Epoxy Flooring Arlington Heights, IL Garage Floors for 1970s Homes
We resurface garage, basement and business floors across Arlington Heights, Illinois, a Cook County suburb northwest of Chicago where the typical home dates from 1974.
Resurfacing Arlington Heights Garages and Basements
Arlington Heights, Illinois is a village of about 76,000 in Cook County’s northwest suburbs, and its housing leans to the 1960s and 1970s: Census figures put the median home at 1974, with about one in five built before 1960. We coat garage floors, basements, and shop and office floors from downtown by the Metra station to the subdivisions out along Rand Road.
A slab poured 50 years ago has had plenty of winters to collect wear: oil soaked in near the workbench, tire marks in the parking lanes, hairline cracks along the joints, and scaling at the door where salt slush and freezing nights work on bare concrete. Nearly all of it can be repaired before coating, and Carlos, who has installed floors across Chicago and the suburbs for years, quotes that work in person.
Prep is most of the job on a floor this age: every garage slab is diamond ground, then cracks and joints are filled and leveled. Only then does the coating go on in three layers — epoxy base, flake or color, protective top coat. Curious what moves the price? Read our Chicago epoxy cost guide before the visit.
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Shown for finish only. At an Arlington Heights visit you choose colors in your own garage light.
What Arlington Heights Gets From Epoxy Floor Chicago
Straight talk about 50-year-old concrete, a free estimate, and most garages done in one to two days.
Free
No Blind Quotes
A slab with 50 winters behind it can hide surprises, so it is never priced over the phone. The cracks, scaling and stains are inspected in person, and the estimate is free with no obligation.
Repair
Repairs Before Color
The grinder takes the stained top layer off, chipped joints and cracks are filled, and flaking paint or an old kit coating is removed. Only then does the base coat go down.
Choice
Flake, Metallic or Solid
Most Arlington Heights garages take flake in the colors and density you pick; a workshop takes a solid color, and a finished basement takes a metallic. Matte, semi-gloss or high gloss on top.
Checked
Basement Slabs Checked
Every basement slab is checked for moisture before it is coated. If the check says wait, or water is getting in after a storm, you hear it before any work starts.
1–2 days
A One-to-Two-Day Install
Most garage floors are done in one to two days, depending on the slab and the conditions. You know the plan before we start.
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Answered Around the Clock
Call (773) 938-3823 at any hour. The phone is answered around the clock, and the free visit to your Arlington Heights home gets booked from that call.
How an Arlington Heights Slab Gets Resurfaced
On a slab with 50 years of wear, most of the work happens before any color goes down.
Reading the Slab
At your Arlington Heights home or business the installer reads the concrete first: where it has scaled, where it is stained, which cracks matter. Then colors, then a free, no-obligation estimate. Ask for a visit.
Grinding Off the Old Surface
Diamond grinding strips stains, salt-scaled surface concrete and old paint, and takes off a failed coating from a previous job. The slab is checked for moisture before coating.
Joint and Crack Repair
The pitted strip inside the door, chipped control joints and hairline cracks are filled and leveled. A crack that is still opening gets flagged before the base coat, not hidden under it.
Layering the System
Epoxy base coat, flake or color, then a protective top coat. A humid July morning and a January slab call for different timing, so each coat follows the product’s own instructions.
Final Walk-Through
You and the installer go over the finished floor together: how to keep it clean, and the day the car comes back in. Anything that comes up later, the same number answers.
First, a Free Look at Your Arlington Heights Slab.
A plain read on the concrete and a free estimate, with no pressure to decide on the spot.
What We Resurface in Arlington Heights, Illinois
Garage floors lead the list in Arlington Heights, along with basements and business floors from downtown out to the former Arlington Park site.
Garage Epoxy
Attached garages on 1960s and 1970s slabs with decades of oil and salt in the concrete: ground back, filled, then flaked in your colors under a clear top coat.
