Epoxy Flooring Tips & Resources
Protecting Concrete Floors: Oil
This is the first article in a series about common substances that attack and destabilize concrete. Concrete is an alkaline substance, chiefly due to its primary component, cement. Therefore, if concrete is exposed to acids, it starts to break down. There are many...
Epoxy or Acrylic Sealers?
California Custom Coatings provides a variety of services to restore, protect and beautify concrete in the Sacramento and Northern California area. While doing so, we use both acrylic and epoxy sealers. What are the differences between these two products and where are...
Why Do I Need to Waterproof My Concrete?
Concrete may be manufactured with water, but once that concrete dries and hardens, that’s the end of its functional relationship with liquids. To lengthen the lifespan and durability of concrete, it is extremely helpful to limit its exposure to water. Surface sealers...
Are All Epoxy Coatings Alike?
California Custom Coatings only uses superior concrete epoxies on every job we complete. Our current epoxy primer is made by Versatile Building Products (VBP), a thoroughly tested product known for its strength and adhesion capabilities. For example, here is a...
Answering Polyaspartic Questions
Polyaspartic topcoats are used by California Custom Coatings when a fast-curing surface is desired. Depending on the application, a polyaspartic coating can get you back into a space late on the same day or sometime on the next. Since this is obviously beneficial,...
What is a Polyaspartic Coating?
Type the word “polyaspartic” and you likely notice your spellchecker throwing a bit of a fit. It’s not exactly a common word for the general public, but in the world of concrete coatings, it is a well-known quantity. California Custom Coatings often uses polyaspartic...
Patterns for Concrete Floors
California Custom Coatings uses both concrete stains and epoxy coatings to create durable patterns on concrete floors. These patterns can be decorative or they can be functional. Either way, both stains and epoxy colors are far more durable than paints or surface...
Epoxy Flooring — Beyond the Garage
California Custom Coatings creates epoxy floors in just about any room with a concrete foundation. Commonly this means the garage, a washroom, or perhaps around the pool. Warehouses, professional kitchens, hospitals — these are all additional places where you often...
What is Epoxy Paint?
The Do-It-Yourself movement is powerful in America and there are plenty of videos on YouTube to prove it. Millions of hits are registered on videos explaining how to do this or that for restoring, improving or coating your concrete. One product you see in stores and...
Why Coved Floors?
A coved floor using epoxy takes the coating that goes on your concrete floor and moves it up the wall. The height of the coving is determined by the needs of the facility, but it is generally done to protect the wall and make it easier to clean. California Custom...
Why We Use HEPA Filtration
Concrete is a stable, solid material used in the foundation of almost all houses and buildings in California. Obviously, it is safe, easy to use and non-toxic in its normal state, thus its common presence in West Coast construction. Grind up concrete, however, and...
What is the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test?
The ability to discern subtle differences between colors is critical in an industry like epoxy flooring. Besides working with many different colored epoxies, there are also color flakes, color micas and color granules. During one large job it is necessary to use...
Making the Color: Torginol, Inc.
In past articles, California Custom Coatings presented the manufacturers of our primary concrete color stains and our favorite epoxy coatings. Now we want to present Torginol, Inc., of Wisconsin. They make our wide variety of color flakes, color micas and color...
Introducing our Manufacturers: Smith Paint Products
California Custom Coatings carefully selects our preferred manufacturers based on the ingredients they use and the quality of their products. Our years of experience with epoxy flooring, concrete polishing and concrete stain has taught us what works, what doesn’t and...
Concrete Unsuited for Epoxy Floors
While epoxy flooring is a great solution for protecting and beautifying concrete floors, there are also some types of floors that California Custom Coatings will not treat with an epoxy surface. Doing so would waste our customers’ time and money, leaving everybody...
Garage Floor Transformations from Local Homeowners and Businesses
Excellent Professional and customer service focused. This is the second house that CCC transformed a very stained and old garage floor into something beautiful! I highly recommend California Custom Coatings!!