Service · Charlotte Metro
Commercial Flake Epoxy built for high-traffic floors.
Full-broadcast vinyl flake systems installed in restaurants, retail stores, breweries, and back-of-house spaces across the Charlotte metro. Slip-resistant, sanitation-friendly, color-matched to your brand, and refreshable on a schedule that doesn’t shut the business down.
Same-day response · Free on-site walkthrough · (704) 775-1120
The Overview
Color-chip systems that pass a health inspection — and a brand review.
Flake epoxy is the workhorse of commercial flooring. A pigmented base coat is rolled wet, vinyl chips are broadcast to rejection, loose flake is recovered the next morning, and the whole system gets locked under a polyaspartic topcoat. What comes out is a surface that’s slip-rated for wet kitchens, chemical-rated for sanitizer and grease, and cosmetically forgiving enough that a hairline scuff doesn’t read across the room.
The trick is everything underneath. A flake floor that fails at six months is almost always failing at the bond line — which means the installer rolled over an unprepared slab. Robert diamond grinds every commercial project to a CSP-3 profile, tests for moisture vapor emission before a drop of primer goes down, and documents the substrate condition in writing. That paperwork is what commercial property owners need when a franchise agreement or a landlord audit asks how the floor was spec’d.
Restaurants in South End, tasting rooms in NoDa, retail build-outs in Ballantyne, and automotive back-of-house in Matthews all run the same play: a flake system is the lowest total-cost-of-ownership floor they can buy. Ten to fifteen years of service, cleanable with a neutral-pH degreaser, refreshable with a single topcoat reapplication every five to seven years. Book a walkthrough and we’ll show you the real numbers for your square footage.
What’s Included
A commercial system spec’d the way the datasheet says.
01 · Prep
Diamond Grind + Moisture Test
Calcium chloride or relative humidity probes read the slab before anything goes down. Grinder leaves CSP-3 profile. No shortcuts on the bond line.
02 · Repair
Structural Patching
Cracks chased open and filled with rigid polyurea. Saw cuts treated. Any pitting or spalling from past abuse rebuilt flush before primer.
03 · Primer
Vapor-Rated Basecoat
Industrial primer rated to 12+ lbs of vapor emission. If moisture readings demand it, we spec a full moisture-mitigation membrane instead — written into the quote.
04 · Broadcast
Full Vinyl Flake to Rejection
Color-blended flake broadcast until the base is fully saturated. Loose flake recovered, scraped flush. Chip blends custom-matched to brand colors when needed.
05 · Topcoat
Polyaspartic Wear Layer
Two-coat polyaspartic rolled and back-rolled for uniform film build. UV-stable, grease-resistant, non-yellowing. The layer that takes the abuse.
06 · Detail
Integral Cove Base
Where walls meet slab we form a 4–6 inch radius cove. Health-inspector-friendly, no dirt traps, no grout joints to scrub. Standard on food-service work.
How It Goes Down
Night-shift install. Open by service.
Site Walk & Spec
Robert walks the space with the GC or owner, pulls moisture readings, reviews drain locations and cove requirements, writes a spec tied to the manufacturer datasheet. Restaurants get health-code cove detail called out explicitly.
After-Hours Prep
Diamond grind runs once equipment is cleared. HEPA-vacuumed end to end. Cracks and saw cuts patched with rigid polyurea. Primer goes down the same night — no open slab sitting overnight collecting dust.
Base & Broadcast
Pigmented base coat rolled into the primed slab. Vinyl flake broadcast while wet, to rejection. Morning shift opens to a sealed raw-flake floor — loose chip recovered, scraped flat, ready for topcoat.
Topcoat & Reopen
Polyaspartic topcoat after close. Walkable within hours. Foot traffic the next morning, full cure and rolling equipment within a day. Most restaurants lose one service window, not a week.
Common Questions
Before you spec the floor.
Is commercial flake epoxy slip-rated for a wet kitchen?
Yes — the broadcast-to-rejection flake creates a micro-texture that holds slip-resistance ratings well within the ANSI B101.3 safe range for wet environments. For back-of-house kitchens, grease traps, and dishpits, we can also spec a secondary aluminum-oxide blend in the topcoat to push slip-resistance further. Robert pulls the manufacturer spec sheets and matches the exact friction coefficient your health department or insurer requires.
Can you match our brand colors in the flake blend?
Custom blends are standard on anything over a thousand square feet. We work from brand standards or paint chips and formulate a four-to-six color flake blend that reads correctly under your actual lighting. For franchise projects, we’ll sample the blend on a 2×2 board for approval before the install goes down. Send over your brand standards and we’ll build a sample.
How fast can the space reopen after install?
A polyaspartic-topped flake system is walkable in four to six hours and ready for rolling equipment inside twenty-four. Most commercial installs are scheduled around off-hours — a restaurant loses one Monday, a brewery closes for a slow weekday, retail works around an overnight or a planned remodel window. We’ll build a schedule that fits your operating hours.
What does refresh look like five years in?
A properly installed flake floor wears through the topcoat long before it wears through the color layer. A refresh is a scuff-sand and a fresh polyaspartic reapplication — one night of work, no demo, no grind. That’s the math that makes flake the lowest total-cost commercial floor: the wear layer is serviceable, the color layer is permanent. See related options on our polyaspartic top coat page.
Do you handle food-service cove base and drain detail?
Yes. Integral cove base is standard on food-service projects — we form a 4-to-6-inch radius cove at every wall-to-slab transition, tie coatings continuously into it, and detail around floor drains with a reinforced membrane. This is what health inspectors are looking for. Grout-line tile fails these inspections; monolithic flake with cove does not.
Do you travel outside Charlotte for commercial work?
Yes — we cover the full Charlotte metro and regularly travel for larger commercial jobs into Mooresville, Concord, Gastonia, Rock Hill, and Fort Mill. Multi-location franchise rollouts are welcome. See our full service map or call (704) 775-1120 to confirm coverage for your address.
Ready When You Are
Spec the commercial floor. We’ll work your hours.
On-site walkthrough, moisture testing, written spec tied to manufacturer data, and a night-shift install that reopens your doors by the next service. That’s the whole program. See recent commercial projects.