Top Reasons Why Epoxy Coatings Fail
Epoxy coatings can be a great way to protect your concrete. Whether it is a residential garage, a commercial kitchen or an industrial warehouse, one of the sad realities of this industry is that these coatings can be subject to failure. We get many calls…
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…
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. …
Professional vs. DIY Epoxy Garage Floors
We get asked all the time about DIY epoxy kits sold at the box stores. These stores, as well as some paint stores that sell similar kits, want you to believe installing an epoxy floor is just like painting. If you can paint, you can…
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…
Is Your Flooring Helping You Build Your Business Brand?
Just about anybody who knows anything about marketing will tell you that branding is incredibly important. It is difficult to create a successful business of any type without developing your brand. So whether you are remodeling or establishing your business space for the first time,…
Industrial Strength Floors Don’t Have To Be Ugly!
The ‘industrial look’ is tremendously popular right now. Many people and businesses are moving away from traditional types of flooring and toward plain gray concrete. This may just be the next big design trend, and the durability and low maintenance are hard to beat. So…
Baseball, Hotdogs, Metallic Epoxy and Cargo Trailers?
Some things just go well together; peanut butter and jelly, cookies and milk, baseball and hotdogs to name a few. Recently we had the opportunity to install a designer epoxy floor in a cargo trailer used to haul dirt bikes. For me, personally, metallic epoxy…