Color Changing Metallics

Every year we try to bring you the latest greatest styles and colors bursting through the epoxy floor coating industry and this year is no exception. I've seen this beautiful peacock blue/purple/gold color on kitchen appliances, trucks, jewelry, Yeti cups and a hundred other things and I love it. We are so excited to roll out this new color changing, eye popping, shimmer of awesomeness. I've talked about mica chips here before and I still love them but with the...

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Epoxy Choices

There are literally countless options when searching for the right floor coating choice for your needs. First identify your target goals. Here are just a few of the problems people solve with epoxy floor coatings: Moisture Mitigation and Floors that SweatLight ReflectivityCleanliness and Ease of CleaningSlip ResistanceAesthetic or Decorative AppealPet ProofingFlood ProofingHeavy Industrial Use and AbuseMarine UseCorrosive QualitiesAnti-Static QualitiesFast Cure Product for less down time during installSurface TemperatureLongevityAnti MicrobialSeamless Once you are able to target your main goal for installing...

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Customer Review Sites

Reviews are great but how do we know which review service to use?   Just for our business there are reviews scattered everywhere; places like Google, Yelp, The BBB, Alignable, Facebook, Angies List, Thumbtack, Houzz, Home Advisor and more. Wouldn’t it be great if everytime a person left a review for any company it went into a pool and got posted to ALL the review sites? We would love that, but that’s not how it works. We recently had dealings with...

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Epoxy for Pet Owners

Whats the one thing pet owners hate about keeping their pets indoors? Wet Accidents;  Puppy Puddles There is nothing worse that the accumulated odorous stink of repeated pet "accidents" inside your home. Over time the amonias in urine sink down into the carpet and into the wood and the grout of your tile ultimately finding its way onto your concrete slab where atmospheric pressure and differing indoor and ground temperatures push the acids into your slab. Over time that urine...

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Trending in 2018 Liquid Wood, Flowing Mica and Masterful Epoxy Metallics

Here at Slip Free Systems we eat, drink, sleep and breathe all that is epoxy. We like to stay on top of whats hot and whats not. This year is shaping up to be a grand display of new innovation on the epoxy home front. 2018's Top Picks:  Marbled Metallics: Out with your concrete stains and and ceramic tile floors and in with the organic and fluid look of marbled metallics. They come in an array of colors to match any...

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Local Epoxy Installers Are Best

Local Epoxy Installation is Optimal In this blog post we hope to convince you that buying local is the best bet for your bottom dollar when it comes to epoxy and other coating installation. In fact, why stop with floor coatings, contractors in general are more trustworthy when they come from your own area because they will be ready, willing and available after the sale in the event of a problem. Here on the Gulf Coast of Texas we experience...

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AgION Anti Microbial Floor Coatings

We had a customer come into the showroom today interested in a new coating for his laboratory where they make pharmaceutical drugs. As he explained to me his need for an extremely sterile environment I suggested a floor coating with an anti-microbial additive and was surprised to learn that he was not aware of the technology. BusinessWire.com (A Berkshire Hathaway Company) wrote an excellent article on the subject so I thought this would be a great place to share it....

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Epoxy Terms for Everyday People

In an attempt to optimize our website we noticed that a lot of you are using search terms we had not anticipated. We thought this might be a good time to sort the confusion. Epoxy and Paint are 2 very different products. Epoxy is a 2 component product in which Part A and Part B are mixed and when they reach the right velocity and temperature the molecular structure of the product changes and hardens similar to plastic getting hard....

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The Truth About Polishing

Now that the newness has worn off of the idea of floor polishing we can all take a step back and really evaluate all the hype with better perspective. Ten years ago when polishing became "All the Rage" in floor finishes for large scale projects we were all led to believe that concrete polishing was a no maintenance option. Architects were calling it out for every possible job because of its longevity and durability; but has the theory held up to...

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Getting “High” in the Epoxy World

High Solids Epoxy Products Explained: When shopping for a premium product in the epoxy world an important question to ask is: "What is the solids content?" Epoxy is often described as being either 100% solids or low solids or some variation of this. What this means is that when the product is applied and then cured the thickness of the product that remains after it is cured defines it's solid content. For example, when you paint your house with regular...

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Barndominium Floors

Everyone is talking about simplifying their life. Scaling back and taking it easy. The millennial age has taken a turn I don't think anyone expected where things like "Barndominium" and "Tiny Houses" have become household topics. Don't be fooled, living simple or tiny doesn't necessarily mean living like a hobo. Bardominiums have evolved into the smart choice for homeowners who want a high end interior without all the glitz and glamour in brick and stone outside. Today finds more homeowners taking...

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Gift Ideas for The Man In Your Life

What man or woman hasn't as some point or another sat pondering the age old question "What do I get Him/her for Christmas or their birthday"? Well, fret no more. We have the answer to that and we are pretty sure there's a good chance they don't already have it. Epoxy Garage Floors! (the game room or patio...or the whole house) An epoxy garage floor is the first step in getting your man the one thing almost all men want:...

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Epoxy is 2016 Hot New Trend

Domino Online Magazine just posted an article titled: "10 Reasons Epoxy Floors will Rule in 2016"  and we couldn't agree more. With so many choices you can be even more bold and outrageous than the current flooring options will allow. Of course, you can still get traditional colors to warm up your cozy places but... How about a hot pink patio or a lemon yellow sunroom floor? Choose a mica chip floor in silver and pewter for an "Old Hollywood"...

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Moisture & Mold Lurking Under your Floor Covering

Wet Concrete Floors Do you have little white puffy clouds on your concrete? Did your carpet develop a mold problem? Does your garage have little puddles even when it isn't raining? Here on the Gulf Coast hurricanes bring a great deal of flooding. Whole buildings have spent time underwater with a variant ground saturation from dusty and dry to swimming in saturation. These conditions pose a serious vapor emissions problem with slabs on grade on the Texas Gulf Coast. Sadly,...

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