What you get
A floor with depth and movement you cannot get from paint
Metallic is the premium end of what we install. Reflective pigments are dispersed into a clear resin, poured over a pigmented base, and then worked with rollers, brushes and air while the material is still moving. The pigments travel as it levels and self-heals, which produces the depth, veining and cloud movement people associate with polished stone. Nobody — including us — can reproduce a metallic floor exactly twice, and that is the point of it.
Because the finish is created live, on the floor, a metallic pour is the least forgiving thing we do and the most dependent on the person doing it. The working window is short, the pour has to stay wet edge to wet edge across the whole room, and once the resin starts to gel the pattern is locked in for good. That is a large part of why we handle these ourselves rather than sending a crew: there is no touching one up afterward. It also means the slab underneath has to be genuinely flat and genuinely sound before we start, so metallic jobs usually carry more prep than a flake floor on the same square footage. Where it earns its keep is anywhere the floor is part of the room — a showroom or retail space, a restaurant, an office lobby, a finished basement, or a garage that has stopped being just a garage. We will show you sample panels of the blends we run at the estimate, and we are honest about the trade-off: metallic costs more and takes longer, and if what you actually want is a hard-working, forgiving floor, flake is the better buy.
- Poured and worked by hand — genuinely one of a kind, every time
- Depth, veining and movement that reads like polished stone
- Blends shown as physical sample panels at the estimate
- Flatter, sounder slab prep than a flake floor of the same size
- Finished with clear urethane for UV stability and scuff resistance
Before & after
What prep and a proper system do
Drag the divider. Left is the kind of slab we start with, right is the finish.
Before
After
Questions about metallic epoxy flooring?
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Straight talk
What you are actually buying with a metallic floor
A metallic floor is not a product you pick from a chart, it is an outcome created live on your slab. Reflective pigment is dispersed through clear resin, poured over a pigmented base, and then moved — with rollers, brushes, a leaf blower, sometimes a torch — while the material is still self-leveling. The pigment travels as it settles, and that travel is what produces the veining, the clouding and the depth that makes people think it is stone.
The consequence is that nobody can promise you a specific pattern, including us. We can show you sample panels of a blend and tell you honestly how it tends to behave, and the finished floor will be recognizably that blend. It will not be identical to the panel, and if an installer tells you otherwise they are either inexperienced or being loose with you.
It is also unforgiving. The working window is short, the pour has to stay wet edge to wet edge across the entire room, and once the resin starts to gel the pattern is locked forever — there is no touching up a metallic floor. That is why we run these ourselves rather than sending a crew, and why we are honest that flake is the better buy for a hard-working floor.
How the install runs
Four steps, no surprises
You will know the schedule, the price and the cure dates before we start grinding.
Sample panels and honest expectations
We show you physical sample panels of the blends we run and talk through how each one behaves — which move a lot, which stay tighter, which read darker in a room with little natural light. We also tell you plainly what cannot be guaranteed.
Extra slab preparation
A metallic pour is self-leveling, which means it finds and exaggerates every low spot. The slab has to be genuinely flat and genuinely sound, so metallic jobs carry more grinding and more patching than a flake floor of the same square footage.
Base coat
A pigmented base goes down first and is allowed to cure. Its color shows through the metallic layer and shifts the whole result, so this is part of the design rather than just a primer.
The pour
The metallic layer is poured and worked across the whole room in one continuous session, keeping a wet edge throughout. Once it gels it is finished. After it cures, two coats of clear urethane go over the top for UV stability and scuff resistance.
What it costs
Pricing for metallic epoxy flooring
Epoxy is priced by the square foot, and we will not quote a floor we have not seen — a number pulled over the phone helps nobody. Here is what actually moves it:
- Square footage and how many people it takes to keep a wet edge across the room
- Extra slab flatness and repair work a metallic pour demands
- Number of pigment colors and the complexity of the blend
- Clear urethane topcoats over the finished pour
Where we do it
Metallic Epoxy Flooring near you
Available everywhere in our 50+ mile service area. These are the towns we work in most often — if yours is not listed, call anyway.
- Epoxy Flooring in Champaign, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Urbana, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Savoy, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Mahomet, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Rantoul, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Bloomington, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Normal, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Decatur, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Danville, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Monticello, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Tuscola, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Paxton, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Clinton, IL
- Epoxy Flooring in Tolono, IL
Questions
Metallic Epoxy Flooring FAQs
Is metallic slippery?
A metallic floor under clear urethane is smooth, and smooth plus wet is slick — more so than flake, which has texture built in. For a showroom, lobby or finished basement that is usually fine. For an entry that gets rain and snow walked into it, or anywhere with a wet process, we broadcast a fine non-slip aggregate into the topcoat. It slightly softens the gloss and it is worth it.
Can you repair a metallic floor if it gets damaged?
Not invisibly, and we would rather say so up front. Because the pattern was created live and cannot be reproduced, a patched area will read as a patch. Deep gouges can be filled and the area recoated, and scuffs in the urethane can often be buffed and a fresh clear coat applied across the whole floor. But a metallic floor is a feature finish, and it should go in rooms where it will be looked at rather than where things get dropped.
How much longer does metallic take than flake?
Usually a day or two more, mostly in prep rather than in the pour. The extra flattening and patching a self-leveling layer demands takes time, the base coat has to cure before the metallic goes over it, and the two urethane coats each need their own window. Budget on cure dates rather than on install days — we will give you both in writing.
Ready to quote metallic epoxy flooring?
Free, itemized, on-site quotes anywhere in the service area — and no trip charge to come look.