Metallic and Flake Epoxy Floors in Bismarck, ND

It means vinyl flake is thrown into the wet body coat until the floor will not take any more and no base colour shows through. The excess is swept and vacuumed the next day, the surface is scraped flat, then the clear topcoat encapsulates it. A partial broadcast deliberately leaves base colour visible. Full broadcast costs more in material and labour and it is what hides a repaired slab completely.

It can, with the right topcoat, but be realistic about what you are buying. Metallic is a decorative system: pigment suspended in a clear resin and moved on the floor to create depth. It is at its best on a sound, dry, flat slab in a finished garage or a showroom. On a 40 year old Bismarck slab with a spalled drip zone, the flat gloss of a metallic will highlight every repair rather than hide it. A full flake broadcast is usually the better answer there.

Weigh texture against cleaning. A quarter inch chip gives noticeable grip underfoot when you walk in with snow-covered boots and reads as deliberate and chunky. A sixteenth inch chip gives a fine, almost stone-like surface that is easier to sweep and mop but offers less mechanical texture. An eighth inch chip is the common middle and what most Bismarck garages end up with.

Considerably. A multi-tone flake blend breaks up the visual field, so road grit, salt residue and the grey film that comes off tyres all read far less obviously than they do on a solid grey or solid tan floor. In a market where the floor is going to have melt water and grit on it from November to March, that is a practical benefit rather than a styling one.

Within reason. Flake comes in manufactured blends rather than custom-mixed colours, but the blends are wide and we can combine them and change the base coat underneath, which shifts the overall read considerably. We will bring physical samples rather than showing you a screen, because flake colour under a single LED shop light looks nothing like flake colour on a laptop.

If the walls are bare studs and the ceiling is open, a metallic floor is a lot of money spent on the one finished surface in the room. Flake reads better in an unfinished garage because it looks like a working floor rather than an interior one. Homeowners finishing a garage as a shop or a hobby space, which is common in the newer north Bismarck subdivisions, are the group who genuinely get their money back out of a metallic.