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What Is Colored (Pigmented) Resin and Why Is It Often Called Concrete Paint?
Colored resin is a resin combined with pigments that provide color and opacity. Once cured, it forms a uniform, durable, colored resin coating / seamless resin floor. Its performance and aesthetic properties depend on the additives used (such as flakes or aggregates) or their absence, as well as on the resin type: epoxy resin vs polyurethane resin vs hybrid systems.
This type of “colored resin” retains all its chemical and mechanical properties while gaining an additional decorative function. It is widely appreciated by contractors due to easy application, fast results, versatility, resistance to aggressive substances, and clean aesthetics. In everyday language, it is often referred to as resin floor paint or epoxy paint for concrete, although its core component remains a high-performance resin with all its technical advantages.
How to Paint a Concrete Garage Floor?
Colored (pigmented) resin is a practical and cost-effective decorative solution for protecting concrete surfaces where basic aesthetics, high mechanical resistance, and easy maintenance are required.
It is most commonly used in private and multi-bay garages, parking garages, industrial facilities, hospitals, laboratories, sports halls, and public buildings, as it creates a sealed, dust-free surface resistant to chemicals, road salt, and stains while remaining easy to clean and visually appealing.
Depending on project requirements, a colored resin floor can be: smooth, anti-slip (with aggregate), decorative (e.g. with acrylic flakes).
What Is Colored Resin Used For?
Colored resin is most often used for:
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installing colored resin floors exposed to heavy pedestrian or vehicle traffic, aggressive chemicals, road salt, and stains (including oil),
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creating decorative resin floors using acrylic flakes (chips),
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protecting concrete surfaces (mechanical and/or chemical protection depending on the resin type and system),
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applying floor markings: traffic lanes, safety zones, lines, and storage areas.
BAUPOX Pigmented Epoxy Resins
BAUTECH offers two pigmented epoxy resins that function as epoxy floor paints for concrete:
Why Choose BAUTECH Colored Resin? Is It the Best Option?
The best epoxy resin for concrete is the one that is properly matched to the project: substrate condition, concrete moisture level, and expected floor performance.
It should also come from a reliable manufacturer, backed by certifications and laboratory testing confirming resistance to declared chemicals and loads.
BAUTECH operates its own Technology Department, Laboratory, and Production Facility, ensuring full control over formulations, quality, and manufacturing processes.
At BAUTECH, we stand behind our products and systems. Epoxy resins can be purchased directly from our official online store.
Grey Epoxy Resin – The Undisputed No. 1 Choice
As a manufacturer and distributor of epoxy resins, we confirm that grey epoxy resin is by far the most popular and widely chosen pigmented resin on the market.
Thanks to its neutral color, it is ideal for garages, underground parking lots, utility rooms, stairwells, and technical areas. Contractors and investors appreciate its simplicity – grey is always a safe choice and fits everywhere.
For those seeking a decorative effect, grey epoxy resin can serve as a background for colored acrylic flakes. With different flake sizes and color combinations, the final appearance can be completely transformed. Grey does not have to be boring.
BAUTECH offers two standard grey epoxy resin colors available off-the-shelf:
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RAL 7040
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RAL 7035
Colored Epoxy Resins – Anti-Slip Effect
To achieve an anti-slip epoxy floor, colored resin is broadcast with aggregate. Depending on aggregate size and broadcast density, different levels of slip resistance can be achieved.
What Epoxy Resin Colors Are Available from BAUTECH?
BAUTECH’s standard range includes a wide selection of pigmented epoxy resins based on the RAL color chart.
The most popular colors, RAL 7040 and RAL 7035, are available immediately. Other colors are produced on request. Please contact our Sales Department for custom color orders.
Ready-Made BAUTECH Colored Resin Systems – Which One to Choose?
To simplify system selection, BAUTECH offers ready-made resin floor systems, grouped according to load classes and applications.
All systems are designed by experienced specialists and tested in real-world conditions to ensure reliable performance in specific applications.
CHECK: READY-MADE FLOOR SYSTEMS
The most recognizable and commonly used system is the BAUPOX PARKING SYSTEM, described below.
Epoxy Resin for Parking Lots and Garages
The thin-layer BAUPOX Parking System is designed to withstand demanding conditions in indoor parking garages and garages. Based on pigmented epoxy resin, it creates a seamless surface resistant to heavy traffic, abrasion, impact, stains (including oil), and chemicals.
Quartz sand broadcast provides an anti-slip surface and textured finish that increases grip and user safety. Aggregate size and broadcast density can be adjusted to meet specific slip-resistance requirements.
IMPORTANT: Product selection within the Parking System depends on the concrete moisture level. Choose a proven, ready-made system developed and tested by specialists.
What Is the Moisture Content of Your Concrete?
Choose a READY-MADE SYSTEM:
FAQ – Colored / Pigmented Epoxy Resin for Concrete
Is colored epoxy resin suitable for garages and underground parking?
Yes. It is one of the most common applications, offering effective and aesthetic protection against vehicle traffic, loads, oil, grease, and road salt, while remaining a cost-effective solution.
Can an anti-slip version be made?
Yes. By broadcasting aggregate into the epoxy resin, different levels of slip resistance can be achieved. Coarser aggregates are typically used on driveways for higher traction.
Is BAUPOX epoxy resin suitable for terraces or balconies?
No. Epoxy resins are designed for indoor use only. For outdoor applications, polyurethane resins are recommended due to their UV and weather resistance.
Are epoxy resin floors easy to clean?
Yes. Epoxy resin flooring systems are seamless and dust-free, making them easy to maintain. Smooth systems (without aggregate) are the easiest to clean.
Can decorative flakes be used with colored resin?
Yes. Decorative epoxy floors with acrylic flakes are possible, offering unlimited design variations depending on base color, flake colors, and broadcast density.
How to choose the right system for an underground parking garage?
The starting point is usually garage-dedicated systems such as BAUPOX Parking System™, but final selection depends on loads and operating conditions.
Summary: When Is Colored Epoxy Resin the Best Choice?
If your floor must be durable, resistant to heavy use, easy to maintain, aesthetically pleasing, and intended for interior use, colored epoxy resin is one of the most practical solutions available. BAUTECH offers ready-made systems tailored to different load levels, along with color and finish options (smooth, textured, anti-slip, decorative).