The first color scale for varnishes and topcoats was the Gardner Scale, developed in the 1920βs 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...
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Radiant Floor Heating and Epoxy Coatings
Can you combine radiant floor heating with epoxy coatings? Many clients worry that the two simply donβt 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 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 βconsβ that the authors of...
Epoxy Floors β 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 β Help Your Home Be Dirt-Free
Dirt β 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 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 βspark joy,β 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...
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....
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...
Trusted Concrete Coating Testimonials
John came out same day I called them; we agreed on a price and they completed the job later that week.Floors look great. Have 9-11β stem walls and water heater in corner; They were able to do all the stem walls and install around the water heater in the corner also.Part of the decision to go with California Custom Coatings was their great reviews and they didnβt disappoint.
Epoxied our garage floors and they did an awesome job! Came on time, communicated, and were great to work with! Love our new floors!
Reasonable cost, quick turnaround (our garage took five hours, start-to-finish), superb warranty, and the guys who did the work (Anthony M. & another gentleman, didn't get his name) were thorough, informative, professional, and very friendly. It's too bad I only have one garage to make such a dramatic improvement on.





