Fifth in a series about common causes of concrete deterioration. Most of California is fortunate when it comes to freezing weather. In Southern California, for example, freezing weather is seldom seen. In Northern California, a number of sub-freezing days are...
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Protecting Concrete Floors: Wine
This is the fourth in a series of articles about substances that can damage concrete. Wine is the oldest alcoholic beverage. Fermented grape juice has a long history and its manufacture is very important to the Northern California economy and our enjoyment of the many...
Protecting Concrete Floors: Alcoholic Beverages
This is the third in a series on substances that can damage concrete floors. With the boom in craft brewing, the idea of visiting a neighborhood brewery is now a reality in Sacramento and Northern California. Many of these friendly and welcoming establishments are...
Protecting Concrete Floors: Sour Milk
The second in a series of articles on substances that damage concrete floors. The typical homeowner does not see a lot of sour milk. For other locations, however, there may be spilled sour milk to cry over. Where sour milk is common, damage to concrete is possible....
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, thatβs 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),Β a thoroughly tested product known for its strength and adhesion capabilities. For example, here is a...
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 β 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 β 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...
How to Measure Gloss
When deciding how glossy to make a custom concrete floor, we talk to our clients about gloss and how we measure it. By specifying a specific amount of gloss for a project, itβs easier for California Custom Coatings to get the floors just the way our customers want...
Your Floors and Gloss
Gloss – we know itβs a word that describes smooth and shiny things. With epoxy flooring and concrete polishing, customers often speak about wanting a glossy floor. What is gloss and how does California Custom Coatings give your Sacramento floor a gloss coat,...
The Difference Between Concrete Polish and Epoxy Coatings
Many of our potential clients see that California Custom Coatings offers both concrete polishing and epoxy flooring. Whatβs the difference between the two procedures? Why would you want to use one over the other? What is Epoxy Flooring? An epoxy coating goes on top of...
Customer Experiences with Our Durable Epoxy Floors
Love it! Thank you John and rest of the team for coming in last minute and doing the two garages for us. You guys did an amazing job at an incredible value and I'm confident the job you did will last for years to come! We can't thank you guys enough for how easy it was to work with you, your professionalism, and you're obvious skill. You obviously know your craft. Can't thank you enough and have already started recommending you guys to people we know
Fantastic job installing our garage epoxy flooring this summer ! Professional in all aspects, and our floor is GORGEOUS!! Ken and Susan Robinson
John and his crew did a fantastic job on our shop floors. Couldn't be happier. As a business we need to be open for our customers during regular hours. The crew at California Custom Coatings came in on a Friday night after closing and worked until 2:00 AM to have the shop ready to open at 8:00 AM Monday. Very much appreciated.














