Our systems · Fort Worth, TX
The Flake System.
Multiple sizes and combinations of vinyl chip, from a marbled look to your favorite sports team, broadcast into the base coat and locked under a protective clear coat: it hides what the slab has been through, gives you grip, and comes in any blend or solid color you can imagine.
- Full-broadcast vinyl chip
- Grip from the chip itself
- Any blend, made to order
What it is
Built in layers, not painted.
A flake floor is color chips broadcast into a wet base coat until the coat will not take any more, then locked in under a clear coat.
The epoxy sits at the bottom because it bonds to open concrete and builds thickness. Epoxy and polyaspartic aren't competitors here, they sit in the same floor at different heights.
- PREPPED CONCRETE SLAB
- VAPOR BARRIERAS NEEDED
- PIGMENTED BASE COATEPOXY
- FLAKE BROADCASTVINYL CHIP, TO SATURATION
- CLEAR TOP COATPOLYASPARTIC OR EPOXY
Why flake
Why you'd pick flake.
What the chip does that a smooth resin floor doesn't.
Hides what the slab has been through.
The chip breaks up the light. Color differences, patches and old repairs stop reading as damage, and flake forgives more of that than any other decorative system we lay.
Grip from the chip, no additive.
Flake isn't smooth, and that is the whole trick. The clear coat sits on a texture instead of a sheet, so nothing has to be added to it.
Hot tires, dropped tools, dragged benches.
Garages, service bays and workshops are where flake goes most, and not by accident. A floor that gets worked on is what the chip was made for.
Wipes clean.
A cured resin floor is a closed surface. Oil that used to soak into the slab now sits on top of it until you wipe it up.
More blends than fit on a page.
Fifteen standard blends are further down, and they are not the limit.
Back on your feet in hours.
You walk on it hours after the clear goes down, and wheels follow within days.
Where it works
Where flake floors belong.
Flake belongs where the concrete has had a life, and where people work in the room.
Our own crews install it across Tarrant County and the surrounding Metroplex. This page covers how a flake floor is built, not what one costs in your garage. The written price comes after we see the floor.
- GaragesThe floor we lay most
- Service baysOil, tools and cars in and out all day
- WorkshopsBenches, vises and whatever falls off them
- Hobby and storage roomsThe same floor, lighter traffic
- Aircraft hangarsThe shop side, the parts room, the office end
- Manufacturing floorsLighter-traffic areas, not hard wheels all day
Where it stops
Not the floor for every space.
Flake isn't the right floor for every space. Where it isn't, there is a better one, and we say which.
A slab that needs repair
Flake is not a repair. It doesn't level a slab or fix drainage.
Cracks and joints get filled before anything goes down. Leveling and drainage are concrete work, and that comes up on the walk, before the quote.
Hard wheels all day
Forklifts and pallet jacks on one line, shift after shift, wear through whatever sits above the chip. That is not the floor to put flake under.
Quartz is built for that route, with the same crew and the same prep.
A clean, architectural look
If what you want is the concrete itself, ground smooth and left bare, that is polished concrete, not a coating.
Polishing doesn't cover a slab, it uncovers one, so it only works on concrete that is already sound.
One glossy sheet, no chip
If you want one smooth, glossy surface with no texture in it, flake is the wrong pick, because the texture is the point.
That is what metallic is for. Gloss shows everything, so it belongs in rooms that get looked at more than worked in.
Aggressive chemistry
Battery acid, brake fluid and hot liquids attack resin, and which resin holds depends on the product, not on the family.
We check what you spill against the product's resistance chart before we quote.
Outside
Outside, sunlight, ground water and freeze cycles work against every resin floor. We don't recommend it.
We'll do it on request, with a one-year term, and we say that before you sign.
Choose your flake
Choose your blend.
Fifteen of the standard blends, light to dark. Any blend is made to order for your floor.
A physical sample takes three to seven days to ship, and we carry pieces of floors we've already laid.
A swatch and a floor are not the same thing. Vinyl chip varies in color from batch to batch, and on a large floor that shows. A large floor gets one batch, or batches mixed on purpose.
Choose your size.
The same blend reads differently at each size.
Small
Reads as a fine, even texture from standing height.
Medium
The classic garage floor.
Large
Reads as stone or terrazzo, and shows more of the base coat between the chips.
Floor visualizer
See it on your own floor.
Upload a photo of your floor, pick a blend and a chip size, and see your flake floor in about thirty seconds.
10-Year Limited Workmanship Warranty*
*Terms and conditions apply, and our share of a repair steps down over the ten years. You get the full warranty in writing before you sign.
How a job runs
Decided before the first coat.
Five steps, from the photos you send to the walkthrough at the end.
Not sure it's flake?
Where the other three win.
FlakeYou're hereVinyl chip in the coat. Color and grip.
QuartzQuartz sand instead of chip. More texture underfoot.
MetallicPigment worked through the resin. High gloss.
Polished concreteNo coating at all. The slab, ground and polished.
Polyaspartic isn't a fifth floor. It's the clear coat we put on flake and quartz. What polyaspartic does
Straight answers
Questions we get about flake floors.
What people ask about this system, answered before we ever step on site.
Wet, any smooth resin floor is slick. Flake isn't smooth, and how much grip your floor gets is a choice you make with us, not something you find out later.
The chip that never made it into the resin comes off before the clear goes on, and what is left is locked in. A chip edge that pokes through means too little clear above it. If your floor ever needs attention, you call us and we come out.
Stains, yes: they go under the coating and stay there. Oil in the pores is a bond problem, so grease comes off before the grinder goes on, or the grind drives it deeper. A crack that still moves is another question, because no coating bridges it. We look at all of it before we quote.
Wheels at 48‑72 hours, feet at 8‑10, fully hard at seven days.
Yes. Any blend is made to order, and a physical sample comes by request.
Not one we push. The Texas sun is hard on every resin floor, so we normally lay these in covered areas. On request we'll do it, and the term is shorter.
A pH neutral cleaner and a mop. Keep bleach, solvents and citrus cleaners off it. For oil and grease use a degreaser and let it sit before you lift it, and don't push it around with a mop. Most of what wears a floor like this is the grit that walks in on somebody's boots.
Get my free quote
Tell us what happens on your floor.
We'll say whether flake is the right build for it.
Financing
You can pay over time.
Ask for it when we send your written price.
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