What did you budget per square foot, all-in?
Stelr lists commercial polishing at $3–$8; Ace Avant lists urethane cement at $7–$18 by duty.
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Facility flooring planning tools
Four tools support a commercial flooring project before proposals are requested: a budget calculator anchored to Angi's commercial polishing example and published per-square-foot ranges, side-by-side system comparisons, a quiz that tests whether a requirements brief is complete enough to bid, and polls that show how other facility managers handled the same decisions. Each prepares you for a site walk rather than replacing it.
Pick a tool
Free toolCommercial and industrial flooring cost calculatorSize, material tier and complexity in, a realistic budget range out.
Free toolCommercial flooring comparisonsSide-by-side tables for the decisions that change the price most.
Free toolIs your facility flooring requirement complete enough to bid?8 questions that show what you already know and what to check next.
Free toolFacility flooring polls: how other managers decidedSee what other planners chose and add your vote.
By the numbers
The numbers the tools are built on
$5–$12 per sq ft
Angi benchmark: commercial concrete polishing example at $5–$12 per square foot (2026)
Angi's cost guide for polishing concrete floors, updated April 2026, is the published commercial-polishing example behind this site's calculator.
Angi, cost to polish concrete floors (2026)$4–$17 per sq ft
Urethane cement installs for $4–$17 per sq ft; jobs above 50,000 sq ft drop to $4–$8 (2025)
Craftsman Concrete Floors prices urethane cement at $11–$14 per square foot under 3,000 sq ft, $8–$12 for 3,000–10,000, $5–$9 for 10,000–50,000 and $4–$8 above 50,000. Project size is the single biggest price lever. Contractor-published.
Craftsman Concrete Floors, urethane cement flooring cost (2025)$3–$8 per sq ft
Commercial polished concrete runs $3–$8 per sq ft versus $5–$12 residential (2026)
Stelr's 2026 guide prices commercial and industrial polishing at $3–$8 per square foot versus $5–$12 residential, with grind-and-seal at $2–$5, cream polish $3–$8, salt-and-pepper $5–$10 and full aggregate $10–$15+. Jobs under 500 sq ft cost $8–$15 per square foot; 10,000+ sq ft gets bulk pricing.
Stelr, polished concrete cost guide 2026 (2026)$12–$18 per sq ft
Thermal-shock-rated urethane cement for wash-down areas costs $12–$18 per sq ft (2026)
Ace Avant's 2026 guide tiers urethane cement at $7–$13 (standard duty), $10–$15 (heavy forklift traffic), $12–$18 (thermal shock and wash-down) and $15–$20 (decorative quartz) per square foot, versus $3–$9 for epoxy and $2–$6 for polished concrete. A 10,000 sq ft warehouse budgets $70,000–$150,000.
Ace Avant, urethane cement flooring cost (2026)Commercial flooring decisions are made under budget cycles and shutdown windows, with a requirement that is often half-written when the first contractor arrives. The tools here put sourced numbers on the constraints, size, system, preparation, phasing, and test whether the brief is complete, so that proposals can be judged against something other than each other.
Which tool fits which stage?
At the budget-request stage, when someone needs a number for a capital plan, the calculator produces a planning range by zone from square footage, system tier, complexity, and add-ons for mitigation, coves, testing, and phasing. Its base rate sits inside Angi's $5–$12 per sq ft commercial polishing example and Stelr's $3–$8 per sq ft commercial range, and the specialty tier reaches Ace Avant's $12–$18 per sq ft thermal-shock urethane cement and Craftsman's $3.34–$13.55 per sq ft ESD range. At the system-selection stage, the comparisons weigh epoxy against urethane cement, polished against coated, ESD coating against ESD tile, and the other pairs that come up in practice.
At the brief-writing stage, the specification quiz checks whether the exposures, cleaning, downtime, and acceptance items are stated well enough for contractors to bid the same floor. The polls are context: what other managers specified, which shutdown windows they had, and what they would change. Facility types vary widely, from the 13,623 million sq ft of education floorspace to the 3,551 million sq ft in hotels in our analysis of EIA's 2018 building survey, so the polls split answers by facility type. None of the four can measure your slab's moisture or see the contamination under an old finish.
