FLAKE EPOXY GARAGE FLOOR
IN ALPINE PARK, CALGARY

Tear It Back To The Slab

We jackhammered the full perimeter wall base and removed the interior step so the coating and the Flake cove run clean and unbroken around the whole room. Doing the demo first means no awkward transitions baked into the finished floor.

Profile Every Inch

The open field gets a full diamond grind, then a handheld edge grinder cuts the same profile into every corner and wall line. All of it pulled straight into HEPA dust extraction, so the garage stays clean and the slab gets the tooth the coating needs to bond.

Cut The Cracks Out, Lock Them Shut

Every crack in the slab gets chased open with a crack chaser, vacuumed clean, and filled with a structural repair filler before any coating touches the floor. Smear filler across the surface and the crack telegraphs straight back through. Cut it out, fill it properly, and it stays gone.

Seal The Slab Before Anything Else

This is the most important coat in the whole floor, and it goes down on its own, first. A moisture barrier primer soaks deep into the bare concrete and seals it. That locks the slab so moisture moving up through the concrete can never push the floor off later, and it lets every coat above it do one job instead of two.

Here is why that is a big deal. Moisture driven failure is the single most common way a coated floor lifts, and it is the one thing nearly every coating warranty in the industry quietly writes into the fine print as an exclusion. We do not play that game. Our usual build starts with this prime coat, so the most common failure is protected against before it can ever start, instead of leaning on a clause to dodge the call later.

Colour Down, Flake To Refusal

With the slab sealed, the pigmented epoxy base goes on and the Dovetail Flake is broadcast straight into it while it is still wet, floor and cove, until no base shows through anywhere. Because the primer already owns the bond to the concrete, this coat is free to do one thing, grab and hold the Flake. The next day the loose Flake is scraped back and the surface is prepped tight for topcoat.

The Wear Layer Goes On

A thick polyaspartic lock coat seals the Flake, then the topcoat goes down as the wear layer. That top layer is what takes the traffic, the UV, and the hot tires for years while the Flake stays protected underneath.