Metallic Epoxy Flooring In Sudbury, Ontario

Where A Metallic Floor Belongs

Finished basements and lower-level living space, where it reads as a design floor rather than a utility one.

Showrooms, salons, studios, boutiques and reception areas, where a distinctive floor does commercial work.

Feature spaces in a home: a bar area, a games room, an entrance.

High-end garages, where the vehicle is the point and the floor is meant to match it. This needs a heavier top coat than a decorative interior floor.

How The Effect Is Made

A pigmented base coat is laid to seal and colour the slab.

The metallic layer goes on next, and this is where the work happens. Pigment is dispersed into clear resin and then moved, with rollers, blades, brushes or air, while the material is still open.

The pattern comes from that movement. Two installers get different results from the same materials, and the same installer cannot repeat a floor exactly.

A clear top coat then seals and protects the finish. In a garage or a commercial space that top coat is doing real structural work, not just adding shine.

Choosing A Look

Colour combinations range from single-pigment finishes with subtle movement through to multi-colour floors with strong contrast.

The style of movement is a choice too: a flowing marbled look, a tighter mottled texture, or a stone-like effect.

Gloss level changes the character completely. High gloss maximises depth and reflection. Satin calms it down and hides more.

We will make sample boards for a metallic floor before we install one, because a photograph of somebody else's floor is not what yours will look like.

Honest Limitations

Metallic finishes show more than flake does. Dust, footprints and scuffs are more visible, especially on a high gloss dark floor.

They are not textured. Where slip resistance matters, aggregate has to go into the top coat, and that softens the look. In a wet area, flake is the better choice.

They cost more than flake. The material is more expensive and the installation takes longer and demands more skill.

They are best suited to interior spaces that stay reasonably clean. A working garage that takes winter sand every day is not where a metallic floor shows to advantage.

Timeline

Metallic floors take longer than flake, typically three days, because the layers have to cure properly before the next one goes on.

The room has to be clean and closed off. Dust settling into a wet metallic layer shows permanently.

We will not rush one. If the schedule does not allow the cure times, we book different dates.