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Residential Interior
The full basement under an older Arlington Heights house, plus laundry rooms, storage rooms and home gyms. Seamless, mops clean, and a slip-resistant additive is available where floors get wet.
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Commercial & Retail
Retail, restaurant, office and salon floors downtown and along Arlington Heights Road, Rand Road and Northwest Highway, each quoted once we have walked the space.
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Industrial & Warehouse
Auto shops, warehouses and storage buildings. Every industrial job gets a site visit before a quote.
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Repair & Maintenance
Flaking garage paint, a peeling kit coating, a floor another contractor got wrong. You get a straight answer on whether it can be recoated or has to be ground off and redone.
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Say which room and roughly how old the house is. We’ll talk through what the slab probably needs and book a free visit.
Call (773) 938-3823 →Finishes for an Arlington Heights Floor
Flake, metallic and solid color for the home, a solid commercial floor, and a slip-resistant additive for any of them.
Built for the Northwest Suburbs’ Winters
Freezing nights, road salt, hot humid summers and daily wear: a ground, repaired slab under a layered coating takes all of it.
Salt Scaling, Stopped
The National Ready Mixed Concrete Association notes that de-icing salts make surface scaling worse by keeping the concrete wetter and adding freezing and thawing. A coated floor keeps tracked-in salt on top, where it rinses away.
Chemical & Stain Resistant
Oil, brake fluid, antifreeze and the white salt haze of a Chicago-area winter wipe off a coated floor. Bare 1970s concrete drinks them in.
Protective Top Coat
Flake floors finish with a clear protective top coat. On the 17 or so days a year O’Hare tops 90°F, a fully bonded, full-build floor is what keeps hot tires from lifting it.
Built for Busy Garages
A floor jack, a dropped socket set, years of bike kickstands: a full-build coating takes that kind of use in stride.
Planned Around Winter
Between the median first freeze on October 28 and the last on April 16, an unheated garage slab can sit below a coating’s working range, so cold-season installs are planned around the slab’s temperature.
Easy to Clean & Maintain
A broom most days, a mild cleaner and a mop now and then. No pores, no grout lines, nowhere for salt or grime to settle.
Rated 5.0 stars on Google
Three of the 92 reviews on our Google listing, as written.
"I can't say enough good things about Carlos. He is punctual, responsive, and always goes out of his way to provide excellent service. I had him come in to do some repairs on my garage floor and he did an amazing job with the epoxy coating."
"I had been looking for years at getting my floor redone and when I found Epoxy Flooring Chicago, I was so relieved. They were really honest and upfront with me about how the process should go, what would be involved and what it would cost."
"I was thoroughly impressed with Carlos's attention to detail during my residential epoxy flooring installation."
Epoxy Flooring FAQs — Arlington Heights
What Arlington Heights homeowners ask about cost, prep and timing.
Yes — all of Arlington Heights, Illinois, in Cook County, including the 60004 and 60005 ZIP codes. Call (773) 938-3823 for a free estimate.
Arlington Heights floors are priced after a free visit, because size, slab condition, crack repair or coating removal, and the finish you pick all change the number. There is no obligation. Call (773) 938-3823 to set up the visit; our Chicago cost guide breaks down each factor.
Almost always. Age matters less than condition: the stained, scaled surface is ground off, cracks and joints are filled, and the coating goes over sound concrete. A slab that has lifted or keeps settling is flagged before any quote.
It comes off first. Paint and kit coatings make a poor base for a new floor, so diamond grinding removes them during prep, and that work is part of the estimate.
Well, on a properly prepared slab. O’Hare drops to freezing about 121 nights a year, and the salt your tires carry in scales bare concrete; a sealed floor holds that slush on the surface for a quick squeegee.
Yes, after a moisture check. A coated basement floor is easy to clean, but no coating keeps water out of a basement, so a leak or a sewer backup after heavy rain gets fixed before we start.
Yes, from retail and restaurant floors downtown to offices and service bays across Arlington Heights. Every commercial job is quoted per project once we have seen the space.
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