https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog Straight answers about resin floors, from the contractor who pours them. Milford, Connecticut. en-US https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/basement-floor-grey-concrete https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/basement-floor-grey-concrete Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Most basement slabs were poured to be covered and never were. We coat them, and the two things that decide whether it works are moisture and preparation. Run the plastic sheet test before you take any quote. https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/what-changes-the-price https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/what-changes-the-price Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 People expect the finish to drive the price. It barely does. What moves a quote is the state of your slab, the square footage, the system and the access. Three of those you can check before you speak to anybody. https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/anti-slip-commercial-kitchen https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/anti-slip-commercial-kitchen Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 A kitchen floor is wet, greasy and hot for most of a service. We build texture into the surface rather than onto it, because a coating that relies on a topical grip additive wears smooth exactly where people walk. https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/why-companies-say-epoxy-is-obsolete https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/why-companies-say-epoxy-is-obsolete Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Take three quotes and you will hear that epoxy peels, that polyaspartic is four times stronger, and that the other companies sold you yesterday's product. Most of that is a sales position rather than a specification. Both materials go into good floors. Which one suits your room depends on your slab, your temperature and what you park on it. We install both. https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/epoxy-floor-connecticut-winter https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/epoxy-floor-connecticut-winter Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Usually yes, and we change the system to do it. Epoxy gets unreliable as your slab cools, where polyaspartic keeps curing lower, so a November job is a specification question rather than a no. What actually stops us is a slab sitting below the dew point, and we tell you which you have before you book rather than after. https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/test-concrete-slab-moisture https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/test-concrete-slab-moisture Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Tape a two foot square of clear plastic to your bare concrete, seal all four edges, leave it a full day and look underneath. Condensation means moisture is moving up through your slab, and a coating bonded over that will lift, blister or let go. It costs you nothing, and it is the single most useful thing you can do before anybody quotes you. https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/why-epoxy-quotes-differ https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/why-epoxy-quotes-differ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Almost never the coating, and almost always the preparation. Grinding your slab back to bare concrete is the slow, dusty, expensive part that you cannot see once the floor is down, which makes it the first thing taken out to win on price. Four questions separate the two quotes in front of you faster than the numbers on them do. https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/flake-or-metallic-garage https://www.atlasepoxyfloors.com/blog/flake-or-metallic-garage Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Flake for a working garage and metallic for one you look at, and the question that settles it is whether your garage connects to the living space. Flake hides a patched slab, grips when you bring a wet car in, and we repair it invisibly. Metallic gives you a floor nobody else has, at a higher rate, and it shows dust the way a gloss worktop does.