A flake system is a resin base with vinyl chip thrown into it wet, then locked under a clear polyaspartic wear layer. It is the system we install most often in Sarnia because the texture gives grip on a floor that spends half the year wet, and the chip pattern hides the dirt a garage actually collects.
The flake is not decoration, or at least not only decoration. It builds real thickness into the middle of the system and it breaks up the surface so a wet boot has something to key against.
It also disguises the ordinary marks of a working floor. A solid colour shows every tyre track and every scuff. A flake blend does not.
The slab is diamond ground and repaired first, and we take a moisture reading before anything is mixed.
A primer goes down, chosen against that reading.
The base coat is applied and the flake is broadcast into it to full refusal, which means we keep throwing chip until the surface will not take any more. Broadcasting to refusal is what gives an even colour. Scattering it thinly leaves patches.
Once cured, the excess is scraped off and vacuumed and the surface is brought back flat.
A polyaspartic wear layer closes it up, once or twice over depending on what has been specified.
Greys and blue-greys are the most common choice in Sarnia and they suit the light in a garage.
Tans and warm browns hide tracked-in dirt and clay better than anything else, which is worth knowing if your driveway is unpaved.
Bolder blends belong in rooms that get looked at rather than parked in, like a finished basement or a showroom.
Chip size changes the look more than people expect. Larger flake reads as a bold pattern, smaller flake reads almost as a texture. We will show you both at floor scale before you choose.
Garages, without question. It is the default here.
Basements, provided the slab passes the moisture test.
Workshops, mudrooms, utility rooms and three season porches.
Commercial floors where a solid colour would look scuffed within a month.
Tell us the room and roughly how big it is and we will come and measure it properly. Call +1 226-406-4401 for a written quote with the blend, the build and the cure times set out.
Houses, shops and plants right across the county, from Point Edward down the river to Courtright.
A garage floor coating shuts the concrete off from road salt, brine and meltwater. Letting those in is what finishes most garage floors in this city. The slab is opened up, made good, and given a chip system under a polyaspartic wear layer, built for concrete that gets driven on right through the winter.
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Polyaspartic is a resin that keeps hardening in cold that shuts epoxy down, reaches service strength in hours rather than days, and holds its colour under ultraviolet light. It is our standard top coat in Sarnia, and on some floors we build the whole system from it, because a slab in an unheated garage here sits below epoxy's working range for half the year.
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Concrete floor coating covers everything we install on a bare slab, whether it ends up as a flake floor, a solid colour or a plain sealed surface. The job is the same underneath: open the concrete, repair it, test it, and put a resin system on it that keeps water out. On Sarnia clay, keeping water out is the whole point.
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Basement floor coating takes a cold, dusty slab and leaves you with a sealed surface you can mop and a room that is noticeably brighter. In Sarnia it is also the job where preparation matters most, because the clay under this city holds water against your basement slab and drives it upward as vapour. We test every basement before we quote, and the reading decides what we can install.
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Commercial epoxy flooring gives a shop, clinic, kitchen or showroom a seamless floor with no grout lines to hold dirt, no tiles to lift and nothing for a mop to catch on. We phase the work around your opening hours so you keep trading, and we give you a cure schedule you can put in a calendar rather than a vague promise.
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Industrial and warehouse flooring is specified around what actually happens on the floor: forklift traffic, dropped steel, solvent and chemical spills, hot work and regular wash-down. Sarnia has three refineries and more than thirty chemical plants, plus the fabricators, machine shops and contractors that serve them, and those floors need a different build from a garage.
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Epoxy floor repair and recoating is for floors that have started peeling, bubbling, chalking or lifting off in sheets. The failed build comes off, we work out what killed it, the concrete gets repaired, and the replacement is chosen to beat whatever that was. In Sarnia the cause is usually one of two things, and neither of them is the colour you chose.
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Patio and outdoor concrete coating seals porches, walkways, pool surrounds and covered patios with a UV-stable polyaspartic and an anti-slip aggregate. Outdoor concrete in Sarnia takes the full freeze-thaw cycle with nothing above it to moderate the temperature, plus wind and driven rain off Lake Huron, so the specification is not the same as an indoor floor.
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Metallic floors are made by working reflective pigment through clear resin while it is still moving, so the result has depth and drift in it instead of one flat colour. No two are the same. It belongs indoors, in rooms that get looked at and spent time in, rather than in a garage that parks a salty vehicle every night.
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Room, rough dimensions, and what happens on the concrete. From that we can get a visit booked and put a real price together. If you would sooner just talk, +1 226-406-4401. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 226-406-4401.
