The ColorFlake Floor System is a decorative flooring application designed to provide an imitation granite, terrazzo or marble look to commercial, industrial or residential floors at a fraction of the cost of real stone. It is available in colors to match any decor, adding beauty and elegance as well as providing a low maintenance slip resistant surface with excellent resistance to staining, impact, and abrasion. The high performance components used in ColorFlake offer proven, time tested technology to provide a durable system that will last indefinitely with very little maintenance.

In residential applications this system is ideal for use as a garage floor, instantly transforming that huge amount of neglected square footage into a source of pride, not embarrassment! Commercially, it is ideal for clinics, showrooms, office floors, retail stores, cafeterias, bathrooms and many other applications. For industrial uses it is suitable for warehouses, parking garages and aircraft hangars. The coating is impervious to oil, gasoline, hydraulic fluid, urine, blood, ink, mineral spirits, paint, even xylene!

Gone are the ‘dusting’ issues associated with plain concrete, where it is tracked into the home or adjoining offices. Gone, too, are the surface cracks, staining and other annoyances associated with plain concrete. And unlike with ‘acid stained’ concrete floors, the color is entirely controllable. Our 100% solids epoxy primer guarantees the floor coating will bond to the concrete and the polyurethane color and clear topcoats insure you will never have issues of color loss or yellowing. The coating is applied vertically as well as horizontally so no plain concrete is visible anywhere.

Our Color Flake System is a heavyweight, commercial grade coating requiring several days to install.

The application is a multi-step process that takes three days to complete. First, the concrete must be properly ‘profiled’ and deep cleaned to accept the coating. This is done through a combination of diamond grinding, etching, and power washing. Cracks and other imperfections are then repaired. Following that, the primer is applied. After overnight curing, a polyurethane color coat is applied into which a full broadcast of decorative acrylic chips is broadcast. This step is what gives ours floors their exclusive terrazzo/granite look - beautiful colors, unavailable anywhere else!

After that cures overnight as well, we apply a heavy coat of polyurethane clear. Job applications that are prone to often being wet such as garage floors also include a slip resistant additive that meets the ADA standards for slip resistance. The additive is not usually applied on indoor applications because it inhibits mopping. Like everything we do, we take this seriously!

On a technical note, Surface Systems' urethane color and clear coats are more expensive to use than epoxy coatings but provide our customers with distinct advantages.  Epoxy inherently turns yellow with age and sunlight; urethane does not.  Urethane resists scratches and damage from impact better than epoxy because it is flexible.  Epoxy is harder and makes a great primer.  Urethane is the superior product in the upper layers of any coating.  That's why most automobile finishes are urethane, and not epoxy! 

Repair of routine dings, gouges, a nominal amount of cracks as well as cleaning and etching the existing concrete is included in our price quotation.   All vertical surfaces, steps and curbs are coated to match the floor. (Excessive cracks, oil deposits or other situations may necessitate additional charges.)

Elegant enough to be the favorite floor in multi million dollar homes, yet durable enough to withstand solvent spills in a warehouse - that’s ColorFlake!