We are turning a room into a gym. Is this the right floor?

It is a good fit. The cured surface is highly resistant to impacts, so a dropped plate or dumbbell hits a hard film over a thick base rather than bare concrete. Flake adds grip underfoot, which matters more in a gym than in most rooms. Rubber matting still helps where the heaviest loads land, and it sits on the coating perfectly happily.

Does a sealed floor help with dust in a home office?

It is one of the main reasons people do it. Bare concrete gives off a fine dust continuously as the surface breaks down, and no amount of sweeping stops it because the source is the floor itself. A coated slab is a closed surface, so there is nothing to shed, and cleaning becomes a damp mop rather than a losing battle.

What does the surface feel like underfoot in a living space?

Firm, and smoother than tile without being slick. A flake floor has a fine grain to it from the chips, which is what gives grip, and a metallic one is smoother because the pigment is worked through a clear coat instead. Neither is cold in the way a north facing tile floor is, and both take rugs and furniture without marking.

What decides the cost of a Chandler floor?

The condition of the slab and what the finished room has to withstand. Taking off paint or an old covering, filling cracks and dealing with moisture all add work before any color is laid. A clean slab in a spare room is a shorter job than a converted bay. We quote from the floor in front of us. Call (602) 820-7739 for a free estimate.

Will equipment on castors or rubber mats mark the finish?

Castors are fine on a cured floor, and the finish is tire mark resistant, which is the harder version of the same test. Rubber matting left down permanently is worth lifting occasionally, as with any hard floor, simply so the surface underneath gets cleaned. Nothing about either is a problem the coating was not built for.

Epoxy Flooring in Chandler

An epoxy floor coating bonds into the slab you already have, turning the concrete into the finished surface instead of something to be covered. A lot of the Chandler work is rooms being asked to do a new job: a garage bay turned into a gym, a back room set up as an office or a studio. The build is a 100% solids epoxy base, the color layer, then two coats of UV stable polyaspartic. ROC 358358, and we are licensed, bonded and insured.

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Floors for Rooms That Changed Jobs

A room being converted usually has a bare or painted slab under it, and that slab is the cheapest finished floor available if it is treated properly. A home gym needs a surface that takes dropped weight and wipes clean. An office or studio needs one that does not shed dust onto everything at ankle height. A converted bay needs both, plus a finish that does not still read as a garage when the door is shut.

Bare concrete is the problem in all three cases rather than the room. It is porous, so it holds dust and releases it, absorbs anything spilled on it, and cannot really be cleaned, only swept. Coating it closes the surface. Dust has nothing to come from, spills sit on top until they are wiped, and the floor can be mopped like any other finished surface. If you want to go deeper, here is what each coat in an epoxy floor actually does.

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What a Converted Chandler Room Needs From the Floor

Once a room is in daily use the floor stops being a surface and becomes equipment. It gets walked, rolled over, dropped on and cleaned, often in quick succession. All of that is carried by the two polyaspartic topcoats rather than the epoxy underneath, which is why we specify two and why they are the part of the system worth understanding.

Wear resistance. Foot traffic, pet claws and dragged furniture meet the polyaspartic topcoat, not the color coat and not the concrete, so a scuff does not expose bare slab.
Stain and chemical resistance. The cured surface is non-porous, so oil, laundry detergent, paint and household cleaners sit on top of it instead of soaking into the concrete and staining it permanently.
UV stability. Polyaspartic holds its color under Arizona sun, which is why we use it as the topcoat rather than finishing with a second coat of epoxy on anything that sees daylight.
Simple cleaning. There are no grout lines, tile edges or seams for dust to collect in, so a dust mop and an occasional damp mop is the whole routine.
Color that is sealed in. Flake and metallic color sits under the topcoat rather than on the surface, so the finish does not wear off the high-traffic routes first.

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How We Install an Epoxy Floor Coating

1. Slab check

We look at the slab before quoting: moisture, old coatings, cracks and how the room actually gets used. That is what sets the system and the price, not the square footage on its own.

2. Grind and profile

We mechanically grind, profile and vacuum the concrete with diamond tooling. No acid etch and no chemical stripper. This is the step that decides whether the coating stays down.

3. Repair

Cracks, pits and spalled edges are opened up, filled and ground flush, so the repair does not telegraph through the finished surface.

4. Base and color

The 100% solids epoxy base goes into the fresh profile, then the color layer: flake broadcast and scraped back, or the metallic coat poured and worked by hand.

5. Seal and protect

Two coats of UV stable polyaspartic seal the color in. A flake or metallic floor finished this way is a two day install. A polyaspartic only system can be done in a day.

Why Choose Dialed In Epoxy

Licensed, bonded and insured. ROC 358358. The registration number is on every page of this site, so you can check it with the Arizona Registrar of Contractors before anyone starts work.
Owner operated, with our own crews. Kevin Coleman founded Dialed In Epoxy and the business runs its own installation crews rather than subcontracting the work out.
One build, whatever the room. The preparation, the epoxy base and the two polyaspartic coats are the same in a laundry room as across a whole ground floor. What changes is the color layer you pick.

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Epoxy Flake Flooring

Durable and long-lasting

Epoxy-coated garage floor with a flake finish

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Affordable, durable, easy to clean

Concrete Stain

Enhances the look of the concrete

Grind and Seal

Protects the concrete floors

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Polished to a hard, low-maintenance finish

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Fast-curing and UV-stable polyaspartic garage floors

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