Commercial Floor Restoration in Atlanta

Has the floor in your building stopped looking the way it did on the day you opened? ACC Facility Services cleans, resurfaces, reseals, repolishes and levels commercial floors across Metro Atlanta, so an office, retail unit, restaurant, clinic or warehouse can get its floor back instead of paying to replace one. Most of the floors we are called to look at are sound underneath and worn on the surface, which is a far cheaper problem than it appears from standing on it. We survey the slab, tell you which route it actually needs, and price the work as a one-off project with a start and a finish. Every project begins with a free on-site survey. Call (404) 480-0962.

What commercial floor restoration actually covers

• Deep cleaning and degreasing that takes a floor back to its real color rather than a mopped-over version of it
• Resurfacing and overlays where the wearing surface is spent but the slab beneath it is sound
• Resealing and recoating on concrete that has gone dull, patchy or porous
• Repolishing and re-honing on polished floors that have lost their finish under traffic
• Crack, joint and spall repair, plus leveling where a floor has moved or was never flat to begin with
• Stripping a failed coating back to sound concrete when the old system will not take another coat

Why a commercial floor stops looking the way it should

Commercial floors rarely give up all at once. They wear where the building works hardest, which is why a floor can look acceptable from the doorway and tired everywhere people actually walk. Entrances take grit carried in off the parking lot, and that grit is what abrades a sealer or a polish long before footfall alone would. Service corridors and back-of-house routes take wheeled loads that leave a dulled track you can see from across the room. Kitchens, restrooms and cleaning stores take chemistry that a general purpose sealer was never specified against. Older slabs move as well, so cracks reopen and joints spall under the same wheels. None of that means the concrete is finished. It usually means the wearing surface is, and that is the layer worth renewing.

The three renewal routes, and when each one is right

Almost every commercial floor we survey comes back with one of three recommendations. Which one applies depends on how much of the original surface is left and on what the floor has to do next.

• Clean, reseal and repolish: the least invasive route, and the one that suits a sound floor that has simply gone flat. We deep clean and degrease, repair what needs repairing, then re-hone or re-coat the surface that is already there. Nothing is added on top, so the floor keeps the thickness and the character it had, and the space is usually back in use quickly.
• Resurface or overlay: for a floor whose wearing surface is spent, stained through, or patched from years of small repairs. A cementitious overlay or a resurfacing system goes over the prepared slab and gives you a new surface without demolition, which matters when the existing floor carries services or sits under fixtures nobody wants to move.
• Strip back and recoat: where an old coating has failed, is lifting, or was never right for the room. We remove what is there mechanically, take the concrete back to sound material, then specify a system against the chemistry and the traffic the space really sees rather than repeating whatever went down last time.

What restoring a commercial floor costs, and what moves the number

Restoration is priced on square footage, on which of the three routes the floor needs, and on how much preparation has to happen before anything else can, and every survey and quote is free. Condition drives it harder than anything else, because a sound floor that wants cleaning and resealing is a fraction of the cost of one that needs a failed coating removed and the slab repaired first. Area matters too, since a large open floor is cheaper per square foot than the same footage broken into small rooms and corridors. Working out of hours or in phases adds mobilization and protects trading hours, and it is usually the cheaper trade when closing the space would cost you a day of business. Repairs, leveling and any line marking are itemized separately, so you can see what each part of the job costs.

How we restore a floor around a business that stays open

1. Free on-site survey. Call (404) 480-0962 or request one online. We look at what the floor takes day to day, test the surface and the slab, and check the areas that always go first.
2. A written route, area by area. Entrances, open floor, back-of-house and wet areas rarely need the same answer, so each is quoted for the work it needs rather than at one rate across the building.
3. Preparation before anything else. We grind, strip or scarify back to sound material, cut out spalled joints and failed patches, and fill cracks. Nothing new goes over a surface that cannot hold it.
4. Worked to an agreed sequence. We move through the building in the order that keeps you trading, and you know before we start which area is out and when it comes back.
5. Cure, check and hand back. We confirm the surface has cured before traffic returns to it, walk the floor with you, and point out the places that will show wear first.

Commercial floor restoration in Atlanta: what managers ask

How much does commercial floor restoration cost in Atlanta?

It is priced per square foot, and condition moves the number far more than size does. A sound floor that needs deep cleaning, a repair or two and a fresh seal sits at the low end. A floor that needs a failed coating taken off, spalled joints cut out and a new surface laid sits well above it, because most of that cost is preparation rather than material. Open floors cost less per square foot than the same area split into small rooms. We survey the building, quote each area for the work it needs, and itemize repairs and line marking separately. The survey and the quote are free.

Can you work around a business that stays open?

Usually yes, and it is how most of these projects run. We phase the work so one area is out at a time, or work evenings and weekends where the space cannot be released at all. Fast-curing systems help, because they let an area be handed back in hours rather than days. What we will not do is compress the preparation to fit a window, since preparation is what decides whether the new surface stays down. The sequence and the return-to-service times are agreed before anything starts.

Is it worth restoring, or should we replace the floor?

Replacement earns its cost when the slab itself has failed, when the level is wrong for what the space now does, or when the build-up has to change for a new use. Short of that, restoration is normally better value, because the concrete under a tired surface is usually sound and it is the top layer that has taken the punishment. We tell you which of the two you are looking at after the survey, including when the answer is that the floor needs replacing. Quoting a restoration on a slab that cannot hold one helps nobody.

How long does a restored floor last before it needs attention again?

That depends on the system and on what the floor takes, not on the day it was finished. A repolished concrete floor in an office holds its finish for years under routine cleaning, while the same finish in a delivery route behind a store wears visibly faster. Sealed and coated surfaces tell the same story: traffic type, entrance matting and cleaning chemistry decide the interval more than the product does. What we can do is specify for the traffic the space really sees, and tell you at handover which parts of the floor will show wear first.

Related flooring services across Atlanta

• Concrete Cleaning and Degreasing
• Concrete Resurfacing Atlanta
• Grind and Seal Concrete Floors
• All service areas across Metro Atlanta

Renewing a polished floor, or leveling one before it is refinished? See our polished concrete Atlanta and floor leveling pages. We also build sector floors by location, including commercial office flooring in Alpharetta, retail store flooring in Buford, and commercial kitchen flooring in Duluth.

Get your free Atlanta floor restoration survey

Call (404) 480-0962 or fill out the quote form below. We will walk the floor with you, tell you which of the three routes it needs, and quote it as a one-off project.