Epoxy floor gallery for Mesa shops and garages

A quartz broadcast at 40 to 60 mil is the floor for an aisle that takes forklift and pallet jack traffic. The silica aggregate does much of the abrasion work, and the grey can hide the tire marks that show on a lighter floor.

A troweled or self-leveling build from 60 to 250 mil belongs in a service bay where steel wheels, jacks and dropped tools are normal. At that thickness the floor is a wear surface, not a coating.

A kitchen floor needs a chemical-resistant topcoat and a cove at the wall, so a nightly hose-down runs to the drain instead of standing against the base. Slip resistance is specified, not assumed: ANSI/NFSI B101.3 is a test method for the wet dynamic coefficient of friction of hard surface floors.

A food plant or a commissary tends to run quartz at the heavier end, with the joints filled and the drain details worked out before the pour day. Washdown water is the test the floor has to pass every night.

A showroom is a thin build with a UV-stable topcoat, because the floor has to hold color under lights and through a storefront. Epoxy has no built-in UV protection, so the topcoat is the layer doing that work.

Flake at 20 to 30 mil is the garage build: it hides dust and tire marks, gives a texture underfoot and takes a topcoat that can be renewed. A flake color you pick, not a color the neighborhood picked.

Metallic is the decorative end of the same slab. It shows every swirl in the pour, so it suits a bay that is looked at more than it is worked in, and it still needs the same grind and moisture test underneath.