Decorative flake broadcast to full coverage over an epoxy base, then sealed under a clear polyaspartic topcoat. It gives you texture underfoot, hides dirt between cleanings, and works in garages, basements, workshops and commercial spaces. Installed in 1–2 days with a written 4–5 year warranty.
An epoxy flake floor is a seamless concrete coating made of three parts: an epoxy base coat bonded to ground concrete, a layer of decorative vinyl flakes broadcast into that base coat while it is wet, and a clear protective topcoat over everything. The flakes give the floor its speckled, granite-like look, add thickness and texture, and hide dust and small imperfections in the slab.
JDS Concrete Coatings installs full-broadcast epoxy flake floors across Northeast Ohio, including Canton, Massillon, North Canton, Jackson Township, Green and Akron. Every flake floor we install is diamond-ground first, built on a moisture-vapor-barrier epoxy base coat, and finished with a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat.
Blend, flake size and coverage. Change each one below and watch the floor get broadcast again.
Showing: Cool gray, 1/4 inch flake, full broadcastNot to scale.
A blend is a mix of several flake colors, not one color. Grays and charcoals are the most forgiving with dust and the easiest to match to almost any wall or cabinet color. Tans and earth tones suit basements and rooms that connect to the rest of the house.
Lighter blends make a space feel brighter and bigger. Darker blends hide more, but show light-colored dust sooner.
Quarter-inch flake is the standard for garages and most floors. It reads as a bold, granite-like speckle and gives the most texture underfoot. Eighth-inch flake is finer and tighter, closer to a terrazzo look, and tends to suit basements, mudrooms and commercial interiors.
This is the one that matters for how the floor wears. A light sprinkle, which is what most DIY kits give you, leaves bare coating between the chips, so the floor is only as tough as that one thin coat.
JDS installs full broadcast only. Flake goes down until the wet base coat cannot take any more, which makes the flake itself a solid layer of the floor. That adds thickness, evens out the texture, and leaves nothing thin to wear through.
The preview is an illustration. A screen cannot show real color, gloss or texture accurately, so the final blend is chosen with you at your on-site quote.
Flake is the most versatile finish we install, but it is not the answer to every floor. Here is where it earns its keep in a Northeast Ohio home or business, and where we would point you to something else.
The most common home for a flake floor. The texture gives you footing when snowmelt is on the floor, the speckle hides dust between sweeps, and the sealed topcoat keeps road salt on the surface instead of in the concrete.
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Flake turns a bare, dusty slab into a finished floor without adding the height that tile or plank does. Basement slabs sit below grade, so the moisture-vapor-barrier base coat does its most important work here.
A finer flake in a lighter blend keeps a basement from feeling like a garage.
Dropped tools, rolling tool chests, sawdust and glue. Flake takes the abuse and does not show every scuff. One honest trade-off: a dropped screw is harder to spot on flake than on a plain floor. A lighter, finer blend helps.
One seamless surface with no grout lines to scrub and no seams for water to get under. It mops clean, and wet boots in February are not a problem.
Shops, showrooms, restrooms, break rooms and light-duty warehouse floors. Flake is easy to keep presentable under steady foot traffic, and the fast-curing topcoat keeps downtime short.
See commercial floor coatingsPatios and pool decks get a different outdoor process. Slabs with active water coming in need repair and moisture work first. And if you want a one-of-a-kind showpiece rather than a hard-working floor, look at metallic epoxy.
All three start with the same diamond-ground prep and epoxy base. What changes is what goes into the floor, and that changes how it looks, feels and wears.
| Epoxy flake | Metallic epoxy | Quartz | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The look | Speckled and granite-like, in a blend of several colors | High-gloss, marbled and one of a kind | Fine, uniform colored sand |
| Texture underfoot | Light texture, comfortable in bare feet | Smooth | The grittiest of the three |
| Hides dust and slab repairs | Very well | Poorly. Dust, footprints and fine scratches show sooner | Well |
| Grip when wet | Good | The least of the three | The most of the three |
| Best suited to | Garages, basements, workshops and most commercial floors | Showrooms, finished basements and showpiece garages | Heavy-use work areas and floors that are often wet |
| The honest drawback | Small dropped items are harder to spot | Needs more care to keep looking its best | Rougher to mop, fewer decorative options |
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Four stages over 1–2 days. The flake is the part you see, but the first stage decides whether the floor lasts.
The concrete is diamond-ground to open the surface and remove old paint or sealer. Cracks and pits are filled and ground flush.
A pigmented, moisture-vapor-barrier epoxy goes down across the whole floor. Its color is matched to the blend, so the base never shows through as a mismatch.
While the base coat is wet, flake is thrown up and out so it rains down evenly, until the floor will not take any more. Then it is left to set.
Loose and standing flake is scraped flat and vacuumed off, then a clear polyaspartic topcoat seals the surface. That step sets how smooth or textured the floor feels.
Quotes for epoxy flake flooring are full of trade words. Here is what they mean, so you can compare one installer's quote with another's.
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JDS Concrete Coatings installs epoxy flake floors from its base in Canal Fulton, along the Ohio & Erie Canalway between Massillon and Akron. Flake suits the attached garages of Jackson Township, North Canton and Green, the basements of older Massillon and Canton homes where the slab has never been sealed, and shop and commercial floors out toward Navarre, Hartville and Uniontown.
Northeast Ohio is hard on floors in a specific way: months of tracked-in salt and slush, then humid summers that push moisture up through the slab. A full-broadcast flake floor on a moisture-vapor-barrier base is built for both.
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They are thin, colored vinyl-acrylic chips made for floor coatings. They are not paint chips or stone. Several colors are mixed into a blend, broadcast into a wet epoxy base coat, and then locked in under a clear topcoat so they cannot lift or fade.
Full broadcast means flake covers the entire floor, thrown into the wet base coat until it will not take any more. Partial broadcast is a light scatter with the base color showing between chips. Full broadcast is thicker, more evenly textured and longer lasting, and it is the only way JDS installs flake.
Quarter-inch flake is the standard for garages and most floors, with a bold speckle and the most texture underfoot. Eighth-inch flake gives a finer, tighter look that often suits basements, mudrooms and commercial interiors. Neither is tougher than the other. It comes down to the look you want and how much texture you want to feel.
Yes, and it is a good fit. It adds almost no height, has no seams or grout, and does not mind a damp mop. Because basement slabs sit below grade, the moisture-vapor-barrier base coat matters more here than anywhere. If a basement has active water coming in, that needs to be fixed before any coating goes down.
No. After the flake is scraped flat and sealed under the topcoat, the surface has a light, even texture, a little like the skin of an orange. It is enough to give you footing when the floor is wet, but comfortable to walk on barefoot. Finer flake feels smoother still.
Better than any other finish. Cracks and pits are repaired and ground flush first, and a full-broadcast flake pattern then disguises those repairs far better than a solid color or a metallic floor would. A coating is not a structural fix, though, so a slab that is still moving can show a crack again over time.
A professionally installed, full-broadcast flake floor over diamond-ground concrete is built to last for years, and JDS backs each one with a written 4–5 year warranty. DIY flake kits, by comparison, often start peeling within 1–3 months because they skip the grinding and the moisture barrier.
In most cases, yes. Because the flake sits under a clear topcoat, a floor that has dulled after years of use can usually be cleaned, lightly abraded and given a fresh topcoat without redoing the whole system. We would look at the floor first to confirm it is a candidate.
We'll come out, measure the space, check the concrete and go through blends with you where the floor will actually live. The quote is fixed, free, and there's no pressure to book.
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