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Flake finish, reviewed August 2026

Domino

Black, white and grey chip on a charcoal base. The most-requested garage blend in the Okanagan and the best all-round dirt-hider we install.

Installed
$8-$15/sq ft
Family
Flake
Hides dirt
5/5

Drawn representation of the Domino blend. Physical samples come to every site visit.

Best for

  • Daily-driver garages
  • Shop and hobby garages
  • Finished basements
  • Strata garage bays

Hides dirt

Watch out for

Domino is busy. In a small room with a lot of visual noise already, cabinets, shelving, a bright wall colour, it can read as one more pattern competing for attention. In those rooms Granite does the same job more quietly.

Why it hides dirt so well

How well a floor hides dirt has almost nothing to do with whether it is light or dark and almost everything to do with contrast inside the blend. Domino carries a near-white chip, a mid grey and a black over a charcoal base, so at the six-foot viewing distance a floor is actually seen from, the eye reads texture rather than surface. Pale dust lands on the dark chip and dark grit lands on the pale chip, and neither one has a clean field to sit against. A uniform charcoal floor shows every speck of dust and a uniform pale grey shows every tire mark, which is the trap most people fall into when they pick a colour off a chip card at arm length.

What it looks like in a real garage

Full broadcast means chip goes into the wet base coat until the floor will take no more, then the excess is swept off and the surface is scraped back before topcoating. That produces a random, seamless pattern with no repeat and no direction, which is why a Domino floor never shows a seam where two days of work met and why a future repair blends in invisibly. Under typical garage lighting it reads as a mid-charcoal stone. Under bright shop LEDs the white chip lifts and the whole floor brightens the room noticeably, which is worth knowing if the garage is also a workspace.

How it wears

The chip layer is fully encapsulated in resin, so what wears is the topcoat rather than the pattern, and the pattern is what you are looking at. That is the practical reason a flake floor still looks intact after fifteen years while a solid colour of the same age looks tired. When the topcoat eventually dulls in the drive lane, a scuff sand and a fresh coat restores it in a day without touching the decorative layer underneath.

Domino questions

Is Domino too dark for a basement?

It works, but check the lighting first. Domino sits at a mid-charcoal overall and in a basement lit only by pot lights it will absorb more light than the room can spare. In a walkout or a daylight basement it is excellent. In a fully below-grade room, Granite or Wheat give you the same dirt-hiding with more light back into the space.

What does a Domino garage floor cost?

The blend does not change the price. A full flake broadcast system runs $8 to $12 per square foot installed, so a standard two-car garage of about 500 square feet is $4,000 to $6,000. Colour choice is free; what moves the number is slab condition, moisture mitigation and removal of any existing coating.

See Domino on your slab

We bring physical samples to every site visit and lay them on your own floor under your own lighting, which tells you far more than any screen can.

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