Garage, basement and commercial floor coatings with the moisture test, the product line and the coat count written into your quote.
Moline Epoxy Flooring has spent 20+ years putting epoxy floors, polyaspartic coatings and polished concrete into garages, basements, shops and commercial buildings in Moline, Illinois. We grind every slab, test it for moisture and write down exactly what goes on it before we quote a price.
Most coating failures start under the coating, not in it: a slab that was never opened up, moisture nobody measured, or a crack that was painted over. Our work is built around finding those problems first, so the floor you pay for is the floor that stays down.
We work on both sides of the river, and we treat them as different places, because they are. Illinois and Iowa have different coating rules and different inspectors, and our quotes say which side your floor is on and what that means for the job.
What we do
Epoxy flooring for garages, basements and shops in Moline, Illinois
Garage floor coatings ground to a real profile, moisture tested and built to handle a winter of road salt on the tires.
Concrete ground, densified and polished to a lasting sheen, with no coating to peel and a finish that suits homes and businesses alike.
A fast-curing, UV-stable floor coating for garages, shops and storefronts, applied over a diamond-ground and moisture-tested slab.
Basement floors coated only after the slab is tested for moisture and read for past water, with old paint and tile glue ground away first.
Marbled metallic epoxy floors poured over a flat, ground and moisture-tested slab, for living spaces, showrooms and show garages.
Diamond grinding and shot blasting that strip old coatings and glue and leave a measured profile for the next floor to grip.
Crack, spall, joint and salt-scaling repairs that make a slab ready for coating, and a straight answer when it needs replacing instead.
Epoxy floors for stores, offices, clinics and service bays, scheduled around your business with overnight and weekend phasing.
Static-dissipative and conductive epoxy floors for electronics, labs and control rooms, grounded and resistance tested after installation.
Vinyl flake epoxy floors that hide dust and wear, built on a ground slab and sealed with a clear UV-stable topcoat.
Thick epoxy and urethane cement floors for plants, machine shops and warehouses, installed in phases around production shifts.
Seamless kitchen floors with coved bases and wet-area texture, built for hot water, grease and the food code inspection.
We have been grinding, repairing and coating concrete for more than twenty years. That time is what lets us look at a stained, patched or peeling slab and tell you honestly whether it should be coated, repaired first or replaced, instead of selling every floor the same system.
Every slab we coat is opened with a diamond grinder or a shot blaster to a real concrete surface profile, so the epoxy has something to grip rather than sitting on the smooth, weak top layer an acid etch leaves behind. That profile is the difference between a floor that wears and one that peels in sheets.
No price is final until the slab has been tested for moisture, whether it is a basement floor or a garage. A basement on Moline’s river bluffs can push vapor through the concrete, so the test result decides the primer and the system rather than a guess made after the coating starts to lift.
Our coating schedules follow the slab temperature and the dew point at the surface, so a coat goes down only when it can cure. With frost reaching 42 inches deep in Moline’s own code, an unheated garage in winter is told to wait, rather than coated on a cold day and left to blush and soften.
Illinois limits the VOC content of floor coatings for the person applying them, while Iowa relies on the federal rule that binds manufacturers. We use compliant coatings on every Illinois job and name the Iowa cities by their own names, so nobody sells you an Iowa product choice as an Illinois legal requirement.
Each proposal names the product line, the number of coats and the finished thickness. You can hold the finished floor up against the paper and see that what was promised went down, rather than trusting a vague line that says only epoxy floor.
A garage job starts with a walk of the slab, a moisture test and a written scope. On install day we grind, vacuum, fill cracks and pits, then apply the base, broadcast and topcoat. You get dates for walking on it and for driving on it before we start.
An attached garage shares air with the house, so we seal the door into the home and run our grinders with dust collection. A detached garage in Moline may sit on the city’s own floating slab spec, four inches of air-entrained concrete, which affects how we profile and repair it.
We use the ASTM D4263 plastic sheet test as a quick read and ASTM F1869 calcium chloride or ASTM F2170 relative humidity probes when a number matters. The International Residential Code lets a garage slab skip the vapor retarder under R506.2.3, so many garages have nothing under them stopping ground moisture.
We map cracks, spalls and pitting before we price anything, then fill and grind them flush so they do not telegraph through the finish. When a slab is heaved, broken through or crumbling across large areas, we say so, because coating a failed slab only hides it for a season.
Rock salt and calcium chloride brine ride in on tires all winter, soak into bare concrete and help break the surface apart through freeze-thaw scaling. Our garage systems are chosen to hold up to that salt, and a sealed, coated floor lets you squeegee the slush out rather than letting it soak in.
Epoxy needs a warm slab to cure, and moisture condensing on a cold surface causes amine blush, a greasy film that weakens the bond between coats. If the slab temperature and the dew point spread will not cooperate, we reschedule rather than coat a floor that cannot cure.
