They all need the slab ground
Every system on this site fails the same way over unprepared concrete, and etching or washing is not a substitute for the grinding we do.
Choose a system
Six floor systems and your room decides which one.
A resin floor is a system, not a product. Flake hides a rough slab and gives you grip. Metallic gives you a floor nobody else has. Quartz takes abuse. Solid color reads clean and plain. Polyaspartic cures fast and holds its color in sun. Anti-slip is for anywhere that gets wet.
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How to Choose an Epoxy Floor System
Start with your room and how you use it. The look comes second, because a system that is wrong for your traffic will fail whatever color it is.
What the slab decides
A slab with cracks, pitting or old coating on it narrows your list before anything else does. Prep is most of our job and it decides whether your floor is still there in ten years. Brad reads your slab before he talks to you about systems.
What the room decides
A garage takes hot tires and dropped tools. A basement takes moisture from below. A pool deck takes standing water and bare feet. A workshop takes solvents. Each of those rules something out for you.
What sunlight decides
Epoxy ambers where daylight hits it directly. If your space has a window wall, a glass door, or open sky, we make the top coat UV stable or your color shifts. This is the single most common reason a floor looks wrong two summers later.
What is the difference between epoxy and polyaspartic?
Epoxy is the body of your floor. Polyaspartic is usually the top coat we put over it. Most floors worth having use both.
Epoxy
Thick, hard, and it bonds hard to prepared concrete. It carries your color and your chips. It cures slowly, which is useful, because it gives the flake time to settle flat.
Polyaspartic
Cures fast, stays clear in sunlight, and takes abrasion well. It goes on top. It is also what lets us turn your floor around in a week, because we recoat it in hours rather than overnight.
Why the pairing is normal
Epoxy for build and adhesion, polyaspartic for wear and color hold. If somebody sells you a floor as one or the other, they are describing its top coat.
Every floor on this page is one we poured
Epoxy vs Polyaspartic vs Polyurea
The three words used most loosely in this trade. They are not competitors so much as different layers of the same floor we build for you.
Epoxy is the body
Thick, rigid, and it bonds hard to prepared concrete. It carries your color and holds your chips. It cures slowly, which is useful, because broadcast flake needs time to settle flat.
Polyaspartic is a polyurea
Thinner, far faster curing, and it holds its color under ultraviolet light. It goes on top. Most floors sold to you as polyaspartic are an epoxy body with a polyaspartic top coat.
Polyurea as a category
Covers a family of coatings including polyaspartic. If a quote in front of you says polyurea, ask which layer it means.
What this means for a quote
Two quotes can both say epoxy and describe different floors. Ask what the base is, what the broadcast is, and what the top coat is. Three answers, and they tell you more than the total does.
Comparing the Six Systems Side by Side
The honest short version, before the individual pages.
Flake
Our best all-round choice for your garage, because it hides the slab, it grips, it does not show every mark, and we can repair it invisibly.
Metallic
Best where you look at the floor. We cannot repeat it, it shows dust more than flake does, and it costs you more because we work it by hand.
Quartz
Best where you work on the floor and wash it down. Thick, mineral, with the grip built in, and more than your house is ever going to need.
Solid color
Best where you want the floor to disappear. It is the quickest for us to install and it takes line marking well, and it shows every mark in a garage.
Polyaspartic
Not usually a whole floor. It is the top coat we reach for when you have daylight, when downtime costs you money, or when we are working in the cold.
Anti-slip
Not a system so much as something we add to one, which is aggregate for wet areas, graded for whoever is walking on it.
What All Six Have in Common
More than the differences, and it is the part that decides whether the one you pick lasts.
They all need the moisture question answered
Vapour moving up through a slab lifts any coating. It is testable before you buy anything and the test is free.
They all have a sacrificial top coat
Which is good news for you: what wears is renewable without us redoing the color, the chips or the pattern underneath.
They all cure in stages
Walk on it, then wheels, then load. Putting weight back early is the most common avoidable damage you can do to a new floor.
What customers wrote
4.7 from 15 Google reviews. We publish every one of them on the reviews page, including the one star and what came of it.
great job on my shop Floor thanks again Brad
Floors came out great and the countertops too!
thank you Brad for the wonderful job on my garage floors
Matching a Floor System to a Budget
Where the money goes, and where spending more genuinely buys something.
Preparation is not the place to save
It is the largest line on your quote and it is the one that decides whether any of the rest of it was worth doing.
System choice is where the range is
Solid color and flake sit at the same rate, metallic is higher because of the handwork we put into it, and quartz is a heavier build again.
Top coat is where a small increase buys a lot
UV stability and fast cure both live here, and both solve problems that cost you a lot to fix later.
Size moves the rate
Our bands drop as your floor gets bigger, so combining floors or doing a whole space at once can change your number materially.
Getting a Sample Before You Commit
The step most people skip and the one that prevents most disappointments.
