Quartz Broadcast Epoxy

What it is

Quartz broadcast epoxy is a resin floor with sand in its bones. A pigmented epoxy body coat goes down first; while it is still wet, coloured quartz sand is broadcast over it to excess, so the grains land shoulder to shoulder and bond where they fall. Once cured, the loose sand is swept and vacuumed off, and clear seal coats lock what remains — often after a second broadcast, which is where the dense, even, salt-and-pepper look comes from. The result is one seamless surface that is three things at once: decorative, hygienic and genuinely slip-resistant.

That combination is the whole point. Smooth resin and wet feet are a bad marriage, and tile grout is where a washroom’s hygiene problems live. A quartz broadcast floor has neither problem — no joints, no grout, and a mineral tooth that keeps its grip with water and soap on it. It can be coved up the wall into a washable skirting, which is why the food and hospitality trades have trusted the system for decades. We set the texture deliberately: coarser sand and lighter seal coats where grip rules a ramp or a wash-down bay, finer grades where bare feet cross a spa floor.

It sits in a small family of broadcast finishes, and the differences matter. Our Flake Epoxy uses the same method with flat vinyl chips — a softer, confetti-like speckle with only a whisper of texture, the domestic register of the idea. Quartz is granular: a saltier, more mineral sparkle and a real working tooth underfoot, the wet-duty register. Poured Epoxy is the opposite pole — the calm, glossy, self-levelled mirror, beautiful in a living space and wrong under wet shoes. And outdoors the broadcast idea belongs to our Resin-Bonded aggregate, which scatters natural stone over UV-stable resin; the epoxy version, like all epoxies, ambers slowly in direct sun and stays indoors.

Where it comes from

Broadcasting hard aggregate into a binder is one of the oldest tricks in industrial flooring — a way to give a liquid coating a wearing body and a grip it could never have on its own. The coloured-quartz version grew up in the places that get hosed down every night: commercial kitchens, dairies, changing rooms, hospital service corridors. Once quartz began arriving pre-coloured and blended, the system quietly turned decorative, and the double-broadcast method made the finish dense and even enough for front-of-house.

In the UAE that heritage maps neatly onto how buildings actually work: hotels, spas, F&B and retail all run wet service areas, washrooms and ramps that must be safe, washable and still look considered. That is exactly the job we bring this floor out for — and where the brief is showroom gloss instead, we will honestly point you to its smoother siblings.