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Floor Epoxy Paint Section in our online catalog - CLICK HERE
COLOR PAINT CHIPS CHART FOR EPOXY FLOOR PAINT PROJECTS
(garage - basement - shop)
Your Host and Tour Guide:
Paul Oman, MS, MBA - Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc. (floor epoxies, marine epoxies, underwater epoxies, repair epoxies)
Member: NACE (National Assoc. of Corrosion Engineers), SSPC (Soc. of Protective Coatings)
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NOTE: the DIY Flor-Poxy kit is a complete garage epoxy paint package that comes with several blends of paint chips. This page and this chart is for carte blanche - no kit purchases.
Your epoxy floor could be a 1- 7 coat system (different methods for applying the chips
- usually a 1- 4 coat system) Click here for our Garage Coating page for details
IN A NUTSHELL/ PAINT CHIPS IN A GARAGE EPOXY FLOOR : pigmented epoxy base coat. Chips go on top of the wet base
coat or in a clear middle coat that is applied over the dry pigmented epoxy base coat. With a chips in a clear
middle coat you can back roll over them, coating them top and bottom. The clear middle coat can be either a solvent
based polyurethane (Acrylic Poly UV Plus) or a solvent free epoxy (Epoxy Floor Seal). The clear epoxies will yellow
in UV. Often another coat of a 2 part poly (same product as above) with UV blockers is then applied over the clear
epoxy or clear polyurethane that contains the chips.
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Cost per square foot with epoxy base, chips with 100% coverage and 2 coats of clear two part polyurethane is about $1.50 - $2 per square foot. Price drops if chips are used as accent only.
100% chip coverage requires 1 pound of chips per 7 - 10 sf. That said, most folks with a 2 car garage (about 500
SF) usually order 20 pounds of chips. Chips come in custom color blended 10 pound and 55 pound bags. You use the
color chart below to pick the colors and percentage of each color you want and then call in the order.
color charts:
ALL PAINT CHIP ORDERS ARE CUSTOM MADE AND CANNOT BE RETURNED/REFUSED/REFUNDED ETC. ONCE THE ORDER
IS PLACED. - factory reports during this busy summer season they are 1-2 weeks behind on orders. Chips are available
in 10 pound and 55 pound bags. To order you will need color number and percent of each color. No charge for the
blending. Call to order the chips.

Thanks Paul,
It is very popular in these parts to put flakes about 8 inches up the wall as a seamless extension of the floor
– makes cleaning very easy. On digging a little further, it is no different to the broadcasting of the flake on
the floor. Wet base coat on the wall first and throw flake in great quantity against the vertical surface (no base
coat on the floor at this stage as the pile of flake at the wall floor join will need to be vacuumed up prior to
putting epoxy on the floor!!)
How much chips? - customer gives some feedback - April 2013:
Here were some stats -- bear
in mind that I used quart plastic soup containers and 16 oz plastic beer cups,
so my measurements may be off by 10-20%.
10# of 1/4" chips corresponded to roughly 7.5-8 quarts of chips; in other words
a 24 oz cup holds roughly 1lb of flakes.
I test-flaked a 25 sq ft floor using 1 qt (i.e 1.3 lbs -- 53 lbs/1000sf) of
flakes and got a flake coverage that was somewhere between heavy and rejection,
I then used roughly 3-4 qts (I'll have to go back and weigh the bag to get a
more accurate estimate) and aimed for roughly 1 16 oz cup per 50 sq ft, which
corresponds to a little heavier than the 'medium' coverage.
10 lbs of chips was roughly 8 quarts
(I measured).
1 quart of chips on 25 sq ft produced a 'heavy', but not 'full' flake effect
(roughly 1.2 lb)
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