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The Quartz System.

Blended quartz in multiple colors, broadcast into epoxy resin, then sealed with a protective top coat. Heavier and harder than flake, built for high PSI weight and fluids.

  • Colored quartz, broadcast to refusal
  • Texture from the grain itself
  • Built for weight and water

What it is

What quartz actually is.

A quartz epoxy floor is sand. Kiln-dried quartz, most of it carrying a fired color coating around the grain. That is why the color does not rub off the way a pigment does.

It goes in while the resin is still wet, and it keeps going until the coat will not take more. Then it happens again. Most quartz builds go down in two passes, and that second pass is what makes this the heavy build.

After the last broadcast comes the grout coat, the fill between the grains. Fill it properly and the floor washes down. Leave it thin and it holds what lands on it. Once the top coat is on, nobody can see it. That is the layer you are trusting.

What each resin does, row by row.

Cutaway model of a quartz floor, lifted layer by layer: ground concrete at the bottom, a gray base coat, a thick bed of colored quartz grain, the grout coat that fills between the grains and a satin top coat
  1. PREPPED CONCRETE SLAB
  2. PIGMENTED BASE COATEPOXY
  3. QUARTZ BROADCASTTO REFUSAL
  4. GROUT COATFILLS THE GRAIN
  5. TOP COATCHOSEN FOR THE ROOM

Why quartz

Why you'd pick quartz.

What the grain does that a chip floor doesn't.

  • Low view close to the surface of a finished warm gray quartz floor in a working building, the grain sharp in the foreground and racking and roller doors soft behind it

    Built for weight and water.

    Quartz is the thicker, harder, heavier build of the two broadcasts we lay. Where hard wheels run the same line day in and day out, or where the floor gets hosed at the end of a shift, that is the safer call.

  • Texture from the grain itself.

    A quartz floor has texture because of what is in it. It does not need an additive to get it, and that is true before anyone asks for one.

  • Hard wheels, shift after shift.

    Forklifts and pallet jacks running one line all day are what this build is for. It is the route we take a floor down when flake would wear through above the chip.

  • Washes down.

    A grout coat filled properly closes the surface between the grains. That is the layer that decides whether a quartz floor cleans up or holds what lands on it.

  • Color fired into the grain.

    The color is in the grain itself, not in a pigment laid over the top.

  • Back on your feet in hours.

    You walk on it 8‑10 hours after the top coat goes down, and wheels follow at 48‑72.

Where it works

Where quartz floors belong.

Quartz goes down where the floor is part of the equipment, and where the floor gets hosed.

Our own crews install it across Fort Worth, Tarrant County and the cities around it. Quartz is the system we put down where a floor takes weight and water. What that means for a warehouse, or for a hangar, is on those pages.

What quartz does in a warehouse

Where it stops

Where quartz is the wrong call.

Quartz isn't the right floor for every space. Where it isn't, there is a better one, and we say which.

Cracked concrete slab with a chunk broken out along the crack, in daylight
  1. 01 One smooth, glossy floor

    Quartz is texture. If you want a smooth, high-gloss surface with nothing underfoot, this is not it, and that is better said before we grind anything.

    That is what metallic is for. Gloss shows everything, so it belongs in rooms that get looked at more than worked in.

    The metallic system

  2. 02 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.

    Polished concrete, and when it fits

  3. 03 A moving slab

    A crack that still opens and closes comes back up through the coating, and the stiffer the build the sooner it does.

    We look at the slab before we quote. That one gets settled first.

  4. 04 Moisture coming up

    Concrete sits on the ground and the ground holds water. If that water can't escape, it collects under the coating and pushes it off.

    The thicker the build, the less forgiving that gets, and this is the thickest one we lay.

  5. 05 Aggressive chemistry

    No floor coating is chemical-proof. Coatings resist specific chemicals, at specific concentrations, for a specific amount of time.

    Tell us what actually hits your floor, and we'll tell you what holds.

