Concrete

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Myths About Polished Concrete

Polished concrete is a modern surface in demand with designers and property owners looking for sleek and sanitary floors. Especially helpful where people have allergies, polished concrete eliminates the dust trap that is carpeting and the cracks and crevices of just...

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A concrete floor with multiple ugly oil stains.

The Evils of Unwelcome Oil

A common use for epoxy flooring is to cover the concrete floor of a garage. Sometimes our clients request this service because their garage has become unsightly due to oil stains. They think we can simply cover them over with epoxy and the problem is solved! It’s not...

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Application of a self-leveling compound on a concrete floor using a spiked roller attached to a yellow pole. The floor has underfloor heating pipes laid out in a grid pattern, visible through the semi-liquid layer of the compound. This image represents a stage in preparing a floor for final surface installation.

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...

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Epoxy Flooring β€” Talk About the Cons

Epoxy Flooring β€” 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 β€œcons” that the authors of...

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A residential scene with a smooth brown concrete driveway leading to an elegant house with a stucco faΓ§ade and tiled roof. A green waste bin sits by the curb. The driveway is flanked by well-maintained garden beds with colorful yellow and purple flowers, and lush shrubs.

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...

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Can You Epoxy Coat New Concrete?

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...

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Does Your Garage Floor Spark Joy?

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 β€œspark joy,” your house is now feeling much lighter. And if you...

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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...

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Why Buy Commercial Epoxy Flooring?

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...

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Simple Maintenance for Impressive Epoxy Floors

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...

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How to Maximize the Color Wheel

When customers select the colors they want for their epoxy floors, they often go with simple choices β€” something without much color, from white to grey to black, or a modest beige. Other clients prefer vibrant color, and that is certainly possible with epoxy coatings....

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What is a mil?

What is a mil?

Epoxy coatings used for concrete flooring can be measured in fractions of inches, like the term one-quarter inch. In the epoxy industry, however, a common measurement system is based on the mil. One mil equals one-thousandth of an inch. How wide is that? Comparing...

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What is Crazing?

What is Crazing?

Cracks in concrete can be measured on a spectrum of severity. At the worst end, you have the kind of crack that forms when the ground settles underneath a slab and part of the concrete sinks far below the rest of it. That’s a serious crack and entails a major repair....

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Why Concrete Fails: Abrasion

Why Concrete Fails: Abrasion

β€œMany industrial floors are subjected to abrasion by steel or hard rubber wheeled traffic, which can cause significant rutting.”—Portland Cement Association Abrasion is the simple act of one object rubbing against another. For example, in a sandstorm, sand particles...

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Five-Star Feedback on Our Garage and Concrete Floors

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Babak Rajabi
June 16, 2022

Great job , John was very friendly and professional, the staff who did the job were very talented and left a good quality of floor epoxy.

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Vernon H.
November 1, 2017

John came out on time and gave me a great bid. What a great company! Can't say enough about the installation team they were great to work with, very polite and cleaned up great at the end of the job. You won't go wrong by selecting this company they are pros. My garage floor turned out great! Highly recommend.

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Mary Rogers
February 22, 2022

Garage floor coating, did a fabulous job!