Brookfield Epoxy Flooring installs commercial epoxy flooring in Brookfield, WI, serving surrounding cities including Wauwatosa, West Allis, Pewaukee, New Berlin and Menomonee Falls. With 20+ years of commercial and residential coating work, we know the difference between a floor that looks good on opening day and one that still looks good after a few years of carts, foot traffic and cleaning machines.
Brookfield is a center for office, retail and light industrial activity, with almost a dozen industrial and office parks plus a major retail corridor along Moorland Road. Most of those floors cannot close for long, so our commercial work is planned around operating hours first and products second.
Every proposal names the product, system build and finished thickness, so a property manager or owner can check what was installed against what was quoted. The schedule is written down the same way.
Commercial Floors by Building Type
Offices and Corporate Common Areas
Office floors in lobbies, break rooms, corridors and mail rooms take steady foot traffic, rolling chairs and carts. We install epoxy systems with abrasion-resistant polyaspartic or urethane topcoats, in solid colors or flake blends that suit the interior. Work is done overnight or on weekends so staff come back to a finished floor.
Retail Stores and Tenant Spaces
Retail sales floors and back-of-house areas see carts, pallets, fixtures and heavy foot traffic. A seamless coated floor makes cleaning easier and stands up to dragged fixtures. We work around store hours and landlord rules, and we coat receiving and stock rooms with textured systems for traction on wet winter days.
In a shopping center, back-of-house floors often matter as much as the sales floor. Stock rooms and receiving areas take the worst of the wear, and coating them protects the slab where hand trucks and pallet jacks roll every day.
Clinics and Medical Offices
Clinics and medical offices need seamless, cleanable floors that tolerate frequent disinfection. They also cannot close for long. We phase work room by room, use low-odor, fast-cure products, and schedule each phase so the next day’s appointments go ahead.
Cove details matter in exam rooms and clinic restrooms, where mopping pushes water to the wall. A short integral cove base turns the floor up the wall in one piece, so there is no seam at the base for water and cleaning chemicals to work into.
Dealership Service Drives and Showrooms
A dealership service drive takes road-warm tires, road salt and calcium chloride brine all day. Along Capitol Drive in Brookfield, service departments open at seven in the morning six days a week, which leaves overnight and Sunday as working windows. We build service drive floors with full-cure epoxy bases and polyaspartic topcoats so hot tire pickup and salt do not wear through the lanes.
Showroom floors are about appearance as well as durability. A high-gloss or metallic finish in a brand color, with a UV-stable topcoat to prevent ambering under big windows, keeps display vehicles looking their best.
Commercial Epoxy Systems We Install
High-Build 100% Solids Epoxy
For heavy foot traffic and carts, we install 100% solids epoxy systems at a stated thickness, often with a flake or quartz broadcast. These build durable, seamless floors that resist chemicals and impact better than thin, water-based coatings.
Polyaspartic and Polyurea Topcoats
Polyaspartic and polyurea topcoats cure quickly and resist yellowing, which makes them ideal for floors that must return to service fast or that see sunlight. We often combine an epoxy base with a polyaspartic top for the best balance of build, bond and wear.
Quartz Broadcast Floors
In wet areas, entries, restrooms and ramps, quartz aggregate broadcast systems provide built-in slip resistance and decorative color. The texture can be adjusted by changing the grit size and the number of topcoats, balancing traction against ease of cleaning.
Quartz also adds body to the system, building a thicker floor in the same steps that add color. That extra build helps in areas that take dropped tools, rolling carts and frequent wet mopping, such as staff entries, locker rooms and mechanical rooms.
Preparing a Commercial Slab
Grinding and Shot Blasting
Every commercial slab is mechanically prepared by diamond grinding or shot blasting, never acid etching. This removes old coatings, sealers and contamination and creates the ICRI concrete surface profile the system calls for. In large open areas, shot blasting moves quickly and leaves a uniform profile.
Moisture Testing Before Coating
Commercial slabs on grade can carry moisture from below, especially in older buildings where a vapor retarder may be missing. We test with ASTM F1869 calcium chloride or ASTM F2170 in-situ relative humidity methods. Readings above the system’s limits call for a moisture-mitigation primer.
Joint Filling and Repairs
Control joints in shops, showrooms and warehouses are filled with a semirigid joint filler before coating, so cart and lift wheels do not break the edges. Cracks and spalls are repaired and ground flush. We read cracks, joints and old coatings before quoting and say plainly when a slab needs more than surface repair.
Working in an Occupied Building
Scheduling Around Business Hours
Office, retail, clinic and dealership floors are scheduled around the hours the building has to stay open, including overnight and weekend windows. We break large areas into phases and sequence them so traffic can be rerouted while each section cures.
A written timeline tells a facility manager when each area closes, when it reopens to foot traffic and when carts or vehicles can return. That lets the building plan deliveries, appointments and staff routes around the floor work rather than discovering a closed hallway on Monday morning.
Dust, Slurry and Air Quality
Grinding dust is captured by industrial vacuums, and slurry is collected on site, never washed into a floor drain or a storm sewer. Brookfield is in the Milwaukee 2015 ozone nonattainment area, and while Wisconsin has no state VOC rule for coatings, we favor low-VOC products in occupied buildings.
Food Service and Specialty Areas
Restaurant kitchens, food prep rooms and electronics areas have their own requirements, from Waukesha County Environmental Health plan review and coved bases to static control. We handle these as specialty floors with systems such as urethane cement or ESD coatings, rather than forcing a general-purpose epoxy into a space it does not suit.
- 20+ Years Experience
- Moisture Testing in Every Scope
- Written Proposals and Contracts