Metallic is the decorative end of what we do. Metallic pigment is dispersed through clear resin and then moved while it is still wet, so the finished floor ends up with depth and movement running through it and reads closer to polished stone than to a coating.
Every floor comes out different, which is the whole point of it and also the thing to be comfortable with before ordering one, because nobody can show you the exact floor you are going to get.
It suits showrooms and retail spaces where the floor is part of what people take in, finished basements and lower level living space, and feature rooms, bars, studios and offices. Occasionally it goes into a display garage, where the car is the point rather than the work.
It does not belong under a working vehicle, because metallic shows tyre marks and hides nothing. It has no place in a shop or a plant or anywhere with real point loading, anywhere that gets washed hard, or outdoors. If your floor has a job to do, a flake or solid colour build will do it better and cost less, and we would far rather say that now than take the order.
Preparation is the same as any other system and matters more rather than less, since metallic is usually laid light and there is nowhere for a defect in the slab to hide.
The base coat goes down first. The metallic layer is applied over it and then worked while wet with rollers, blowers or a brush depending on the effect, and that working stage is where the pattern comes from, entirely by the installer's hand. A clear coat goes over the top afterwards, and it is a polyaspartic clear so it does not yellow.
Metallic is the dearest build on our list. Decorative metallic across Ontario runs roughly $8 to $12 a square foot where a flake system sits nearer $6 to $10, and it takes longer as well, because the working stage cannot be rushed and the clear coat needs the layer beneath it fully cured. Those are market ranges rather than your price.
Tell us the room and what it is for, and we will be honest about whether it is the right build for it. Call +1 226-457-4250.
Farm shops, packing rooms, plants and patios, alongside the garage and basement work.
A flake floor is three layers doing three different jobs. A pigmented resin base goes down first, coloured vinyl chip is thrown into it while it is still wet, and once that has hardened a clear wear coat is rolled over the whole thing.
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A garage floor around here takes a beating that has very little to do with how carefully you park.
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Polyaspartic is a different family of resin to epoxy, and it solves two problems epoxy has.
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A basement is the easiest room in the house to coat and the easiest one to get wrong, and in Chatham-Kent it is moisture that decides which of the two you end up with.
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Not every job is a garage. A good deal of what we coat is simply concrete that needs to stop being bare: a shop floor, a mechanical room, a storage building, a landing, a pad beside the lane.
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A working floor is specified against three things: what rolls across it, how it gets cleaned, and when the building can afford to be shut. Everything else follows from those answers, which is why a retail unit, a warehouse, an equipment shop and a packing room all end up with different builds even though they start from the same materials.
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An outdoor slab is not an indoor slab that happens to be outside. It has to handle daylight, standing water and a freeze-thaw cycle that runs all winter here, and it has a far shorter installation season. Use an indoor build outdoors and it will fail in the first spring.
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Peeling. Bubbling. Patches lifting where the tyres sit. A clear coat gone yellow by the window, or a floor that has simply turned dull and chalky.
View Epoxy Floor Repair and RecoatingWe grind a small patch, take a moisture reading off the slab and leave a written spec behind. The visit is free.
Fill this in and we will come back to you with either a price or the couple of questions we need answered first. Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 226-457-4250.
