are part of the job.
Not until we know how damp it is and why. We test with calcium chloride kits or in-situ relative humidity probes, then compare the readings with the product's limits. Some slabs can take a moisture-mitigation primer first; a slab with active water coming in needs the water handled before any coating is discussed.
Rarely, and never without testing the old layer. Most paint, sealer and failing epoxy has to be ground off so the new coating bonds to concrete rather than to a film that may already be letting go. A well-bonded epoxy can sometimes be ground and recoated, and we tell you which case your floor is.
A smooth, glossy coating can be slick when wet, which is why texture is part of the specification. We set slip resistance by the broadcast used, such as vinyl flake or quartz aggregate, and by the topcoat and any grip additive, and we show you a sample so you can feel the texture before choosing.
Yes. Home jobs over the threshold in the Illinois Home Repair and Remodeling Act get a written contract and the state's Home Repair: Know Your Consumer Rights pamphlet before any grinding begins. The proposal also names the product line, the number of coats and the finished thickness.
Moisture coming up through the slab is the first exclusion on nearly every coating warranty, and we name it before the job is sold. Damage from impacts, chemical spills, driving on the floor before it has cured and slab movement are other common exclusions, so we walk through the written terms with you up front.
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