Flake or metallic: how to choose a garage floor in Los Angeles

Most of the photos going around Los Angeles are metallics. They shine, they have veins, and they look expensive. They are also the wrong system if you want a garage you can sweep on Sunday that hides Valley dust.

Full-broadcast flake covers concrete variation. A gray chip with a little epoxy blue looks orderly without asking the floor to be a museum. Polyaspartic goes on top, and that is the layer that behaves with an open garage door and a tire that just came off the freeway.

Metallic asks for a different conversation. Every wave in the concrete shows, the pigment will not copy a photo, and the reference price starts at $3,000 because it takes more time and more material. We recommend it when the garage is for show or the floor is the finish of a suite.

If you are unsure, book the visit with both sample boards. At LA Epoxi Central the same team installs, sells the flake, and teaches it in the academy, so the recommendation does not change depending on which counter you are standing at.