Decorative epoxy flooring - colours, techniques and practicalities.

So you've worked with epoxies for a long time and done some decorative work along the way, but do you really understand colours? Do you feel confident creating designs and putting them on a floor?

Let me start by saying I was educated as an engineer, so I have no right to understand colours. Even worse, I started out in the epoxy field working almost exclusively with dull, industrial grey coats. You might remember a recent post (Metallic epoxies – the smiling contractors!) where I said it was only after starting my journey into decorative epoxies years ago that I began to realise resin flooring could be fun, exciting, and of course, colourful!

It goes without saying that understanding colours and how to make them work in a practical sense didn’t come easy; however, I’ve spent a lot of time chipping away at this topic and gradually built up a valuable knowledge base. If you have loads of time, patience, and maybe even money, then you too can learn the hard way. Alternatively, you can just learn from me!

So, what are some of the key points I’ve learnt about colours, techniques and how to get the most out of decorative epoxy flooring?

 Turning descriptions into floor ideas

First of all, you need to be able to understand the language of colours before you can dream up flooring designs. If you’re like me and lived in a plain colour world – and yes, I consider flake or coloured quartz as plain colour flooring – then you either need to have an untapped natural flair for this or you need to train your brain on how to interpret colours. “Hold on a second here, I’m not colour blind”, I hear you protesting. Good! That will help, but it’s not really what I’m talking about. Interpreting colours goes deeper than knowing the difference...click here to read full article

About the author – 
Jack's humble entry in the wider coating industry came in 1999 through his first company Tech Adhesives, which was set up as a Research and Development company concentrated on three specific fields of chemistry: rubber, specialist adhesives and epoxies.

Over the years he has applied his own unique "real-world perspective" to the industry and along the way identified long-standing problems that could be avoided with a different approach. By challenging traditional thinking, seeking real-world answers and sharing his results in the field of solventless epoxies, he's helped overcome these issues and, it is hoped, positively contribute to the industry as a whole. 

Today, Jack runs Real World Epoxies, an entity encapsulating all the solutions, products and services developed in the pursuit of his real-world goals.