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New Chips and Epoxy – Same Logo

by SupremeCrete on January 14, 2012

New Epoxy Chips

New Epoxy Chips

As a decorative concrete contractor, sometimes things don’t go as planned (in fact, I usually expect them not to – when things go well, I’m a happy guy!).

A couple of months ago, we did a basement project on the banquet hall at the VFW in Bryan, Ohio and like normal, things didn’t go exactly as planned.  Long story short, there was a little mix-up in the vinyl chip color blend from the manufacturer.

The trustees were actually looking for more of tan chip blend overall (and what they got was more of a gray blend)  To make everyone happy, I offered to redo the floor and maintain the logo that we put down in November.

This time around, I suggested to go with the 1/8″ chip size over the 1/16″ chips that we used the first time.  With such a large open space (over 1200 sq ft), the individual colors of the small 1/16″ chips sort of just disappeared when looking at it from a distance and with the largest percentage of of chips (over 60 percent) being a gray color, the whole floor just looked gray.

I explained to them that they would have a better looking floor and the guests to the banquet hall would actually be able to see individual distinct chip colors with the new chip size (having the correct tan color as the dominate chip wouldn’t hurt either).

It took only three short days to complete (especially with no tile removal and mastic grinding like we had to do the first time) – checkout the video of the project below or click here to see photos from this week.

 

 

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Supreme Epoxy Chip – Pioneer Ohio

by SupremeCrete on January 7, 2012

Ugly Tile Transformed To Epoxy Chip On Office Floor

Ugly Tile Transformed To Epoxy Chip On Office Floor

This past week, we completed one of our “Supreme Epoxy Chip” applications at Pioneer Forge in Pioneer, Ohio.

Needing something tough to replace their old tile floor in the restroom / first aid area and wanting something industrial-grade to replace the ugly tile in a couple of office rooms, we offered our epoxy chip – a extremely strong and beautiful resinous flooring system.

Resinous flooring systems are continuing to gain popularity with everyone (us included). Architects and designers along with home and business owners, are loving they way these floors have the unique ability to deliver seamless cleanliness, stain resistance, unrivaled durability and endless design possibilities.

On this particular job, we prepped the floor (tile removal, and diamond grinding) the week before during the factory’s Christmas break shutdown. This week we did all the fun stuff – putting down the gray base coat, throwing the blend of gray vinyl chips (1/8 of an inch in size) into the wet epoxy, and then top-coating with clear epoxy and urethane.

They were so happy with the final result, they scheduled us to come back later in the year to do the same thing in a locker room area & will probably have us do a few more office floors as well in the coming months!

Here is our video of the project:

 

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Click here to see the complete photo gallery of this project!

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More Floor Tile, More Grinding

December 28, 2011

We started a new decorative concrete project this week at Pioneer Forge in Pioneer, Ohio.  This will probably be a three-phase project with some larger areas to be completed during Forth Of July shutdown, but now in the first phase, we are working on one of their restroom areas, a first aid room and two [...]

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