SimironQuartz
Build the floor that shrugs off the hose.
Graded, kiln-dried quartz, the broadcast epoxy it sits in, and the grout and seal coats that finish it, packed at our Tracy bench for wash bays, equipment rooms and pool decks around Ripon. Tell us the room and we will put the whole stack together with you.
Broadcast to refusal, twice, then let the grout decide.
A quartz floor gets built in lifts. Each one adds thickness and grip, and a skipped or rushed lift shows up later as a thin spot where the traffic runs. This is the sequence the owner runs on his own wash-down floors, and it is how we size every quartz order headed to Ripon.
Pigment the base and pour a section
Most quartz floors take their color from the base coat, with clean graded quartz thrown into it. Pigment the broadcast epoxy, pour an area you can reach from the edges, and keep a wet edge so every grain lands on resin instead of on a skin that has already started to set.
Throw sand until the floor stops taking it
Broadcast to refusal means you keep throwing quartz until the resin cannot hold any more and dry sand sits on top across the whole section. Dark wet patches showing through mean you quit early, and those patches become the low spots in the finished floor.
Sweep, vacuum, and run the second lift
Once the first lift cures, sweep and vacuum the loose sand off and pour the second base coat right over the top. Broadcast it to refusal the same way. Two lifts is the usual system, and the second one is where the floor gets its body.
Roll the grout coat on purpose
The grout coat fills the valleys between grains and locks the quartz in place. Roll it heavy and the floor comes out smoother and easier to squeegee. Roll it lean and more of the sand stays proud, which gives a wet boot more to grab. That one choice sets the texture of the whole floor.
Seal it for where it lives
A seal coat closes the surface over the grout. Indoors that finishes the job. On a patio or a pool deck the last coat changes, which is covered further down this page.
From the catalog
On the shelf for this job
Choosing grip for rooms that get washed down.
Ripon has no shortage of floors that see a hose every day. Shop wash bays where equipment comes in off the orchards caked in dirt. Equipment rooms on farm properties. The backroom where food gets prepped and the floor gets rinsed at close. Every one of those stays wet for part of the day, and every one needs a surface a boot can trust.
Grip on a quartz floor comes down to two choices. The first is the size of the quartz you broadcast, and the second is how much of it the grout coat buries. A food-prep backroom that has to be squeegeed clean usually wants a tighter texture that still has some bite. A wash bay where people walk through running water in rubber boots can carry a coarser finish. We stock graded quartz in the sizes double-broadcast systems call for, and we match the size to the room when you call.
Then think about the walls. On a wet-room floor, water goes looking for the seam where slab meets wall. Running the system up the wall as a cove base keeps the hose from getting behind the floor, and it is far easier to plan before the pour than to bolt on afterward. Tell us the cove height you want and we will add it to the count.
The sand you throw and the grout you leave off it decide the grip.
Outdoors, the sun picks the topcoat.
Patios and pool surrounds are a fair place for a quartz broadcast, since the texture is exactly what you want under wet feet. What changes outside is the last coat. Central Valley summers are long and hot, and a Ripon deck sits in full sun for most of them. Finish an exterior quartz floor with the UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat so the color and the sheen hold up to that light. Our UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat page for Ripon covers the fast and slow cure versions and how to plan around a hot afternoon.
If the deck is new concrete, or sits low where irrigation water collects, test it for moisture before anything goes down. A barrier under the broadcast is part of the system on a slab like that, and the moisture vapor barrier lines we send to Ripon have their own page.
Indoors, seal it tight. Outdoors, seal it against the sun.
What to tell us so the quantities come out right.
Quartz floors use more material than anything else we sell, so a rough guess on the phone turns into a second run to Tracy or pails left over in your shop. Have these ready when you call and we can count base, sand, grout and seal for the whole job in one conversation.
Square footage
measured, plus the cove height you plan to run up the walls
Wet or dry
a hosed floor and a dry storeroom get a different texture and a different seal
Inside or out
exterior floors finish with the UV-stable topcoat
Tell us how the slab looks today as well. A bare broom finish, an old sealer, or a coating that is already lifting each changes the prep, and prep comes first on every quartz floor. The diamond segments page for Ripon walks through matching the tooling to the concrete. If you want to see what finished floors look like before you commit, browse the catalog.
If the job covers more than one room, give us each one separately. A wash bay and the dry parts room beside it often share a slab without sharing a finish, and splitting them on the call keeps you from putting a coarse, hard-to-sweep texture on a storeroom that never sees water.
Ripon
Ripon is an easy run from our bench.
Ripon sits on Highway 99 on the way to Modesto, ringed by almond orchards, with the Stanislaus River running along its south edge. That puts the town roughly eighteen road miles from our bench in Tracy, which is close enough that most crews pick up the quartz and resin on the way out to the job.
The full line lives on the site-wide quartz broadcast page, and everything else we supply in town starts at the Ripon supply page. Pouring a decorative chip floor in the next bay instead? The Ripon flake blend page covers how to pick one. Pickup dates and freight questions go through the contact page.
Quartz questions Ripon crews ask first.
Why use quartz instead of flake on a wet floor?
Thickness and grip. A double broadcast builds a thick, textured floor that survives traffic, heat, chemicals and daily wash-down where a thin flake floor would wear through. It takes more material and more labor than flake, and in a room with a drain and a hose it is worth both.
Does the quartz come kiln-dried?
Yes. The quartz we stock is graded and kiln-dried, because dry sand broadcasts evenly and bonds cleanly into the base coat. Damp sand clumps, lands unevenly and leaves you chasing problems in the next lift. Keep the bags dry at the job until you throw them.
How many broadcast lifts does a quartz floor need?
Usually two, each one broadcast to refusal, with a grout coat and a seal coat over the top. That buildup is what gives the floor its body. Tell us the room and how it gets cleaned, and we will spec the layers and the quantities for that space.
Where does the color on a quartz floor come from?
On most of them it comes from a pigmented base coat with clean graded quartz broadcast into it. Describe the look you are after and we will work out the route, the pigment and how much of each the floor needs before anything leaves the bench.
Can a quartz floor go outside around a pool?
Yes, and the texture suits wet bare feet. Finish an exterior quartz floor with a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat so it keeps its color in the Central Valley sun, and test the slab for moisture first if it is new or sits low where water collects.
Can I pick up a quartz order in Tracy for a Ripon job?
Yes. Call ahead and we will stage the quartz, base and grout at the bench so it is ready when you pull in. Ripon is about eighteen road miles away, so most crews grab material on the morning run, and on a heavy wash bay order pickup saves the freight.
Get in touch
Tell us what you're pouring.
Anything from one bucket to a standing wholesale account, pickup or freight, or a seat in training. A person who has poured this material reads every message.
- (209) 208-4656
- chris@exclusiveresinsupply.com
- 392 W Larch Rd, Suite 11, Tracy, CA 95304
Sizing a quartz floor in Ripon?
Call the bench with the room and the footage, or look through what we carry and pick your quartz.
Need it installed?
Our sister company, Exclusive Resins, installs epoxy, flake and metallic floors across the Central Valley, out of the same Tracy building.