Systems
Eighteen blends, and none of them look like a showroom
Flake is vinyl chip broadcast into a wet base coat until the floor will not take any more, then sealed under clear. It is the most forgiving finish we install and the one most people end up choosing.
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Detail
Why flake wins on a working floor
The chips do three things at once. They hide dirt and tire marks because the eye reads a pattern rather than a flat plane. They add grip, because the sealed surface keeps a subtle texture. And they hide slab imperfections that a solid color would put on display.
Broadcast to refusal is the term for doing it properly: you keep throwing flake until the base coat will not absorb another chip. Skimping here is visible forever as thin patches.
The blends
We carry eighteen blends, including Stargazer, Nightfall, Obsidian, Tidal Wave, Carbon, Coyote, Glacier and Shoreline. Some are near-neutral grays, some carry a strong color note, and they read very differently in daylight than under LED garage lights.
We bring physical samples and put them on your floor in your light before you choose. Photographs on a website, including ours, are not a reliable way to pick a blend.
Finish options
After broadcast we sand the surface back to knock down the sharp edges, then seal it. You choose the sheen on the clear coat: a full gloss that shows off depth, or a satin that hides dust better and is easier on the eyes in a bright space.
Preparation
What happens before any resin comes out
Every system on this page lives or dies on the same thing, and it is not the resin. It is whether the slab underneath was opened up properly first.
We diamond grind every floor. Progressively finer diamond tooling runs across the slab until the surface is opened to a profile the coating can key into mechanically, with the dust going into a vacuum rather than into the house. Acid etching, which is what most retail kits instruct, barely touches a hard-troweled slab.
Then we read moisture. Florida slabs sit on sand with a high water table and move vapor upward continuously; trap that under a film-forming coating and you get bubbling and delamination that can only be ground off and redone. Where the numbers come back high we specify a moisture-tolerant primer instead of pretending the problem is not there.
Cracks get chased out to a clean edge and filled rather than skimmed over, spalls and pop-outs get rebuilt, and any previous coating comes off entirely. Only when the slab is sound, open and dry does anything get mixed.
The finish is what you see. The grind underneath it is what decides whether you are still happy in year eight, and it is where we spend the time other quotes save money.
It is also why we will occasionally tell someone their slab needs repair before it needs a coating. A floor that should be fixed structurally is not a floor we will put resin on, because the crack comes back through and then it is our name on it.
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Flake Epoxy Flooring questions
How much does flake epoxy flooring cost?
Price follows square footage, the condition of the slab and the system you choose. A sound slab that only needs grinding costs far less to prepare than one with cracks, old coating or a moisture problem. We look at the floor and give you a real number rather than a range that means nothing.
How long does flake epoxy flooring take?
Most residential work is two to four days on site depending on size and system. Commercial and industrial floors are scheduled around your hours and often run nights or weekends. You get exact dates before we start, including when you can walk on it and when you can put weight on it.
Do you grind the floor first?
Always. Diamond grinding is the only way to get a profile the coating can key into, and it is the single biggest reason floors either last or fail. We do not acid etch and we do not coat over a sealed slab.
What about moisture in the slab?
Florida slabs move water upward constantly, and vapor trapped under a coating is a guaranteed failure. We take a reading before quoting. If the numbers are high we specify a moisture-tolerant primer rather than pretending the problem is not there.
Can you match a color or a look I have seen?
Usually. We carry eighteen flake blends and mix metallic per floor, so bring a photo, a cabinet door or a paint chip and we will get close. We put samples down in your own light before you commit.
Do you work outside Sarasota?
Yes. We cover a 120-mile radius from Sarasota, which is twenty-four counties from Naples up to Ocala and across to Orlando. Check the service areas page or call and ask.
Send us the space. We will send back a number.
Rough size and a photo is enough to start. We cover Sarasota and twenty-four counties around it, so tell us where you are and we will tell you when we can get there.
Pour this floor
Or call (941) 504-9132.