Pricing · Huntsville, AL
Metallic Epoxy Cost
$8–$14/sq ft installed · the premium decorative build
Metallic epoxy in Huntsville costs $8–$14 per square foot installed, against $5–$9 for the same room in flake. On a 450 sq ft 2-car garage, choosing metallic over flake adds roughly $1,350–$2,250 to the job. That premium is real money, so this page does two things: shows you exactly where it goes, and tells you plainly who shouldn't spend it.
Follow the premium
Why metallic costs more than flake
The build itself is on the metallic epoxy service page — pigmented epoxy poured onto diamond-ground concrete and hand-worked while it self-levels. The pricing story is simpler: every dollar of the premium is either labor or chemistry.
The labor part is the hand work. Flake gets broadcast and walks away; metallic gets worked — rollers, moving air, an installer reading the pour until the resin locks. Metallic takes 2 days where flake takes 1, and that second mobilization is built into the price.
The chemistry part is the material. The color coat is 100%-solids epoxy, which means the gallon you buy is the floor you get — nothing flashes off. And it still needs protecting: the same polyaspartic topcoat that finishes our flagship garage system goes over every metallic pour, because the epoxy layer is the picture, not the glass.
A metallic build is two layers — a 100%-solids pigmented epoxy color coat under a polyaspartic topcoat — and the topcoat isn't optional, because the color coat is the art, not the armor.
| Line | What it is | Why it costs |
|---|---|---|
| Material | 100%-solids pigmented epoxy | Poured thickness is cured thickness — you're buying real volume, not solvent that evaporates |
| Hand work | Pigment worked while the resin levels | An installer stays on the pour until it locks — this is the line flake floors don’t have |
| Second day | Color coat cures overnight | Two mobilizations for one floor |
| Topcoat | Polyaspartic, always included | The only wear surface in the build — confirm competing quotes include one |
| Design choices | Extra colors, borders, small rooms | More pours, more masking, more of the range’s top end |
Price your pour
Room size, how many colors, and whether there's old flooring to remove — that's a real phone range.
Honest fit check
Who shouldn't pay for metallic
This is our highest-priced residential floor, and it's the wrong buy for a lot of people. Four of them, specifically.
The working garage. If you wrench, drop tools, or roll jack stands, a smooth metallic surface will show every one of those moments. Flake takes the same abuse and shrugs. Spend the difference on better shelving.
The outdoor slab. Patios and pool decks are an automatic no — sun shifts the pigment over time, even under a clear coat. No price makes that work.
The pattern planner. You approve colors and a sample, not a blueprint. If you need the floor to match a rendering exactly, this product will frustrate you at any price.
The flip. If you're selling the house next year, the buyer pays you back for a clean, durable floor — not for drama. A flake system delivers that for $5–$9 a foot, and the garage coating cost page runs those totals by garage size.
Who should buy it: someone who'll live on the floor for years and wants the one thing nobody else on the street has. That's the whole pitch. It's enough.
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The Metallic Service
How the pour works, what you control, and what the resin decides on its own.
See the build →Finished Floors
Metallics we’ve poured around the valley. Each one is one of one.
Browse the gallery →Flake Instead
The harder-wearing floor at $5–$9/sq ft — the right call for working garages.
Compare with flake →Questions we actually get
Is metallic epoxy more durable than flake for the extra money?
Can I cut the price by skipping the topcoat?
Do borders or a second color change the price?
Why does a small bathroom or entryway cost so much per square foot?
Get a number, not a runaround
Tell us what you're working with and we'll give you a straight price range on the phone. No pressure visit required to hear a number.