Epoxy Floor Coating and Epoxy Resin Kits | EpoxyETC

Epoxy is one of the most popular materials in the DIY home renovation toolkit right now. For home renovators and contractors alike, epoxy & resinous coatings generally are growing in trust and popularity each year - especially for flooring. For garage flooring or any other flooring project where you want to seamlessly blend strength and beauty, vinyl flake is the gold standard. Entrepreneuring contractor or DIY home renovator, epoxy resin has proven time and time again its ease of use and reliability.


With our epoxy floor chip collection, you'll be able to access the full potential of that epoxy resin. EpoxyETC's vinyl flake collection is your best resource for finding high-quality, beautiful flake chips to install with your DIY epoxy resin floor. Each epoxy vinyl chip blend is built to fit and withstand garages, warehouses, commercial areas, residential areas, and more.

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Why Should I Install DIY Epoxy Flake Floors?

Garages are constantly exposed to chemical and physical hazards, more than any other floor in a home. Decorative vinyl flake chips combined with your preferred epoxy or polyaspartic resin flooring system offer the best possible protection against all these hazards. And if you’re a DIY renovator, it offers even more. 


With multiple colors, blends, textures, and finishes, upgrading to an epoxy flake flooring system is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve any concrete surface, enhance safety, and extend its lifespan. It hides any minor imperfections that are expected with a DIY installation.

  • Wallet and Budget Friendly - With a variety of DIY epoxy resin resources to choose from, you're guaranteed to find a solution within your budget that'll get you the results you want!
  • Easy to Clean & Maintain - Any resinous coating that's professionally installed will finish with a seamless, glossy final cure. This makes it a dream to clean, requiring only some basic dusting and mopping.
  • Installation Versatility - Generally, contractors prefer the 1-Day System, while homeowners or DIY enthusiasts often prefer the 2-Day System. This is due to the shorter work time of polyaspartic resin coatings, increasing the risk of mistakes due to rushing.
  • Chemical, Mess-Resistant Floors - Resinous coatings are generally rated for a wide range of chemical hazards. Especially the ones you typically deal with in a garage! Oil, gasoline, cleaning chemicals, brake fluid, epoxy resin garage floors handle it all. And that strength is only enhanced with vinyl flake chip broadcasts.
  • Every Floor is Unique - Our dozens of color blends, which can be combined to create new blends, offer a world of possibilities for DIY resin enthusiasts to showcase their creativity. Show off your dedication to your sports team, or match a whole-home design vision!
  • Beginner Friendly - Decorative epoxy floor chips are not very minimalist design solutions. Depending on the blend, you can use vinyl chips in your DIY epoxy resin floor to hide concrete imperfections, resin installation mistakes, and even future UV damage!
  • Traction & Safety - Epoxy flake chips are the perfect natural traction additive to boost your floor’s safety. Garages and home gyms especially benefit from this enhancement. 
  • Incredible Strength, Long-term Durability - Heavy foot traffic to tools & machinery, garages have to be built to handle it all. A dual-resin flooring system with an epoxy resin basecoat and polyaspartic or urethane topcoat is how you achieve just that. 

How to Install DIY Epoxy Flake Flooring

Concrete Garage Floor Surface Preparation

Step 1: Surface Preparation

Surface preparation is the most essential part of any epoxy flake floor. It builds the foundation of your resinous coating's adhesive

Preparing concrete is a process that could include anything from grinding the concrete using a floor grinder, vacuuming dust with a HEPA vacuum, repairing cracks or pits, to simply ensuring the surface is dry, clean, and etched.

Proper prep ensures maximum adhesion and long-term durability.

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Step 2: Apply the Base Coat

The base coat can be 100% solids epoxy, Moisture Vapor Barrier (if needed), or Polyaspartic. This will depend on either the presence of moisture in or around your project, or what kind of system you're installing.

This base coat acts as both the color layer and the binding surface for the flakes.

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Step 3: Broadcast the Epoxy Floor Chips

Before your base coat cures, you'll want to begin broadcasting your preferred vinyl flake chip mix. Before you broadcast, you'll want to decide whether you're going to go with a medium, full, or oversaturated broadcast.

Full broadcast, the most common, offers the best appearance and hides slab imperfections extremely well. But, if you're not looking to add too much traction and want to go for a different look, the more minimal medium broadcast may call to you more.

Epoxy floor chips can come in dozens and dozens of different color and size combinations. Make your dream floor a reality!

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Step 4: Remove Excess Flakes

Once you've finished your broadcast, and the base coat is cured, the leftover flakes should be scraped and vacuumed. This is done to establish the best foundation for your final layer, your resinous coating topcoat.

This is also a great way to save your vinyl flooring chips for future use!

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Step 5: Apply the Topcoat

Your resin flooring system is almost complete. All that's left is your topcoat, the part that will be most exposed to the elements and most visible aesthetically. Your resinous coating solution options are, generally, polyaspartic and urethane resins.

Polyaspartic is the most popular choice due to its UV stability, clarity, and durability. It also cures in a fraction of the time compared to traditional epoxy solutions, so your floors can be finished faster!

What you choose will depend on what you and your project need. Don't be afraid to reach out to our representatives for a second opinion!

