Overview

Chemstuk Color Chips are decorative acrylic flakes that you broadcast into a wet basecoat to build a flake floor. They are not a coating on their own. The flake goes into freshly applied tinted epoxy, the coating cures around it, and a clear topcoat seals the whole system. What you get is a floor with texture and depth in it rather than a flat block of colour, and a surface that hides the small imperfections a plain coating would show.

Chemstuk lists the flakes as suitable for epoxy, polyurethane and polyaspartic systems, and describes them as UV stable and colourfast. Because the flake stands proud of the basecoat, the finished floor carries texture, which improves slip resistance depending on the broadcast rate and the system it sits in.

Key Features

• Decorative acrylic flake for seamless resin floor systems
• Works with epoxy, polyurethane and polyaspartic coatings
• UV stable and colourfast, per Chemstuk’s data sheet
• Light enough to broadcast evenly by hand
• Improves slip resistance, depending on the system it sits in
• Twelve colours on this listing, including Dawn, Dingo, Panda, Port Philip, Richmond and St Kilda

Specifications

• Form: solid flakes
• Composition: acrylic polymer
• Finish: decorative and textured
• Light broadcast: 50 to 100 g per square metre
• Medium broadcast: 100 to 250 g per square metre
• Full broadcast: 300 to 500 g per square metre
• UV resistance: excellent
• Odour: none
• Shelf life: unlimited when stored sealed in a cool, dry place

Applications

• Garage floors
• Showrooms, retail and commercial spaces
• Warehouses
• Outdoor entertainment areas
• Decorative concrete coatings

How To Broadcast Color Chips

• Apply a suitable basecoat, epoxy or polyurethane.
• Broadcast the flakes evenly onto the wet surface. Throw them upward and let them fall rather than aiming at the floor, or the spread goes patchy.
• Let the coating cure fully.
• Scrape or vacuum off the excess flake.
• Seal the system with a clear topcoat.

What You Need to Complete the Job

A flake floor is three products, not one. The basecoat is Indopox E6-133 tinted solid epoxy, the flake goes into it wet, and the system is sealed with Cindopox E6-143 clear epoxy glaze. If the finished floor needs grip, stir Grip-PE 711 into the final coat. The rest of the range is in Concrete Coatings.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use Color Chips on their own?

No. Chemstuk lists this as a limitation: the flake must go onto a wet basecoat, it is not a standalone coating system, and the performance of the finished floor comes from the coatings around it rather than from the flake itself.

How much flake do I need?

It depends on the look you are after. A light broadcast uses 50 to 100 g per square metre and leaves the basecoat colour dominant. A medium broadcast is 100 to 250 g. A full broadcast, where the flake covers the basecoat completely, takes 300 to 500 g per square metre.

Do the flakes make the floor non-slip?

They add texture, and Chemstuk describes that as improved slip resistance, but it is system dependent. If you need a specified level of grip, use an anti-slip additive in the topcoat rather than relying on the flake.

Why do I have to scrape the floor before the clear coat?

Because loose flake left under the glaze shows up as a lump you can see and feel. Scrape off anything standing proud, vacuum the floor properly, then coat.