A tire driven home on a hot day softens and grips a thin coating, then pulls it off the floor when the car leaves. Thin, water-based paints are the usual victims. A ground slab and a full-thickness 100% solids epoxy or polyaspartic system are what keep the floor under the tire.
A store kit is usually a thin water-based epoxy over an acid-etched slab, and it is often peeling within a year or two. A professional floor starts with a diamond-ground profile, crack repair and a built-up system several times thicker, which is why the two are priced so differently.
Polyaspartic and polyurea topcoats cure fast and resist ultraviolet yellowing, which is why they are popular for garages. You will read that they are far stronger than epoxy; we would rather explain where each material works best, and many of our garage floors use an epoxy base under a polyaspartic top.
Published prices from Quad Cities installers run from about $4.50 to $12 per square foot. The repair work, the moisture result, the system and the number of coats move a floor within that range, and our proposal lists each of them rather than a single unexplained number.
Before we coat a basement, we want to know how much moisture is coming through the slab and whether liquid water has ever come in. That answer decides whether a standard system works, whether a mitigation primer is needed, or whether the floor should not be coated yet.
Most of Moline’s homes were built before 1980, and their basement floors often carry decades of paint, patching compound and black mastic from old tile. All of that has to come off with grinding, because a new coating is only as strong as the weakest layer under it.
We check the floor drain and any sump pit before we coat, because they tell us where water has gone in the past. The coating is finished neatly to drain rims and sump lids so it does not trap water at the edge or block the drain tile from doing its job.
A white powder on the concrete is efflorescence, salts carried up by moisture and left behind as it evaporates. It is a sign that water is moving through the slab, and it is one of the first things we look for, because a coating laid over it can blister and release.
When testing shows vapor emission above what a standard epoxy tolerates, a moisture-mitigation primer goes down first to hold the system on the slab. It is designed for vapor, not standing water, so we use it only where the test supports it and say so in the proposal.
The Mississippi set its highest crest on record at Rock Island in May 2019, and the Rock River ran well over flood stage at Moline that spring. After any water gets into a basement, the floor has to be cleaned, dried and retested before a coating goes near it.
A coated basement floor cleans easily under a washer, shrugs off oil under a workbench and gives a home gym a surface that wipes down. We choose the texture and thickness for what the room will carry, adding grit where wet feet or spilled water are likely.
Most coating warranties exclude moisture vapor transmission and hydrostatic pressure, the two forces that push coatings off basement floors from below. We explain those exclusions before the job is sold, so nobody discovers them only after a blister appears.
A floor coating is not radon mitigation and it is not waterproofing, and we put that in writing. Moline adopted the IRC appendix on radon control methods for new construction; an existing home with a radon concern needs a mitigation specialist, and a leaking basement needs drainage, not paint.
A vinyl flake broadcast hides dust, tire marks and small slab flaws, and it is the most requested garage finish we install. Larger chips read as a bold speckle while smaller chips give a tighter, granite-like look, and the blend of colors decides how forgiving the floor is between cleanings.
Metallic epoxy uses pigments that move as the resin is worked, leaving a marbled, three-dimensional finish. It takes a flat, well-prepared slab and an installer who works fast and consistently, because every roller and trowel mark becomes part of the pattern you live with.
Polished concrete is the slab itself, ground in stages, hardened with a lithium silicate densifier and polished to the sheen you choose. A light grind leaves a cream finish, while a deeper grind exposes the stone aggregate, and we show you what your slab is likely to reveal before we cut into it.
A high gloss shows off color but also shows dust, scratches and tire marks. A satin or matte topcoat hides daily wear better and reads less like a showroom. We help you pick the sheen by how the room will be used, not just how it looks on the sample board.
A quartz aggregate broadcast adds color and grip in the same step, with colored sand locked between coats of epoxy. It is common in commercial restrooms, locker rooms and ramps, and it gives a home floor a durable textured finish that holds up to wet shoes.
A solid color coating is the simplest finish and often the right one for a workshop, a utility room or a floor that just needs to be cleanable. It shows dust more than flake, but it makes dropped parts easy to find and costs less than a decorative system.
Many epoxies amber, or yellow, when sunlight reaches them through an open garage door or a window. Where a floor sees daylight, we use a polyaspartic or other ultraviolet-stable topcoat over the epoxy so the color you chose stays the color you see.
Saw-cut control joints can be filled and coated over or left as clean lines in the finish, depending on how the slab moves. We also lay borders, stripes and simple logos into the floor, which shops and showrooms use to mark walkways and work zones.
A commercial job adds things a home floor does not: schedules around operations, chemical resistance requirements, safety striping and often a health inspector. We scope the floor around how the building actually runs and how much downtime the owner can afford, then write the phasing into the proposal.
Machine shop and equipment plant floors take oil, coolant, hydraulic fluid and dropped steel every shift. We build those floors thicker, choose resins rated for the fluids in use, and add texture where coolant makes walking slick. Moline’s long manufacturing history means plenty of older plant slabs that need grinding before anything else.
