Decorative floors · Huntsville, AL
Metallic Epoxy Floors
$8–$14/sq ft installed · interiors only
Metallic epoxy is 100%-solids epoxy tinted with metallic pigment, poured onto prepared concrete and hand-worked while it self-levels. The pigment keeps moving until the resin locks, so every floor comes out different — yours won't match anyone's, including our renders.
What you're actually buying
A poured floor, worked by hand
The build is two layers on diamond-ground concrete. First the color coat: metallic epoxy is a 100%-solids epoxy, so the thickness we pour is the thickness that cures — nothing in the bucket evaporates away. We push the pigment around with rollers and moving air while the resin levels, which is where the marbling comes from.
Then the protection. We put an aliphatic polyaspartic topcoat — the same UV-stable wear layer from our flagship garage system — over every metallic pour. Bare metallic epoxy scratches easily and ambers near windows. Topcoated, the epoxy becomes the art and the polyaspartic takes the abuse.
A metallic floor takes 2 days to install because the epoxy color coat cures overnight before the polyaspartic topcoat goes on. No shortcut exists. Anyone offering a one-day metallic is rushing the layer you'll stare at for twenty years.
We've poured these in Providence kitchens, Monte Sano basements, and more than one garage that's really a poker room. Finished examples are in the gallery.
| Spec | Value | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Color coat | 100%-solids epoxy + metallic pigment | The depth effect lives in this layer |
| Build thickness | ~30 mils {{TODO:verify-spec}} | Self-leveling pour, not a roll-on |
| Topcoat | Aliphatic polyaspartic | Scratch and UV protection over the art |
| Install time | 2 days | Color coat cures overnight between layers |
| Where it belongs | Interiors only | Sun shifts the pigment outdoors |
| Price | $8–$14/sq ft installed | Colors and room shape move it |
Want a sample before you commit?
We pour color samples on board stock so you approve the direction in your own lighting, not under shop fluorescents.
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The honest tradeoffs
This floor is gorgeous and it is not for everybody. Three things we tell every metallic customer up front.
It shows scratches more than flake. The glassy surface that makes the depth effect work also makes a scuff visible. A working garage — jack stands, dropped sockets, kids' bikes — wears a flake floor better. Metallic is for spaces you live in, not spaces you wrench in.
It needs its topcoat. The epoxy layer alone isn't a wear surface. Ours always ships with the polyaspartic topcoat included in the number; if you're comparing quotes, confirm the other guy's price has a wear layer in it at all.
It stays inside. Sun-exposed exterior slabs are an automatic no from us — UV shifts the pigment over time, even under a clear coat. For patios the answer is a UV-stable flake system, full stop.
Who shouldn't buy this: anyone who needs pattern certainty, anyone coating an outdoor slab, and any shop floor that earns its living. For those, flake wins on every axis but drama.
Keep researching
Metallic Epoxy Cost
The published range and exactly which design choices push a quote up or down inside it.
Run the numbers →The Gallery
Finished floors, including metallics. Every pour is one of one — these show the range, not your result.
See finished floors →Flake Floors Instead
The harder-wearing alternative for working garages. Less drama, more forgiveness, lower cost.
Compare with flake →Questions we actually get
What does a metallic epoxy floor cost in Huntsville?
Can you control what the pattern looks like?
Will a metallic floor show scratches?
Can you do metallic epoxy on an outdoor patio?
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.