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Where Epoxy Flake Flooring Is Used

Epoxy flake flooring is one of the strongest solutions on the market. Its real strength, though, is in its flexibility. Not many floor coating solutions can boast that it’s just as perfect a fit in a home gym as it is in an airplane hangar. Here are just a few of the possible locations for a resinous coating system:

Residential Uses

  • Workshop or Tool Shed
  • Home Gyms
  • Basement and Cellar floors
  • Laundry and Utility rooms
  • Garage or Carport
  • Patio and Porch areas

Commercial & Industrial Uses

  • Commercial Warehouse
  • Commercial Gyms and Fitness/Recreation Centers
  • Clinics, Medical & Healthcare Offices
  • Manufacturing Facilities
  • Universities, Schools & Locker Rooms
  • Automotive Mechanic Shops
  • Showrooms and Galleries
  • Airplane Hangars
  • Retail Flooring

Choosing the Right System: 1-Day vs. 2-Day vs. Full Epoxy

Resinous coatings are generally extremely versatile. That’s not just versatility in where you can use them, but how you use them. Depending on your project, you may be prioritizing speed over a slight sacrifice in strength, or perhaps you want a more relaxed installation with stronger results. 

But you don’t necessarily have to just choose one or the other - resinous coatings can be used together! 

  • 1-Day Rapid Cure Polyaspartic Flake System: A flake system built on a polyaspartic resin foundation’s strongest benefit is its rapid cure time. For commercial areas or garage flooring projects, in the right hands, you can get an incredibly durable flooring solution in just one day. Because of its fast turnaround time, though, it’s less lenient towards any mistakes.
  • 2-Day Dual Resin Epoxy + Polyaspartic System: If you’re a beginner, or you just want the maximum protection for your floor possible, a two day resinous coating system is what you need. While polyaspartic one day solutions are incredibly strong on their own, an epoxy resin base coat will provide an extra degree of strength and protection because of its chemical composition and its extra curing time. And it’s more lenient for beginners to use!

What Are Epoxy Floor Chips / Decorative Vinyl Flakes? 

Epoxy floor chips, decorative vinyl flakes, and vinyl color flakes all refer to the same material. It’s a broadcast traction additive composed of small acrylic or vinyl chips designed to enhance the strength and safety of resinous coatings. They provide color, texture, slip resistance, depth, and style, and a natural-stone-like finish. Flake size options typically include: 

  • 1/16” (fine texture)
  • 1/8” (medium texture)
  • 1/4” (more texture, most popular)

We offer dozens of blends, including sports teams, warm earth tones, high-contrast, glitter, and even custom blends.

Benefits of Epoxy Floor Chips in High-Traffic Areas

Epoxy floor chips offer several advantages for both commercial buyers and DIY users: increased traction, customizable aesthetics, reduced visible dirt, concealed small cracks, added thickness, superior wear resistance, and long-term color stability. This makes them ideal for environments where safety and durability matter.

FAQ

How Do I Become An Epoxy Flake Flooring Contractor?

Contractors depend on consistency, speed, and profit margins. Our professional-grade materials help installers complete more jobs, reduce callbacks, and deliver premium results. Benefits include: high-solids coatings with excellent flow; fast-curing polyaspartics; bulk pricing and wholesale programs; reliable shipment timelines; custom flake-blend ordering; floor grinders, vacuums, and prep equipment; and training classes available. Whether you are doing one garage a month or 30 garages a week, XPS has the products and support to help you grow and maintain a successful coatings business.

How Do I Install DIY Epoxy Flake Flooring?

If you are installing your first epoxy flake floor, our systems make the process as stress-free and straightforward as possible. DIY users benefit from: detailed instructions, slower-cure options for beginners, color recommendations, access to support from real installers, and videos, guides, and step-by-step installation help. Even first-time users can achieve a professional finish without hiring a contractor.

Can I Use Epoxy Resin In Other DIY Home Renovation Projects?

Yes! Epoxy resin, and other resinous coatings, are perfect for a wide range of projects around the house. Most notably, besides floors, DIY enthusiasts love how resins can be used to mimic a stone finish for kitchen countertops.

Why Should I Buy Epoxy Flake Flooring Systems From EpoxyETC?

EpoxyETC is a leader in concrete coatings, providing industrial-grade epoxy and polyaspartic systems, contractor-trusted blends, fast nationwide shipping, bulk pricing, expert support, complete systems with everything needed, and tools, grinders, vacuums, and accessories in one place. We supply thousands of contractors and DIY installers across the United States with reliable, high-performance flooring materials.

How Much Flake Do You Need? 

This depends on the broadcast type: Full Broadcast: ~12–20 lbs per 100 sq ft; Medium Broadcast: ~5–8 lbs per 100 sq ft; Light Broadcast: ~1–2 lbs per 100 sq ft. Contractors generally use full broadcast for consistency, while DIY users sometimes choose medium broadcast for budget-conscious projects.

What Do I Need to Start Installing Epoxy Floors & Other Resinous Coatings?

To complete your project successfully, you will need a floor grinder, diamond grinding tooling, a HEPA vacuum, squeegees, rollers, mixing buckets, spike shoes, crack repair materials, and moisture meters. We offer all recommended tools and accessories, including contractor-grade floor machines for large installations.

What Are The Best Color Blends for Epoxy Resin Garage Floors?

Our best-selling flake colors include: Domino (black, white, grey), Orbit (greys with blue tones), Shoreline (coastal tan/grey mix), Stonehenge (stone-like blend), Creek Bed (earth tones), and Wombat (warm/neutral greys). We also offer metallic/flake hybrid effects and custom corporate colors for commercial clients.

How Do I Maintain Resin Coated Flooring?

Epoxy flake floors are low-maintenance and easy to clean. To extend their lifespan: sweep regularly, use a mop with pH-neutral cleaner, avoid harsh abrasives, recoat when the surface begins to wear, and avoid dragging metal tools. With proper maintenance, epoxy flake floors can last 10–20+ years.