What the calculator can and cannot tell you
Commercial unit prices fall steeply with area: Craftsman's urethane cement tiers run $4–$17 per sq ft from small to very large projects, and Stelr's polishing guide prices jobs under 500 square feet at $8 to $15 per square foot against bulk rates above 10,000. The calculator applies that curve, but it cannot know the moisture reading, the depth of contamination, the abatement scope, or the local labor market. Treat its output as the center of a range that a site walk and an itemized proposal narrow.
How the comparisons and the quiz work together
The comparisons are built around factors that actually differ between systems: cost, thermal tolerance, return to service, lifespan, cleanability, and best-fit exposures. The quiz then asks whether your brief states the things those factors depend on. A common outcome is a manager who intended to specify epoxy for a wash-down area discovering, through the thermal-shock question, that the brief points to urethane cement, or one specifying an anti-static floor discovering there is no program limit to test against. Better to learn that here than after award. The service pages hold the detailed checklists.
What to do after the tools
Record the area by zone, the system tier the requirement points to, the preparation and phasing assumptions, and the calculator's range. Carry that into the proposal request and describe the facility in those terms. Proposals that return can then be compared against your own numbers line by line, which is the purpose. Where a proposal raises a question the tools did not, the service page for that system usually answers it.
Homeowner polls
What other planners are choosing
Was a written flooring requirement in place before contractors were contacted?
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Questions homeowners ask
Are the tools free, and do they require a request?
Yes and no. The calculator, comparisons, quiz, and polls are free and require no account or proposal request. They exist to prepare a facility for proposals; the request form is separate and optional.
Why is the calculator anchored to a polishing example?
Because Angi's commercial polishing example at $5 to $12 per square foot is the one published, dated commercial benchmark this site uses, and polishing is the most common warehouse and retail floor. The resin and specialty tiers scale from it to the ranges published by Ace Avant, Craftsman, and Terrapin so the same tool covers a coating or a urethane cement floor.
Can the calculator handle several zones?
Run it once per zone with the appropriate tier and complexity, then add the results. Note that fixed costs such as mobilization and testing are included as allowances in each run, so a facility grouping several zones into one project will see a lower combined price than the sum of separate runs.
How accurate is the specification quiz?
It is a checklist in question form, grounded in published failure modes and standards. It cannot judge whether a stated requirement is correct for your program; that is the specifier's job. It reliably catches missing items, which is where most bid problems begin.
Where do the poll results come from?
From visitors to this site who answer them: facility managers, owners, and staff planning a floor. For population-level figures the site cites named sources such as Floor Covering News, BLS, and the EIA's CBECS.
Can the calculator output be shared with a contractor?
Yes. The assumptions print beneath the result. Bringing that page to the site walk starts the scope conversation from your numbers rather than the contractor's, which tends to produce a more itemized proposal.
Will the tools tell us which contractor to hire?
No. They help define scope and a planning budget. Selecting a contractor comes down to the itemized proposal, the named standard and test method, the preparation and mitigation plan, references in your exposure class, and the warranty exclusions, which the references guide and service pages cover.
Apply the tools to a specific service
Service guideIndustrial Epoxy FlooringIndustrial resin flooring is a family of seamless systems, epoxy, urethane cement, MMA, and hybrids, bonded to a prepared concrete slab and built to resist the chemicals, loads, temperatures, and cleaning a facility subjects it to.
Service guidePolished Concrete FloorsCommercial concrete polishing grinds and densifies the existing slab through progressively finer diamonds until it becomes a hard, dust-free wear surface.
Service guideESD & Anti-Static FlooringESD flooring is a conductive or static-dissipative floor system, epoxy, urethane, vinyl tile, or rubber, bonded to a grounded conductive layer so that charge on people and carts drains safely.
Service guideAntimicrobial & Healthcare FlooringHealthcare flooring covers seamless resin, welded sheet vinyl and rubber, and coved, drained systems chosen so that a facility's cleaning and infection-control program can be carried out on them.
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