Tired of a gray, stained slab? We test it, prep it and lay down a metallic finish in colors you pick with us.
Metallic epoxy flooring in Country Walk, FL is a coating system with a translucent metallic coat over a colored basecoat on your concrete, so the floor ends up with soft shifts of color or bolder effects, depending on the look you pick.
Most people call us when a garage or a room in the house has a gray, stained or patched slab and they want a floor with some depth to it. The shine is the easy part. What I look at first is the concrete underneath, because a metallic coat shows every flaw in the prep and only holds as well as the slab lets it.
The price moves with the size of the floor, how much grinding and crack or joint repair the slab needs, whether an old coating has to come off, how many colors go into the look and which topcoat the room calls for. The schedule turns mostly on the slab itself, since new concrete has to sit before it's coated and a damp slab has to be dealt with first. Once I've tested your floor, the written estimate gives you the number and the plan for your own slab.
You deal with the same person from the first look at your slab to the last coat. Here's how it goes after you reach out.
When you call, I set up a time to come out, look at your floor and test the slab myself, the way I've done it since I opened the business in 2017. You get a written estimate built on what your slab actually showed, not on a guess from a photo.
Before we schedule, we check which office covers your address. If the job needs a permit or other approval, we handle the application and tell you what you need to sign.
Our crew lays the floor and I'm on the job with them, so the person who tested your slab is there when it gets coated. We're fully licensed and insured. Your satisfaction, guaranteed.
The base color under the metallic coat shapes the whole look, so we pick the two together with you before anything gets mixed. Then we prep the slab, roll on the colored basecoat, work the translucent metallic coat over it to get the movement you chose and seal it with a topcoat. In a garage we talk about a topcoat built for sun so the color stays true, because that door lets in a lot of daylight.
Metallic isn't the right fit for every floor, and I'll tell you when it isn't. If you want a tough floor for a kitchen or work area that sees heat and spills, urethane cement flooring is usually the better pick. If you'd rather keep the look of the concrete itself with no coating on top, ask about polished concrete flooring.
The coating is the last thing that happens. Most of the work comes before it, and that's the part that decides how the floor holds up.
I check the concrete for moisture, old coatings, cracks and how sound the surface is. If the slab isn't ready, I tell you that instead of coating it and hoping.
We grind the surface so the basecoat has something to grip, and we take off any old coating that has to go. Saw-cut joints may be filled and coated over, but one maker's guide warns the coating may crack over time if the slab shrinks or moves a lot, so I'll tell you what I see in yours.
We put down the colored basecoat, then the metallic coat, working it while it's wet to get the look we picked together. The topcoat goes on last to protect the color underneath.
When the last coat is down, we walk the finished floor with you and go over how to look after it. You see every corner before we pack up.
Tell us whether the floor is in a garage, whether the slab is new and whether it has an old coating on it, so I know what to look for when I come out. We reply within one business day to set a time for me to test your slab, and you get a free written estimate on site with no obligation. You can also call (786) 733-0104.
(786) 733-0104Pick the basecoat and the metallic color together, because the base under the metallic coat sets how light or dark the floor looks. A white or light base gives you a lighter floor, and a darker base darkens the metallic look. I bring samples so you can see the pair on your own concrete.
It can if it doesn't have the right top layer. One Miami flooring directory says a garage metallic floor needs a UV-stable polyaspartic topcoat, a top layer made to resist sunlight, and that without it the metallic layer can pick up a yellow tint within 2 to 3 years. Ask about it when I come out to look at your garage.
Yes, once the concrete has had time to cure, and one maker's guide says new concrete needs a minimum of 28 days before it's coated. If you're pouring a new slab or an addition, plan the floor for after that wait. We can test the slab once the time is up.
It can, which is why we test for it first. One maker's guide calls for a moisture barrier under slabs on grade, the ones that sit right on the ground, and says that without one, seasonal changes in ground moisture can push vapor up through the slab no matter what the tests showed before coating. If I can't tell whether your slab has a barrier, I'll say so and we'll talk through the risk before you decide.
Usually, yes. One maker's guide says an existing coating that isn't epoxy has to be ground off completely before the new system goes down. Tell us what's on the floor now when you reach out, and I'll check it when I come out.
We're based in Country Walk and work across the cities around it in Miami-Dade County, including The Hammocks, Kendall and Richmond West. Most of the metallic floors we're asked about here go in garages, and the humid air comes with the job, since one maker warns that some epoxies laid down in very humid or cool conditions can form amine blush, a film on the surface that keeps the next coat from bonding. So we watch the conditions in the room before each coat goes on.
Who issues a permit depends on your address, because Miami-Dade County handles building permits in unincorporated areas and each city handles its own. In the county, some work valued under $7,500 may not need a permit, but that exemption leaves out units in multi-family buildings and properties partly or fully in a flood hazard area, and a project can't be split into smaller phases to get under the limit. The owner or contractor asks for the exemption through the county portal with a written request and a contract or papers showing what the work is and what it's worth, and you can read the rules on the county's permit exemptions page.
Call (786) 733-0104 or use the form, and you'll know what your slab needs before you spend anything on color.
If you're weighing a metallic floor for your garage or a room in the house, call or send us a note and we'll talk it through.
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