Farm shops and implement dealer service bays see mud, grease, heavy tires and winter brine all at once. A thick epoxy or urethane system with a broadcast texture stands up to that mix, and a coated floor makes it far easier to find a dropped pin or bolt.
Food plant floors are washed down every shift with hot water and cleaners, often while temperatures swing. Those conditions break down many epoxies, so we look at the cleaning schedule and the products used before recommending a system, and we slope finishes toward the drains the plant already has.
Urethane cement is a heavy, trowel-applied system that tolerates thermal shock, hot washdowns and many cleaners that would soften a standard epoxy. It is our usual answer for commercial kitchens, food processing and areas where boiling water or steam cleaning hit the floor daily.
Warehouse and distribution floors take forklift wheels, pallet jacks and dragged loads all day. We focus on joint repair, a coating thick enough for the traffic and striping that marks aisles and staging lanes, and we phase the work by zone so the building keeps shipping.
The FDA Food Code asks for coved floor and wall junctures in food areas under 6-201.13, and Moline’s own plan review packet asks how each room’s floor and base are finished. We form coved bases in the coating system and specify texture for wet areas, working around grease interceptors and floor sinks.
Older storefronts in Moline Centre and other commercial blocks often have slabs with layers of tile, adhesive and patching. We grind down to sound concrete, repair what we find and choose a finish that suits the space, from polished concrete to a decorative flake.
Offices, clinics and showrooms need floors that look finished and stay easy to clean. Polished concrete, metallic epoxy and solid color systems all work here, and we schedule dusty grinding with vacuum capture and after-hours windows so the space can keep operating.
Under 35 Ill. Adm. Code Part 223, Illinois limits floor coatings to 250 grams of VOC per liter, and the rule binds whoever applies the coating in Illinois. In Iowa, only the federal 40 CFR 59 Subpart D rule applies, and it binds manufacturers, so a product choice there is about odor and re-entry, not legality.
When a line cannot stop or a store cannot close, we work overnight and on weekends and phase the floor in sections. Dust from grinding is captured at the machine with a vacuum rather than washed toward a floor drain or a storm inlet, so cleanup does not become someone else’s problem.
Moline Epoxy Flooring provides epoxy-flooring throughout the greater Moline area, with the same crews and the same standards on every job.
Good to know
Prices other Quad Cities installers publish run from roughly $4.50 to $12 per square foot, and one local shop quotes around $3,000 to $5,500 for a two-car garage. Where your floor lands depends on the repairs, the moisture result, the system and the finished thickness, and our written quote names each of those so you can see what you are paying for.
Most garage jobs are one to two working days on site, with grinding and repairs first and the coats after. Foot traffic and car traffic come back on different schedules that depend on the product and the slab temperature, so we give you both dates in writing instead of a single promise.
We do not claim a license or a manufacturer certification on this site. What we can tell you is how the rules work: Moline registers general contractors through its building official with a bond and insurance, Iowa registers contractors under Iowa Code chapter 91C, and the Illinois Home Repair and Remodeling Act sets disclosure rules for home repair contracts.
Epoxy is a two-part resin that builds thickness and bonds well to a ground slab, and it cures more slowly. Polyaspartic is a faster-curing coating that resists ultraviolet yellowing, so it is often used as the topcoat over an epoxy or flake base. Many of our garage systems use both, each where it does its best work.
No. Every slab we coat is opened with a diamond grinder or a shot blaster, which removes the weak top layer and leaves a measurable surface profile. Acid etching leaves residue and an uneven profile, and it is a common reason coatings let go in sheets.
Sometimes, but only after we find out why it is damp. We test the slab for moisture, check the floor drain and any sump pit, and look for signs of past water. A moisture-mitigation primer handles vapor coming up through a slab; it does not stop liquid water under pressure, and we tell you which one you have.
Most 100% solids epoxies and many polyaspartics are low in odor, and we keep the work area closed off from the house with plastic and airflow. On Illinois jobs we use floor coatings that meet the state's VOC limits for applicators; on Iowa jobs low odor is a comfort choice we discuss with you rather than a legal requirement.
Moisture vapor transmission and hydrostatic pressure from below are the exclusions we name first, because they are the ones that cause most coating failures. Damage from impact, chemical spills outside the product's rating and slab movement are also commonly excluded. We walk through the exclusions before you sign rather than after a problem shows up.
Yes, inside heated buildings and in garages we can keep warm. Coatings cure by temperature, so we read the slab temperature and the dew point at the surface and schedule from those numbers. An unheated garage in a Quad Cities January is a job we will usually tell you to hold until spring.
Yes. Shop, plant, warehouse and restaurant floors are phased so part of the building stays open, and we schedule overnight and weekend windows when a line or a kitchen cannot stop. The phasing plan is part of the written proposal.
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