Flake Epoxy Flooring In Chatham, Ontario

How We Build It

The slab is diamond ground first, then cracks and spalled areas are cut out and filled. A moisture reading is taken before a single pail is opened. A primer follows, chosen to suit whatever that reading told us.

Then the base goes on, and chip goes in until the wet resin will physically not accept another flake. That is the whole trick, and it is where cheap jobs cut corners. Load it to that point and the colour comes out flat and even across the entire room; go light on it and you end up with patches. Once cured, the excess is scraped back and vacuumed off and the surface is brought flat again before a clear polyaspartic wear coat finishes it, laid once or twice over according to the spec.

Choosing A Blend

Greys and grey-blues suit the light in a garage and are the most common thing we lay. Warm browns and tans do the best job of hiding tracked-in dirt, which counts for a lot at the end of a gravel lane, and plenty of properties outside town have one. Darker and bolder blends earn their place in a room people actually sit in, like a finished lower level, more than in a bay you park in.

Chip size shifts the finished look further than colour does. Coarse chip gives you a defined pattern and fine chip reads closer to a texture, so we lay both out at full size before you commit rather than asking you to pick off a sample card.

Where It Works Best

Garages first, since it is the default build around here, and basements once the slab has passed its moisture test. Beyond that it goes into workshops, mud rooms, laundry rooms and enclosed porches, and it works well in farm shop offices or any commercial floor where a plain colour would look tired inside a month.