Coating a Family Floor in the West Valley
A floor in a busy Glendale house has to cope with things a showroom never sees. Bikes and scooters coming through the back door, a dog that takes the same route across the room forty times a day, and whatever gets spilled in a laundry room. Flake is usually the right answer for that. The chips are broadcast into the wet base and scraped back flat, which leaves a lightly textured surface that hides day to day dust between cleans instead of showing every footprint.
West Valley sun is the other thing worth planning around. Anything that catches afternoon light through a patio door or sits out on a covered porch is finished with UV stable polyaspartic, which is why the color below it stays where it was put rather than yellowing off. Prep is the part that actually decides the lifespan though: the slab is mechanically ground and profiled, never acid etched. The four layers, and how flake and metallic differ, are set out in our full guide to epoxy floor coatings.
