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Carolina Flooring Specialists installs epoxy floor coatings for homes and businesses on Isle of Palms, SC: ground-level garages and storage under raised houses, workshops, mechanical rooms, retail floors and finished interiors, 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 South Carolina 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. On a barrier island that specification starts with moisture.
Epoxy suits almost any interior concrete slab. On Isle of Palms that usually means the ground level under a raised house: garage bays, storage, laundry and workshop space, along with retail floors and back-of-house areas in the island's businesses.
Each is a different problem. Enclosed storage under a beach house is not the same job as a shop floor taking daily traffic. We specify the epoxy system around the slab, the traffic and the finish.
Garages have their own requirements around vehicle weight, hot tires and automotive fluids, so they have a page of their own.
Garage flooring on Isle of PalmsDecorative 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 matters where wet feet and sand come straight in off the beach.
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 sand and grit swept off, because grit under a boot or a tire is what abrades any epoxy floor, and on the island there is always sand.
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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Isle of Palms is a barrier island in Charleston County, about 15 miles by road east of downtown Charleston and separated from the mainland by the Intracoastal Waterway. The island sits around 7 feet above sea level on sand, and most of it falls in FEMA flood zones AE and VE, so houses stand on pilings with the ground level left open. The slab you want coated is usually at grade, close to the water table, in air that carries salt.
That changes the specification more than it changes the finish. A moisture-tolerant penetrating primer is the normal starting point here rather than an upgrade. Much of the housing stock went up or was rebuilt after Hurricane Hugo flooded the island in 1989, so the concrete is often younger and sounder than its Upstate equivalent and the job is about moisture and salt rather than crack repair. We look at the slab 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!
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