Why most Farmington Hills garages end up with flake
Most garage floors in Farmington Hills start as bare gray concrete that stains the first time oil drips on it. Decorative flake epoxy is the fix most owners here land on, and it is the look you picture when you think of a finished garage. We grind the slab, roll a colored base, and throw vinyl chips across it until the floor stops taking more. The flake does two jobs at once. It hides the scuffs and tire marks a working garage collects, and it adds grip underfoot when boots track in snow. When you weigh the epoxy flooring Farmington Hills crews offer, flake is the one that looks good and works hard.
The build is four coats over a slab we open with a diamond grinder. First a primer soaks into the bare concrete and gives the next coat something to grab. Then we roll a pigmented base, and while it is still wet we broadcast the flake by hand across the whole floor. We keep throwing until the wet base will not hold another chip, which is what gives the floor full, even coverage instead of a thin speckle. The next morning we scrape off the loose excess and seal the cured layer under a clear polyaspartic topcoat. Each coat has to cure inside its own window before the next one goes down.
- Throw continues until the wet base rejects more flake. Full coverage, no pebble look.
- Hides scuffs, tire ghosts, hairline cracks, and the small flaws every old garage has.
- Texture adds grip when boots track in salt brine in late February.
- You pick the chip blend with us in your own garage light before we start.
- A garage sized for two cars finishes the install in one working day.
We coat flake floors right here in Farmington Hills and across Oakland County, so we plan each job around the weather we actually get. The cold runs long here, and the salt season runs longer. The work happens indoors, so we bring heaters to hold the cure steady through a January install while snow piles up outside. You pick the chip blend in your own garage light before we start, because color reads different there than on a screen. When you call, you reach the same crew that shows up to grind, roll, and broadcast the floor. You deal with the people doing the work, and you get a clear date.
Want a garage floor that hides the mess and grips underfoot? Call or send a few photos of the slab, and we will set a date. We do the work ourselves.
