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Carolina Flooring Specialists installs epoxy floor coatings for homes and businesses in Duncan, SC: basements, workshops, laundry and storage rooms, retail floors and light industrial space, ground back to sound concrete and sealed under a UV-resistant polyaspartic clear coat.
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An epoxy floor is not paint and it is not a sealer. It is a resin system bonded into concrete that has been mechanically ground open first, then built up in layers and finished with a clear topcoat. We have been installing epoxy floors across the Upstate since 1999.
We use 100% solids resin-based epoxy. The solids content is what stays on the slab once the floor cures, so a 100% solids epoxy holds the film thickness it was specified at rather than shrinking back as solvents flash off. That thickness is what carries the wear.
Every epoxy floor is specified for the room it goes in: the condition of the slab, the traffic it takes, and the finish you want. Around Duncan that specification is as often for a warehouse or shop floor off I-85 as for a home.
Epoxy suits almost any interior concrete slab. In Duncan that usually means basements and lower levels, workshops and outbuildings, laundry and storage rooms, and the warehouse, shop and retail floors along the interstate.
Each is a different problem. A basement that takes foot traffic is not the same job as a warehouse bay with pallet trucks running over it. We specify the epoxy system around the slab and its traffic.
Garages have their own requirements around vehicle weight, hot tires and automotive fluids, so they have a page of their own.
Garage flooring in DuncanDecorative flake is our most popular epoxy system and the usual choice in homes. Acrylic flake is broadcast at 50 pounds per 500 square feet and sealed under a UV-resistant polyaspartic clear coat. It hides imperfections in the slab and leaves a naturally slip-resistant texture, which is worth having on a floor that sees wet shoes through the Upstate's rainy months.
Solid color epoxy is a single even color, hard-wearing, and a common choice for storage rooms, mechanical space and back-of-house commercial areas. Metallic epoxy moves pigment through the resin for a finish with depth, which suits interiors where the floor is on display.
For heavier duty we build from a moisture-tolerant penetrating primer and 100% solids epoxy, and can broadcast a quartz aggregate for extra grip. Those systems are USDA compliant.
A cured epoxy floor is seamless. There are no grout lines, no joints and no open pores, so spills sit on the surface instead of soaking in, and cleaning is a mop rather than a scrub.
Wear goes into the clear coat rather than the color coat beneath it, and the clear coat is the layer that can be refreshed years later without redoing the epoxy floor underneath. Flake and quartz finishes keep their grip when wet.
Maintenance is low but not nothing. Keep grit swept off, because grit under a boot or a tire is what abrades any epoxy floor, and red Upstate clay tracks in on every pair of shoes.
Preparation is where an epoxy floor is won or lost. We do a full mechanical prep by diamond grinding, which opens the concrete so the epoxy keys into the slab instead of sitting on the surface film left by an acid etch or a hardware-store kit. The grinders run under vacuum extraction, which keeps dust down inside a finished house.
Cracks and divots are repaired before anything is coated, and where moisture is a risk we start from a moisture-tolerant penetrating primer. The epoxy system then goes down in sequence: primer, base coat, flake broadcast where the system calls for it, then the polyaspartic clear coat. The install runs over two consecutive days.
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Duncan sits in Spartanburg County, halfway between Greenville and Spartanburg, where SC 290 crosses SC 292 with US 29 to the north and I-85 along the southern town line. It is a small town that has grown quickly: 2,870 people at the 2000 census and 4,041 at the 2020 census, across 1,715 housing units.
That gives us two kinds of concrete. The old railroad town at the center, laid out after the line came through in 1873, has the older slabs, and those more often need crack and divot repair and a moisture-tolerant primer before coating. The newer subdivisions and the warehouse and light industrial floors that follow I-85 are usually sound, so the job is a grind, prime and coat, and on the commercial side the system is more often a quartz aggregate or USDA compliant build than decorative flake. We look at the floor before quoting.
We are privately owned, started in 1999, and still locally owned and operated. Since then we have completed over 21,000 projects and installed more than 4 million square feet of floor coatings across South Carolina and western North Carolina, with more than 40 years of combined experience in 100% solids epoxy and polyaspartic systems.
Every epoxy floor carries a written lifetime warranty against peeling or debonding. That warranty follows from the preparation, because bond failure is a preparation problem.
Our showroom at 141 Highland Way in Taylors is open if you would rather see and handle the finishes than choose from photographs.
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Tell us about the space and how it is used. We will assess the concrete, recommend an epoxy system, take you through colors and finishes, and give you an estimate.
Do you have a question, comment, or concern that wasn't addressed on the site? We want to hear from you!
High-performance, industrial-grade epoxy flooring for commercial properties that want to stand out with a safe walk on surface.
Industrial grade, chemical resistant epoxy floor coatings for the toughest industrial environments in South Carolina.
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