Shop & Commercial Floor Epoxy in Dubuque, IA

Shop and commercial floor epoxy covers any concrete floor that works for a living. Dubuque has a long manufacturing history, and Wikipedia lists John Deere as one of the area's largest employers with about 2,600 workers, along with Andersen Windows and Doors and Flexsteel. Peosta, just west of the city, has a large industrial park built around manufacturing, warehousing and shipping. That makes for a lot of shop, warehouse and production floors in the area, plus home workshops and pole barns that see real use.

What a working floor has to handle

• Forklifts, pallet jacks and hard rolling wheels
• Oil, coolant, hydraulic fluid and cleaning chemicals
• Dropped tools and parts
• Salt and slush carried in on trucks and boots in winter
• Constant foot traffic and the need for grip when the floor is wet
• Cleaning standards for food handling, healthcare or customer areas

Picking a system for the use

Commercial and industrial coatings are thicker than residential garage systems and are often 100% solids epoxy. ArmorGarage's cost guide lists professional commercial and industrial installs at about $7 to $15 per square foot, depending on thickness and the system. A home workshop or pole barn may need a heavy epoxy base and a chip or grit finish. A warehouse aisle may need a thicker build where forklifts turn. A dealership may want a decorative or metallic finish with a hard topcoat. We match the system to what the floor does each day.

Safety lines and layout

We can coat aisle striping, walkways, parking stall lines, equipment zones and keep-out areas into the floor. Coated-in lines last much longer than paint over bare concrete. Tell us the layout you want at the estimate, and we will mark it on the plan before work starts.

Scheduling around your business

Most businesses cannot close for a week. We can work in phases, one section at a time, or over a weekend. Fast-curing polyaspartic topcoats help when time is tight. We talk through odors, ventilation, access and drying times so you can plan your staff and customers around the work.

Prep on heavy-use concrete

Shop floors are often soaked with oil and have broken joints from years of traffic. We degrease, diamond grind or shot blast the surface, cut out failed joint edges and rebuild them, and fill cracks. On older buildings we also look at old sealers, paint, and spots where moisture comes up through the slab.

Home shops and pole barns

Not every work floor is commercial. Rural homes around Dubuque County and across the river in Grant County, Wisconsin, often have a detached shop or pole barn with a concrete floor used for tractors, trucks or equipment. Those floors see the same oil, weight and winter salt as a commercial shop, and we coat them with the same heavier systems.