Epoxy Flooring Tips & Resources
The Gardner Scale and Amazing Topcoats
The first color scale for varnishes and topcoats was the Gardner Scale, developed in the 1920’s under the direction of paint chemist Dr. Henry Gardner. Recognizing the need for color standards in transparent oils and paints, he created an eighteen-stage scale that...
Radiant Floor Heating and Epoxy Coatings
Can you combine radiant floor heating with epoxy coatings? Many clients worry that the two simply don’t go together, so they keep their concrete floors plain, instead of taking advantage of the water-resistant surface provided by epoxy flooring. This is a huge benefit...
Additional Advantages to Epoxy Floors
California Custom Coatings often talks about the advantages of epoxy flooring. Here are some additional bonuses that come with installing epoxy floors instead of vinyl, tiles, wood or laminate. Who Needs a Layout? Laying down tile, wood or laminate requires studying...
Color Flakes or Color Granules – Which is Better?
An advantage to epoxy flooring is the ability to add texture and color by using flakes or granules. Applied on top of the epoxy base coat, but under the clear topcoat, granules and flakes add depth and lift to the floor. They are a welcome addition to many...
Epoxy Flooring — Talk About the Cons
In our last blog, we discussed a fine list of the pros when it comes to installing epoxy floors over your concrete foundation, patio or walkway. The reason for that discussion, and the one that follows in this article, was really the list of “cons” that the authors of...
Epoxy Floors — Talk About the Pros
At California Custom Coatings, we pay attention to what people are saying about epoxy floors and developments in the industry. If a better product or technique becomes available, we want to offer it to our clients in Sacramento and beyond if we can reliably...
Should I Install My Baseboards Now or Later?
Common Construction Questions for Epoxy Floors When constructing a new home or remodeling, many property owners want to lay down epoxy flooring. At what point during the construction process should you add baseboards and trim? Should you install any trim first, or...
Mudrooms – Help Your Home Be Dirt-Free
Dirt — it has one goal. It wants to get in your home and make all your sweeping, mopping, and vacuuming seem completely useless. As much as you try, the dust and muck from outside wants to get inside, usually right before company drops by. The dog paws, the gardening...
Can New Concrete Be Polished?
Part 3 in a Series on Coating New Concrete In two recent articles, we discussed why it is best to wait at least four weeks for new concrete to dry before applying an epoxy coating or a color stain. There is one other service provided by California Custom Coatings, and...
Can You Stain New Concrete?
Part 2 in a Series on Coating New Concrete Last time we discussed the fact that new, or green, concrete must first dry out before an epoxy coating is applied. This drying process typically takes four weeks, but even longer time periods are required in high humidity or...
Can You Epoxy Coat New Concrete?
Part 1 in a Series on Coating New Concrete New construction means new concrete. Many types of renovation and remodeling also redo the concrete foundation or construct a larger floor by expanding the concrete surface. Can this new, or green concrete, be coated with...
Does Your Garage Floor Spark Joy?
Are you enjoying the Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo? If you have pulled all your clothes from the closet, dishes from the cabinets and books from the shelves and only kept the ones that “spark joy,” your house is now feeling much lighter. And if you...
Why Buy Residential Epoxy Flooring?
It happens all the time when people visit a business that hired California Custom Coatings to cover their concrete floors with a custom epoxy coating. First the business owner, a worker, or even a customer, sees the floors improved and protected with a beautiful...
Why Buy Commercial Epoxy Flooring?
When you compare a commercial workplace that has a traditional concrete floor with one that has epoxy flooring added, the visual benefits are undeniable. Many business owners in the greater Sacramento area install epoxy flooring because it solidifies the look and feel...
Simple Maintenance for Impressive Epoxy Floors
One of the benefits of epoxy floors is that they do not require a lot of maintenance to look shiny and new. Nevertheless, like any surface, they still require cleaning. In this series of articles, we will look at how you can maintain that shine and tackle problems...
Real Stories of Long-Lasting Concrete Coatings
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐California Custom Coatings did a great job on my garage epoxy floor. The finished product looks fantastic and gives my garage a clean, updated look. I’m very pleased with the results and would recommend them to anyone considering an epoxy garage floor coating in the Sacramento area.
I was planning to install epoxy floors in my garage. I am a do it yourself kind of guy and was going to do it myself. After spending a lot of time on forums and YouTube, I discovered that the majority of people that attempt this themselves regret it; mainly because their self installed floors peeled up within a year or so...after coming to the conclusion that I should hire someone professional (that has a warranty) I contacted several companies to get estimates for epoxy floors in my two car garage. California Custom Coatings provided a reasonable estimate and I contracted them to install the flooring. They made the whole process easy. From showing up to provide an estimate through finished product they were friendly and easy to work with. They communicated with me throughout the process and never left me wondering what was going on. They showed up when they said they would! They made the appropriate repairs to my slab prior to prepping it for installation of the epoxy, and then installed the epoxy. Just over a year later, I am still really pleased with my garage floor and have absolutely no regrets!!