Epoxy Floors Canada started with a father, a son, a 10-car garage, and a simple problem: plain concrete kills the vibe.
Ribal Badin grew up on job sites. His father, Bachar, is a civil engineer who spent years renovating beautiful homes across Calgary. Basements, garages, full builds. He taught his son construction before he was old enough to drive. That same attention to detail stuck.
See the Calgary neighbourhoods we serveThe family has always been in the car world. Before EFC, Ribal worked in the family automotive business, handling marketing and operations. So when it came time to build his own space, he went all in. A barndominium outside the city with a 10-car garage. The kind of place where the cars come first and the house is attached to the shop, not the other way around.
But standing in that empty garage on bare concrete, something was missing. No life. No finish. No presence. Ribal started looking into epoxy, fell deep into the products and the process, got certified through Xtreme Polishing Systems, and did his first floor in his own garage. Then friends started asking. Then their neighbours.
Within 90 days, he had his first commercial project. He was 26. Epoxy Floors Canada has been growing since.
View our commercial epoxy flooring projectsFor Ribal and Bachar, this was never about becoming another contractor. They have seen how that world works. Contractors who care more about closing the deal than finishing the floor. That is not how EFC operates.
When someone hires Epoxy Floors Canada, they are trusting Ribal with a space they will see every single day. Coming home. Leaving for work. Weekend projects. The garage is not some forgotten room at the back of the house. For a lot of EFC's clients, it is the room.
Ribal does not come from a contractor's point of view. He comes from the same place his clients do. A car guy who wanted a better garage. A father and son who grew up improving spaces together. That is why EFC is not here to sell a coating. It is about making the space feel like it belongs to the person who uses it.
One garage, shop, or showroom at a time. No rushing. No cutting corners. Premium outlasts quantity every time. Get your instant price at epoxyfloorscanada.ca/instant-quote - no phone call needed.
Werkmaster Raptor XT planetary grinder. Bartell HD1 HEPA dust extraction. Moisture seal where the slab warrants it. If the prep is not right, the floor will not last, no matter what you pour on top.
Ribal is an XPS Certified Installer, trained on the full Rockhard product line. Flake, Quartz, Metallic, Solid Colour. Each system has its own process, its own chemistry, its own way of failing if you rush it.
A metallic floor is not a coating. It is a pour. The pigments move, blend, and settle in ways you can only guide, not control. It takes patience, timing, and an eye for how the material wants to behave. It is the closest thing in this trade to actual art.
On a 2,500 square foot metallic job, clients wanted to use the space before the topcoat went down. Nearly destroyed the entire floor. That job reinforced something both Ribal and Bachar already believed: trust the process. No exceptions.
XPS Certified installers running a Werkmaster Raptor XT. Get a quote from the team doing the work.
