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Epoxy Coatings Leading the Market

Epoxy flooring has an indoor/outdoor advantage that cannot be matched by competing materials like wood, laminate, vinyl, and carpet. Learn more about it!

“Paint” It or Stain It?

Adding epoxy coatings or concrete stains to concrete will beautify and protect. Concrete stains, however, are much like wood stains — bringing out the best.

Good Questions About Concrete Kitchen Floors

There are some questions about concrete floors that we at California Custom Coatings hear on a fairly regular basis. When a customer is thinking about using a color stained concrete floor in the kitchen, for example, they are usually comparing it to what they might experience with a tile or vinyl floor. So here are […]

Radiant Floors and Concrete Polishing

Recently we talked about radiant floor heating and epoxy coatings. This brought up the question of whether California Custom Coatings can also do concrete polishing for radiant floor heating. Although the polishing process requires more aggressive floor grinding to achieve the desired luster, the answer is still positive. Radiant floor heating and concrete polishing and […]

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 about any other type of floor material. Sadly, there are some persistent myths about […]

Can New Concrete Be Polished?

Part 3 in a Series on Coating New Concrete In two recent articles, we discussed why it is best to wait at least four weeks for new concrete to dry before applying an epoxy coating or a color stain. There is one other service provided by California Custom Coatings, and that is concrete polishing. Is […]

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 “spark joy,” your house is now feeling much lighter. And if you completed the process, your garage is already […]

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 the materials that just aren’t worth the trouble. Our favorite manufacturer for concrete stain is […]