Torginol® Polymer FLAKE

Torginol polymer flake is the colored chip broadcast into a wet base coat to build a flake floor, the finish most garages, shops and kennels end up with. The chip does two jobs. It carries the color and the pattern of the floor, and it puts a physical texture into the surface that a solid color coating cannot produce.

A flake blend is never one color. It is a mixed bag of chips built around a dominant base color, usually a gray, tan, black, white or beige, with two to four accent colors mixed in at smaller percentages. At arm's length you see individual chips. From standing height the eye averages them, and the floor reads as one field color with movement in it. That averaging is why a blend built on a black base with white, gray and red accents reads as a mid gray floor with life in it, not as a red floor. If you are picking from a color chart, look at the dominant chip first, because that is the color the floor is going to be.

Flake hides more slab than any other finish in this category. Broadcast heavy, it covers patch lines, spall repairs, joint work and the shade difference between an original slab and a later addition. It also hides what lands on the floor afterward, which is why blends with both light and dark chips are the default for garages, shops and locker rooms.

Chip size changes the look and the feel. Polymer flake is commonly produced in 1/16 inch, 1/8 inch and 1/4 inch. The smaller chip lays tighter and reads closer to a speckled quartz or terrazzo surface. Quarter inch chip reads as an obvious flake floor and builds more relief under the topcoat. Confirm the size and blend on the item you order, because both change how much material the floor takes.

The real purchase decision is full broadcast against partial broadcast. Full broadcast means throwing chip into the wet base until the floor rejects it, then scraping and vacuuming the loose chip before the topcoat. It hides the slab completely, gives the heaviest texture and uses several times the chip of a partial. A partial broadcast leaves base color showing between chips for a lighter, speckled look. Set your order quantity from the square footage and from which of those two you are doing.