flake
Chip blended in-house, boxed for your slab.
Stock blends and custom mixes on the shelf in Tracy, with the base and the clear that go with them, ready for a Manteca garage or shop floor.
the blend
Picking a color that survives Valley dust.
A flake floor does not stay showroom clean in Manteca, and the blend you choose decides whether that reads as lived-in or as dirty.
Pick the blend for how the floor looks dirty, not for how it looks the day you leave.
coverage
Full broadcast eats more than you think.
The single most common short order in flake is the first one someone places. Full broadcast means you keep throwing chip until the wet base will not take any more, and the excess sits on top waiting to be swept up. People price that against the square footage and order for a partial broadcast, then run out at the far end of the bay with the base still open.
Order to refusal, not to arithmetic. The excess is not waste in the way a short order is waste: what you sweep up is recoverable for the next job if you kept it clean, but a bay where you had to thin the broadcast to make it reach is a floor with a visible line in it forever. Tell us the square footage and whether you are running full or partial, and we will get you close rather than tight.
Custom mixes deserve a little extra on top of that. A stock blend can be topped up next week off the same shelf. A mix blended to your sample is easier to get right in one batch than to match in two, so order the whole job at once.
Partial broadcast is a different calculation and a different floor. You are letting the base color show between the chips, which uses far less material but puts the base tone on display, so the base has to be a color you actually chose rather than whatever was on the truck. Decide which of the two you are running before you order either the chip or the base, because switching halfway through a bay is not a decision the floor will hide.
What you sweep up is recoverable. A thin patch is forever.
the step people skip
Scrape before you even think about clear.
Once the base has cured, the floor is covered in chip standing on edge, and every one of those edges is a point that will telegraph through the topcoat as roughness. Scraping knocks those down flat so the clear lies on a level field rather than pooling around a thousand small obstacles. Crews who skip it, or who give it a quick pass and call it done, end up with a floor that looks right from standing height and feels wrong barefoot.
Scrape it properly, sweep it, vacuum it, and only then open the clear. On a bigger Manteca shop floor that step is most of an afternoon, and it is the afternoon that separates a floor the customer brags about from one they quietly live with. The chip is the look, but the scrape and the clear are the feel.
Tooling for that step is on the same shelf as the chip. If you are buying the flake from us, get the scraper and the clear in the same order so nothing stalls the sequence.
matching
When the neighbor wants the same floor.
Flake sells itself down a street. One garage on the block gets done, the house two doors along asks who did it, and now you are being asked to match a floor you poured eight months ago. That is a good problem, and it is much easier to solve if the first order came off a stock blend.
Stock blends are repeatable because we keep mixing them. A custom mix is repeatable too, but only if we know what went into it, which is why we log the recipe when we blend one. Come back with the job name or the blend and we can pull it again rather than reverse-engineering a color from a phone photo.
The other half of matching is the clear. A floor sealed with a clear epoxy reads deeper than the same chip sealed with a polyaspartic, so a matched blend under a different topcoat can still look like a near miss. Keep both halves the same and the two garages will actually match.
Log the blend on the first job and the second one is easy.
the rest of the shelf
The stack a flake floor sits in.
Chip is the middle layer. Here is everything on either side of it.
from the bench
Flake questions we take from Manteca.
Which blend hides Valley dust best?
A mid-tone with both light and dark chips in it. The contrast breaks the surface up visually, so a film of fine dust never reads as one flat layer the way it does on a very dark or very pale floor.
How much flake does a full broadcast take?
More than the arithmetic suggests, because you throw chip until the wet base refuses it. Give us the square footage and whether you are going full or partial and we will size the order with room rather than cut it tight.
Do you blend custom colors?
Yes, we blend in-house, so we can work to a color target and keep it consistent across boxes. Bring us a sample and we will log the recipe in case you need it again.
Can I match a floor I poured last year?
If it came off a stock blend, easily. If it was a custom mix, we can pull the logged recipe. Keep the topcoat the same as well, because the clear changes how deep the same chip reads.
Is the scrape step really necessary?
Yes. Cured chip stands on edge and those edges telegraph through the clear as roughness. Scrape it flat, vacuum the dust, then seal, and the floor feels as good as it looks.
Can I pick up flake and base together in Tracy?
Always. Reach out first and we will stage your order at the bench so it is ready when you pull up, and for a big order the drive in usually beats paying freight.
on the map
Boxes staged, twelve miles out.
Manteca is one of the markets we supply across San Joaquin County, and flake is heavy enough that a short drive genuinely matters. Same shelf, same house blends, same person on the phone when a custom mix needs settling.
See everything we ship to Manteca, or step up to the rest of San Joaquin County.
Tell us what you are pouring.
Questions on a product, a quantity, wholesale pricing, pickup, or training? Send a message and you will reach a person who has used what we sell.
- (209) 208-4656
- chris@exclusiveresins.com
- Tracy, CA · Ships nationwide
Broadcasting a flake floor in Manteca?
Give us the square footage, the blend and whether you are going full broadcast. We will box it, match the base and clear, and stage it at the bench.