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Concrete coating systems from Blackline Coatings: flake floor coatings, marble metallic epoxy, quartz floor systems and concrete restoration in Chicago and the western suburbs.

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The systems

Four ways to finish a concrete floor, and one way to prepare for all of them. Which system goes in depends on the room, how the floor gets used and the look you are after.

Flake Systems floor installed by Blackline Coatings
Flake

Flake Systems

A full broadcast of vinyl flake locked under clear polyaspartic. The finish everybody knows, built the way it should be.

Flake is our most requested system and the one most often installed badly. Ours goes down as a full refusal broadcast, so the flake covers wall to wall with no thin patches, then gets double topcoated in clear polyaspartic and cut back to the finish you chose. Matte, satin or full gloss.

  • Full refusal broadcast, so no base colour reads through the finish
  • Blended flake in any size and colour mix, matched to the room
  • Clear polyaspartic topcoats over the top, not a thin seal
  • Coved base and clean cut lines where the floor meets the wall
Flake Systems in detail
Marble Metallic floor installed by Blackline Coatings
Marble Metallic

Marble Metallic

Metallic pigment moved by hand while it cures, so the floor comes out with depth and movement like stone.

This is the system people stop and look at. Metallic pigment is poured and then worked while it is still live, which is what gives the floor its veining and its depth. No two are the same, and none of it is printed or repeated. It finishes to a deep gloss you can see the ceiling in.

  • Pigment worked by hand while the resin is live, so the movement is real
  • Veining and depth built up in layers, light or dark
  • Finished to a mirror gloss, or knocked back to satin
  • Suited to basements, showrooms, bars and interior living space
Marble Metallic in detail
Quartz Systems floor installed by Blackline Coatings
Quartz

Quartz Systems

Coloured quartz aggregate broadcast into resin. The hardest wearing finish we install, and the one with grip.

Quartz is graded silica, coloured and broadcast into the resin in layers. It builds a thicker, denser floor than flake and it holds its texture, which is why it goes into commercial kitchens, wash bays and anywhere a floor gets treated badly. It also happens to look like fine stone.

  • Graded quartz aggregate, broadcast in layers for real build
  • The most slip resistant finish we offer, with grip you can set
  • Takes traffic, wheels, heat and standing water
  • Colour blended to spec, from near white to charcoal
Quartz Systems in detail
Concrete Restoration floor installed by Blackline Coatings
Restoration

Concrete Restoration

Cracked, pitted, spalled or patched over. We take the slab back to something worth finishing.

Plenty of the floors we are called out to are not ready for a coating and nobody has told the owner. Cracks move, joints have failed, the surface is spalling or somebody has skimmed over it. We repair the slab properly first: chase and fill the cracks, rebuild the edges and the joints, regrind the whole surface flat. Sometimes that is the whole job. Sometimes it is the first day of one.

  • Cracks chased out and filled, not painted over
  • Spalled surfaces and broken edges rebuilt
  • Control joints cut back and refilled
  • Full mechanical grind so the slab finishes flat
Concrete Restoration in detail
Where They Go

Same systems, different rooms

A garage floor and a showroom floor are not the same job even when the finish looks similar. Here is how each system gets specified for the space it is going into.

Garage Floor Coatings

The floor your cars sit on, finished to the standard of the cars.

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Basement Floor Coatings

A finished floor downstairs that is not carpet, not tile and not going to lift.

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Commercial Floor Coatings

Shops, warehouses, wash bays and back of house. Scheduled around you, not the other way round.

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Showroom and Retail Floors

The floor is the biggest surface in the room. In a showroom it is doing marketing whether you meant it to or not.

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