Basement Flooring

When considering basement flooring options, most people only consider the typical products: carpet, tile, vinyl, wood or floor paint. Don't be lead into the traditional methods - many times they're doomed for failure. Basment floors are prone to (the exciting and fun) water damage that can occur duing a heavy rain.

Even if it is something that happens just once every 10 - 20 years, it is a nightmare having to remove damp and moldy carpet and carpet padding (just see how well that linoleum stays nice and flat after soaking in some water for just a little bit!).

After proper hydrostatic testing (checking for any water problems) on the basement floor, you'll know whether or not if your floor is a good candidate for one of the many decorative concrete options available.

Check-out this basement concrete stain makeover . . .
Or how about this "Concrete Wood" basement floor . . .


A common decorative concrete option for your basement is a vinyl chip epoxy application as shown in the two close-up pictures below.

With just a slight change in the chip color blend, you can really change the look (which may not be as noticable in these close-up shots - but if you would be looking across the complete floor, the overall look of one would look like a completely different color than the other.

If you gave the floor another layer of epoxy, you would extremely change texture of the floor surface.


Notice the differance of the close-up pictures above and below of a vinyl epoxy chip floor (with 100% coverage).

The picture above and below are the exact same five color combination except the main color in the chips is at a 62% blend of a tan color in the above picture and it is at a 62% blend of a gray color in the one below.

Also, the picture on top has only one layer of a clear 100% solids epoxy on it and the one below has two layers of a clear 100% solids epoxy on it.