Metallic epoxy flooring in Titusville FL - a one-of-a-kind floor on a sound slab

Most people who call us have a garage, kitchen or shop floor that's stained or worn, and they want more than gray paint. The price moves with the size of the floor, how much repair the slab needs, whether an old coating has to come off first through concrete floor stripping and removal, and how much sun the floor gets, since that decides the topcoat. The schedule turns mostly on what the slab shows us when we test it, and I put all of it in a written scope at the estimate so you can hold it up next to anyone else's quote.

We start by grinding the concrete so the coating has an open surface to grab, and we fill cracks and patch low spots before anything wet goes down. Then we roll on a primer that soaks into the slab, lay a pigmented base coat and pour the metallic epoxy over it, working the pigment by hand to get the flow you chose. A clear topcoat goes on last because that's the layer that takes the foot traffic and the scuffs. Each metallic floor flows a little differently, so we help you pick the base color by how dark you want the finished floor to look, and we make a sample before the whole floor goes down so you see it first.

Metallic epoxy isn't the right floor for every room, and I'd rather tell you that up front. A commercial kitchen that sees hot water, grease and heavy carts usually does better with urethane cement flooring, and if you like the look of bare concrete, polished concrete flooring grinds the slab you already have to a shine with nothing coated on top.

In Titusville, the city's Building Department handles plan reviews, permitting and inspections that enforce city code, so that's the office to ask about a permit for your floor. We go over whether your job needs one at the estimate, and when it does, we handle the paperwork and inspections with the city or county office that covers your address. A new contractor registering with the city emails that department a State License or County Comp Card and a Business Tax Receipt, along with General Liability and Workman's Comp certificates listing the City of Titusville as certificate holder. Brevard County issues certified licenses to contractors in a specific trade who can only contract within the county, while state certified contractors register with the county for permitting purposes only, and those are fair things to ask any installer about, us included.

Water under the slab is what ruins coatings here. A statewide pricing guide says Florida's high water table pushes moisture up through concrete from below, calls moisture testing essential, and says standard epoxy will fail once slab moisture rises above a set rate. One coating maker also requires a suitable moisture barrier under slabs on grade, because without one, seasonal changes in ground moisture can push too much vapor through no matter what an earlier test showed. That's why I test for moisture where the job calls for it and tell you plainly if your slab isn't a good candidate. We deal with the same wet ground on jobs in Mims and North Merritt Island, and across the rest of Brevard County and the nearby parts of Orange and Volusia counties we cover.