  6. 06 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 blend

Choose your blend.

Twelve of the colors we broadcast, light to dark. Any blend is made to order for your floor.

Quartz carries its color in a fired coating around the grain. Flake carries its color in the chip. The sheen is set in the top coat, not in the grain.

Sheen and grain both read differently under your own light, so we bring samples to the building. A specific physical sample takes three to seven days to reach us.

Floor visualizer

See it on your own floor.

Upload a photo of your floor, pick a color, and see your quartz floor in about thirty seconds.

What it looks like

Quartz floors, room by room.

  • Warehouse aisle

    Quartz blend: Gray

  • Loading dock

    Quartz blend: Charcoal

  • Wash-down room

    Quartz blend: Oyster

  • Production corridor

    Quartz blend: Tan

  • Machine workshop

    Quartz blend: Steel

  • Aircraft hangar

    Quartz blend: Sand

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.

Six steps, from the photos you send to the walkthrough at the end.

  1. A set of floor plan drawings unrolled on a bare warehouse slab beside a phone and a tape measure

    Photos, measurements or a plan set

    Phone photos, a rough measurement, or a set of drawings. Whatever you already have is enough to start.

  2. Gilded Surfaces technician testing the slab with a moisture meter and checklist

    We walk the slab

    We measure the real square footage, scan the slab for moisture and read what the concrete has been through. Then you get the price in writing.

  3. Crew member guiding a diamond grinding machine with dust extraction

    Prep: degrease, repair, grind

    We degrease, fill what needs filling, and grind down to clean, open concrete. A thick build wants a coarser profile under it than a thin one does.

  4. Gilded Surfaces crew on a freshly broadcast floor in a steel building

    Base coat and broadcast

    The quartz goes into the base coat while it is still wet, until the coat takes no more. What never made it into the resin is scraped and vacuumed off, and where the build calls for it a second pass follows.

  5. Worker pulling a wide squeegee across a freshly broadcast quartz floor, the raw grain still open on one side of the blade and the resin soaked in and level on the other

    The grout coat

    The grout coat fills the voids between the grains. It is the last layer anyone can still check, because the top coat closes over it.

  6. Worker rolling a clear top coat across a finished quartz floor in a warehouse, seen from behind

    Top coat, then we walk it together

    The top coat goes on, chosen for what the room does. Once it has set enough to walk on, we walk the whole slab together before we call the job done.

Not sure it's quartz?

Where the other three win.

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 quartz floors.

What people ask about this system, answered before we ever step on site.

  1. The build, not the grain. Flake is the lighter of the two and it is the one you pick for looks and grip. Quartz is thicker, harder and heavier. Where hard wheels run the same line day in and day out, that is the safer call.

    The lighter build

  2. Wet, a smooth resin floor is slick. Quartz isn't smooth: the broadcast leaves grain in the surface, and a quartz floor does not need an additive to have it. We do put one in the last coat on request, and we recommend it in industrial rooms where the site requires it.

  3. It's a shaped edge built up where the floor meets the wall, then coated, so there is no open seam at the base to trap water. On our quotes it is standard, and it is included in the measurements rather than added at the end.

  4. Wheels at 48‑72 hours, feet at 8‑10, fully hard at seven days.

  5. Most of the quartz we broadcast carries a fired color coating around each grain, so the color is part of the material rather than a pigment sitting on top of it. What wears is the top coat above it, and that is what the top coat is there for.

  6. Plan on a machine rather than a mop. A coarse broadcast under a thin grout coat is hard work by hand, so tell us up front if the room gets scrubbed that way, because it changes the grout coat we put down. Use a pH neutral cleaner and keep bleach, solvents and citrus cleaners off it.

    What the grout coat decides

  7. They keep moving after we leave, and that is what they are for. We fill them again once the coating is down, and we don't smear coating across them, because a joint that is bridged rather than filled tears the coating open the first time the slab moves.

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