Choosing Decorative Flakes for the installation of epoxy flooring
At Epoxy Floors NJ, we believe a floor is only as good as the preparation behind it. Since 1988, our team has refined a rigorous installation process designed to transform vulnerable concrete into a high-performance, seamless surface. Whether we are working on a heavy-duty warehouse or a custom showroom, we follow these critical steps to ensure a lifetime of durability.
While extreme industrial durability is absolutely the primary goal of any commercial coating project, aesthetics should never be completely ignored. A highly attractive floor dramatically improves worker morale, heavily brightens the entire facility, and leaves a wonderfully lasting professional impression on visiting clients. Decorative vinyl flake systems are incredibly popular because they perfectly blend extreme heavy-duty performance with a massive variety of beautiful, highly customized visual options.
Substrate Prep for an epoxy floor installation
To firmly guarantee a beautiful flake floor that easily survives intense commercial traffic, the raw concrete must be heavily and properly treated beforehand. The absolute most common cause of decorative resin coating failure is poor or heavily rushed preparation of the existing concrete substrate. We spend a tremendous amount of time carefully treating the slab, completely ensuring it is totally free of sealers and dirt.
To strongly prevent any chance of visual failure, we always start the installation of epoxy flooring with incredibly aggressive mechanical surface preparation. We completely reject dangerous acid etching, heavily relying instead on massive industrial diamond grinders. This heavy machinery thoroughly profiles the hard concrete, safely opening its microscopic pores to boldly allow the thick moisture primer to bond firmly.
Grinding for Flakes in the installation of epoxy flooring
Aggressive industrial diamond grinding is absolutely necessary to establish a permanent, deeply penetrating mechanical bond between the raw slab and the thick resin layers. As the powerful grinders completely strip away the smooth top layer, they heavily create a highly specific, rough texture. This textured surface safely allows the specialized liquid coatings to deeply penetrate the concrete, fiercely preventing any future peeling.
By successfully grinding away the incredibly weak, highly contaminated top layer of the facility floor, we successfully reveal a perfectly pristine, rock-solid foundation. This essential mechanical process heavily ensures that the thick industrial coatings have a perfect surface to tightly grip onto. Proper diamond grinding is truly the single most important secret to ensuring your new flake floor will survive heavy commercial use forever.
Patching Concrete Before your epoxy floor installation
Our highly certified commercial technicians will never, under any circumstances, apply thick premium decorative coatings over a severely cracked or heavily damaged foundation. During the vital preparation phase of the epoxy floor installation, we intensely inspect the entire work area for hidden cracks, deep pits, or rough spalls. Every single structural flaw must be permanently repaired to strongly guarantee a flawlessly level visual finish.
We safely utilize highly advanced, heavy-duty high-strength resinous fillers to seamlessly and permanently repair these dangerous structural imperfections. By meticulously patching every large crack and thoroughly filling every deep void, we fully restore the immense structural strength of the concrete slab. This absolute mandatory repair step safely guarantees the final seamless surface is totally safe, incredibly flat, and perfectly ready for the colorful vinyl flakes.
Vapor Control in the installation of epoxy flooring
Hidden moisture vapor transmission rapidly coming up through the porous concrete slab is an incredible threat to any decorative flake system. This terrible moisture leads to rapid outgassing, which predictably causes massive surface bubbles and total, catastrophic coating delamination that ruins the beautiful finish. To completely neutralize this severe threat, we always apply a highly specialized, deeply penetrating moisture-vapor barrier primer to heavily seal the floor.
This incredibly advanced, top-tier moisture-mitigating primer acts as a permanent, solid shield against highly dangerous and destructive hydrostatic pressure. Once the primer safely and completely cures, it tightly locks out dampness and safely keeps all trapped air firmly inside the concrete substrate. This absolutely critical step fiercely protects your flooring investment, heavily guaranteeing the thick resin layers and decorative flakes remain flawlessly bonded and completely smooth.
The Solid Base during an epoxy floor installation
As soon as the necessary moisture barrier is perfectly and solidly set, we immediately apply a heavy, one hundred percent solids industrial base coat. This incredibly thick body coat heavily creates the essential structural thickness and safely delivers absolutely phenomenal impact resistance. It successfully forms the incredibly durable core of the flooring system, heavily engineered to handle the harshest industrial abuse while securely holding the flakes.
Because this massive base coat contains absolutely zero shrinking solvents, it safely cures into a solid, completely impenetrable layer of heavy protective armor. It fully ensures your beautiful seamless floor can flawlessly withstand the heaviest manufacturing machinery, non-stop forklift traffic, and brutal daily wear. This thick layer of liquid resin powerfully provides the true extreme durability that busy commercial facilities truly require.
Broadcasting Flakes for the installation of epoxy flooring
Depending on your commercial facility's exact visual and operational needs, we proudly offer several highly durable decorative flake options to heavily enhance your commercial space.
- Full Broadcast Systems: We incredibly heavily broadcast colorful vinyl flakes into the wet base until completely saturated for maximum durability and slip resistance.
- Custom Color Blends: We perfectly mix highly customized vinyl flake colors to exactly match your corporate branding or interior facility design.
- Clear Protective Topcoats: We strongly seal the decorative flakes with an ultra-clear, highly advanced UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat to heavily ensure extreme scratch resistance and lasting beauty.
Final Review of the epoxy floor installation
Our incredibly advanced, totally meticulous installation process heavily ensures you quickly receive an exceptionally tough, beautiful, easy-to-clean floor firmly built to effortlessly last for decades. By heavily prioritizing exact diamond grinding, aggressive moisture mitigation, heavy base coats, and custom vinyl flakes, we fully guarantee a flawless finish. Your bare concrete will be permanently transformed into a brilliant, highly functional, resilient visual masterpiece.