Why Concrete Floors Make Sense For Retail Spaces
If you have a retail space and are considering updating your current floors, or if you are completing a build-out of a new retail space, there are many reasons concrete floors are a great choice. You may have noticed the trend of exposed concrete floor…
Best Flooring Choices for the Covid 19 Pandemic
The topic of enhanced cleaning and disinfecting is likely being discussed more now than possibly any other point in history. With confirmed cases of Covid-19, many schools closed for deep cleanings in the days before the remaining school year was relegated to home learning. Grocery…
Coated Floors and Thermal Shock: Why It Matters
Thermal shock is the term used to describe different parts of an object expanding at different rates due to rapid fluctuations in temperature. When a floor is coated, ideally the coating becomes a part of the floor. Since many coatings are made of materials other…
5 Benefits of Epoxy Quartz or Urethane Cement Floors for Commercial Kitchens
1: They are Seamless Unlike traditional flooring choices or quarry tile which is common in commercial kitchens, epoxy and urethane cement floors are completely seamless. They are poured on to the floor and spread across the surface. There are no seams, grout lines or gaps…
How to Choose the Best Flooring for Your Loading Dock
A loading dock can be one of the harshest environments for flooring in a commercial or industrial facility. When you think about it, just about everything, whether its raw materials or a large piece of equipment, most likely passes through a loading dock. The constant…
Embedding Objects in Epoxy Floors
Why has epoxy flooring become the fastest growing sector of the flooring industry? There are many reasons, but arguably the most prominent, is the shift to more decorative applications. Epoxy used to be available in a handful of colors and when applied, would look like…
Best Floor Coating for an Auto Spray Booth
A local auto repair shop installed a new state of the art spray booth in their shop. They were looking for a flooring solution. The existing concrete was dirty, had some saw cuts and holes that would hold dirt and make it impossible to clean. …
Using a Micro-topping to Repair Concrete Floors
Anyone who has ever worked with concrete knows that dealing with the elements can sometimes pose problems. When the San Juan Museum of Art had the concrete slab poured for their new atrium, there were many factors that weren’t ideal. What they got was certainly…
How to Apply a Decorative Finish to Plywood Sub-Floors
Here in the Northwest there are few homes that are built slab on grade, so we are often asked about installing decorative coatings over wood sub-floors. This is definitely something that can be done! And the process has become easier in the last few years…
What is Metallic Epoxy and is it Right for You?
One of the hottest current trends in the concrete coatings industry is metallic epoxy. It has been around for quite some time, but until a few years ago, there were only a few manufacturers really promoting it, and even fewer installers using it. A metallic…