Shop & Commercial Floor Epoxy in Ann Arbor, MI

Shop & commercial floor epoxy is built thicker and tougher than a typical home garage system. It has to hold up to carts, lifts, dropped parts, solvents and daily cleaning. In Ann Arbor and the surrounding towns, that covers home workshops and pole barns, auto and equipment service bays, warehouse and light industrial floors, retail back rooms, and the clean, washable floors that studios and small labs need.

What a commercial system adds

Commercial floors usually use 100% solids epoxy, which builds thicker per coat and resists chemicals better than thin coatings. HomeAdvisor notes that commercial-grade coatings for high-traffic areas add 20% to 30% to the cost. Depending on the floor, a system may add an aggregate for slip resistance, a urethane or polyaspartic topcoat for abrasion and UV, coved bases where floor meets wall so spills cannot get under the edge, and painted safety lines or marked work zones.

Prep on working floors

Shop floors carry years of oil, coolant and hydraulic fluid. Those soak into the concrete and stop a coating from bonding. We degrease, grind and, where contamination runs deep, grind further until we reach clean concrete. Old coatings, paint stripes and floor adhesives come off. Expansion joints are filled with a flexible material, and saw cuts and control joints are treated so the coating does not crack along them.

Winter traffic in service bays

Any bay where vehicles come in from Michigan roads sees the same salt and slush a home garage does, at a much higher volume. Brine pools around drains and under lifts. A sealed, sloped-to-drain floor with texture keeps that water moving and gives workers grip. We look at where water collects before we choose the finish.

Scheduling around your business

We know you cannot shut down for a week. Large floors can be done in sections, with one area coated while another stays in use. Fast-cure polyaspartic topcoats shorten downtime, and weekend or after-hours work is possible on many jobs. We put the schedule in the written quote so you can plan around it.

Floors we coat

• Home workshops, detached shops and pole barns
• Auto, equipment and fleet service bays
• Warehouses and light industrial spaces
• Retail stockrooms and back-of-house floors
• Studios, gyms and small labs that need washable floors

For floors that fall under specific health, food or industry rules, tell us what applies and we will select products that meet it.

When the slab needs more than a coating

Wide cracks that keep moving, heaving sections or slabs that are breaking up may need concrete repair or replacement before any coating. We tell you if that is the case. HomeAdvisor lists foundation repair from about $2,150 to $7,730 or more when cracks are structural, which is a different job from floor coating.