Metallic Epoxy Floors in Rochester, MN
Metallic epoxy is the floor people choose when the floor is the point. Metallic pigments are worked live into a wet base coat — swirled, veined, and pooled while the coat is open — so the finished floor reads like polished stone or slow water, and no two are ever alike. Your floor is not a pattern from a catalog; it is the one that happened in your room, on your day.
That makes metallic the premium system in our rate card: $8 to $22 a square foot by design — veined floors, the popular middle, at $12 to $18 — with typical whole projects at $4,000 to $11,000. Design complexity moves you inside the band — more colors, more veining work, and larger unbroken fields all take more of the crew's hands while the coat is open.
Basements and rec rooms are the classic metallic space — a floor that turns the downstairs into the room people ask about — with showrooms, salons, and retail floors close behind. The slab still gets the full treatment first: diamond grinding, crack repair, and a moisture test, because a beautiful floor that peels is just an expensive rug.
Because the design happens live, the process starts with sample boards: we pour your colors at small scale, you live with them for a few days in your light, and only then does the crew commit your floor. The samples get you 90% of the way — the last 10% is the art, and it is why no honest installer will promise an exact copy of a photo.
A typical basement metallic runs three days: prep and base, the metallic pour and its cure, then the protective topcoat that decides how the floor wears.
How a Metallic Job Runs
The measure and the moisture test come first, same as every floor we do — metallic goes over a slab that passes, or over a moisture-mitigating primer when the test says it needs one. Cracks are filled and ground flush; metallic shows every flaw the prep skips, so the prep is pickier here than anywhere.
Pour day is choreography: the base goes down, pigments are worked in passes while the coat is open, and then the floor is left alone to do what it does as it cures. The topcoat follows on schedule — it is the wear layer, and skipping its cure window to hurry furniture back is how metallic floors get their first scars.
Where Metallic Works — and Where It Doesn't
Metallic shines in basements, rec rooms, showrooms, and retail — spaces that want a statement and can give the pour its cure time. In a working garage it is usually the wrong pick: the same movement that makes it beautiful shows tire traffic and tool drops more honestly than flake does, and the flake system costs half as much.
If the room wants drama on a working floor's budget, the honest middle path is a full-flake floor in a rich blend — texture, depth, and half the price. We will lay the two side by side in numbers at the measure.
How much does metallic epoxy cost?
Metallic runs $8–$22 a square foot across the design levels in our calculator — single-color pours at the low end, veined floors $12–$18, high-design work at the top. Typical whole projects land $4,000–$11,000 depending on size and design complexity. The home-page calculator runs your room.
Can you copy a metallic floor I saw in a photo?
We can pour the same colors in the same style — and the sample boards get us close — but the veining itself happens live in the wet coat. Your floor will be a sibling of the photo, never a twin. Any installer who promises an exact copy is promising something epoxy does not do.
Is metallic slippery?
The glossy topcoat is smooth, so we blend a fine grip additive into it for basements and entries — you cannot see it, and it takes the skate out of the finish. Wet-area and pool-deck use gets a stronger texture, decided at the measure.
How durable is a metallic floor?
The wear layer is the same high-build topcoat family as our other systems — it is a real working floor, not a showroom finish. It will take furniture, foot traffic, and spills for years; it will also record a dragged safe or a dropped free weight, which is true of every floor we sell and most we don't.
Ready to price your floor? The measure visit is free — and the price comes in writing.