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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 custom design. Then they feel the ensuring grip on the coating, […]

How to Maximize the Color Wheel

When customers select the colors they want for their epoxy floors, they often go with simple choices — 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. How can customers choose colors that fit with their existing […]

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 Measurements with mils First off, although the metric term millimeter sounds […]

Know Your Coves

When an epoxy coating is applied to both the floor and the walls of a room, the epoxy along the wall is called the cove. Coves come in three major types and various widths, based on the designer’s specifications or an owner’s preferences. Here we explain the options for coves that we offer our Sacramento […]

Protecting Concrete From Chlorides

Lately California Custom Coatings has discussed various substances that cause damage to concrete with consistent exposure. For this article, we focus on chlorides. The Portland Concrete Association writes: “No other contaminant is documented as extensively in the literature as a cause of corrosion of metals in concrete than chloride ions.” (PCA) The primary risk is […]

Protecting Concrete Floors From Freezing

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 expected, even more in the Sierras and other high altitude locations. Where freezing weather mixed […]

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 working out of warehouses or buildings not specifically designed for brewing, […]

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. How can such an innocuous liquid as milk […]

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 potential sources of acidic substances and California Custom Coatings wants our clients […]

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 summary of a test performed using the same epoxy primer applied by California Custom Coatings […]