Make your floors a feature with decorative flake flooring finishes
Decorative floors are an increasingly important design feature for all types of buildings. Installing flake flooring can transform how your premise looks. Decorative flake flooring is a modern alternative to polished concrete, marble, stone and ceramic flooring. Incredibly versatile in appearance, this seamless and durable floor coating is available in many high quality finishes. It can be installed in new builds or retro fitted as a resurfacing option to revitalise the look of interior areas.
Professional Flake Floor Installations
Installing decorative flake flooring involves a number of steps:
Preparing
Preparing or repairing your concrete floor to ensure the surface is ready for the new coating
Base Coat
Laying an epoxy primer followed by a tinted base coat to suit the desired end finish
Flake casting
Hand casting coloured flakes on the base layer to create a decorative effect
Top Coat
Topping with a clear polyurethane layer for strength, scratch resistance and high gloss finish
It’s possible to achieve almost any interior design effect with decorative flake flooring, from an industrial look through to a premium finish. Coloured flakes for epoxy floors are available in a variety of premixes, or a unique combination can be tailored for you.
Decorative flake flooring applications
Decorative flake flooring has been popular for domestic garages for a number of years. More recently, its strength and versatility have made it increasingly popular in commercial, industrial and community settings. Flake floors can be laid on new concrete slabs or be used to revitalise old floors in facilities including:
- Community centres
- Factories
- Public bathrooms and changerooms
- Showrooms
- Shopping centres
- Schools
- Workshops
Huge Range of Decorative Effects
Decorative epoxy flake flooring benefits
Flake floors have all the benefits of epoxy resin floors with extra versatility in their end appearance. Hard wearing as well as good looking, flake flooring:
- Withstands constant use with a scratch resistant finish
- Can include anti-slip finishes for wet or slippery areas
- Give seamless wall-to-wall coverage for easy cleaning
- Are impervious, stain and chemical resistant and UV stable
- Offer a wide range of choices including marble and stone look