Over the past few years, many people looking for a hard-wearing, long-lasting flooring solution are increasingly gravitating towards epoxy flooring contractors, but whilst that is the first step, there are so many ways to make the resin work as a surface material.

Some people might have heard about epoxy flooring and epoxy coating and wondered what the difference might be between the two. They obviously both use the same material at their core, but the way they are applied and the overall effect can be quite different.

This comparison is a bit of a misnomer, since there are, in fact, three different ways to create an epoxy floor, and the biggest difference between the three is thickness.

The thinnest of the three is a resinous coating, which typically is almost exclusively resin outside of perhaps a bit of an additive to make it even more hard-wearing or give it a bit of texture. 

Coatings, true to their name, are as thin as 4mm but can be as thick as 3cm, depending on the mixture in question and the underlying surface.

The most common type of epoxy flooring is a slurry, which is a mix of epoxy resin and a blend of aggregate materials. This makes them as easy to level and flow as a more familiar epoxy mix, but the incorporation of aggregates not only helps to bulk the material up, it also helps make it even more resilient.

Finally, and much more rarely, there are resin mortars, which typically consist of one part resin to five parts aggregate, which results in a very stiff mixture that is not always the easiest to apply, but in the hands of an expert can lead to truly fantastic results.

In any case, all of these three different types of epoxy flooring will provide a long-lasting solution, as long as they are applied to an appropriate surface substrate.