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20 blends, each with what it is bad at

Twenty blends,
honestly rated

Every finish below carries a note on what it is actually good at, including the ones that photograph beautifully and show every footprint.

Flake

Vinyl chip broadcast into wet resin to full rejection, then scraped and sealed. The most forgiving finish we install, grippy, dirt-hiding, and invisibly spot-repairable because the pattern is random.

Metallic

Reflective pigment suspended in clear resin and hand-worked with rollers, blowers and solvent. No two floors are the same, and none of them can be repeated, including by us.

Quartz

Ceramic-coated coloured quartz broadcast in two passes to build 1/8"-1/4" of seamless, slip-rated surface. The commercial kitchen and wash-down standard.

Polished

Not a coating at all. The slab itself, refined through a diamond grit progression and hardened with a lithium densifier. What you see is the concrete that was poured.

Solid

Flat pigment for industrial floors, brand colours and safety zoning. Cheapest way to cover a large area properly, and the least forgiving of dust.

How to actually choose

Contrast beats colour

How well a floor hides dirt depends on how much contrast sits within the blend, not on whether it is light or dark. A three-tone blend breaks up the visual field so dust and tire marks disappear into it. Any uniform colour shows everything that lands on it.

View samples in the actual room

A blend seen in daylight by a window reads completely differently under garage fluorescents or basement pot lights. We bring physical samples and lay them on your floor, then step back. A floor is seen from six feet up across a whole room, not at arm’s length.

Warm tones win in low light

Basements and interior spaces lit by pot lights flatten cool greys and teals. Coppers, bronzes and warm pewters hold their richness under artificial light, which is why we steer most basement clients warm even when the sample board says otherwise.

Be honest about the use

Carrara and Glacier are the most beautiful finishes on this page and the worst choices for a daily-driver garage. If the room is a working space, pick for contrast and grip. If it is a display space, pick for the look and accept the maintenance.

See them in your space

These are drawn representations of the blends we install. We bring physical samples to every site visit, and for metallic we pour a sample board on your actual slab before committing the floor.

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