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"Vinyl - Plastic Chip/Flake Garage Epoxy Floor Systems"

garage paint system - epoxy chip floor - paint chips - epoxy resin floor

Offered Exclusively by Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc.

Your Host and Tour Guide:

Paul Oman, MS, MBA - Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc.

Member: NACE (National Assoc. of Corrosion Engineers), SSPC (Soc. of Protective Coatings)

"Professionals helping Professionals"

EXAMPLE OF DIY GARAGE FLOOR WITH CHIPS - ACTUAL CUSTOMER EXAMPLE - CLICK HERE

Your 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: pigmented epoxy basecoat. 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 backroll 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 blened 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:

industrial floor epoxy

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!!)

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Read the Nov/Dec article from Good Old Boat magazine on using the epoxy and vinyl(paint) chip flooring system on a boat - CLICK

Low V Floorl - clear epoxy coating (in section D_Clear epoxy subpage) CLICK HERE

Acrylic Poly UV Plus - UV blocking clear coat (in section E_Nonepoxy subpage) CLICK HERE

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Floor coatings page (lists Water Bond. Rough Coat and Industrial Floor Epoxy) in catalog (section B_Floor) CLICK HERE

Most popular floor coating system page (www.epoxyproducts.com/floorpopular.html) CLICK HERE

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Beginner's guide to epoxy floors

Surface Preparation page

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Thank You!

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"INDUSTRIAL FLOOR - GARAGE - EPOXY" (tm) By Progressive Epoxy Polymers, Inc. 0% VOC, Solvent Free and Environmentally friendly, Odorless.

Professional grade floor epoxy paint / coating for garage, shops, and commercial facilities

48 oz, 1.5 gal, and 15 gal kits. Available in any amount over 15 gallons

Purchase at the Progressive Epoxy storefront or the more simple EpoxyUSA.com site

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