A board in the room, not a photo on a phone
Lighting changes a resin floor more than almost any other finish. A sample seen in the room it is going in is worth several catalogues.
Look at it on the floor, not in your hand
Held up, a flake blend reads as a pattern. On the ground under normal light it reads completely differently, and that is the view you will have of it forever.
Ask what the base color is
On a flake floor it shows between the chips and at any edge, and on a metallic floor it is half your finished result.
What's under your finished floor
We put down four layers, and each one has its own job. Scroll and we'll take your floor apart so you can see them.
- Polyaspartic top coatWe finish with a UV-stable, hard-wearing coat that takes your tires, your chemicals and the sunlight so the color underneath doesn't.
- Color and flake coatOur body coat carries your flake blend or metallic pour, so this is the layer you picked.
- Primer and moisture barrierWe work it into the opened concrete, and it locks everything above it to your slab.
- Concrete substrateYour slab. We diamond grind it back to bare concrete so everything we put on top has something to grip.
Coatings we install
We install six systems, and most floors we put down combine two of them.
Flake
- Where it fits
- Garages and basements
- How it looks
- Vinyl chip broadcast into the body coat. Busier blends hide more of a working slab.
- Where we use it
- The garage floor we put down most.
Solid color
- Where it fits
- Workshops, warehouses, basements
- How it looks
- One flat color, sealed and cleanable.
- Where we use it
- Floors you need easy to clean, where we can add line marking.
Metallic
- Where it fits
- Attached garages, showrooms, countertops
- How it looks
- Pigment moved through the resin while it's wet, so no two floors come out the same.
- Where we use it
- Floors you look at as part of the house, which is where we get asked for it most.
Quartz
- Where it fits
- Commercial kitchens and wet areas
- How it looks
- Colored quartz aggregate for a hard, textured floor.
- Where we use it
- Floors where we have to meet a slip specification.
Polyaspartic
- Where it fits
- Top coat over any system, patios
- How it looks
- A UV-stable clear coat that cures in hours.
- Where we use it
- We use it for sunlight, cold weather and fast turnarounds.
Anti-slip
- Where it fits
- Pool decks, ramps, plant floors
- How it looks
- A coarse broadcast texture in the surface.
- Where we use it
- We put it where your floor gets wet or sits outdoors.
How your epoxy floor gets done, from first call to parking on it
Three steps, and Brad does every one of them himself. Most residential floors are finished in a day.
- 1
You call, text or send the form
Tell us the room and roughly how big it is. We'll talk you through the range and book a time to come and look, often the same day. Weekends count, and there's nothing to sign.
- 2
Brad reads your slab and you pick your finish
He checks for cracks, old coating and moisture, then measures up. You choose your flake blend or metallic against your own floor, not a brochure. Your written quote comes back the same day.
- 3
We grind it back and build your floor up
Your slab goes back to bare concrete under a diamond grinder with dust extraction. Then the primer, the body coat with your flake or metallic, and the top coat. You get your walk-on and park-on times with the quote.
Six systems, and the room narrows it to two
Traffic, water, daylight and downtime. Answer those four and the system follows.
Get my free quoteQuestions people ask
Which system is most popular for a garage?
Flake, by a distance. It hides your slab, grips when the car brings water in, and it does not show every mark.
Can you put a resin floor over a cracked slab?
Usually, once we have cut, filled and ground your cracks flat. A crack that is still moving is a different problem and Brad will tell you rather than coat over it.
How long before I can park on it?
It depends on the system and the temperature, and it is one of the first things Brad tells you when he quotes. Walking on it comes well before parking on it.
Do you do commercial as well as houses?
Yes, we do both. The systems are the same, your traffic is not, which is why quartz and anti-slip come up more on commercial jobs.
What is the difference between epoxy and polyaspartic?
Epoxy is the thick body of your floor that bonds to the concrete. Polyaspartic is a fast-curing, UV-stable top coat that goes over it. We use both on most floors.
Which epoxy floor system is best?
For your garage, flake. For somewhere on display, metallic. For heavy commercial traffic and wash-down, quartz. Your room decides it.
Which system is most durable?
Quartz builds the most thickness and carries the most impact. In practice our preparation decides how long your floor lasts more than the system name does.
Can systems be combined?
They usually are. We pair an epoxy body with a polyaspartic top coat most often, and we can add anti-slip aggregate to any of them.
Which system costs least to install?
Solid color and flake sit lowest and go down quickest. Metallic sits higher because we hand-work it while the resin moves.
Which floor system gives the best value?
Flake, in most houses. It sits at our base rate, hides your slab, grips, and we repair it invisibly. Where you should spend more is the top coat.
Can I see a sample before deciding?
Ask us for one at the quote. Lighting changes a resin floor more than almost any other finish, so see it in the room it is going in.
Ready to stop looking at that floor?
Tell us roughly what you have and we'll come and look at it. The quote is free, there's nothing to sign, and you'll know what your floor costs before you commit to anything.
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