Epoxy Flooring in Jerome, IL

Jerome is a compact village, and a lot of the epoxy flooring we do there is on smaller floors. Jerome became an independent municipality in 1939. It had 424 residents in 1940 and 1,666 by 1960, nearly four times as many in twenty years. Much of its housing comes from that postwar boom. The village covers only 0.46 square miles, and at 3,661.8 people per square mile it is one of the densest communities around Springfield.

Postwar houses and their garages

Homes built in the 1940s and 1950s tended to be modest, and so were their garages. Many Jerome properties have a one-car garage, a narrow attached bay, or a detached garage set back on the lot. Concrete from this era was often placed without much reinforcement, and after 60 to 80 years it can show:

• Cracks across the middle of the slab
• A sunken section near the door
• Layers of old paint
• Surface dust that never stops coming up

We grind all of it, fill the cracks, patch the low spots and then coat. A small floor gets the same full process as a large one, because that is what makes a coating last.

Fair pricing for a one-car garage

Some contractors quote small garages almost as high as two-car floors because setup costs the same. We price by the floor in front of us. The written quote lists square footage, the prep the slab needs, each coat and the total. A one-car garage of about 250 to 300 square feet usually takes a day. If you want a basement room or a laundry area done on the same visit, adding it there costs less than a separate trip, and we will show that on the quote.

Single-owner households

In 2020, 40.3% of Jerome households were one person living alone, and 20.4% of residents were 65 or older. For many of these homes, the garage is storage as much as parking. A sealed floor keeps boxes and stored furniture off dusty concrete, and it makes spring cleanup a quick sweep and mop. Where someone walks from the car to the house every day, we add texture to the topcoat for grip.

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Basements in compact homes

A small postwar basement often holds the furnace, water heater, washer and dryer in one room. That floor sees water from appliances and humid summer air. Basement Floor Epoxy makes it easier to spot and wipe up a leak. We test for moisture first and work around fixed equipment, coating up to the base of the water heater and furnace rather than under them.

Owners and landlords

Jerome had 899 housing units and 846 households at the 2020 census, with a 6.8% rental vacancy rate. If you own a rental here, a coated garage or basement is easier to turn over between tenants. Oil stains and spills clean up instead of soaking in. We can schedule around a vacancy so the floor is cured before the next move-in.

Systems that suit Jerome floors

• Garage Floor Coating with full crack repair for postwar slabs
• Epoxy Flake Floors for small garages used as storage
• Polyaspartic Floor Coating when the garage is your only covered parking and you need it back soon
• Basement Floor Epoxy for laundry and utility rooms